Full Fat Dairy Does Not Raise Blood Sugar!
Avoid skim dairy, but full fat is ok!
A Natural Gender Selection question that I get over and over again is this: "Hey atomic, I read that milk raises blood sugar, and since we want low blood sugar for pink, doesn't that mean I should avoid dairy completely?" Or this variation: “atomic, since you say skim dairy raises blood sugar, shouldn’t I drink that for my blue sway instead of full fat?”
Pink swayers, you CANNOT avoid everything that may temporarily raise your blood sugar for pink. That is called starving, my friends! When swaying pink, it is absolutely fine to, you know, eat food and stuff - ya kind of have to! Yes, your blood sugar goes up a bit after you have eaten, but that is normal, temporary, and unavoidable. When we say "lower blood sugar for pink" we're talking about averages across days, weeks, months, and NOT normal rises in blood sugar. The Low Everything Diet for a Girl does not imply a miserable existence with very low blood sugar constantly. That isn’t possible! It simply isn’t true that if your blood sugar ever rises even for the briefest time that your sway will fail.
Your blood sugar will go up sometimes when swaying pink - after eating, after drinking, in the morning even if you don't drink or eat anything. It SHOULD. Blood sugar is the fuel your body burns to support itself, like gas in your car. If your blood sugar doesn't rise because of foods you eat, your body will simply burn off your stores of fat, muscle, and anything else (including your internal organs) to raise it. This is how people with very severe eating disorders pass away - their body has literally eaten itself. Let's get our from food instead, k?
And blue swayers, you cannot ONLY eat things that raise your blood sugar super high. “Keeping your blood sugar up” doesn’t entail going from sugar high to sugar high, eating only carbohydrate-dense foods that are harmful on your longterm health are low in nutrients and protein, and will cause you to pack on the pounds. The High Everything Diet for a Boy is not meant to be a diet where you gain a massive amount of weight and give yourself Type 2 diabetes. All you need to keep your blood sugar in a good range is to eat regular, nutrient dense meals and snacks when you need them, with protein and healthy carbs like whole grains, nuts, legumes, fruits, and higher carb vegetables at every meal and most snacks. Most people only need to gain about 3-5 lbs when trying to conceive a boy, and a large minority of people gain no weight at all when swaying blue.
All that having been said, when it comes to dairy, this debate is meaningless. Because full fat dairy doesn't raise blood sugar! This may come as a surprise to some of you, who were told by medical professionals and diet gurus that it so totally DID, that full fat dairy was super unhealthy, and that if we HAD to have dairy, it needed to be skim dairy or at least part skim. But those medical professionals were wrong.
For a VERY long time - too long, and this is one of those inexcusable medical mistakes that never should have happened - doctors and nutritionists (who really should have known better) were thoroughly brainwashed by the notion that fat was EEEVVUUULLLL. They told everyone that fat of all sorts should be avoided like the plague, even though all other animals require dietary fat to survive, even though the human brain itself is made of fat, and even though there are many groups of humans around the world and thru history, who eat/ate a ton of fat and yet stayed very healthy.
What little fat people should eat, we were told, was supposed to be brewed in a lab from plants that human beings never ate in such high quantity their lives like corn and soy oils and margarine, or from plants that didn't even exist in the past like safflowers and canola, and also margarine made from those oils. In the meantime, foods that human beings have always eaten a lot of, like meat and full fat dairy, were demonized.
Well, this approach led to the world's people becoming fatter than ever before, even though they ate tons of Snackwell's cookies, pasta, and fat free salad dressings. Finally scientists actually got around to studying the things that they had, for so long, simply taken as gospel (never bothering to look at the problem too hard because they'd been paid off by the sugar manufacturers to blame all health problems on fat).
They found that lo and behold, fat achtually was not that bad and that dairy fat in particular was even kinda healthy. For many people, diabetics in particular, the advice they'd been given for so long - to drink skim dairy only - was downright terrible for their health, because skim dairy has a lot of carbs! The studies that showed that "dairy raises blood sugar" was wrong - it was SKIM dairy (and even part-skim dairy) that raised blood sugar, because when you remove the fat from dairy, it concentrates the milk sugars so much that it's basically akin to drinking a glass of sugar water. The same holds true with the studies that once claimed dairy was bad for fertility. It isn't. It never was. If you want a baby, SKIM DAIRY IS THE DEVIL'S DRINK!!!
Now, as is so often the case, when an idea has been ubiquitous as low fat diets were, it takes a lot of time for that idea’s support to go away. On the Internet, you can still read articles by people who still believe in the skim dairy, low fat diet hype and report it as if it's new rather than being totally debunked. But it isn't true. Full fat dairy has been shown to be beneficial for blood sugar, beneficial for fertility, indeed, for health altogether. Virtually all the scary, negative things you read online about dairy are based on old studies that were done in skim and part skim milk and NOT full fat.
Full fat dairy is desirable as a part of both pink and blue diets. For pink swayers, the dairy fat, because it improves fertility, helps keep people ovulating normally even when on the LE Diet and while losing weight. And for blue swayers, not only is full fat dairy chock full of nutrients, but that good dairy fat will help keep your blood sugar up between meals and will also boost your fertility!
And if you still aren’t convinced, blue swayers, if you are still worried about tales of the French Mineral Diet lurking under your bed, let me just point out that SO many of my blue swayers who claim they "drank lots of dairy to get their girls" were drinking skim or part skim…including nearly all my blue swayers who were overweight and had lots of daughters - coincidence???
Full fat dairy is good for everyone TTC. No need for anyone to avoid it.
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