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Like Bread? Have Berries Too
It is strongly recommended that you do not eat bread (especially white bread) or bakery goods.
One of the reasons is that is a refined carbohydrate like bread causes a substantial increase in your blood sugar, which in turn causes an excessive increase in your insulin level. If your insulin remains too high because of repeated consumption of refined carbs, you tend to develop "insulin resistance", where cells don't properly respond to insulin signals.
Once you develop insulin resistance, you are at risk of developing diabetes.
But let's suppose you can't bear to give up your bread and white rice. Is there anything you can do to minimize the damage?
One thing you can do is to have berries with your bread, according to a new study from the University of Eastern Finland.
In this study, women consumed either white bread or rye bread, with various whole-berry purees added. Some purees were individual berries, while another was a mix of berries. They also ate bread with no berries. The researchers used both white bread and rye bread because the insulin response is worse with white bread, compared to rye.
So what happened? They found that strawberries, bilberries, lingonberries, and chokeberries consumed with white bread reduced the rise in insulin levels. Also, a mix of berries reduced the rise in insulin with either white or rye bread.
Only strawberries and the berry mixture reduced the rise in blood sugar.
And here's another bonus from eating berries.
The University of East Anglia in the UK has reported that women consuming blueberries and strawberries had a lower risk of heart attack.
And by the way, berries are good antioxidants.
So why not keep on had a good supply of fresh or frozen berries? Any kind of berry appears to be beneficial, so have a mix of berries to make it interesting.
It is strongly recommended that you do not eat bread (especially white bread) or bakery goods.
One of the reasons is that is a refined carbohydrate like bread causes a substantial increase in your blood sugar, which in turn causes an excessive increase in your insulin level. If your insulin remains too high because of repeated consumption of refined carbs, you tend to develop "insulin resistance", where cells don't properly respond to insulin signals.
Once you develop insulin resistance, you are at risk of developing diabetes.
But let's suppose you can't bear to give up your bread and white rice. Is there anything you can do to minimize the damage?
One thing you can do is to have berries with your bread, according to a new study from the University of Eastern Finland.
In this study, women consumed either white bread or rye bread, with various whole-berry purees added. Some purees were individual berries, while another was a mix of berries. They also ate bread with no berries. The researchers used both white bread and rye bread because the insulin response is worse with white bread, compared to rye.
So what happened? They found that strawberries, bilberries, lingonberries, and chokeberries consumed with white bread reduced the rise in insulin levels. Also, a mix of berries reduced the rise in insulin with either white or rye bread.
Only strawberries and the berry mixture reduced the rise in blood sugar.
And here's another bonus from eating berries.
The University of East Anglia in the UK has reported that women consuming blueberries and strawberries had a lower risk of heart attack.
And by the way, berries are good antioxidants.
So why not keep on had a good supply of fresh or frozen berries? Any kind of berry appears to be beneficial, so have a mix of berries to make it interesting.
