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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wraakian" data-source="post: 1236208" data-attributes="member: 56005"><p>Hi Arlene, I have been on a low carb diet for several months now and purchase a lot of my food online like my breakfast cereals of flax meal, chia seeds and chocolate nibs. Other food I buy from supermarkets such as my livlife low carb bread (Waitrose), usual green veg and salad, milk, cheese, eggs, cream, meat and fish, etc; These have all helped to a) Keep me at my ideal weight of 11 stone and b) reduce my blood glucose to reasonable figures between 6.7 and 8. However, I have just tried a recipe for a supposedly healthy no bake chocolate brownies and the resultant low blood glucose levels have amazed me. This is especially so as the ingredients include pitted dates and maple syrup? Every time after eating these brownies my blood levels went down to between 5 and 6. Although the recipe has other ingredients in it such as flax meal and walnuts I have since put these fantastic results down to the half teaspoon of chilli powder in the recipe for both the cake and topping layer. I noticed someone else in your posts mentioned chillies and wanted to add my own experience here in case it might help someone else in the future. I have seen 2 opposite conclusions about chilli pepper and diabetes in scientific research but my own experience certainly shows chilli pepper to be an effective aid in keeping my blood glucose levels near to normal.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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