In case you haven't seen it, a new book by a biochemist on managing spikes. She gave her 3 top tips on TV.
1 Have a savoury not a sweet breakfast - otherwise it starts cravings through the day.
2 Move around after meals - eg a walk or other activity after meals to reduce the spike.
3 Have vegetables before a meal - fibre lines the gut (I think) and means less absorbtion.
Her marketing is awful - is money a good enough reason to be known as the 'glucose goddess'? - and she has a 'plan' you can buy - all the usual stuff - but I like the top tips and will investigate further.
My friend who has sadly just gone type 1 diabetes following immunotherapy for cancer, so monitors his levels all day, says that tip 2 works.
Well the banner was enough to put me off - "seen" in the Daily Mail, Goop, Vanity Fair, those well known medical journals! I never trust anything you can't get a proper free look at.
Good basis for the waiter bringing your salad before the main dish as happens loads in Germany. It's not just giving you something to do while they are cooking ...
Thank you for this. Apparently the book is ‘well put together’.
Have just looked up the content. One of the reviews made me smile: “The majority of the ‘recipes’ are just different ways of putting veg on a plate with vinegar.”
On the programme she showed how to make "a perfect vinegar drink" because the presenter was apparently drinking it neat! It was about a tablespoon of cider vinegar (presumably with the mother) in a glass of water. Actually, I drink that a bit less diluted and it tastes good.
We always had cucumber and sliced onions in vinegar with our Sunday roast when I was a child. I still do the onions with roast beef, not the same without!
In Germany we used to get a finely sliced cucumber salad at a lot of restaurants and I imagine it will have had finely chopped onion in it though the recipes I found online had rather more robust onion portions!
Lots of talk here about vinegar! Is it good for you then? I know it does lots of things, in the world of cleaning but didn't realise drinking it was a plus.
As I understand it, 'the mother' is from the original apples that were part of the fermenting process. It is sedimentation in the bottom. The sort of c v for health, rather than cooking, will have 'with the mother' on the label.
I like the Zoe stuff too, Heron82. I listened to their podcast on blood sugar spikes, and the easy win for me was the cider vinegar before a meal, so I am doing that. Can't say I'm keen on swigging down a cup of vinegar though! Also got to watch the teeth, but drinking it through a straw just prolongs the agony.
Phew. I find it refreshing, almost yummy. Do you get it with 'the mother'? I think I have read that drinking through straws is even worse on your teeth.
Hooe fully it's a taste which I will acquire Viveka. Yes, I do get the one with the 'mother'. I don't drink with a straw because I can only just force myself to drink it anyway. I rinse my mouth out with water immediately afterwards to try to reduce the damage. Not sure if that does anything but it makes me feel like I've tried!
Interesting post, Viveka.I suspect that we will see many more of this type of thing, repackaging the results of research undertaken by the likes of ZOE and easily taken from their podcasts. The flattening of glucose spikes, adding fibre to your diet, improving your gut microbiome etc. will hopefully lessen inflammation agents and help those tending towards diabetes. This research is changing what we consider to be a "healthy diet", notwithstanding that we are all unique.It is unsurprising that media gods and goddesses are planning to make money out it. OP
I generally would avoid anyone using the 'goddess' moniker like the plague but I actually heard her being interviewed on one of the Zoe podcasts and she was quite interesting. I know she’s been subject to criticism from some nutritionists who are saying that they’ve known all this for years and it’s nothing new. I'm sure that's correct but if so they’ve maybe not done a very good job in widely disseminating that information! She’s apparently very big on Instagram so I guess she might be filling a gap in the market for the younger generation who are more inclined to get their health information that way?
It’s the acetic acid in vinegars that has some biochemical effect so any substitution for lemon juice won’t do as it contains citric acid.I think I’ve read her book, it was very good giving clear information and evidence based science explanations for each chapter.Best thing was how easy it was to adopt the strategies,some of which I have already followed and noticed sugar craving diminished already. Yes most of the information is not new- otherwise it couldn’t be evidence based yet. It’s the presentation and way it is written that makes the book. Spirit of kindly optimism ! Get past the Goddess stuff,enjoy the read!
Bacon and egg? Scrambled eggs, i.e. something based on the protein options for breakfast rather than a croissant, cereal or muffin type of breakfast.
In Europe, buffet breakfasts have tomatoes and other salad veg (mushrooms, radish, cucumber), cheese, sliced cold meats (ham, sausage, salami etc), smoked fish and eggs in every shape and form and fresh fruit! They have all the baked stuff, jams and honey too - but they are to be avoided ...
I grew up in the US, breakfast was cereal topped with sugar, or pancakes with syrup, or muffins, or toast and jam. When I first came to England in the late 1960s breakfasts were egg, bacon, sausages, ham, kippers, tomato, mushrooms, beans, and then buttered toast
International travel introduces very different concepts for breakfasts! We stayed in an amazing hotel in Singapore where the breakfast buffet had umpteen different sections - European, American/English, Indian, Chinese, eggs, etc etc. I had a wonderful time!
brilliant in simplicity, and explained simply too. I have started to adjust my eating. You can eat nearly anything you like ( except sugar, honey, maple syrup, agave syrup), but adjust the order of it in a meal or snack. Instead, fiber, fat and protein foods are most important. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Adjusting to this my eczema has gone away, palpitations almost gone, and I feel a bit better over all. Still with brain fog, and scatterbrained, fatigued. I am only just just starting slowly.
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