Escaping the Blood Sugar Roller Coaster
Roller coasters can be great fun, but they would be a nightmare if you could never get off. If you had to stay on for hours, day after day, you’d wind up stressed, exhausted, and desperate for escape. Unfortunately, every year millions of people get on the blood sugar roller coaster and can’t get off, and this roller coaster ride also leaves them feeling stressed and exhausted. And, even worse, it leads into major chronic and degenerative diseases. The blood sugar roller coaster involves rapid…
Whole Foods Versus Refined Carbohydrates
Whole foods help stabilize blood sugar in three ways. First, the fiber in these foods slows the release of the sugars into the blood stream, so they don’t cause the rapid spikes in blood sugar levels that refined carbohydrates do. Fiber also provides a feeling of fullness, which helps curb appetite and prevent overeating. This is why you can feel satisfied and full after eating an apple, but you can easily drink the juice of several apples. Juicing the apples removes the fiber and concentrates…
Tips for Getting Off the Roller Coaster
Once you understand sugar cravings and the problems associated with refined carbohydrates, you can take action and break this addictive cycle. The following tips will help you reduce sugar cravings, keep your blood sugar balanced, and help you enjoy greater physical and emotional health. Don’t Restrict, Substitute Since your body likes sweet things it makes no sense to tell yourself, “I can’t eat anything sweet.” This attempt at self-deprivation eventually results an internal rebellion…
The Problems with Non-Caloric Sweeteners
Artificial and non-caloric sweeteners might seems like an easy exit, but they aren’t the answer to escaping the blood sugar roller coaster. In April of 2023, the World Health Organization (WHO) released a paper on the use of non-sugar sweeteners, advising people not to use them.1 A systematic review of the most current scientific evidence showed that using artificial sweeteners was associated with an increased risk of type 2 diabetes, weight gain, cardiovascular disease, and overall mortality. The…
Additional Resources
- Strategies for Health by Steven Horne
- Sweet Death by Hugo Rodier, MD
- The Case Against Sugar by Gary Taubes
- Sugar Toxic by Margit Silverman
In This Issue
- Escaping the Blood Sugar Roller Coaster
- Whole Foods Versus Refined Carbohydrates
- Tips for Getting Off the Roller Coaster
- The Problems with Non-Caloric Sweeteners
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Get Off the Blood Sugar Roller CoasterA roller coaster ride can be great fun, but only because you can get off at the end of the ride. Unfortunately, millions…
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