Blood Sugar Rising on Low-Fat Diet

Q. I am on a very low-fat diet. Breakfast is bread and hot water. Lunch is oats and a banana with more hot water. Dinner is a green salad with tomatoes, no dressing and chicken sausage. Why is my blood sugar climbing?
A. You may have developed insulin resistance because of your high-carbohydrate diet. Bread, oats and bananas raise blood sugar and stimulate the pancreas to produce insulin. Eventually cells stop responding normally to insulin and blood sugar rises. You may wish to reconsider your low-fat, high-carb approach, as research now shows that this can raise triglycerides as well as blood sugar.