CONTEXT: Helpful research for all those people who’ve piled on the pounds during lockdown, you can now blame your postprandial glycemic dip. That’ll go down well on Peleton…..
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1. “Boston, MA –News Direct– ZOE. New results from PREDICT, the largest ongoing nutritional research program in the world that looks at responses to food in real life settings, show that people who experience big dips in blood sugar levels, several hours after eating, end up feeling hungrier and consuming hundreds more calories during the day than others.”
2. “People whose blood sugar levels dip significantly 2-4 hours after eating (‘big dippers’) are more likely to feel hungry sooner and consume an average of around 300 more calories over the course of the day than people with the smallest dips (‘little dippers’).”
3. “In the study, “Postprandial glycemic dips predict appetite and energy intake in healthy individuals,” the research team collected detailed data about blood sugar responses and other markers of health from 1,070 people after eating standardized breakfasts and freely chosen meals over a two week period, adding up to more than 8,000 breakfasts and 70,000 meals in total.”
4. “Big dippers vs. little dippers. Previous studies looking at blood sugar after eating have focused on the way that levels rise and fall in the first two hours after a meal, known as a blood sugar peak.”
5. “We’ve now shown that sugar dips are a better predictor of hunger and subsequent calorie intake than the initial blood sugar peak response after eating, changing how we think about the relationship between blood sugar levels and the food we eat.””
Source URL: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/latest-study-led-zoe-reveals-120400178.html