I seem to be fine with a bottle of nice beer with dinner now and then. I do take a whisky now and then after dinner too. Whisky does not increase my blood sugar at all. I would stress, however, that we all differ. What is worth mentioning maybe..is that the liver deals with alcohol as a priority...which means it sort of delays everything else, including reacting to a carb intake; basically, its too busy to cause glucose release so it takes longer for a spike to come along (and this usually lessens the effect). You might say, and some have, that if the blood sugar is a wee bit high...a wee dram (also gin or vodka - yuuuk -) will reduce it. That said, I would not want to recommend alcohol as a way of controlling blood sugar!!! I have never been much of drinker, so it's not a big deal for me. Smoking? I stopped that about 4 years ago after decades of 30 a day...the same way I stopped eating sugar an high carb foods; I decided to stop. Mainly, I stopped because I realised that fags were basically little nicotine delivery systems sold by huge corporations who sought to keep me addicted to take my money. I bought a new car using the money I was saving to meet monthly payments. My wife did the same. A beer? Yes..maybe two; a whisky?...certainly; a cigarette? I'd rather poke myself in the eye than give these legitimate lethal drug dealers my cash.
