The Claim
Postprandial walking does not significantly alter the average blood glucose concentration over a two-hour period after meals, despite reducing the peak glucose level, indicating that walking primarily delays or redistributes glucose excursions rather than reducing total glucose exposure.
What the research says
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Walking after eating lowers the highest blood glucose spike but does not change the overall average blood glucose level over two hours, meaning the total amount of glucose in the blood over time remains the same.
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Postprandial walking does not significantly alter the average blood glucose concentration over a two-hour period after meals, despite reducing the peak glucose level, suggesting that walking primarily delays or redistributes glucose excursions rather than reducing total glucose exposure.
When you walk after eating, your muscles pull glucose out of the blood faster, which lowers the sharp spike in blood sugar. But because the food keeps releasing glucose into the bloodstream over time, the extra glucose that comes in later pushes blood sugar back up, so the total amount of sugar in the blood over two hours stays the same.
What the research says
1 studyWalking after eating lowers the spike in blood sugar but doesn’t make the total sugar in your blood over the next two hours go down — it just spreads the rise out over time.
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