Foods that spike blood sugar levels
Common Questions and Answers about Foods that spike blood sugar levels
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Anything with carbs is going to spike your blood sugar. If your trying to stabilize blood sugar, I would recommend eating lots of protein and vegetables. As for carbs, choose the healthy carbs or brown rice and more slow digesting carbs. That way your blood sugar won't rise as high or fast.
I'm type 1 diabetic and pregnant, so u have been testing blood sugar like crazy for a good amount of my life.
GI = Glycemic Index. A low GI diet is one in which the things you eat will not spike blood sugar levels, but will work to help stabilize them.
For instance, eating a piece of candy will spike your blood sugar rather quickly, whereas eating a carrot will not, because of the lower sugar/carb content. Regular pasta will spike your blood sugar more quickly than whole gain pasta because it takes longer to digest the whole grain, so it doesn't go straight to the blood.
Eating a low glycemic diet (foods that do not spike the blood sugar, in turn spiking insulin levels), getting adequate exercise and losing weight (if overweight) will often/usually turn pre-diabetes around.
Low glycemic foods are complex carbs that take longer for the stomach to digest; they include non starchy vegetables, whole grains, lean protein, low/now fat dairy, nuts, seeds, etc.
Eating foods with fibre allows the body to release the energy more slowly. Whereas, what are called "simple carbs" are those that are processed with no fibre, sweets, cakes, white bread for example will give you a high sugar spike only for your sugar levels to drop down very quickly.
Eating a well balanced diet with fibre rich foods won't spike your sugar levels.
I was just wondering if taking medication, which I truly do not want to do, would allow me to eat pasta, rice, potatoes, etc. which all seem to really spike my blood sugar. I usually have one slice of whole grain bread a day.
Checked my BS this am before my breakfast - 14.1, only a handful of unsalted peanuts at 9pm last night. Breakfast - oatmeal with milk, an egg, half a Mandarin orange and coffee. Will check in a couple of hours and see what's what.
To add to Super_sally888, eating foods that contain white sugar, corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup or refined carbohydrates can cause your sugar levels to spike and then suddenly drop as if you have hypoglycemia. This sudden drop in blood sugar levels is due to your pancreas releasing too much insulin to counteract the sudden high blood sugar levels that occurred from eating the aforementioned food types.
You only need to cut back on simple carbs, such as sugar, and processed foods made from white flour, rice, etc.. Simple carbs are the ones that spike your blood sugar, resulting in a corresponding insulin spike.
Insulin is known as the fat storage hormone and whatever of those simple carbs that isn't used for energy right away is shuttled, by insulin, into fat cells.
All refined carbohydrate foods (bread, cakes, biscuits, lemonades) will spike up your sugar levels very quickly. The foods that you should be eating are the slow release energy foods - non refined foods, foods that contain fibre and protein. Do remember that drinking freshly squeezed orange juice is not the same as eating an orange. An orange with its fibre would be a slow release food, some for other fruit and juices.
Stomach fat or visceral fat is very insulin sensitive. If you want to get rid of belly fat it would be suggested to cut down on sugar and carbs and eat a low carb diet.
All carbs and high glycemic foods will spike insulin. If you didn't know a slice of bread will spike you blood sugar more than the same amount of calories in pure sugar! This is because wheat has and carb called amylopectin type A which is only found in wheat. This is a super carb. Most foods have type b and c.
If her sugar levels drop low before she goes to bed at night, then that would be the time to have a snack, otherwise if she is not hungry, she can miss that out.
As your mum has only recently been diagnosed, her medication will need to be monitored and adjusted to suit her. Her doctor should have given her a chart and instructions when to monitor her blood sugars to see how she is getting on. Tell your mum to ask her doctor for a referral a dietician who specialises in diabetes.
Hello,
Definitely your blood sugar levels are raised. First of you need to start exercising and do brisk wals for atleast 45 min per day. A diet that includes fruits, vegetables, fiber-containing foods, and low-fat milk is advised. Consumption of foods with a low glucose levels appears to reduce postprandial glucose rise and improve glycemic control. Reduced calorie and nonnutritive sweeteners are useful.
The safest way to lose weight while breastfeeding or any other time is by eating a healthy diet and getting a moderate amount of exercise.
Sounds like a lemonade, maple syrup and cayenne pepper diet might be some kind of fad, that isn't good for you any time, let alone while breastfeeding - I suspect that cayenne pepper might come through the breast milk and affect the baby...
A low carbohydrate diet would probably help you manage your blood sugar. You can also use your meter to see which foods spike your blood sugar and which don't. Then avoid the foods that spike you. Generally people find that grains and processed foods, aside from sweets spike sugars. Somepeople are ok with fruit others are not. This is called eating to your meter....
Hope this h elps.
t spike the blood sugar. Eating foods that spike the blood sugar causes insulin levels to spike, as well and if those foods aren't used quickly for energy, they will be stored as fat.
Center your meals on veggies and high quality protein, adding whole grains, nuts, seeds, fruit.
Calculate your daily calorie needs, then make sure you stay within that amount.
Almost any kind of exercise works. Even housework counts, as long as you do enough of it to keep your heart rate up.
I refrain from a lot of carbs, that give you spikes(like potatoes eat rarer),, i eat protein, an was told to eat protein with sugar foods; not to eat just sweets for sugar. A friend of mine who is diabetic, went into diabetic coma at 16.2; an he near died of.. took 2 weeks for them pump IV Glucose, an other things to get him healed an home in 2 weeks. We been telling him to lay off his soda pops, an his diet sodas too(hidden alcohol sugars).
Typically, the best diet for PCOS is the same one used for diabetics. That would be foods that are high in fiber, protein and fat, but low on the glycemic index - meaning they don't spike the blood sugar levels.
This means you would best eliminate things like white bread, pasta and rice and replace them with the whole grain versions and brown rice.
Center your meals round veggies, healthful fats, lean protein, nuts, seeds, dairy, eggs, etc.
Hi abeybaby! We are volunteers with life experience in dealing with type 1 diabetes, not medical professionals, so any information you receive here should be verified with your healthcare team.
The dawn phenomenon refers to an unexplained, elevated bg reading, first thing in the morning that is commonly attributed to stress hormones. I do not have any knowledge of this occuring in type 2 diabetics. With type 1 diabetes, stress can play a major role in elevated bg's.
Changing lifestyle habits can go a long way in controlling type 2 diabetes. Restrict & avoid refined sugars, practice and adhere to weight control, do some sort of exercise daily, practice stress management, and get adequate sleep. These are all important in managing diabetes, the most important, along with proper nutrition, is daily physical activity.
Besides watching sugar in your diet-- you also need to watch carbohydrates [starches] carefully too.
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