Help your blood sugar with (online) yoga beyond COVID

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If you already keep an eye on your blood sugar, you probably know that practicing yoga regularly helps with weight, cholesterol levels and mindful eating, and its strength training aspects contribute to better glucose regulation for (pre)diabetics. Before Corona, I...

Why Goodbuy and I believe in pumpkin pie

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I believe in pumpkin pie. Not just as a low-carb savior of holiday sweets, but as an everyday treat. So much so that for my birthday one year I made eight pumpkin pies and invited friends over to eat them, certain they'd only make a dent in the supply. I thus gave...

Getting kids to cut back on sweets over the holidays

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For those of us who grew up in America loving sweets, the holiday season was a time of abundance, starting with Halloween. That was an occasion for my brother and me to stockpile and pig out on the candy we normally ate only on the weekends, when we'd run to the...

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Which sugar replacement makes the best low-carb, mini cheesecakes?

If you, like me, are a passionate home baker then you probably have had some misgivings about going low carb. But you don't want to ditch your hobby, or bake only to have your treats sit around for friends and family. And if you’ve already done some research on baking...

What’s sugar doing in my kale salad?

Over the last two days I've by chance been offered kale salad at various venues (in the US), including at the Trader Joe's sample table at the back of one of their stores. All the salads had one thing in common besides kale—some form of sugar in the dressing. The one...

Top notch items to stock for a sweet, low-sugar summer

If you, too, perused the blogs touting the “best summer desserts for diabetics” or similar, you probably found tons of recipes that contain only natural ingredients and no added sweeteners—yet packing plenty of sugar! That’s why Goodbuy prizes stocking up on the...

Surprise shortcut to re-educating your sugary palate

When we cut sugar from our diet, we start with the obvious: bread, pasta, sugary drinks, desserts, sweets, etc. But nowadays almost everything has sugar in it. If what you’re eating comes packaged or has been processed, chances are that among the incomprehensible...

Traveling low carb without breaking the bank

There are aspects of traveling low carb that can wear on you, but are worth anticipating if you're going to enjoy your travel without unwillingly derailing your diet (as opposed to an intended splurge). The one that really sticks in my craw, and that you'll probably...

Climbing out of your low-carb rut

There comes a time in every low-carb life when burn out hits. A moment when it's not just about splurging on sweets or pasta, which we need to do here and there, but more about lacking general inspiration. A sort of low-carb malaise settles in, and we feel like we've...

Nosh before the party—and get the sauce on the side

Parties and eating out often present challenges to those of us on low-carb diets. Unlike dinner invitations, where you can share your food preferences beforehand with the host, parties are notorious for their overabundance of carby foods. Murphy's law says that if you...

Splurge with great intention and enjoy carbs vicariously

It may sound counterintuitive, but splurging with great intention can be a key part of maintaining a low-carb, low-sugar lifestyle over the long run. Intentional splurges are not the moments when we accidentally fall off the wagon with our diets. In my case, such...

Be wary of what’s “sugar free” (time for a rebrand)

Have you had that moment yet of walking into a grocery store and being super excited to see several shelves of the cookie aisle—or maybe even an entire picnic table in the bakery section—devoted to products marked "sugar free"? Even after four years on a low-sugar...

Your low-sugar frenemies

With all the emphasis on health these days, you'd think your buddies would be supporting your low-sugar, low-carb journey with bells on. But the hard, cold truth is that even some of your closest friends may become your frenemies when it comes to your new diet. You...

Lower your sugar, protect your mental health

In addition to protecting our hearts from cardiovascular disease and our brains from dementia, reducing sugar intake may also protect us from depression. Specifically, sugar has been shown to suppress growth of brain-derived neurotrophic hormone (BDNF) which plays a...

Lower your sugar, protect your heart

I don't know about you, but I grew up believing I should eat very little fat and very little cholesterol—both of which were thought to cause heart disease—and instead load up on whole wheat everything, as well as natural ingredients writ large, including things like...

Lower your sugar, protect your brain

Many of us haven't really thought about sugar's impact on the brain beyond the proverbial sugar high and sugar coma. Although, as it turns out, the ‘coma’ aspect has some real grounding in that people's attention levels seem to decline after the consumption of glucose...

When working out—or eating out—save the carbs for last

Many of us grew up with the conventional wisdom that said loading up on carbs before a long run (for example) is good for energy and endurance. And most of us are accustomed to tasting, if not devouring, some kind of "appetizer" bread when dining out. However, so long...

For sugar’s sake, get more sleep

In the quest for low blood sugar, we often focus on the three factors we can control (genetics being the wild card): exercise, diet and stress. But, fellow night owls, sleep is yet another factor that affects blood sugar, and because it's a factor that seems to be...

Keto, Paleo & Atkins—kissing cousins to your low-carb diet

Since people are more familiar with the trendier Keto and Paleo diets, and the never-really-went-away 1960s Atkins diet, you're bound to be asking how these three differ from eating low sugar, low carb. While Keto, Paleo and Atkins sounds like a law firm, these diets...

For sugar’s sake, spare the meat

As you get further down the (ostensibly, lifelong) road to low-sugardom, you'll probably phase out some "go to" substitutions that you initially relied upon when you changed your diet.  I for one gave up Vitamin Water Zero as my OJ replacement six months in. At that...

A dietary “cherry” (or two) on top might lower your sugar

Once you've gotten the hang of eating in a way that takes into account carbs, sugar and glycemic insights, you may be feeling bullish enough to take the extra step of  incorporating foods into your diet that are believed to help lower blood sugar. While we all should...

Flex that glycemic index

Just when you think you've got a handle on cutting back on your sugar and carb intake, in comes the glycemic index (GI) and the glycemic load (GL)!  The GI measures how much, on average, a person's blood sugar rises in response to specific carbohydrates (two hours...

Nix the mixers—without boycotting the bottle

For those of us who are creatures of habit, and concerned about keeping our coffee, we're also wondering about the fate of our favorite alcoholic drinks—is nothing sacred?! Alcohol may not be sacred but, by some divine luck, neither is alcohol the sugar demon people...

Hold the sugar, bring the coffee

One would think that coffee might be a culprit in raising blood sugar because of its often negative effect on stress levels. Plus, when you are starting your lower-carb life, it can seem like you have to give up just about everything you love!  But scientists believe...

Eat softly and carry a big snack

What does this play on the famous words of US President Teddy Roosevelt—"Speak softly, and carry a big stick"— have to do with your new low-carb life? Everything! That adage, an analogy to diplomacy backed by US power (not necessarily endorsed here), was informed by...

Starbucks’ “lower-sugar” Fraps and a note to Howard Schultz

Apparently, beginning in September, Starbucks started testing "lower-sugar" versions of its Frappuccinos in its retail locales, including in California. I'm not sure if I've come across these versions yet because when I'm in a Starbucks, I don't even look at that part...

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