Reviews
Glucose Revolution: The Life-Changing Power of Balancing Your Blood Sugar, by Jessie Inchauspé
cassandrat's review
informative
fast-paced
2.0
First, some of the suggestions in this book can trigger eating disorders. Please be careful repeating some of the tips.
Maybe the biggest surprise for people will be that many breakfast foods are just sugar; Marion Nestle (a nutrition professor and food politics expert) says cereals are just cookies (even the ones you think are healthy). Juice as well has the good stuff (fiber) taken out and doesn't make your breakfast healthier.
Otherwise, the main message of this book is great: replace sugar with vegetables. Also, get exercise, eat veggies with your meals and get lots of fiber, and reduce ultra processed foods and sugar. Also, balance your meals: combine sweet things with fiber, fat and protein. So, vegetables to create a more balanced diet and exercise.
Listening to dietitians, either the tips in the book are pretty standard or probably bunk. She says to eat more vegetables. She says to eat food in a certain order, which shouldn't matter inside the body, unless it changes proportions. By eating veggies first in the meal, you will likely eat fewer other things and thus be healthier because more of your calories are vegetables. That's great. Nevertheless, some things are overblown if not outright bunk. These include the explanation of eating food in a certain order including a description of fiber mesh, drinking vinegar before meals, and the role of glycation and glucose spikes in different issues.
Finally, it doesn't cite much research and relies on studies with very small samples. Seriously, look at the things that have citations.
The author is really good at explaining and making engaging graphics. She makes an engaging effort to describe the biology, and I was totally into it, but there are apparently many logical fallacies in the work. The good part is, it will make you want less sugar.
Keep in mind, the author has a background selling medical diagnostics and that's how she started learning about glucose, testing her employer's glucose monitor. She started Glucose Goddess in 2019, but she definitely has the background and has been surrounded by the mentality of promoting latest tests as diagnostics and solutions just because they can measure something. Glucose levels impact us for sure, but the impact is exaggerated in this book.
Maybe the biggest surprise for people will be that many breakfast foods are just sugar; Marion Nestle (a nutrition professor and food politics expert) says cereals are just cookies (even the ones you think are healthy). Juice as well has the good stuff (fiber) taken out and doesn't make your breakfast healthier.
Otherwise, the main message of this book is great: replace sugar with vegetables. Also, get exercise, eat veggies with your meals and get lots of fiber, and reduce ultra processed foods and sugar. Also, balance your meals: combine sweet things with fiber, fat and protein. So, vegetables to create a more balanced diet and exercise.
Listening to dietitians, either the tips in the book are pretty standard or probably bunk. She says to eat more vegetables. She says to eat food in a certain order, which shouldn't matter inside the body, unless it changes proportions. By eating veggies first in the meal, you will likely eat fewer other things and thus be healthier because more of your calories are vegetables. That's great. Nevertheless, some things are overblown if not outright bunk. These include the explanation of eating food in a certain order including a description of fiber mesh, drinking vinegar before meals, and the role of glycation and glucose spikes in different issues.
Finally, it doesn't cite much research and relies on studies with very small samples. Seriously, look at the things that have citations.
The author is really good at explaining and making engaging graphics. She makes an engaging effort to describe the biology, and I was totally into it, but there are apparently many logical fallacies in the work. The good part is, it will make you want less sugar.
Keep in mind, the author has a background selling medical diagnostics and that's how she started learning about glucose, testing her employer's glucose monitor. She started Glucose Goddess in 2019, but she definitely has the background and has been surrounded by the mentality of promoting latest tests as diagnostics and solutions just because they can measure something. Glucose levels impact us for sure, but the impact is exaggerated in this book.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Eating disorder
Minor: Eating disorder
Some book suggestions can trigger an eating disorder.kayleighlaws's review against another edition
hopeful
informative
reflective
slow-paced
4.25
I really loved how it simplified how to curve your glucose spikes, since reading the book and taking onboard some of the habits I’ve noticed a significant difference in my energy levels. No more extreme dips and reaching for sugar when I thought that was what my body needed to feel awake.
However one thing to bare in mind is the suggestion of exercise straight after a cookie, with the possibility of someone reading this with the wrong mindset some could use this to the extreme (defo a trigger warning for those with ED’s)
However one thing to bare in mind is the suggestion of exercise straight after a cookie, with the possibility of someone reading this with the wrong mindset some could use this to the extreme (defo a trigger warning for those with ED’s)
Content Warnings
Moderate: Eating disorder
Don’t read if you have a eating disorder as some parts of content may be triggering