Inchauspé says that processing fruit by juicing it or drying it can impact its effect on your blood sugar. I’m feeling like Ichauspé knows some things about glucose levels, but it’s clear that she has not been educated to the point of being an expert in physiology, glucose, and diabetes. ‘Why did she write a book about avoiding blood sugar spikes for people who have normal glucose levels?’ Clark asked me. Post-meal glucose was not measured in this study, so how do we know that vinegar actually helps with spikes? In fact, at the end of the 12 week study and after 5 weeks follow-up, HbA1C and FPG were not remarkable. The Group is designed to make sure you have the motivation, accountability, and support to ensure your total success.

One size fits all approaches to diet are never appropriate, as we all have individual needs and requirements. This 2017 study, although fairly small, suggested that eating a high protein breakfast may help with blood glucose levels at the subjects’ subsequent meal.

A Dietitian’s take:

Have you ever noticed that when you eat pancakes and maple syrup, you’re hungry again by 10am? The food you eat first thing affects your glucose levels for the rest of the day. Interestingly, recent research on blood sugar in PLOS suggests that there are variations in glucose regulation in people who aren’t diabetic. This means that even if they aren’t diabetic, some people’s glucose spikes higher than others, often into the pre-diabetic range. While it’s great to eat in a way that ensures a slow rate of absorption of glucose into the blood, the messaging around glucose spikes in healthy people being harmful seems alarmist and not evidence-based.

Breakfast is the worst time to eat just sugar and starches , yet it’s the time at which most of us do exactly that.

The facts about blood glucose

Ok, so a week had past and the first habit was to eat a savoury breakfast, from a person who isn’t eating in the morning, this habit kept me full until lunch time. And I could skip lunch easily because I’m not hungry anymore, but this happened after a week… in the first week I was so hungry all the time, anyway protein is key to end unnecesary hunger. It’s Sunday, I’ve just took my 7th savory breakkie, and tomorrow I’m starting the vinegar week. Can’t wait for that! As far as the study saying that subjects lost a ‘significant amount of weight’ during the intervention, this translated into 1-2 kg for the vinegar groups, which was basically reversed after the study ended. These types of curve graphs, which are all over her social, look scientific, but are more like a representation of something scientific. I can see how they’d be compelling to the layperson, but I’d take them with a HUGE grain of salt, since they have basically no context whatsoever. This comes off to me as equal parts interesting and shady. If you do not have a health condition that impacts blood glucose control, then you do not need to monitor, or worry about your blood glucose. Scramble your eggs in butter or olive oil and add slices of avocado, or stir almonds, chia seeds or flax seeds into your Greek yogurt. Skip the fat-free yogurt and switch to 5% fat Greek yogurt. Fat is very important and not to be feared.