Do you monitor your blood sugar? Be careful, you will certainly have to review your morning eating habits. A nutritionist reveals the worst foods to eat for breakfast, those that cause blood sugar spikes.
Foods commonly eaten during breakfast are far from being the best at regulating the blood sugar level. Worse, some cause peaks of blood sugar which are bad for your health and which promote diabetes. While there are foods that lower blood sugar levels that are ideal for the first meal of the day, it is important not to have too large an intake of carbohydrates in the morning, as Mélanie Mercier reminds us, dietician-nutritionist for the French Federation of Diabetics, during an interview for the JDF.
To know which foods to avoid as much as possible in the morning, we can rely on the list established by the expert who revealed all the food bans that we should know to avoid blood sugar spikes. Among them, we find everything that makes our breakfast very delicious (but also very sweet) like “THE cereals breakfast, toast with jamTHE cookies where the cakes”, to which we can add the pastries because they all contain a lot of carbohydrates. “These foods can create a sugar spike and unbalance blood sugar” alerts the nutritionist. So you can enjoy them for breakfast in an exceptional way, but they should not be part of your breakfast habits. It’s the same for the favorite breakfast drink: fruit juice. “We absolutely avoid fruit juices, even fresh, because they are very sweet”assures the nutritionist who even advises against freshly squeezed homemade fruit juices.
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Blood sugar: which foods should you replace your breakfast essentials with?
If like most of us, you too eat these super sugary and very fatty foods in the morning, then you certainly don’t know what to replace them with. Keep in mind that it is better to opt for unprocessed foods (the opposite of industrial brioches and pastries!), products rich in proteins or good fats.
Think of oatmeal which is a good substitute for super-sweet cereals, oilseed purees which serve as jams on toast, but also dairy products with yogurt or low-fat cottage cheese. On the drinks side too, a change is expected if you drink fruit juice, hot drinks like tea and coffee are preferred according to the expert, but you will have to eat them without sugar. You can also choose to drink just water to rehydrate yourself, or even milk, but on condition that you have not chosen the option of yogurt to fill you up so as not to overindulge in dairy products.
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