Tips and spikes in blood sugar can impair your body’s fat burning ability, rev up your appetite and even trigger cravings. Avoiding refined carbohydrates like crackers, cookies, white potatoes, bread, rice and even pasta can prevent this roller coaster but sometimes you just can’t avoid them.
When you have one of these foods, there are five ways to minimize the effect they’ll have on your blood sugar so you feel full, have tons of energy and lose weight more easily. Add beans, toss kidney, garbanzo or black beans into rice and pasta. These high fiber foods lower the overall blood sugar effect of a meal. Don’t escape the fat. Slather a tablespoon of peanut butter over your bagel or dip your bread on some olive oil.
Fat slows the absorption of the sugar into the bloodstream and these heart healthy monounsaturated fats lower bad cholesterol while maintaining levels of good cholesterol. Other good fats include canola oil, nuts and other nut butters and avocados. Snack on protein, grab a stick of cheese or pre-cooked chicken strips. For less than 100 calorie these protein pack finger foods can transform a potentially blood sugar raising snacks such as crackers or pretzels into one that satisfies your hunger for hours like fat, protein slows the digestion and absorption of sugars.
Vinaigrette does the trick. Drizzle vinegar or vinaigrette dressing on French fries, other types of white potatoes or salads. Studies have found that vinegar prevents blood sugar spikes after a meal.
Researchers think that the acid in vinegar might interfere with the enzymes that break down carbs. Just two teaspoons per meal can help tame blood glucose. Sprinkle on some cinnamon. Just the dusting of this spice on toast a sweet potato or a skim latté can improve your body’s ability to stabilize and slim and absorb glucose.
Researchers say a compound in cinnamon helps cells turn glucose into energy faster so the blood sugar stays low.
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