Posts tagged "Health"
If you’re like most people, you’re spending a lot of time rushing in the morning.
Up to 60% of young people in the US report not eating breakfast consistently, and If we’re polling our commonwealth brothers and sisters in the UK, it’s even worse. Most folks aren’t eating breakfast. When asked why, there are generally three responses:
Generally speaking, food that spikes your blood sugar contributes to excess weight gain. One of the surest ways we can identify whether a food will negatively affect weight goals is to measure our blood sugar levels after eating.
Thankfully we have thousands of peer reviewed studies that have done the work on which foods cause a spike, and a few tools like the Glycemic Index and Glycemic Load to help inform our decisions.
I’ve teased out two ways to use that information to make smoothies for low blood sugar:
We named our company The Good Stuff because that’s what we aim to provide: good, convenient food that you can feel great about. True story: when we had our very first smoothie prototype, both founders yelled, “that’s the good stuff!”.
But what is the good stuff?
Outside of actually getting up, brushing your teeth, and slapping on something presentable, there’s the looming spectre of a notoriously important meal:
Breakfast.
