Tried a lentil recipe today..5.1 before 5.5 1hr later.
Ive read a lot of DR Greger's work and he has some really interesting views on diet and how it affects our lives. I'm never ever going to be a vegetarian, sacrebleu, but I'm really not convinced with the high fat diet, that some of you guys are pushing all the time, and how it will effect the body over a long period of time. Don't get me wrong it works to get your HBA1C to where it should be but I need more variety and something a little healthier than fat. And TBH all of the good fat that our body needs usually comes from the plant world.
What were your levels at 2 hours and 2.5 hours? Low GI foods take longer to metabolise. Hopefully, you were OK.
If a particular food raises my levels unacceptably, then it isn't a healthy choice for me, and lentils fall into that category.
We will have to agree to disagree about fats. I don't push high fat, but a high percentage of what I eat is fat because my carb consumption is quite low, so therefore the fats become higher percentage-wise, and a tasty necessity for energy and nutrients. Most of my fats come from fish (salmon), eggs, meat and dairy. I don't eat plant based fats on the whole, with a few exceptions such as flaxseed. (I dislike nuts, avocados and olives - personal taste, nothing to do with health) and I avoid industrialised hydrogenated plant oils like the plague.
Each to their own.
