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Eating Carbs Last Lowers BG Levels after a Meal

Eating protein, vegetables, and fat before carbohydrates is now being linked to lower blood sugar and insulin levels after the meal. A new study showed that after eating carbohydrates last, participants’ blood sugar levels were about 29% lower after 30 minutes, 37% lower after 60 minutes, and 17% lower after …

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Putting ‘Added Sugars’ on Food Labels Confuses Shoppers

In a recent study, consumers who viewed nutrition panels with grams of "added sugars" as part of total grams of sugar miscalculated the amount of sugar. But when consumers looked at a nutrition panel that didn’t break out "added sugars," most of them correctly identified the amount of sugar. The …

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