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Cashews

I think I might well try a cashew nut butter butty for supper tonight, depending on what I fancy at bed time, and if the jar's still in the cupboard! So yes I'm a possible supper club member. Or the jar might join my almond butter one as a neat (as in plain unadulterated on its ownsome) midnight feast teaspoonful or two...

Robbity
 
Totto said:
But you still need to test. It's possible some of us have a special cashew nut metabolism.
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I only test once a day in the morning. After eating most of the packet of cashews last night I was 6.4 this morning which is lower than the previous three days, so it seems I'm ok with them.
 
ickihun said:
@Robbity I took the loss of salt too far and I consumed too much salt.
Salted butter, stock cubes, pork scratchings and salted peanuts.
I now buy lidl nuts unsalted.
I have salt which is added to products but I now don't add salt.

Everyone is different.
I took it too far. :(
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Hi ickihun, I buy Low Salt which with the small amount I use [ never cook with it] I think the tub will last me years. I buy Aldi Cashews unsalted too they are lovely Aldi do other unsalted nuts too have you tried them? :)
 
I made some mistakes with nuts. Biggest one was to snack on Dry Roasted nuts, and spiked quite badly. Seems the coatings contain sugar at around 6% according to the packet. I also used Wilko's own brand choc coated peanuts, and for a while I got away with it and in small portions it dropped my bgl. Then the formulation changed, and now they spike me. The choc is now lighter colour.
I am ok on most nuts, and find Pistachios to be a good snack. We use almonds as a wheat flour substitute.

The comments about salt are of interest. Although the pundits say salt depletion goes with LC diets, they put forward an increased intake of fluid as the reason, which I do not subscribe to. I can see no mechanism that explains this. If it was due to fluid intake, then it should affect potassium levels too.
 
amgrundy said:
Hi ickihun, I buy Low Salt which with the small amount I use [ never cook with it] I think the tub will last me years. I buy Aldi Cashews unsalted too they are lovely Aldi do other unsalted nuts too have you tried them? :)
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@amgrundy i have tried lidl's almonds, walnuts and now cashews.
I originally just stuck to almonds but recently tried walnuts and cashews.
Over the years I've indulged on cashews but normally honey roasted. Plain nuts are just as satisfying for me. Love them! :)
 
Since being diagnosed as type 2 and going low carb, I have gone mad for nuts mainly cashews and almonds but sometimes walnuts. Nuts with breakfast and nuts for snacks. My favourite combination is unsalted cashews with cubes of mature cheddar. They don't spike me. One thing though is that some of you mention your baseline BS as being around 5.3. Three hours after meals (without any carbs other than what is in veg) my blood sugars are usually around 6.8. I can't seem to get them down any lower. My morning fasting levels are usually around 6.8 - 7. No bread, pasta, rice or potatoes pass my lips and I have even cut out milk. I have been low carbing for almost two years with a few blips at Christmas and having nasty viruses raising my levels. How are you all getting so low?
 
susanmackrell said:
Three hours after meals (without any carbs other than what is in veg) my blood sugars are usually around 6.8. I can't seem to get them down any lower.
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I've seen mentioned that if you eat too much protein a surprisingly large amount of it turns into glucose, that's why we talk so much about LCHF. I find fat helps a lot, fills me up nicely and have no effect whatsoever on my BG.
 
Oldvatr said:
The comments about salt are of interest. Although the pundits say salt depletion goes with LC diets, they put forward an increased intake of fluid as the reason, which I do not subscribe to. I can see no mechanism that explains this. If it was due to fluid intake, then it should affect potassium levels too.
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As far as I know it's the extra loss of fluids that are the issue and all the advice I've seen is to drink plenty to replace this, and (a) I certainly need to drink more and (b) if I don't keep up salt and potassium lost then I can get bad leg cramps. I also had this pre diabetes when I on diuretics for a while. My go to solution then in addition extra fluids, was (a no-no now unfortunately!) a banana a day for potassium.

But the loss of fluids is not necessarily restricted to a low carb diet, frequent urination and thirst are both indications of possible type 2 diabetes, as our kidneys will be working harder to flush out surplus carbs.

Robbity
 
All the explanations I've seen from Volek, Phinney etc. is that low insulin and loss of glycogen from the liver are what cause the salt depletion - apparently glycogen has 3(?) parts water to 1 part carbohydrate. I'll see if I can dig up a link to the explanation.
 
amgrundy said:
Hi Yes I wondered that too as they do not alter my BG readings either.
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I had some this week, and noted that my bgl rose by nearly 2 mmol/L but this was about 4 hours after I had finished eating them. They were roasted, not plain. I cannot say it was due solely to the nuts but I was surprised to get a rise where I normally get a drop due to fasting.
 
susanmackrell said:
My morning fasting levels are usually around 6.8 - 7.
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I found that intermittent fasting as suggested by Dr Jason Fung helps. Once or twice a week, I would skip dinner. Usually after 2 nights without dinner I get fasting level below 5.0. Otherwise my baseline fasting level is just around 5.5.
 
Very interesting. Does anyone consider the cholsterol implications of too many nuts. In terms of this it appears that walnuts and almonds are better. With no extra salt and oil. My cholesterol was slightly raised in a 3 month period when I ate both brazils and pistachios. I now weigh all nuts and am strict about them. They are on the menu daily, just not too randomly.
 
Sadly with reference to my cashew nut butter (and the actual nuts which my husband sometimes buys for himself) the cupboard is completely bare - and I forgot to ask him to add them to this week's shopping...:(:( So no midnight feasting cashew experiments for me till next week.

Robbity
 
Lizzypier said:
Very interesting. Does anyone consider the cholsterol implications of too many nuts. In terms of this it appears that walnuts and almonds are better. With no extra salt and oil. My cholesterol was slightly raised in a 3 month period when I ate both brazils and pistachios. I now weigh all nuts and am strict about them. They are on the menu daily, just not too randomly.
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Recent research has confirmed that our bodies manufactures all the cholesterol it needs from fat and proteins, and it does not require or use any dietary cholesterol that we may eat in our food. Its the wrong sort and has the wrong biocodes.

Thus it is now ok to eat eggs, shellfish etc without feeling guilty. We do not alter our cholesterol levels either way by over-indulging or cutting out foods with cholesterol in it.
 
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