alt Hacker NewsOatmeal is amazing at stabilizing blood sugar levels. It's like adding inertia to the power grid.
If you are eating any kind of snack cracker or refined wheat product, I would suggest replacing with oats and then reporting back on results after one week.
I think the beneficial effects are strong enough to completely offset the impact of things like occasional bowl of ice cream and package of nerds gummy clusters. This is what gets me to power through. If there wasn't some kind of strong upside no one would be eating this stuff willingly.
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How does it stabilize when it actually causes it to shoot up like crazy?
> If there wasn't some kind of strong upside no one would be eating this stuff willingly.
Are you kidding? I love the stuff. I used to eat it daily as a kid and had gotten out of the habit, but when I had high cholesterol and my doctor told me to eat a lot of it, it was like being prescribed a treat.
Glucose monitor disagrees.
How do you reconcile this with fact that oatmeal has higher glycemic index than ice cream?
If I eat a wheat-based breakfast (eg toast or wheat flakes), it's almost guaranteed that by 11am I'll be feeling fairly weak due to low blood sugar. Eating oats for breakfast doesn't have that effect at all.
I don't like oatmeal (porridge), but whole oats in muesli are pretty good.