Are you the type of person that start the day off with a coffee to go along side your breakfast? If so you may be working against yourself when it comes to fat loss!
Coffee and cereal for breakfast is pretty much the same as eating a
chocolate bar for breakfast at least when it comes to your blood sugar
levels.
According to the study by University of Guelph researchers, blood sugar
levels in people who ate low-sugar cereal were 250 per cent higher if they
drank caffeinated coffee before or with breakfast, compared to decaf.
Research has shown that, “whether you’re a healthy individual, obese or a
Type 2 diabetic, when you ingest caffeine and then follow that with some
food that’s carbohydrate-based, for a prolonged period of time — certainly
six hours at least — your body becomes insulin resistant,” says Terry
Graham, professor of human health and nutritional sciences at the
University of Guelph.
“It’s the caffeine in the coffee that is altering your body’s sugar response,” Graham says. “It makes us resistant to insulin which in turn
makes our blood-sugar levels go higher.”
There are a few take home messages from this study.
1. Unless you are diabetic, this poses no real health problem. However if
you are trying to lose fat it IS a problem, because when insulin and blood
sugar levels are high, it means fat burning is at zero!
2. Eat protein with your breakfast. Having protein with a meal lowers
insulin spike caused by carbohydrates.
3. A bad breakfast can stay with you for up to 6+ hours! Which shows that
breakfast really is the most important meal of the day.
Here’s the link if you’d like to read the full article.
http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/news/story.html?id=dc861332-2795-47a1-baeb-bf036a3a4dc8