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Will eating a steak & nothing else (0 carbs) raise your blood sugar? i read that steaks can lead to type 2 but it has 0 carbs. confused!
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It can: A steak, which is basically a piece of muscle, contains very small amount of simple sugars stored and lots of protein that is a structure of many amino acids united together. Those amino acids can be good source for your body to make sugar from. It's a slower process than just eating sugar directly. So depending on how much you eat of protein, your blood sugar can be.
Answered 2/25/2017
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