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Originally Posted by kindlekitten
*shrug* I like a little starch with my meals. I also have wonky blood sugar issues that makes it so I need a bit of starch with my meals (usually potato based), or my blood sugar sky rockets
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How does adding starch lower your blood sugar? If you have blood sugar issues, the last thing you need is starch. Try a starch free diet for a few days and notice how stabile your blood glucose levels remain.
Do you ever notice that when you wake up in the morning and don't eat breakfast that you're fine all morning and aren't starving by lunch, but when you eat something like cereal, toast, or just orange juice, in 2 hours your stomach is grumbling and you're getting light headed? Starches and sugar cause spikes in your blood glucose levels and in order to obtain homeostasis your pancreas secrete insulin. That causes a drop in your blood glucose levels where you become tired, hungry and lethargic, at which point your body starts craving starches and the cycle then repeats itself.
