Biochemist and author of the Glucose Revolution Jessie Inchauspé says tweaking your diet can change your life.
By eating salads first, before proteins, and finishing the meal with starchy carbohydrates, she says blood glucose spikes will be flattened, which is better for you.What is a glucose spike?after you eat carbohydrate. Many things determine how high and how long the peak lasts. These include what you ate with or before the carbohydrate, how much fiber is in the carbohydrate, and your body's ability to secrete, and use, the hormone insulin.
Scientists have known for a long time that high-fiber foods, such as salads, slow gastric emptying . So high-fiber foodsgastric emptying. Protein has the extra advantage of stimulating a hormone called glucagon-like-peptide 1 . In fact, drugs that mimic how GLP1 works are a new and very effective class of medication for people with type 2 diabetes. They're making a real difference to improve their blood sugar control.Most of the scientific research on whether eating food in a particular order makes a difference to glucose spikes involves giving a fiber, fat, or protein"preload" before the meal. Typically, the preload is a liquid and given around 30 minutes before the carbohydrate.
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