Science: Wheat Spikes Your Blood Sugar More Than A Can Of Soda
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Did you know that wheat – including so-called “healthy” whole wheat – spikes your blood sugar more than almost any other food… even when the same number of carbs is consumed?
That’s because 75% of the carbohydrates in wheat are in the form amylopectin A. This compound is unique because of how rapidly it is transformed to glucose.
According to research published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, eating just two slices of whole wheat bread spikes your blood sugar more than drinking a can of soda, eating a candy bar or helping yourself to six teaspoons of table sugar! [1]
And if the threat of diabetes, heart disease and metabolic syndrome is not enough… the damage traditional bread can do to your gut should make you think long and hard before you butter your next slice!
Unfortunately, however, there is a BIG misconception about bread and your gut.
Wheat causes chronic gut inflammation. Compounds within it can also do direct damage to every tissue in your body.
And you don’t need certain genetics for the damage to occur, because it happens to EVERYONE who consumes it!
References:
[1] Jenkins DH, Wolever TM, Taylor RH, et al. Glycemic index of foods: a physiological basis for carbohydrate exchange. Am J Clin Nutr. 1981 Mar; 34(3):362–6. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6259925