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Anecdotes aside, steak won't spike your insulin.
by loopdoend 11y ago
Anecdotes aside, steak won't spike your insulin.
- dogma1138 11y ago50-60% of the absorbed your protein intake is metabolized into glucose. Not to mention that people don't tend to eat the leanest cut available so all of those T-Bones and Rib-Eye's add a huge chunk of saturated fat into the mix and that's without all the addons like that nice sour cream and peppercorn sauce with those nice roasted potatos.... Consuming large portions of meat will increase your BG level's they won't spike as fast as if you would chuck down a bowl of ice cream but they'll rise quite well and crash just as quickly later...
- JoeAltmaier 11y agoWell, because meat provides other calories than sugar the crash is 'buffered', right?
- mixmastamyk 11y agoAnd it takes a long time to do so, so the spike will not come like it does with sugar.
- ScottBurson 11y agoActually it does. Insulin also stimulates muscle cells to absorb amino acids. A large protein meal causes quite a substantial insulin response. Ref.: http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/66/5/1264.abstract http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/66/5/1264.abstract
- mixmastamyk 11y agoSee glycemic/insulin indexes.