Eating a burger and fries is not without consequences on our blood sugar levels which skyrocket after this rich meal. Discover a doctor’s simple but highly effective tip to reduce this negative impact on our blood sugar levels. (It also helps you gain less weight!)
If we know the importance of adopting a varied and balanced diet on a daily basis, small pleasures are an integral part of this healthy routine on the plate. So obviously, some of our meals are going to be richer in sugars and fats than would be appropriate when we eat pasta or a fast food and it is important to do everything to limit as much as possible their habit of causing our blood sugar to skyrocket, in order to reduce the risks of gaining weight and developing certain diseases such as diabetes.
To be able to eat a burger and a portion of fries serenely, the biochemist Jessie Inchauspé, better known under the nickname @glucosegoddess on social networks, has a unstoppable trick that she shared on her Instagram account: accompany her favorite fast-food menu with a salad seasoned with vinegar that you should eat first, just before enjoying the rest of your less dietary meal.
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Blood sugar: here’s why you should eat a vinegar salad before your fast food
It is once again with the help of 2 comparative graphs that the author of The glucose method revealed his trick to his 2.8 million subscribers on Instagram. One shows the spike in blood glucose caused by eating a burger and a portion of fries alone, the other shows the spike resulting from ingesting the same burger with exactly the same quantity of fries, but when eaten after a vinegar salad. The change in blood glucose levels during the 2 hours following these 2 fast food meals speaks for themselves. The blood sugar spike caused is much less when you eat a salad drizzled with a little vinegar before eating your hamburger and fried potatoes. “Two tips: vegetable starch and vinegar!” specifies the doctor in the caption of her super practical post to no longer deprive yourself, before adding “Same pleasure of a cheeseburger and fries, less impact on our body!”.
Be careful though, don’t think you’ll settle for the ready-made vinaigrette sauce from your favorite fast-food brand for this nutrition tip to work. The doctor clearly states: “Ps: it wasn’t the McDonald’s vinegar dressing (it has sugar in it.) It was my own vinegar and olive oil dressing”.
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