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EventsYour blood sugar on high carb versus low carb
November 6 2017 by Amanda Åkesson, BSc![Amanda Åkesson, BSc]()
, medical review by Dr. Andreas Eenfeldt, MD![Dr. Andreas Eenfeldt, MD]()
in Blood sugar, Dr. David Unwin, Low carb & high fat
, medical review by Dr. Andreas Eenfeldt, MD
in Blood sugar, Dr. David Unwin, Low carb & high fat 
How does a carb-rich vs. low-carb diet affect your blood sugar? Dr. Unwin did a simple experiment to investigate this, where he measured how his blood glucose responds to the two different diets.
The picture above shows his blood sugar after a high-carb breakfast. 10.2 mmol/L (184 mg/dl) is almost diabetic high, and even double compared to his pre-meal value. Not so good, given that this is the recommended diet for diabetics.
So what happened after a low-carb meal instead?
5.9 mmol/L (106 mg/dl). Nice and stable!
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Waking uo intentionally to eat some high carb food is a bad idea, you won't feel any better.
In my family everyone loves eating at night. If I don't have dinner very late, I can never fall asleep without a snack before going to bed, or during the night if I wake up. I think it's genetic in my family. By the way, we are all very slim no matter what we eat. And when I tried having butter coffee in the morning instead of meal, I gave it up after nearly fainting before lunch. I think it's all because of my low glucose. But low carb snacks work perfectly well for me if they have some protein.
If you are satisfied with your diet. This is great and be happy.
I myself was T2 diabetes taking 2 x 500 mg of Metformin per day. I was trying to follow as much as possible the standard nutrition guidelines and eating a lot of vegetable and grains. Despite this, I still had an A1C test in excess of 6.2 %.
I started the LCHF diet (ketogenic) just a year go and was able to completely reverse my T2 diabetes (no more medication required). As a premium, I also lost 95 pounds and was able to eliminate the need of High blood pressure medication.
This diet is not misleading as it is certainly for a lot of people like me to reverse their T2 diabetes and lose weight.
Can you claim the same with your plant/high carb based diet?