The True Cause of High Blood Sugar

Recently, I wanted to prove that a low fat, high fruit raw vegan diet does NOT lead to high blood sugar. Using a standard blood glucose monitor, I measured my blood glucose level several times a day for seven days.

You can check out my results in full here.

As you can see, my blood glucose level never went above the normal range for fasting blood glucose OR postprandial blood glucose. Not even once. Not even seconds after finishing off a large 800+ calorie fruit meal!

So if a diet so high in sugar doesn’t lead to high blood sugar, what does?

It Isn’t the Fruit

Sugar doesn’t lead to high blood sugar, no matter how much you eat. Because it doesn’t have to be broken down and converted to glucose (everything you eat has to be converted to simple sugar before it can be absorbed and assimilated by the body), the sugar from fruit is quickly absorbed into the bloodstream.

Contrary to popular belief, this speedy absorption is actually a good thing. It means that you’ll be quickly satiated (you won’t overeat) and quickly fueled (great for physical and mental performance).

Once the sugar is in the bloodstream, insulin is sent from your pancreas to your bloodstream. The insulin then transports the sugar from the blood and into your cells.

In a normal and healthy human body, the sugar from fruit is digested, absorbed, assimilated, and even eliminated quickly and easily.

It’s the Fat

But in a body that’s overrun with dietary fat, this process is impeded. The excess fat in your blood forms a thin coating on everything from your blood vessel walls to the insulin itself.

Rather than being speedily transported to your cells, the sugar remains in your bloodstream longer than it should.

This is what leads to prolonged elevated blood sugar levels, causing blood sugar imbalance conditions such as hyperglycemia and diabetes mellitus. Without the excess fat in the bloodstream, the sugar would exit the bloodstream quickly and naturally.

And don’t believe the hype about raw fats being different from cooked fats. Sure, raw foods like avocado and pecans definitely play a role in a healthy raw vegan diet. But these foods are still high in fat and consumption should definitely be kept to a minimum.

For more on the dangers of a high fat raw vegan diet, click here.

Want More Proof?

Here are a couple of recent studies that back up the claim that excess fat leads to hyperglycemia, not sugar.

Low-Fat Diet Alone Reversed Type 2 Diabetes in Mice

This study was conducted at Duke University Medical Center in 1999. The researchers took a group of diabetes-prone mice and reduced their diet from 40% fat to 10% fat.

The results? Total reversal of their diabetes.

And this wasn’t just due to weight loss because…

…their insulin and glucose (blood sugar) levels began to decrease before their weight did, suggesting that fat reduction acts on insulin and glucose levels independent of weight loss.

What’s even more interesting is that sugar had absolutely no effect on the mice in terms of either increasing or decreasing their symptoms.

A Low Fat Vegan Diet Improves Glycemic Control in Individuals with Type 2 Diabetes

This study was conducted at George Washington University School of Medicine in 2006.

The researchers analyzed 99 individuals with type 2 diabetes and split them up into two groups. One group was instructed to eat a low-fat vegan diet (consisting of about 10% of daily calories from fat) while the other followed the diet recommended by the American Diabetes Association (ADA).

The results?

After 22 weeks, 43% (21 of 49) of the low-fat vegan group lowered their Diabetes medication while only 26% (13 of 50) of the ADA group could do the same. The vegan group also lost more weight, lowered their LDL cholesterol levels, and improved their blood sugar control.

Eat More Fuit, Eat Less Fat

The key to blood glucose control is simple: eat a high carbohydrate, low fat diet.

On a raw vegan diet, this means consuming the majority of your calories from sweet fruit, while at the same time limiting your consumption of fatty foods like avocados, nuts, seeds, olives, and oils.

Go raw and be fit,

Swayze

P.S. Controlling your blood glucose may be simple, but it isn’t necessarily easy. The same can be said for attempting to a adopt a healthy raw food diet, ESPECIALLY when you have crazy cravings for cooked food to deal with.

That’s where I can help. I recently released a completely digital program dedicated to helping you eradicate your food cravings.

It’s called:

“How to Conquer Your Cooked Food Cravings Once and for All”

A Guide for Destroying Cravings on a Raw Food Diet

www.cookedfoodcravings.com

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