The Relationship Between Carbohydrates and Your Blood Sugar Levels!

From eating a piece of bread, some potato salad or drinking a Coke, the effect is the same. Blood sugar levels rise fast and in proportion to simple carbohydrate content. Simple carbohydrates are one of the food groups that affect blood sugar levels the most. Rice, pasta, breakfast cereal and muffins may all look differently, but in terms of diets, they are basically the same.

Quite simply, simple carbohydrates consist of chains of simple sugar molecules. Most of the carbohydrates that people consume are just chains of glucose molecules. The shorter the chain, the sweeter the taste. Some chains are longer and more complicated that tend to have many links and even branches similar to a plant root. The other type is simple. Whether they are "simple" or "complex" carbohydrates, they all are mostly composed of sugar. Many forms of food obviously are not visibly coated with sugar; however, once the body digests these foods, they turn in to sugars, affecting blood sugar levels.

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Your body has a unique digestion process, which breaks down all four major food groups into their basic elements and then these can be used by your body as needed. The basic element of most carbohydrate foods is glucose. We usually think of simple carbohydrates such as sugars (white or brown) as fast burning and complex carbohydrates as fruits, grains and vegetables as slow burning. Some of these can also be fast-acting carbohydrates. Fast-acting carbohydrates are those types that are broken down rapidly by the enzymes in saliva and the digestive tract and then turned into free glucose very quickly such as grapes. These affect blood sugar levels differently than a majority of slower burning complex carbohydrates which are an essential and healthy fuel for the body.

The key takeaway point is that although pushed by media and various diets, carbohydrates are essentially sugar that can affect one's blood sugar levels in drastic ways. The question is are they fast burnout sugars that cause spikes and drops or healthier slower burning sugars from complex carbs that provide longer lasting fuel supply to the body and thus healthy duration of steady metabolism between meals or re-fueling.

It is imperative that people who have high normal glucose levels watch the type and amount of carbohydrates that they consume in order to maintain steady blood sugar levels and a normal glucose metabolism. We should all try to make complex carbohydrates like vegetables, fruits whole grains and sweet potatoes part of our slower burning choice of daily fuels.

The Relationship Between Carbohydrates and Your Blood Sugar Levels!

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