This "understanding diabetes" graph illustrates several points:

How food that is highly glycemic, (no fat to slow digestion here) and being low fat has extra sweeteners added, as a result, digests very rapidly into blood sugar, makes a sugar peak in fast digestion, that exceeds a diabetics ability to control it and as a result thickens blood (syrupy) and causes circulation to nerves (feet and hands for example), and tiny veins in your feet starved for blood. When this is exceeded, your body makes extra insulin to attempt to force muscle cells to accept the high sugar. It is this extra high insulin that causes body damage bringing on many new degenerative disease issues, as well as it is the only body fat making hormone, and will as last resort to dispose of this dangerous over sugar level, forces the extra sugar into fat cells.

As a result of the fast rise sugar peak and fast drop you go from a sugar high to sugar low, rebound so you are in hypoglycemia, (low blood sugar) and very hungry all over again.

Contrast this to the bottom arrow graph line for full fat yogurt taking the full two hours to digest. No blood sugar high exceeds ability to handle and no hunger for the two hour digestion period.

Note...High sugar peak calls out high insulin in defense, which does body damage and makes you fat.

Editors Note: High fat yogurt bottom graph shows no peak, so no high insulin means your body can NOT make body fat with out the fat making hormone "insulin:" called up.

This illustrated explanation of how eating food with low fat causes your body to do fast digestion, exceed sugar peaks call up insulin and make you fat, where as adding fat slows digestion, so no sugar peaks and no ability to make fat since no fat making insulin was called up to dispose of sugar. See bottom full fat graph. Digestion is spread out over two hours with high fat content. Consequently no big rise in blood sugar and no hypoglycemic sugar peak reaction. Side benefit no hunger for two hours.

Now you know why we say buy ONLY high 18 to 22% fat yogurt and no LOW FAT ever.
The low fat always has many things added to make up for the flat no taste low fat yogurt which does NOT happen with full fat yogurt.

Any food containing high fat and/or high fiber digest slowly, and both can be added to food to slow down digestion. Such as grass fed butter added to relatively high sugar level vegetables, etc.

The graph basically lets you visualize how fast digestion low fat foods cause sugar peaks that exceed your body's regulating ability. That slow digesting foods bottom graph stay well within your body's ability to control blood sugar level, and that by eating a handful of high fat slow digesting nuts, etc., every two hours, for example, this shows you why you do not have hunger pains from low blood sugar.

This is a starter explanation of how you learn to keep your blood sugar within your bodies ability to handle it. Just basically eat real food, as nature made it (including full fat).

Get the myth of 'Full fat makes you fat' out of your head. It is the exact opposite.

Just note next time, ALL your fat friends eat low fat, all your thin friends eat high fat.

Editors Note: See elsewhere how to make our fiber shaker to add to shake on extra fiber to anything to slow down digestion time and as result drastically cut sugar peaks.

Editors Note 2: This graph is to help you visualize the cause and fix for a diabetic.

No more sugar peaks.