{"id":30,"date":"2011-02-08T20:25:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-09T04:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thekyo.posterous.com\/on-avoiding-food-coma-and-diet"},"modified":"2011-02-08T20:25:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-09T04:25:00","slug":"on-avoiding-food-coma-and-diet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thekyo.me\/test\/2011\/02\/08\/on-avoiding-food-coma-and-diet\/","title":{"rendered":"On Avoiding Food Coma and Diet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Small Update on the Paleo Diet. &nbsp;Again, I admit to being fairly loose as I do have soy or beans once in a while. &nbsp;And on weekends it can be dicey sometimes, but let&#8217;s say it&#8217;s a 75-80% adherence.<\/p>\n<p>I haven&#8217;t noticed the boost in performance or energy levels that a lot of people tout when they&#8217;re on this diet. &nbsp;Possibly because of the partial adoption. &nbsp;But let&#8217;s caveat that with the fact that I&#8217;m not using a standard set of exercises to judge performance. &nbsp;I&#8217;m only speaking to the fact that I don&#8217;t feel so much more awesome than before. &nbsp;It&#8217;s also harder to notice things that DON&#8217;T happen anymore on this diet. &nbsp;This only occurred to me last Sunday when I passed out for the 2nd quarter of the Superbowl due to what I assume was an insulin spike after a #1 large bowl of pho I had earlier. &nbsp;Only then did I think, &#8220;Man I haven&#8217;t had a food coma in a while.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A breakdown of the Paleo diet will show that it tends to avoid foods that have a high glycemic index thus avoiding insulin spikes. &nbsp;If you then read Wikipedia&#8217;s article on the subject of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Postprandial_somnolence#Insulin.2C_large_neutral_amino_acids.2C_and_tryptophan\">food coma<\/a>&nbsp;you&#8217;ll see the section on insulin spikes and how that can cause sleepiness by way of increased intake of&nbsp;<span style=\"font-family:sans-serif;line-height:19px;\">tryptophan. &nbsp;<\/span>It&#8217;s on Wikipedia and thus must be true haha. &nbsp;So after about 1 month on the diet there&#8217;s my first observation of an advantage to the Paleo Diet. &nbsp;Note that this is really true about any diet that limits the intake of processed foods and otherwise high glycemic index foods. &nbsp;Also note that I&#8217;m not saying carbs cause food coma, but that there seems to be a direct relationship between cutting sugars and carbs and avoiding food coma.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Small Update on the Paleo Diet. 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