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Hi all,
From our experience when we eat carbs we go on a blood glucose roller coaster and eventually hypo and exercise worsened the situation.
However the programme on BBC1 this pm "The Truth about Fat", very indirectly gave those who find very low carb very difficult a glimmer of hope their hypos can be treated by another method.
Apparently, when normal people vigorously exercise (for me it is fast walking) we use c.60% fat and the rest is blood glucose from carbs.
If someone has vigorous exercise for twenty minutes and rests ever 2 minutes, and starts, say before our blood sugar drops after eating, it puts the body into a fat burning mode for up to four hours long after the exercise stops.
It would be interesting to try this if one is not on a true low carb diet and still has hypos?
Of course one should have something ready to eat if an hypo occurs.
regards
Derek
From our experience when we eat carbs we go on a blood glucose roller coaster and eventually hypo and exercise worsened the situation.
However the programme on BBC1 this pm "The Truth about Fat", very indirectly gave those who find very low carb very difficult a glimmer of hope their hypos can be treated by another method.
Apparently, when normal people vigorously exercise (for me it is fast walking) we use c.60% fat and the rest is blood glucose from carbs.
If someone has vigorous exercise for twenty minutes and rests ever 2 minutes, and starts, say before our blood sugar drops after eating, it puts the body into a fat burning mode for up to four hours long after the exercise stops.
It would be interesting to try this if one is not on a true low carb diet and still has hypos?
Of course one should have something ready to eat if an hypo occurs.
regards
Derek
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