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| I sold out at an early age. |
Our blood sugar goes up by 50 points during a meal, and that is good. Salesmen buy lunch for potential customers because people feel much better when they are eating.
Our complex, divinely engineered bodies also have controls to make us aware of our misuse of food. I have been looking into this because of higher blood sugar matched by lower energy and various side effects, whether potential or incipient.
Starting the day sugar-centric is appealing but energy draining. Coffee with danish, toast, cinnamon rolls or fresh donuts is tempting, difficult to deny when offered. Black coffee, often prepared by barbarians, is strong, bitter, and aching for sweetness. Some add sugar, sugar substitutes, and fake cream to the coffee.
High glycemic (sugary) food gives instant energy, but the insulin from our pancreas beats it down quickly. The peak is high and short-lived. Long-term high blood sugar levels reduce potassium, which is essential for good energy. Therefore, the donut shoppe breakfast is deadly for energy the rest of the day.
I have also found that starting with dessert foods (toast, donuts, rolls, pancakes) will create a slump and a craving for more of the same, such as a good lunch topped with a mega-dessert.
A sugary food day is the worst way to get things done. In contrast, looking for long-term, level blood sugar days is going to produce great results and reduce binge eating to "Yuk!" A good breakfast avoids sugar, corn syrup, and high glycemic foods:
- Breakfast cereal - useless dessert flakes with milk and sugar added.
- White bread products and (sob) donuts. Fortunately, donuts are so poorly made around here that there is no temptation.
- Fruit juice is really a flavored serving of sugar water. Note how many juices start with water and high fructose corn syrup.
A much better breakfast:
- Coffee, black, made from freshly ground beans. I make ours with a pour-over device, a plastic funnel lined with filter paper. A little kettle turns off at the right moment. It reminds me of OJ fanatics - "A little pot is soon hot." Great coffee does not require cream, sugar, or fake sweetness from chemists.
- Almonds and walnuts have many great nutritional values.
- Eggs are high in protein but do not stick to the ribs, as they say, unless eaten with a small portion of dark bread and butter.
- Fruit is far better than fruit juice. Bananas rot too fast. We buy berries, apples, and oranges/tangerines. Old fruit goes outside for the critters. I put three withered apples on the bird feeding area. One by one they disappeared.
- Fiber in the diet is necessary, and the coffee shop diet does nothing to provide that. Fresh fruit can be supplemented with delicious prunes and BelVita fiber crackers.
