![]() ![]() My Mother-in-law’s Blood Sugar Levels Also Skyrocketed My mother-in-law joined me in the experiment as she loves sweet potatoes but is pre-diabetic. Images of the blood sugar readings and more details about the experiment are recorded below. Hungry, craving, thirsty, want to eat the other half of the sweet potato, banana, chocolate chips, tired, yawning, eyes dry. I took some notes on how I felt after eating half the sweet potato (8 oz), and this is what I wrote: And I really felt it too! How I Felt After Eating Half The Sweet Potato I’ve written out below various possible factors that could have affected my blood sugar results as well as more details on how the experiment was conducted, but let me set out the shocking findings first! My Blood Sugar Levels Skyrocketed I’ve detailed some potential experimental errors below, but the simple fact is that my blood sugar went up quite dramatically as you can see from the chart and data table below. The Results – How My Blood Sugar Spiked After Eating Half A Sweet Potato Coming from a highly scientific background (apparently that physics Bachelors and Masters degrees came into use occasionally), I knew I had to have some proof of what I was ‘feeling.’ So, I busted out my blood glucose meter and started testing. Let me get to some hard facts before I lose you. My Experiment – How Do Sweet Potatoes Affect My Blood Sugar Levels? And if they were affecting my blood sugar levels, then they sure as hell were affecting the blood sugar levels of people with type 2 diabetics (like my dad). I knew from experience that eating sweet potatoes made me feel sluggish, sleepy, and tired (and I’m not even diabetic in the least – my fasting blood sugar level is typically 85 mg/dL!), so I knew that sweet potatoes were doing something with my blood sugar levels that wasn’t too great. What Tipped Me Off That It Was All A BIG Lie? Hint: I’m going to show you how you can test out the results for yourself so you don’t have to believe my word about it. ![]() So the question is whether sweet potatoes are a problem for people with blood sugar issues (like diabetics and pre-diabetics). But if you’re allergic to fish, you shouldn’t be eating it. Fish is pretty darn nutritious, and almost everybody agrees. But I also have pretty good insulin sensitivity. Entire cultures have lived very healthily on sweet potatoes. Unfortunately…It’s All Completely Untrue! Even on websites that supposedly pay attention to blood-sugar and glycemic load issues, sweet potatoes are almost always classified as a “better” food than things like white potatoes. Sweet potatoes a diabetic superfood from an Australian health and wellness websiteĪnd that’s just the tip of the iceberg.Researchers reveal sweet potato as weapon against diabetes from NC State University.Why The Sweet Potato Is King by Dr Andrew Weil.If you don’t believe me, here are just a few examples: The Myth About Sweet Potatoes…Įveryone (from doctors, to medical researchers, to even the American Diabetes Association) seems to unanimously state that sweet potatoes are unequivocally great for diabetics (please note that when I mention diabetes in this article, I’m referring to type 2 diabetes). ![]() So this particular issue hits very close to home (literally) for me – and presumably for almost anybody in the US, since you almost certainly know a few people who are at least pre-diabetic. And my dad and my mother-in-law fall into those categories – my dad’s been type 2 diabetic for over a decade, and my mother-in-law has been pre-diabetic for about the same amount of time. That’s over 105 MILLION people who have problems with insulin sensitivity and blood sugar. And here’s why I’m annoyed… As of 2014, 29 MILLION people in the US had Diabetes (type 2), and 86 MILLION people were pre-diabetic. I don’t know why, and I don’t even know if it’s on purpose, but it pisses me off.
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