Hi all. The weekend's almost here! A couple of questions - if I mix carbs with protein and vegetables, does that lessen the effect that the carbs will have on my blood sugar levels (eg. if I had a fully loaded salad sandwich in wholemeal bread)? Also, someone told me that you can eat sweet things after a non-carb meal with no adverse effect on the blood sugar levels. Is this correct?
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Carbs and sugars
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Carbs with fats as in Pizza can delay the carb digestion. It doesn't prevent it just slows it. You get as much blood glucose, but it takes longer to peak. Protein probably makes little difference
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Hi nannoo,nannoo said:Hi all. The weekend's almost here! A couple of questions - if I mix carbs with protein and vegetables, does that lessen the effect that the carbs will have on my blood sugar levels (eg. if I had a fully loaded salad sandwich in wholemeal bread)? Also, someone told me that you can eat sweet things after a non-carb meal with no adverse effect on the blood sugar levels. Is this correct?
Sorry but NO to both of those. Whoever is telling you these things doesn't have a clue about nutrition and is doing you no favours at all. All carbs that you eat will convert to glucose and will raise your blood sugar level, regardless of what else you eat them with. If the carbs are eaten with something containing fat (for example butter) then the fat slows down how quickly they convert to glucose, but doesn't stop it or dilute it.
If you have something sweet (i.e. containing sugar) then that sugar will raise your blood sugar immediately, no matter how much or how little carbs were in whatever else you ate.
Incidentally when you mention mixing carbs with vegetables, don't forget that nearly all vegetables contain carbs. In fact vegetables are the healthiest source of carbs that you can eat because they contain high levels of vitamins, minerals and fibre as well as carbs.
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To a degree it depends on the state of your pancreas and associated control circuitry.
I don't do Phase 1 insulin so any fast carbs will tend to spike me in excess - excess being a rather small quantity
However I can still generate Phase 2 insulin, not at a high rate but over a long time, so I can do better than some with slow carbs like pizza or carbs mixed with fat and fibrous vegetables
Then I can do about twice as many carbs in the evening as for breakfast
Also depends on other factors, today I have been running about 0.5 over my "usual" numbers and have just hit 7.2 after dinner when I would have expected to barely reach 6
Either it's the lack of exercise or I am sickening for something, or probably both.
Tomorrow I will mostly be eating humble pie
I don't do Phase 1 insulin so any fast carbs will tend to spike me in excess - excess being a rather small quantity
However I can still generate Phase 2 insulin, not at a high rate but over a long time, so I can do better than some with slow carbs like pizza or carbs mixed with fat and fibrous vegetables
Then I can do about twice as many carbs in the evening as for breakfast
Also depends on other factors, today I have been running about 0.5 over my "usual" numbers and have just hit 7.2 after dinner when I would have expected to barely reach 6
Either it's the lack of exercise or I am sickening for something, or probably both.
Tomorrow I will mostly be eating humble pie
