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Blood sugar

What an ordinary meal does to your energy over the following two hours, and the small changes to a plate that flatten the dip.

Adding Is Not Swapping

You added the seven good foods to the same week you were already having, and nothing happened. That is the most common way a list article fails, and it is fixable in one move.

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Why You Crash At 2pm

There are two reasons the afternoon falls apart, and they are near opposites. One is a dip that follows a rise. The other is not eating enough earlier. Here is how to tell which one is yours.

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Five Things That Are Actually One Thing

The afternoon wall, the cravings, the puffy mornings, the second wind at ten. You have been dealing with these as five separate problems. They tend to travel together for a reason.

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The Order You Eat It In

The same lunch can leave you steady until dinner or hunting the cupboard at three. Often the difference is not what was on the plate but which part of it went in first.

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Why Walking After A Meal Works

Ten minutes after lunch sounds too small to matter. It is not. Working muscle can pull sugar out of the blood by a route that does not wait for anything else to be working well.

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Your Morning Starts The Night Before

You wake up heavy, foggy and hungry after a full night's sleep, having eaten nothing since eight. What happens overnight is set by the evening, and four parts of the evening are yours.

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