Coming from a highly scientific background (apparently that physics Bachelors and Masters degrees came into use occasionally), I knew I had to have some proof of what I was ‘feeling.’ So, I busted out my blood glucose meter and started testing. Let me get to some hard facts before I lose you. My Experiment – How Do Sweet Potatoes Affect My Blood Sugar Levels? And if they were affecting my blood sugar levels, then they sure as hell were affecting the blood sugar levels of people with type 2 diabetics (like my dad). I knew from experience that eating sweet potatoes made me feel sluggish, sleepy, and tired (and I’m not even diabetic in the least – my fasting blood sugar level is typically 85 mg/dL!), so I knew that sweet potatoes were doing something with my blood sugar levels that wasn’t too great. What Tipped Me Off That It Was All A BIG Lie? Hint: I’m going to show you how you can test out the results for yourself so you don’t have to believe my word about it. So the question is whether sweet potatoes are a problem for people with blood sugar issues (like diabetics and pre-diabetics). But if you’re allergic to fish, you shouldn’t be eating it. Fish is pretty darn nutritious, and almost everybody agrees. But I also have pretty good insulin sensitivity.

Entire cultures have lived very healthily on sweet potatoes. Unfortunately…It’s All Completely Untrue! Even on websites that supposedly pay attention to blood-sugar and glycemic load issues, sweet potatoes are almost always classified as a “better” food than things like white potatoes. Sweet potatoes a diabetic superfood from an Australian health and wellness websiteĪnd that’s just the tip of the iceberg.Researchers reveal sweet potato as weapon against diabetes from NC State University.Why The Sweet Potato Is King by Dr Andrew Weil.If you don’t believe me, here are just a few examples: The Myth About Sweet Potatoes…Įveryone (from doctors, to medical researchers, to even the American Diabetes Association) seems to unanimously state that sweet potatoes are unequivocally great for diabetics (please note that when I mention diabetes in this article, I’m referring to type 2 diabetes). So this particular issue hits very close to home (literally) for me – and presumably for almost anybody in the US, since you almost certainly know a few people who are at least pre-diabetic. And my dad and my mother-in-law fall into those categories – my dad’s been type 2 diabetic for over a decade, and my mother-in-law has been pre-diabetic for about the same amount of time. That’s over 105 MILLION people who have problems with insulin sensitivity and blood sugar. And here’s why I’m annoyed… As of 2014, 29 MILLION people in the US had Diabetes (type 2), and 86 MILLION people were pre-diabetic. I don’t know why, and I don’t even know if it’s on purpose, but it pisses me off. Moral of the story: wear comfortable shoes, square your shoulders, and walk like you’ve been sent to murder Captain America.You and I have been lied to. I was wearing a flowy purple peasant top and looked as un-soldierlike as possible. I recently had a man do a double-take as I walked by and ask me, politely, where I had served because I “looked like a soldier.” I’m not current or former military. I now wear that style of boots whenever possible. People parted like I was Charlton Heston. I repeated the experiment later, wearing the boots but otherwise my usual clothing and mimicking the expression I thought I’d had at that moment. I got the meds, got out, and made a mental note. I once had to rush back inside a convention hall as the con was closing in order to a retrieve a sick friend’s medication, and I didn’t understand why people in the crowd were jumping out of my way (literally-one guy vaulted a table) until I realized I was dressed as the Winter Soldier and doing the Murder Walk because that’s just how I walk in those boots.

Sleepy potato