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Reasons for blood sugar swings-Upswing:Chinese food.

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I was browsing through the website WEBMD and came across this article'20 Reasons for blood sugar swing'.The third item in the list got me interested.Here it is,verbatim:

'UPSWING:Chinese food

When you dig into a helping of sesame beef or sweet and sour chicken,it is not just the white rice that can cause a problem.Foods that are high in fat can cause your blood sugar to stay high longer.The same is true of pizza,french fries and other foods that are high on both carbohydrates and fat.Check your blood sugar about two hours after you eat to know how a food affects you'.

Keeping this in mind can we plan for a diet that circumvents this problem?

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I was thinking more in terms of common foods that we Indians eat,like samosas,kachoris,pooris.jeera rice,ghee rice,pulav,biriyani and countless other traditional dishes that we regularly eat which are loaded with both carbohydrates and fat.

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Murthi

carb and fat essential to the body to use it limts that means your work and body metabolism food quantity measure and sufficent exersise and and get life happy. it is tru imange 1994 to2012..let i trunback.

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ravkumac

most of chinese dishes these days cooks are using raw sugar -

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