Lower glycemic foods, like berries versus bananas, or beans versus refined bread, will help to reduce
the immediate blood sugar spike and will help to spread out the energy use.
Not exact matches
This includes white bread, white pasta, cereals, snacks and all off - the - shelf desserts — they
spike your
blood sugar very quickly and provide an
immediate energy boost, but other than, offer no real nutritional value.
This means it won't cause a rapid
blood sugar spike, and it doesn't require an
immediate insulin response for it to be metabolized, as most
sugars do.
However, when
blood sugar spikes send glucose to toxic levels and all the other pathways are at their rate limit, glycation is an important contributor in managing the
immediate crisis of bringing down
blood sugar.
Refined
sugars have an
immediate impact on your
blood sugar levels, causing them to
spike and forcing your body to respond with insulin.
The
immediate result is that it fools the pancreas into releasing a huge
spike of insulin, which is quickly followed by a precipitous drop in
blood sugar (acute hypoglycemia) since there isn't really any surplus
sugar for the insulin to work on.