The recent flurry of CGM posts on social media about how certain foods raise blood glucose and therefore should be avoided are ridiculous! A healthy pancreas produces roughly 0.5-1.5 units of insulin per kg of body weight per day in adults, which roughly translates to 35-105 units, which is substantial and can manage a significant amount of glucose! In diabetics, 1 unit of insulin can typically handle about 1.5-2.5 grams of glucose. In healthy adults, this number is much higher and is estimated to be roughly around 10 grams. This means that the insulin produced by the body throughout the day can manage somewhere between 350-1050 grams of glucose, depending on how much insulin is being produced and the individual’s insulin sensitivity factor. So, a small serving of 30-100 grams of oats/rice (or any demonized food) is hardly a problem for your body, as long as you don’t exceed your total calories! The unnecessary fear mongering isn’t helping anyone and needs to stop!
This is another example of fear mongering. I had made a post regarding this long ago. They fail to understand the human physiology, 1. Acute Blood sugar response is mostly not because of what you ate in the last meal Sleep, stress, exercise, menstrual cycle, current body fat, genes, what you ate in the last meal, etc. will impact what your sugar response would be with the same meal 2. These fluctuations are a normal part of the body’s physiology. Infact, if the fluctuations aren’t present, then it’s a problem 3. People miss out on essential nutrients when they miss out on foods and other healthy grains. 4. In order to lower these spikes, sometimes more saturated fats are consumed which are equally harmful for heart health
Srikant Krishnan
1mo
It almost seems people were never fit and healthy without these fancy machines We complicate things way more than they should be
Karan Bhagat
1mo
Ram chandra keh gaye siya se esa kalyug ayga, lifestyle ki parwah koi nahi krega aur body k normal functions se manushya ghabrayega.
Prateek Pallav
1mo
Great post 👏 Busting bro science 💪 This has to be seen in a greater context and demonising food items like rice and oats is simply misleading. Glad you took up this simple but important concept.
absolutely, fear-mongering around food and blood glucose levels is counterproductive. trust your body Jitendra Chouksey
Very insightful figures Jitendra Chouksey ! Choosing healthier food habits should be prime focus, rather than fearing calories intake and it's problem. As long as you are eating healthier, in healthy manner , you can handle most of your problems.
This frenzy would keep coming every time with every other food Jitendra Chouksey.
Sankalp Nanda
1mo
Often feel they are sponsored by the new age machines tracking these levels and wanting us to keep checking this data via their apps.
An accidental entrepreneur
1moUpdated post with minor correction