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Bananas

Bluetit1802 said:
I don't know where that site gets its info from, but bananas are anything but slow release. The starch and glucose gets to work immediately it hits the mouth. Athletes eat them during competitions, particularly tennis players between games because they give instant energy boosts. They wouldn't bother if the energy were slow to arrive.
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I'm hoping that having some double or clotted cream with mine might help slow it down a little bit, seems to work with other things going by what people have said in other threads about having more fat with something ;)
 
rowan said:
I'm hoping that having some double or clotted cream with mine might help slow it down a little bit, seems to work with other things going by what people have said in other threads about having more fat with something ;)
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Yes, the more fat with it the more it will slow digestion down. You may find the peak is lower, but will take longer to come back down to where you started. A hump shape on a graph rather than a pointed shape. Test it and see, but with bananas and other similar foods you might be better testing every half an hour until you arrive back where you started.
 
Yes I will do. I can't eat anything else I like that I've tried so far, i'm just hoping that by some fluke I might be ok with bananas. Not holding my breath though!
 
i'd carb count (approx 23g) eat the whole banana and inject 2u of novorapid but then i'm not t2. Its got fibre and vitamins B6 and potassium so its all good, i love a banana. Just not too many, isn't in all in moderation? eat it when your bg is low.

I see a lot of diabetics here hitting the hypos with big sugar rushes, what's wrong with a good banana to bring your levels back up rather than a lucozade?

Or use it when your exercising, even t1 diabetics need fuel to exercise and a banana is great for that.

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This site shows then at a you of 16 for 120g. So in the medium range.
At the end of the day it's down you quantity & what they are eat with.
 
Paul59 said:
This site shows then at a you of 16 for 120g. So in the medium range.
At the end of the day it's down you quantity & what they are eat with.
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Sorry I didn't understand what you meant there.
 
Daibell said:
Hi. Are you sure this happens?
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Drinking Excessive Water

It's a smart idea to drink plenty of calorie-free beverages, especially water, when your blood glucose is elevated. Because high blood glucose can cause excessive urination, drinking plenty of water helps prevent dehydration, says Constance Brown-Riggs, M.S.Ed., R.D., CDE, CDN. It won't, however, lower high blood glucose levels, she says.
http://www.diabeticlivingonline.com...iabetes-myths-dont-lower-blood-sugar?page=0,1

& then.
http://www.diabetesaction.org/site/PageServer?pagename=z1023
&
http://www.livestrong.com/article/538372-does-drinking-water-bring-high-glucose-levels-down/
So maybe it does. 2 out of 3 say it does.
 
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equipoise said:
Nice one, forge. Always good to discourage people who have the guts to make hard choices
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Sarcasm?
Maybe their hard choice is a wrong choice, there is more to good health than not eating a banana. My GP told me to try a banana to get my potassium level up (critically too close to being too low.)


I only relay what I do, I do not give medical advice, nor do I tell anyone what they should do.
 
I was taken into hospital when my readings went off the scale and was put on a drip till my readings came down.
 
Bananas are off the menu for me, they really make my level rise quite rapidly. To think of all the years I ate them freely thinking I was being health by eating plenty of my favourite fruit
 
Bananas are off the menu for most diabetics I would have thought.
 
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