(02-15-2016, 03:58 PM)Shannon Wrote: But as for maintaining steady blood sugar, it's simple. Several small meals a day, evenly spaced and more frequently, instead of 1-2-3 large ones.
I take the opposite approach and have two meals a day, preferably in an 8 hour window, and try to get my blood sugar way down, so that I become ketogenic most of the time. Contrary to popular belief your body can use ketones at least as well as sugar for energy. Intermittent fasting has big benefits, if you get info fat burning mode rather than sugar burning mode. I've got lots more energy now compared to when I was a sugar burner.
This is a good article about it:
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articl...evity.aspx
A quote from the article:
Quote:In short, he discovers that part of what appears to be driving the disease process is the fact that we're eating too frequently. When you're in constant "feast mode," your body actually forgoes much of its natural "repair and rejuvenation programming."