If you have diabetes or pre diabetes then researchers from Weill (while) Cornell Medicine in New York City have some easy advice to help you control your blood sugar.
Eat your carbs at the end of your meal!
For years we have been teaching diabetics to always include protein with a carb because it slows down the digestion of the carbohydrate, which means it enters your blood stream slower.
So the researchers wanted to look into this further.
They had 16 men and women with type 2 diabetes eat the exact same meal three different times, one week apart.
They ate the foods in a different order each time.
All the volunteers ate the same amount of calories and carbohydrate.
And they found that when people ate the carbs last, their blood sugar after the meal was about half as high as when they ate the carbs first, and about 40 percent lower than when they ate all food types together.
By eating their carbs last, the volunteers had lower insulin secretion and higher levels of glucagon-like peptide-1, which is a gut hormone that helps regulate blood sugar and feelings of being full.
The participant’s insulin needs were about 25 percent lower when they ate the carb-last meal.
That’s a big deal and comparable to the effect of some drugs.
It may take getting used to, but give it a try.
This is Joan Trimble wishing you wellness.
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