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If you choose to read The Glycemic Index site, you may briefly run across something called the Second Meal Effect (SME).
As I understand it and in short, if one eats a low GI food at one meal, there is a carry over effect to the next meal in terms of “buffering” the impact of eating sugar during that second meal.
This has actually been known for some time. In 1982, Jenkins, Wolever, and Taylor reported this in their seminal paper “Slow release dietary carbohydrate improves second meal tolerance” (Jenkins et al. Am J Clin Nutr 1982 35:1339–46).
This phenomenon was further explored in 1988, in a study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that eating a low GI meal (even mixed with other higher GI foods) at dinner improved carbohydrate “tolerance” at the following breakfast.
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