{"id":79591,"date":"2018-06-13T18:02:22","date_gmt":"2018-06-14T01:02:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/lentils-significantly-reduce-blood-glucose-levels-study-reveals"},"modified":"2018-06-13T18:02:22","modified_gmt":"2018-06-14T01:02:22","slug":"lentils-significantly-reduce-blood-glucose-levels-study-reveals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/06\/lentils-significantly-reduce-blood-glucose-levels-study-reveals","title":{"rendered":"Lentils significantly reduce blood glucose levels, study reveals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/lentils-significantly-reduce-blood-glucose-levels-study-reveals.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Replacing potatoes or rice with pulses can lower your blood glucose levels by more than 20 per cent, according to a first-ever University of Guelph study.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Alison Duncan, Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences, and Dan Ramdath of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, found that swapping out half of a portion of these starchy side dishes for <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/lentils\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">lentils<\/a> can significantly improve your body\u2019s response to the carbohydrates.<\/p>\n<p>Replacing half a serving of rice with lentils caused <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/blood+glucose\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">blood glucose<\/a> to drop by up to 20 per cent. Replacing potatoes with lentils led to a 35-per-cent drop.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2018-06-lentils-significantly-blood-glucose-reveals.html\">https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2018&#45;06-lentils-significa...veals.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Replacing potatoes or rice with pulses can lower your blood glucose levels by more than 20 per cent, according to a first-ever University of Guelph study. Prof. Alison Duncan, Department of Human Health and Nutritional Sciences, and Dan Ramdath of Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada, found that swapping out half of a portion of these starchy [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":461,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-79591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/461"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}