The glycemic affect is the extent to which this blood sugar effect occurs when people consume certain foods and then the glycemic index is just a number that gets attached to that.

血糖效应从某种程度上讲,是在人们进食,某些食物时出现的血糖波动,血糖指数则仅仅是这一效应的量化体现

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