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Would coffee raise blood sugar like food?

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dco

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Would coffee raise blood sugar like food? Took my reading and 6.7 after 1 -2 hour after coffee.. had no food. Does it also raise blood sugar levels?
 
dco said:
Would coffee raise blood sugar like food? Took my reading and 6.7 after 1 -2 hour after coffee.. had no food. Does it also raise blood sugar levels?
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Apparantly yes. It seems to depend on a combination of frequency and duration. From "Effects of Coffee Consumption on Fasting Blood Glucose and Insulin Concentrations"

"Higher habitual coffee consumption was associated with higher insulin sensitivity and a lower risk for type 2 diabetes in diverse populations. In contrast, short-term metabolic studies showed that caffeine intake can acutely lower insulin sensitivity and increase glucose concentrations."

http://care.diabetesjournals.org/conten ... 0.full.pdf

un doppio espresso per favore
 
Thanks for reply. I just wanted to know as as far as I know I dont have diabetes, but I like to keep my sugar levels as I suffer from anxiety. Seemed high, but obviously it was the coffee by the looks of it, as I havent eaten all day!
 
dco said:
Thanks for reply. I just wanted to know as as far as I know I dont have diabetes, but I like to keep my sugar levels as I suffer from anxiety. Seemed high, but obviously it was the coffee by the looks of it, as I havent eaten all day!
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If you don't eat, your liver will put some glucose in your system to keep you going so it goes up and down all the time. It doesn't go down to zero in otherwise healthy people and once you get down to something like 4.0, you get an extra shot and up it goes again.
 
Umm, yes. Not eating will raise your blood sugar pretty effectively.

- once out shopping with friends, (yes I know, I was having a girly moment!) we went past lunch and it was half three before any of us noticed the time. The only reason anyone clocked that was because I suddenly started behaving like I was drunk. Giggling, banging into things, massive burst of almost manic energy. Definitely a liver dump. Twenty minutes later I crashed again. I did the same thing yesterday on a rehearsal. I miss judged. I had a good lunch before, but the rehearsal was way more mentally taxing than expected, as well as being physically hard work. This time I was lucky enough to be sitting next to a colleague who has a recently diagnosed T1 son. He has pockets full of baby bel cheeses! Now I make sure that I do too! - Sorry for the lecture! :)


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