Whole Grain Rich Breakfast Helps Regulate Blood Sugar

One step to a healthier lifestyle is pumping up your breakfast. Ideally, breakfast should be the biggest, most power-filled meal of the day. If you want to make your breakfast even healthier, make sure you incorporate whole-grain products, such as breads and cereals with barley or rye. A new study indicates that such carbo-rich foods have low glycemic index (GI) and can help regulate your blood sugar the whole day!

“It is known that a carbohydrate-rich breakfast with low GI can moderate increases in blood sugar after lunch. But my results show that low GI in combination with the right amount of so-called indigestible carbohydrates, that is, dietary fiber and resistant starch, can keep the blood-sugar level low for up to ten hours, which means until after dinner,” says Anne Nilsson, a doctoral student at the Unit for Applied Nutrition and Food Chemistry and author of the dissertation.

In addition, the study also suggests that after the meal, those who had eaten low GI breakfasts could concentrate better and had a better working memory (a type of short-term memory) than the other group. Read the full article to see how the right breakfast can help your productivity as well as help you manage your blood sugar.