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Benacol yogurt drinks.

Fndwheelie

Fndwheelie

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Hampshire, UK.
Type of diabetes
Type 2
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Diet only
As I’ve had my doctor trying to give me statins for cholesterols for a year and having just started LCHF. I’m a bit worried that my next appointment will be all about the cholesterol. I started drinking the benecol strawberry yogurt drinks. This morning my sugars shot up above 10, after breakfast. Is there any benefits to these drinks, or should I just avoid them. I really don’t want my cholesterol to go too high. Many thanks for your thoughts.
 
On low carb, your cholesterol will go up for a bit, as what was stored in your liver will head to the exit via your bloodstream. So if you do go up for a while, that's a good thing, as you're getting rid of what was already there. Once your weight and blood sugars stabilize, your cholesterol will likely come down too. I know I've been off my statins for a loooong time because of LCHF, with excellent ratio's. As for the drinks, I don't know them, but if they are 4 grams of carbs per serving as the website claims, that doesn't really merit a rise up to 10. Did you have anything else to go with it, or could it be your Dawn Phenomenon's throwing a wrench in?
 
What was your pre meal reading and what did you eat for breakfast? What was your fasting reading?

Do you have a pre existing CVD problem that warrants taking a statin?
 
I was 5.6 at 5:30 this am. 6.6 at 7am when I took insulin and had breakfast, I had my normal protein yogurt and tea with cream, the only new thing was the benecol yogurt drink. 8:55 I was 10.3

The day before it didn’t raise my sugars so I’m gonna guess that DP decided to throw a spanner in the works, because I didn’t think there were too many carbs in that tiny drink. But thought I’d ask here in case I’d got it wrong.
 
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Fndwheelie said:
I was 5.6 at 5:30 this am. 6.6 at 7am when I took insulin and had breakfast, I had my normal protein yogurt and tea with cream, the only new thing was the benecol yogurt drink. 8:55 I was 10.3

The day before it didn’t raise my sugars so I’m gonna guess that DP decided to throw a spanner in the works, because I didn’t think there were too many carbs in that tiny drink. But thought I’d ask here in case I’d got it wrong.
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Did you retest to confirm the 10?

Sometimes liver dump does indeed gum up the works.
 
Fndwheelie said:
As I’ve had my doctor trying to give me statins for cholesterols for a year and having just started LCHF. I’m a bit worried that my next appointment will be all about the cholesterol. I started drinking the benecol strawberry yogurt drinks. This morning my sugars shot up above 10, after breakfast. Is there any benefits to these drinks, or should I just avoid them. I really don’t want my cholesterol to go too high. Many thanks for your thoughts.
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My son is drinking these as his cholesterol is quite high, but he doesn't have diabetes. What are the carbs in a bottle ?
 
Fndwheelie said:
The carbs are 6g per 100g and 4g per drink. I didn’t finger prick test but my libre gave multiple readings in the low 10s. I did drink one yesterday and didn’t get a huge spike, so I’m gonna put it down to DP going crazy.
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4g is pretty good, hopefully it was just a blip and I like yogurt drinks, especially Blueberry.
 
@Fndwheelie I also drink the same drink but asfar as I know the only two flavours with no added sugar and lowest carb are Raspberry and Peach & Apricot. I alternate weekly between those two and they have no effect on my BG but I will decide after my next lipids test whether to continue with them. Hope this helps.
 
I have just looked them up on the Benecol website and found the difference between No Added sugar versions and the others was only around 1g (3-4g approx per small bottle). So not sure now!
 
I don’t think 4g of carbs could have sent me up so much higher than my normal post breakfast levels. I think I was nervous, and rushing about this morning before starting a volunteer job, my first work of any kind for over 8 years, awake early and my liver decided to kick start my day.

As to if it will help my cholesterol levels, well that’s another discussion.....
 
Thanks for the tag @DCUKMod , I generally have the unsweetened natural flavoured ones which are 2.9g carbs per little bottle. However as someone else pointed out even the sweetened flavoured ones don’t contain a huge amount of carbs.
 
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Rachox said:
Thanks for the tag @DCUKMod , I generally have the unsweetened natural flavoured ones which are 2.9g carbs per little bottle. However as someone else pointed out even the sweetened flavoured ones don’t contain a huge amount of carbs.
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I sometimes stray outside my comfortable threads to try and help if I can and its someone who has interacted with me. However your being referred to as “someone else” is very insulting.
 
PenguinMum said:
I sometimes stray outside my comfortable threads to try and help if I can and its someone who has interacted with me. However your being referred to as “someone else” is very insulting.
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I apologise I was just cooking dinner and wrote my answer quickly. I’m sorry that was thought less of me
 
bulkbiker said:
What are your cholesterol levels?
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TBH I don’t have a clue, but how they’ve been pushing statins for ages and the fact that it goes up at first on LCHF I’m not sure I really wanna know. LOL I could check back on my previous tests with my online records, I don’t understand the numbers anyway I’d have to post them here so someone could explain. A part of me wants to bargain with the docs that my next blood test for hab1c they don’t check my cholesterol levels.
 
Fndwheelie said:
TBH I don’t have a clue, but how they’ve been pushing statins for ages and the fact that it goes up at first on LCHF I’m not sure I really wanna know. LOL I could check back on my previous tests with my online records, I don’t understand the numbers anyway I’d have to post them here so someone could explain. A part of me wants to bargain with the docs that my next blood test for hab1c they don’t check my cholesterol levels.
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Up to you.. if you have them we can advise but if you want to ignore then that's fine too.. just try and avoid the statins whatever...!
 
Fndwheelie said:
The carbs are 6g per 100g and 4g per drink. I didn’t finger prick test but my libre gave multiple readings in the low 10s. I did drink one yesterday and didn’t get a huge spike, so I’m gonna put it down to DP going crazy.
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If your Libre is giving multiple unusual readings, then ideally you should do a finger prick test to confirm thesde results. Libre isn't infallible and can be thrown off.
 
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