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I’m having trouble with caffeine as of late.
Every time I have an Americano or Espresso, I always get dizzy or that feeling of low blood sugar after an hour or two. This usually happens in the morning when I don’t have much food in my system (though it also happens after a heavy breakfast). What could be the reason for this?
In a span of two years frozen seafood for some reason tastes to me like fish that’s gone bad. Now since my parents buy this stuff in bulk to save money and never buy fresh seafood, I am pretty much stuck with frozen seafood which I just can’t stomach anymore. It wasn’t like this before though which makes it so weird but last few years it always tastes and smells rancid to me.
My parents think I’m a total poser and over exaggerating but I never have this problem with fish from the market or that’s from the refrigerator shelf. However buying it like that is pretty expensive as well as a good quality fish oil. But I just wanna know how frozen food can suddenly taste so bad.
Before anyone asks, I never had Covid before.
Usually, my blood sugar level is around 100 mg/dL. Lately I started to fast, 24 or 48 hours. After I fast, say for 48 hours, my glycemia is around 80 mg/dL. Today I measured my glycemia before broking an 80 hours fast, and, boom, 118 mg/dL! What gives? In the last 3 days I just drank water and black coffee, zero food. Where did all that sugar come from?
So got rejected from making this a post even though idk what “personal” content it involved but posting here….
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So in the attempt to avoid highly-processed food because of the perception it’s not healthy, but reading through this sub I stumbled upon the main point… it’s very difficult to determine! General Google consensus is that processed foods are typically higher in salt, sugar, fat that you otherwise wouldn’t add.
So say like chips, we can unanimously agree is unhealthy processed food - high in salt and fat with no nutrition. But what about say processed vegetarian vs meat?
Example:
[Vegan chicken nugget (270mg salt per 85g portion)](https://eatalphafoods.com/products/chickn-nuggets) vs [Target chicken nugget (14g/4g total/saturated fat, 320mg salt per 80g portion](https://www.target.com/p/chicken-nuggets-frozen-29oz-good-38-gather-8482/-/A-14831142#lnk=sametab)
Example 2: And this is one I hear a lot…that beyond has “too much salt” [(390mg for one patty)](https://www.beyondmeat.com/en-US/products/the-beyond-burger). But if I compare to a standard recipe for a regular beef burger [here](https://www.aspicyperspective.com/best-hamburger-patty-recipe) it says use 0.17 teaspoon of salt which comes out to be 400mg of sodium.
Say a “processed” food I buy from the grocery store could have lower or equal contents of “bad” stuff (salt, fat) compared to what I’d make at home, would it really be bad? What general guidelines do you all use to determine whether a “processed” food is good or bad?