
A six-week experiment of cutting out added sugars found cravings and hunger patterns shift, and that added sugar is present in many unexpected foods. Evidence cited shows high-sugar meals can cause rapid blood-sugar drops that make people hungrier afterward, undermining short-term self-control. The guest column on consumer CGMs complements this by noting that continuous readings can reveal those rapid swings but also that minute-to-minute data are easy to over-interpret—users should focus on overall patterns and environmental changes rather than reacting to every brief glucose fluctuation.
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