Why Do People Eat Sugar When They Crash Posted: 09-21-07 10:55am
isnt this contradictory ???
should i eat protein when i crash ?? and
not sugar
since suagr causes hypglycemia aswell, it
doesnt make sense
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Stan
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Joined: 01 Jan 2006 Posts: 1620 Location: ,
Posted: 09-21-07 15:37pm
No one should be doing this that has it,
but your brain is smart, it knows that
even though it may cause another crash
later, it can keep itself relatively well
more quickly on simple sugar, so you'll
crave things like candy and such. You
should be eating protein, yes. Cheese and
nuts are best for this, but avoid peanuts
and cashews.
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peridote
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 02 Oct 2007 Posts: 4
Why No Peanuts/cashews? Posted: 10-02-07 13:48pm
Hi,
Just found this forum and was reading
through some messages... what is the
reason for avoiding peanuts and cashews?
My boyfriend (the hypoglycemic) was told
to introduce more fats into his vegetarian
diet so he now includes peanuts and
cashews with his soynuts as his between
meal snack (he needs to eat every 1.5
hours).
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Stan
Moderator
Joined: 01 Jan 2006 Posts: 1620 Location: ,
Posted: 10-02-07 13:55pm
The reason is that peanuts and cashews are
actually beans, NOT nuts. Therefore, they
are assimilated and function in the body
differently than normal nuts. This is
easy to tell by their strangely high
carbohydrate content, which most 'nuts' do
not possess. If he's fine eating them, go
ahead, but I recommend to new users to
avoid them at first. Walnuts are best,
raw and unsalted. But you can eat
whatever you like so long as it doesn't
make you sick and it doesn't contain
anything you shouldn't be eating. I'll
tell you this much, being a vegetarian is
almost impossible for a hypoglycemic, they
have the toughest time of all, mainly
because they start to eat more soy, which
is actually bad for your body in larger
quantities because of the high phytic acid
content. If he absolutely must eat like
this, see if he'll add in eggs. Hopefully
he's still eating cheese and such.
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peridote
New User, Becoming EHEALTHy
Joined: 02 Oct 2007 Posts: 4
Posted: 10-02-07 15:56pm
Yes. We eat cheese, eggs and dairy. He's
been fine for years as a veggie. He'e been
setback recently because a food he was
eating changed their recipe and we didn't
catch it.
Thanks for all the information!
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Stan
Moderator
Joined: 01 Jan 2006 Posts: 1620 Location: ,
Posted: 10-04-07 10:16am
Okay, great! If you could, it would be
nice to know what he's eating, I rarely
come across vegetarian hypoglycemics on
here and have a hard time making
suggestions based on what I've studied. A
diet list would be great!
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