Category: Blood Sugar Testing

We put different food items to the test to see what effect they have on blood sugar. This is typically accomplished using a CGM (Continuous Glucose Monitor) but a simple glucometer (finger prick) device would work as well.

Blood Sugar vs. Sugar-Free Snacks: I Ran the Tests

Video | Blood Sugar Spikes | Running the Test | Sugar-Free Chocolate Candy | Keto Candy

Foods that are high in sugar spike your blood sugar. That is not something you want if you have insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, or trouble losing weight. So what happens when you remove the sugar? 

There are sugar-free versions of many high-sugar snacks. But do these foods do what you hope they will do? In other words, can you keep eating candy and treats without the troublesome blood sugar spikes? That is what I set out to discover using my continuous glucose monitor to collect the facts.

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Dirty Keto & Food Combining: I Put Them to the Test [Blood Sugar]

Video | Dirty Keto | Bun Test | Beef Patty & Cheese Test | Full Cheeseburger Test | Food Combining | Conclusions

Dirty keto is the term used for following a keto diet without concern for food quality. For instance, order a burger from a fast food restaurant, throw away the carb-loaded bun, and only eat the burger and cheese. 

Dirty keto will never win any healthy eating awards, but can it be used as a way to keep your blood sugar low enough to stay on track when nothing else is available? And would it really be all that bad to just eat the burger with the bun?  

While wearing a non-prescription CGM (Continuous Glucose Monitor), I went to Mcdonald’s and picked up a few cheeseburgers to see how the separated ingredients of a fast-food cheeseburger would affect my blood sugar and what would happen when I ate the bun and burger combo. Here’s what happened. 

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Blood Sugar vs. Popcorn – Is Adding Butter Better? 

Video | CGM | Plain Popcorn Results | Buttered Popcorn Results | Popcorn Blood Sugar Comparison | Takeaway

A couple of months ago, I used my non-prescription CGM to see how plain popcorn would affect my blood sugar level. The result was very poor. It shot my blood sugar straight up and then just as quickly dropped the level to a point lower than my starting point. 

Sharing that result spurred a lot of questions about buttered popcorn. Since butter is pure fat, which is a nutrient that does not spike blood sugar, would adding butter to the popcorn make it a better snack for blood sugar control? Well, I ran the test. It should be better, right? It was not what I expected. Here are the results. 

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Blood Sugar vs. Dark Chocolate: I Ran the Tests. Which Chocolate is Best? 

Video | Testing Dark Chocolates | 72% Cacao | 86% Cacao | 92% Cacao | 100% Cacao | Sugar Substitute Sweetened Chocolate | Results

I ate chocolate for breakfast for the past four days to see how different levels of cacao and different sweeteners used in dark chocolate would affect my blood sugar. 

Dark chocolate has health value. But at what level of dark does that value start, and at what point do the added ingredients tip the scale from healthy to unhealthy? 

That’s a big question, and while we might not be able to answer it fully, this blog post chips away a big chunk by looking at blood sugar impact. Join me to see what my continuous glucose monitor (CGM) showed as the best and worst dark chocolate. 

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Blood Sugar vs. Snacks: I Ran the Tests [Dark Chocolate, Popcorn, Almonds, Eggs]

Video | Blood Sugar Control | Almonds | Popcorn | Hard-boiled Eggs | Dark Chocolate | Results

Snacks that keep your blood sugar low limit the fat-storing hormone insulin and control hunger. I pitted four seemingly healthy snacks against each other and used a CGM (Continuous Glucose Monitor) to see how each one impacted my blood sugar. This blog post shares the best and worst snack results.

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