Cocosilk
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Since I've learned about low carb eating and have been eating that way myself to try to ward off T2 after having had gestational diabetes, my husband and I decided we should probably limit grain foods for our small children since we know where it leads as far as insulin resistance goes, but also because my boy has eczema head to foot at the moment and we suspect grain foods cause it to flare up among other things, although we currently have no diagnosis of it's actual triggers.
Anyway, long story short, our 3 yo and 5 yo do get carbs, more often sweet and white potato, fruits (unrestricted amounts but only at certain times of day), and still occasional bread (like once a fortnight) and porridge again recently (although my daughter did whinge about "vomit coming back up in her throat" and for me oats turned out to me a major heartburn trigger so I'm not sure about how often to allow porridge (even though she loves it).
Anyway, my question is, if the kids are not eating as many carbs as a typical high carb diet, but then they are "exposed" to a high amount of carbs as on a rare occasion, as happened today when we went visiting two sets of friends in another town and they all brought out the snacks and sweets, and despite me telling the kids only to have one of whatever the offending foods were and to instead eat the almond meal based zucchini fritters (with bacon and cheese) which I had made especially for their lunch, they ran off with the host's kids into other rooms and were sneaking oat bars and biscuits and then at the second lot of guests, who are Serbs like my husband, it's rude not to take food when offered - so my husband was embarrassed when I tried to stop the kids from eating two small chocolate bars and pretzels and cheese pastries (he thinks Australians are nuts because we are willing to insult our hosts with our food refusal if we don't want the kids to eat a chocolate bar).
So what happened was by the end of it, the kids passed out in the car complaining of tummy aches, and then when they got home they were complaining they felt dizzy and sick (obviously a sugar thing even though neither of them is diabetic).
Is it worse for them to be eating lower - moderate carb most of the time but then endure a potential higher blood sugar spike if they binge at a party and I don't manage to prevent it? Or is just eating a higher amount of carbs all the time going to do more damage in the long term? Again, neither of them is diabetic, but it was still clear what they ate today didn't make them feel well at all I hope that limiting their carbs is not lowering their tolerance to them in a way that might be just as bad as eating a higher amount of carbs anyway, if that makes sense.
I'm hoping, after telling at least my 5 yo that it was probably all the carbs that she ate that gave her a tummy ache and made her dizzy that next time she should really only eat one chocolate bar and not so many different sweet things. Maybe she will self regulate at some point. I hope anyway.
Anyway, long story short, our 3 yo and 5 yo do get carbs, more often sweet and white potato, fruits (unrestricted amounts but only at certain times of day), and still occasional bread (like once a fortnight) and porridge again recently (although my daughter did whinge about "vomit coming back up in her throat" and for me oats turned out to me a major heartburn trigger so I'm not sure about how often to allow porridge (even though she loves it).
Anyway, my question is, if the kids are not eating as many carbs as a typical high carb diet, but then they are "exposed" to a high amount of carbs as on a rare occasion, as happened today when we went visiting two sets of friends in another town and they all brought out the snacks and sweets, and despite me telling the kids only to have one of whatever the offending foods were and to instead eat the almond meal based zucchini fritters (with bacon and cheese) which I had made especially for their lunch, they ran off with the host's kids into other rooms and were sneaking oat bars and biscuits and then at the second lot of guests, who are Serbs like my husband, it's rude not to take food when offered - so my husband was embarrassed when I tried to stop the kids from eating two small chocolate bars and pretzels and cheese pastries (he thinks Australians are nuts because we are willing to insult our hosts with our food refusal if we don't want the kids to eat a chocolate bar).
So what happened was by the end of it, the kids passed out in the car complaining of tummy aches, and then when they got home they were complaining they felt dizzy and sick (obviously a sugar thing even though neither of them is diabetic).
Is it worse for them to be eating lower - moderate carb most of the time but then endure a potential higher blood sugar spike if they binge at a party and I don't manage to prevent it? Or is just eating a higher amount of carbs all the time going to do more damage in the long term? Again, neither of them is diabetic, but it was still clear what they ate today didn't make them feel well at all I hope that limiting their carbs is not lowering their tolerance to them in a way that might be just as bad as eating a higher amount of carbs anyway, if that makes sense.
I'm hoping, after telling at least my 5 yo that it was probably all the carbs that she ate that gave her a tummy ache and made her dizzy that next time she should really only eat one chocolate bar and not so many different sweet things. Maybe she will self regulate at some point. I hope anyway.