certain foods were more likely to prompt an extreme change in blood sugar (glucose) than others.
“Even if you don’t have diabetes, you may not have normal glucose. There are a lot of people with glucose dysfunction out there who don’t know it,” said the study’s lead author, Michael Snyder. He’s director of genomics and personalized medicine at Stanford University School of Medicine, in California.
Snyder said this finding is potentially concerning because spikes in blood sugar levels have been associated with risk of heart attack and stroke. And it’s possible – though it hasn’t been proven in this study – that people who have big rises in their blood sugar after eating may have a higher risk of diabetes.
Type 2 diabetes is a major health problem, affecting more than 30 million U.S. adults and 422 million worldwide, the authors noted.
But not every medical expert is convinced that