How the Food Industry Engineers the Need to Eat

Re:How the Food Industry Engineers the Need to Eat by sithadmin on Friday December 11, 2015 @11:08AM (#10717871)

Your symptoms sound like hypoglycemia. As someone for whom hypoglycemia is a chronic issue, the best thing I've found for dealing with fasting is to load up on protein-heavy foods with low glycemic indexes prior to the fast.

Edit: I should be more clear - avoid foods with high glycemic indexes prior to the fast. In fact, just avoid them generally; they're usually empty calories.

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Re:How the Food Industry Engineers the Need to Eat by glaugh on Friday December 11, 2015 @12:39PM (#10718471)

A good test for whether you're hypoglycemic is to set an alarm to go off every waking hour for three days, and eat a handful of nuts (or something else with a low glycemic load) every time the alarm goes off.

I did this and felt waaaaaaaaay better than normal mood- and concentration-wise. Realizing that I have blood sugar issues is the most important thing that's happened to me in the last five years except for having a kid.

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Re:How the Food Industry Engineers the Need to Eat by taco_emoji on Friday December 11, 2015 @01:28PM (#10718878)

Wait, but what's the test condition? What results should I expect from your experiment if I'm hypoglycemic or not?

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Re:How the Food Industry Engineers the Need to Eat by glaugh on Friday December 11, 2015 @02:42PM (#10719382)

Right, sorry. Basically that you feel way better, unmistakably better (mood, concentration, alertness, that sort of thing). Not super scientific, but effective at least in my case.

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