Hello, Angel Wellness Club 🤍
As a chef, I love experimenting with ingredients and finding ways to make food both nourishing and genuinely delicious.
I've noticed how complicated our relationship with sugar has become. We're constantly hearing about glucose spikes, hidden sugars, natural sweeteners and the latest ways to keep our blood sugar in check. Continuous glucose monitors, once associated with diabetes care, have become a wellness trend of their own. And with so much conflicting advice, it's becoming harder to know what actually matters for our health.
This Saturday, November 14, marks World Diabetes Day, which feels like an especially meaningful moment to have this conversation.
Diabetes affects hundreds of millions of people worldwide, and greater awareness, early diagnosis and access to proper care can make an enormous difference. But it's also a subject surrounded by misconceptions, particularly when it comes to sugar.
We often hear sugar discussed as though it's the single cause of diabetes, or that every rise in blood glucose is something to worry about. In reality, our metabolism is far more complex. Understanding how our bodies process glucose is important, but so is knowing the difference between a genuine health concern and another wellness trend we feel pressured to follow.
For me, learning more about nutrition has never been about taking the pleasure out of food. Quite the opposite. The more we understand about what we eat, the more confidently we can make choices that support our health and still enjoy the things we love.
With love,
Alina 🪽
One year of Angel Wellness Club. Thank you for celebrating with us!
Our birthday celebrations have come to an end, and we're still feeling all the love from our community. We hope you had the chance to enjoy our secret birthday drink and celebrate this little milestone with us 🤍
Our birthday giveaway winners are here! 💌
We've randomly selected 5 winners of our anniversary giveaway, and we'll be reaching out to each of them personally by email.
If you entered, keep an eye on your inbox, a little something from Angel Wellness Club might be waiting for you!
Loved the tasting experience?
We're making these moments a regular part of club life. Our member tastings will now take place every month, bringing you new flavours, discoveries and opportunities to connect.
Introducing Alina's favourites
Beautiful kitchen finds, exceptional ingredients, wellness essentials and little discoveries worth sharing, complete with links so you can explore them yourself! Check out our first edition 💌
The new menu reveal is coming soon
We're getting ready to refresh the Angel Cakes menu, with more satisfying savoury dishes joining the selection. There's plenty happening behind the scenes, and we can't wait to share what's coming.
Here's what's happening at Angel Cakes this week 🪽
🇲🇨 Monaco
🪷 November 15 | Pilates & Breakfast × Yumé Monaco
9:00 AM · Mareterra
Your Sunday morning ritual! Join us for a beautiful Pilates session by the sea, followed by a nourishing breakfast at Angel Cakes.
Choose between avocado toast or protein pancakes, paired with a matcha latte. The perfect way to start your Sunday with movement, delicious food and lovely company 💚
🇦🇪 Dubai
🍉 November 14 | Miles & Melons × Angel Cakes Run Club
7:00 AM · Angel Cakes Dubai Hills Park
Start your Saturday with fresh air, movement and great company! Join us for a morning run that brings fitness and community together.
The glucose obsession
Are we tracking our health or overthinking it?
A little sensor on the back of an arm has become one of the most recognisable symbols of modern metabolic wellness. Continuous glucose monitors, or CGMs, were developed to help people living with diabetes track their blood glucose levels. Today, they're also being marketed to people without diabetes who want to understand their bodies better.
The promise sounds appealing: see what happens after every meal, discover your personal glucose response and use the information to make healthier choices.
But does having more information about our bodies always help us make better decisions?
First, what actually happens when we eat?
When we eat carbohydrates, our digestive system breaks many of them down into glucose, which enters the bloodstream and provides energy for our cells. Insulin helps glucose move into cells and helps regulate blood glucose levels. That means a rise in blood glucose after eating is a normal physiological response. It isn't automatically a sign that something is wrong.
What matters clinically is the broader picture: how effectively the body regulates glucose, whether levels stay abnormally elevated, and whether someone has a condition that requires monitoring and treatment. Yet online, it's easy to come across the impression that every glucose rise is something we should prevent.
When healthy eating becomes a numbers game
Imagine having a bowl of oats and watching your glucose rise. The next day, you eat a different breakfast and see a smaller increase. It's tempting to conclude that the second meal must be healthier. But food is more complicated than a single number. Oats, for example, provide nutrients and fibre that contribute to a nutritious diet, even though their carbohydrates can raise blood glucose.
A glucose reading doesn't tell you everything about a food's nutritional quality, how satisfying it is, or how it fits into your overall eating pattern. And our responses to meals can vary depending on factors such as meal composition, activity, sleep and individual physiology.
So, do we all need a glucose monitor?
For many people living with diabetes, CGMs are important medical tools. They can provide valuable information for treatment decisions and help manage the risk of high or low blood glucose. For people without diabetes, however, the evidence is much less convincing.
A 2026 article in JAMA Internal Medicine explains that there's currently no good evidence that CGM use improves health or prevents diabetes in people without the condition. The authors also raise a concern: interpreting every fluctuation as a problem could encourage unnecessary food restrictions.
At Angel Wellness Club, we're interested in information that makes everyday life easier, not more complicated.
If a medical professional recommends glucose monitoring, that information can be genuinely valuable.
But for someone without diabetes who simply wants to eat well and support their long-term health, a few familiar habits may be a more useful place to start: enjoying fibre-rich foods, moving regularly, getting enough sleep and building meals that feel satisfying.
A little taste of Premium, just for you 🪽
This week, we're sharing one of Alina's exclusive recipes with everyone.
Discover even more nourishing recipes, practical wellness tips and curated discoveries in the full Premium Edition.
Date pudding with cauliflower and caramel
