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Originally Posted by madisongrrl
If Janie sees this thread, hopefully she can chime in with her personal experience. I know that she was using a blood glucose monitor to see how different foods/meal types were impacting her glucose levels. I think that it was very helpful when she was crafting her diet.
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Yep, grains of any kind have a nasty effect on my blood sugar, but I don't think they had any detrimental effect on my triglycerides. If I look back at my cholesterol levels which I've tracked for the past nine years, even when I was on a very high carb, whole grain diet, my triglycerides were under a 100 consistently. I spiked to 175 one year when I took the test after a 5 day vacation that included horrendous eating and drinking...doughnuts, pizza, potato chips, fried chicken, and ample beer. Sugar, simple carbohydrates and alcohol are believed to raise triglycerides, so I hit the trifecta that year.
My low carb/high fat diet raised my LDL which initially shocked me, but that does happen with some people. And as I said in my last message, I almost certainly raised my large particle LDL count with the saturated fat consumption. I will probably request the particle next year.