Stabilizing your blood sugar levels – or blood sugar levels – is increasingly recommended by health professionals and nutrition specialists. This requires ensuring that you eat a varied and balanced diet, but also favoring foods and preparations with a low GI (or low glycemic index). According to some experts, such as Jessie Inchauspéconsuming a small dose of vinegar before each meal also helps to lower glucose levels.
It is also recommended to be careful about certain foods or food combinations that can be real sugar traps, contrary to what they might suggest. Among them, the author of the book and the social account Goddess of glucose explains why some yogurts are problematic.
These yogurts should be avoided to avoid low blood sugar
U flavored yogurts with fruit or dessert creams (based on chocolate, candies, etc.) are often small calorie bombs and contain a large dose of refined sugar. But according to the biochemist, the yogurts that we should be even more careful about are the liquid versions.
High in sugar and additives, low in fiber, these highly processed yogurts have no nutritional benefit, except maybe a little. calcium intake. Worse, even those who show a healthy composition should be avoided manage your blood sugar. Like fruit juices or smoothies, liquid yogurt they are absorbed very quickly by the body due to the absence of fibers that slow them downassimilation of nutrients.
The consumption of this type of product therefore induces a rapid spike in blood sugar and high, then an equally violent descent, which can generate cravings and/or sensations of sleep, which we can try to compensate by eating again the sugar that the body ends up keeping, without knowing how to eliminate it. The vicious circle par excellence!
In an Instagram post, the scientist compared, with supporting graphics, the incidence of consuming an industrial liquid yogurt with blueberries and that of a natural yogurt accompanied by fresh and healthy blueberries. While the first causes a dose of 30mg/dL of glucose in the blood in 1 hour, the second only generates 10mg/dL in the same time.
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What dessert to eat without raising blood sugar?
If it is difficult for you to contemplate a meal that does not end with dessert, rest assured, the idea is not to cut everything. Already because the pleasure of eating should never be defeated in the long run, otherwise it will generate food cravings that are even more harmful to blood sugar levels and body weight.
However, if your goal is to preserve your health, be careful not to go out. Instead, focus on protein-rich alternatives such as Greek yogurt, petit-suisses or even skyrs. Ideally, you should choose cold versions to enjoy as is or to garnish with fresh fruit or sugar alternatives that do not disturb blood sugar levels.
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