When we eat naked carbs, such as plain pasta or a slice of cake, the glucose molecules arrive really quickly into our bloodstream uninterrupted, causing a big glucose spike, says Jessie Inchauspe, author of Glucose Revolution.
You can fix this with a simple hack Inchauspe calls clothes on carbs: adding protein, fat or fiber to slow down glucose absorption. A bowl of pasta is naked carbs, but if you add spinach, chicken and olive oil, you're adding protein, fiber and fat which will slow down the speed at which the carbs are digested and the glucose arrives in the bloodstream, reducing the spike.
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