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Blood sugar and fruit: Best for glucose based on CGM data

Thu, 15 May 2025 18:34:56 +0000

Fruit is an essential part of a healthy diet, but some can cause a short-lived sugar rush followed by an energy crash. And that’s not great for people carefully watching their blood glucose levels.

The glycemic index helps classify food on its blood glucose impact, but that sometimes doesn’t tell the full story.

Below, we explore nine common fruits that have a low glycemic index, and examine how they impact blood sugar using Ultrahuman’s Open Glucose Database.

7 Ways To Navigate Sugar This Holiday Season

Fri, 14 Oct 2022 17:15:00 +0000

This often leaves us feeling a bit low as the season begins to wind down and we realise that the fleeting joy of all that chocolate, pie, and other treats has disappeared. For some others, a sense of heightened vigilance about eating in moderation and overthinking it can take the joy out of the celebrations.

It is almost impossible to avoid sugar during the holiday season, and nobody is expecting you to completely cut it out. We all deserve to let our hair down with a sweet treat or two! But there is a difference between enjoying our food throughout the festive period and gluttonising only to feel a bit worse for wear at the end of the holidays.

8 Signs That Your Body Needs More Protein

Thu, 24 Mar 2022 11:00:00 +0000

Considered the building blocks of life, proteins reside in every cell of the body. From reducing cravings to boosting metabolism and lowering blood pressure, protein has an impressive job profile.

Highlights

The amount of protein we need depends on our weight, lifestyle and body type,
One of protein’s many roles is to make sure you feel full after eating. Protein takes longer to break down than carbs and other foods, and so it keeps you full for longer,
Research suggests that you should be consuming at least 1 gram of protein per kilogram of your body weight each day in order to fight off illnesses and infections.

Proteins are made up of amino acids which, when joined together, form long chains, and these chains work together to complete many important functions, including growth and maintenance, causing biochemical reactions, acting as chemical messengers, providing structure, maintaining proper pH, among many others.

The Correlation Between Cancer and Blood Sugar

Tue, 28 Dec 2021 10:07:00 +0000

Introduction

“Cancer cells love glucose,” says Rama Natarajan, chair of the Department of Diabetes Complications and Metabolism and an expert in molecular oncology (comprehensive cancer centre, City of Hope). This assertion lends credence to the Warburg effect, identified by Nobel Laureate Otto Warburg and considered a hallmark of cancer. According to this effect, cancer cells devour and metabolize glucose at almost 200 times the usual rate. (19)

The connection between sugar and cancer has been a subject of interest in medical research for a long time. Recent evidence suggests that there is indeed a correlation between hyperglycemia (high blood sugar levels) and some types of cancer. (1)