On Wed, 31 May 2000 16:23:50 -0400, Todd Moody <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>Also, the insulin peak occurs earlier than the glucagon peak.  If
>you eat a Zone meal, your insulin should peak about 1.5 hours
>later, but the glucagon peak occurs about 2.5 to 3 hours later.
>This is why you don't want to eat for four hours after the meal,
>because eating almost anything will probably inhibit the glucagon
>response (pure fat might be okay).

I have not seen this "don't eat for four hours" in any of Sears' writings (just
like, parenthetically, "40-30-30" does not appear in any of Sears' writings).

In fact, eating won't inhibit the glucagon response, because eating just puts
food in your stomach - you then need to add the same 1.5 hour delay before you
get a hormonal response from the second meal.

IE, if you ate again after 3 hours, then the insulin peak from that eating would
not occur until 4.5 hours after the previous meal, well after the glucagon peak
from the previous meal.


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Cheers,

Ken
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