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You may have heard about the role of glycemic index (GI) and glycemicload (GL) as ways to evaluate the impact that various foods have onyour blood sugar, but both are difficult to utilize. Instead, wehave come up with a simple three-tier list called the Atkins GlycemicRanking (AGR) that takes both GI and GL, and therefore fibercontent, into consideration. When you are in OWL, confine yourself tofruits with a low AGR. By the time you are in Pre-Maintenance you canstart trying small portions of fruits in the medium AGR column. Evenwhen you have reached your goal weight, you should eat a minimum offruits in the high AGR column and limit yourself to small portions.A single portion of fruit is half a cup, a medium-size piece of fruitabout the size of a child’s fistor half a large fruit. A serving ofjuice is also half a cup.