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From:	Ben (77.38.234.27)
Subject:	Re: Is it OK to add 10g of flaxseed to date smoothie?
Date:	March 30, 2012 at 12:38 pm PST

In Reply to: Re: Is it OK to add 10g of flaxseed to date smoothie? posted by Just Me on March 30, 2012 at 11:11 am:

Hi,

Thanks for reply.

Usually the purpose of my smoothie is as entire meal in the morning. As I need to wake up early and go to my
busy job I need something fast for breakfast and that could keep me up until dinner as I eat two times a day.
I usually train my parkour on the way home before dinner.

My typical smoothie is composed of 200-300g dried raw dates, 300g of lettuce and water. However when I eat it
digests so quickly that I feel hungry again after 2 hours and tired. It is probably too high in glycemic index.
I am not diabetic as my HbA1C after a year on high fruit is 5.1. However after date smoothie that contains 1200
calories I sometimes get sugars over 144.
I use powerful immersion blender.

Dates are the only ripe fruit that is available in my country, bananas wont ripen properly.
I have read 811 book many times and know principles of fat related to sugar metabolism system.
However 10g of flaxseed compose only 7% of fat calories for entire meal (kiwi fruit contains 7% too). Otherwise
I will experiment and see how will feel with some flax added:). If I get bloated probably I will add some non
sweet fruit to make meal denser without flax.

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