How did you prepare the kale?
The graph says "Time (s)", but those can't be seconds. What's up?
So you did a dozen pinpricks to measure glucose? Does that start to get bothersome?
The graph says "Time (s)", but those can't be seconds. What's up?
So you did a dozen pinpricks to measure glucose? Does that start to get bothersome?
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This is an unreasonable amount of kale :-). I'm going to need to figure out a better meal:kale ratio or use a different vegetable side.
Actually, you're right. They're minutes. I started sampling my blood glucose when I started eating. Let me go ahead and add annotations to some of those data points, especially the data points that correspond to the end of the meal.
Also, does caffeine in soda (so often paired with this meal) speed digestion enough to make blood sugar spike? I always assumed that caffeine increases your metabolism, but I didn't consider that speeding digestion is worse for blood sugar.
I hypothesize that a mix of coarse vegetables, for example, one that includes broccoli, kale, red cabbage, and cauliflower, would slow down the digestion rate even more than 10 oz of kale. Replacing the kale with dino kale would make this mix even better.
I didn't drink soda with the meal, simply because I don't normally drink soda with this meal, but an experiment with a caffeinated beverage would be easy enough to do.
One of the things we're working on is quantifying how different things, such as caffeine intake, affect your metabolic rate. This is the subject of an upcoming blog post.
I sampled my blood glucose every ten minutes, which might have been unnecessarily frequent. Having to interrupt myself every ten minutes to do a pinprick prevented me from doing anything that required concentration. I basically found myself watching YouTube videos for two hours.
I've heard of people doing continuous blood glucose monitoring, but this may be a bit heavyweight. I really only have to do this a few times for a few different meals to get an idea of what is needed by my body.