How digestion works: what happens to food after you eat it
Soda vs a meal: why the same sugar reaches your blood at different speeds
A big soda and a bowl of beans and rice can bring about the same amount of sugar. One sends it into your blood in minutes, the other over hours. What decides the speed?
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Back to lunch. Rono's big soda alone holds about 13 teaspoons of sugar, and his roll adds a few more. The starch of your bowl makes about 15. Both lunches bring a lot of sugar, but it does not travel the same way.
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If you could watch the sugar in your blood and in Rono's after lunch, you would see two shapes. Rono's rises fast and peaks within about half an hour, then falls fast. Yours rises less, and stays up longer.
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