Combining caffeine and sugar causes other problems in blood glucose levels, besides the sudden rush factor. It sets up a vicious cycle of cravings.
You eat something sweet with a good cup of coffee. Your blood glucose levels swing wildly. These swings cause carbohydrate cravings. You crave another donut, another piece of cake or a second slice of pie.
Over time, this craving cycle and resulting imbalance in blood glucose levels leads to hypoglycemia, or the health condition commonly known as low blood sugar.
From the article 5 Things You Need to Know About Caffeine And Blood Glucose Levels over at livestrong.com. Livestrong is part of Lance Armstrong’s outreach for health and fitness. They bought out The Daily Plate and are expanding it toot sweet. Helpful article.
This *sugar swing* not only causes you to put on pounds from carbs, but wrecks your blood sugar which then ruins your metabolism. Suddenly you’re a train wreck headed for diabetes and it all started with coffee and a pastry, or eating out of the machines at work. This type of eating is one of the types blamed as *emotional eating.*
There is such a thing as eating based on emotions or mood swings. But there are also emotions and mood swings based on what you ate. Food affects you! This combo tends to be in the latter group.
Cravings never come out of nowhere, they are always triggered. We can learn what causes them and learn to prevent them. Believe me, it is great living craving free!
It all came back today. =) =) =)
