The sugar blocker diet
When we consume starch and refined sugar, these foods enter the bloodstream quickly, causing a sugar spike. Our body then produces the hormone insulin to drive that sugar from your bloodstream into cells. Insulin spikes lock fat into them, so you can not use it for energy. In order to break this cycle and get our body to work optimally again, use these following tips to tap into the power of foods that can naturally slow sugar absorption, so you can keep eating meals you love. Start your meal with a salad
Salad soaks up starch and sugar. Soluble fiber from the pulp of plants — such as beans, tomato, carrots, apples, and oranges — swells like a sponge in your intestines and traps starch and sugar in the niches between its molecules and absorbs it into our bloodstream slowly, so our body needs less insulin to handle it. Include protein with your meal
Even though protein contains no glucose, it triggers a first-phase insulin response that occurs so fast, it keeps your blood sugar from rising as high later — and reduces the total amount of insulin you need to handle a meal. Nosh on lightly cooked vegetables
Boiling vegetables until they are limp and soggy saturates the soluble fiber, filling it with water so it can not absorb the sugar and starch you want it to. Save sweets for dessert only
If you eat sweets on an empty stomach, there is nothing to impede the sugar from racing directly into your bloodstream — no fat, no soluble fiber, no protein, no vinegar. But if you confine sweets to the end of the meal, you have all of the built-in protection the preceding rules provide. Bonus sugar blocker: move your body
There are other ways of blunting sugar spikes, and exercise is one of the best. Your muscle cells are by far the biggest users of glucose in your body and the target of most of the insulin you make. So to reduce sugar spikes, try going for a walk after eating.
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