Levels | Cereal for BREAKFAST & DINNER? WORST Food for Blood Sugar Levels | Drs. Mark Hyman & Casey Means @levels | Uploaded February 2024 | Updated October 2024, 5 hours ago.
At Levels, we have data. Here, Levels cofounder and chief medical officer @drcaseyskitchen shares about the worst foods in the Levels dataset of over 51 million data glucose points.
🫠 The worst: Skittles have an average rise in our glucose dataset of 83 mg/dL. And you are going to likely crash after that type of spike.
🥣 Next, it’s cereals: Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Honey Nut Cheerios, Lucky Charms—all lead to about 60 mg/dL rise, or above.
🧇 Common American breakfast foods (muffins, waffles, pancakes, etc.) are in the worst 100 foods, scoring above a 40 mg/dL spike.
✅ Looking at our best foods, we also see a handful of breakfast items. These are the ones we want to eat: frittata, avocado and egg, avocado and greens, chia pudding, and Greek yogurt and berries.
⚠️ The metabolic disease epidemic:
- 72% of adults in the United States are overweight or have obesity
- 9 out of 10 leading causes of death in the United States are directly caused by or worsened by dysregulated blood sugar
- 50% of people in the United States go on a diet to lose weight
- There’s an effort-outcome mismatch
📉 One of the biggest things we need to do is keep our blood sugar in a stable and healthy range. We have the power to do that.
📲 That is where tools like continuous glucose monitoring can empower people to make choices that impact their physiology, turning the tide against weight gain, high blood sugar, and chronic disease.
#metabolichealth #metabolism #bloodsugar #breakfast
👋 WHO WE ARE:
Levels helps you see how food affects your health. With real-time, personalized data gathered through biosensors like continuous glucose monitors (CGM), you learn which diet and lifestyle choices improve your metabolic health so you can live a longer, fuller, healthier life.
🔗 LINKS:
Become a Levels member: levels.link/shorts
Subscribe here on YouTube: youtube.com/@levels?sub_confirmation=1
At Levels, we have data. Here, Levels cofounder and chief medical officer @drcaseyskitchen shares about the worst foods in the Levels dataset of over 51 million data glucose points.
🫠 The worst: Skittles have an average rise in our glucose dataset of 83 mg/dL. And you are going to likely crash after that type of spike.
🥣 Next, it’s cereals: Cinnamon Toast Crunch, Honey Nut Cheerios, Lucky Charms—all lead to about 60 mg/dL rise, or above.
🧇 Common American breakfast foods (muffins, waffles, pancakes, etc.) are in the worst 100 foods, scoring above a 40 mg/dL spike.
✅ Looking at our best foods, we also see a handful of breakfast items. These are the ones we want to eat: frittata, avocado and egg, avocado and greens, chia pudding, and Greek yogurt and berries.
⚠️ The metabolic disease epidemic:
- 72% of adults in the United States are overweight or have obesity
- 9 out of 10 leading causes of death in the United States are directly caused by or worsened by dysregulated blood sugar
- 50% of people in the United States go on a diet to lose weight
- There’s an effort-outcome mismatch
📉 One of the biggest things we need to do is keep our blood sugar in a stable and healthy range. We have the power to do that.
📲 That is where tools like continuous glucose monitoring can empower people to make choices that impact their physiology, turning the tide against weight gain, high blood sugar, and chronic disease.
#metabolichealth #metabolism #bloodsugar #breakfast
👋 WHO WE ARE:
Levels helps you see how food affects your health. With real-time, personalized data gathered through biosensors like continuous glucose monitors (CGM), you learn which diet and lifestyle choices improve your metabolic health so you can live a longer, fuller, healthier life.
🔗 LINKS:
Become a Levels member: levels.link/shorts
Subscribe here on YouTube: youtube.com/@levels?sub_confirmation=1
