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Jessie Inchauspe [1] created a business (she's the "glucose goddess") and wrote books around the different blood sugar responses she and others have to meals, exercise, etc... I don't recall all the ideas, but here are the two I remember: Exercise before and/or after eating smooths out the blood sugar response to food. When eating a meal, it's better to eat high-fiber stuff first, then complex carbs, then protein, then fats, and eat simple carbs last (Or something like that order).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jessie_Inchauspé



GLUT-4 activation in the muscles primes them to take up glucose and other nutrients. So air squats or going for a walk before/after a meal can significantly blunt the insulin response, because there's less glucose in your blood stream, because more of it has been ported into muscles.


Is the order salad, baked potato, steak, dessert?


Yeah, I think so, though my recollection is that a baked potato's glycemic index is kinda high. For more authoritative list of details, you could listen to the following podcast with Inchauspé: https://overcast.fm/+AA4G32XuwoA




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