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<blockquote data-quote="Scott-C" data-source="post: 2103643" data-attributes="member: 374531"><p>Hi, [USER=511442]@Waterlady[/USER] , I see from your posts yesterday that your husband is waiting to hear whether the diagnosis is T1 or T2. </p><p></p><p>While it is true that all carbs turn to glucose, if the dx turns out to be T1, the "of which sugars" part can be quite important.</p><p></p><p>If I as a T1 am eating, say, 50g carbs, of which 40g is sugars, that will absorb into my bloodstream very quickly, so I would be inclined to inject insulin quite far in advance so it has time to get to work and meet the glucose on a level playing field.</p><p></p><p>Whereas if I was eating 50g of which 5g was sugars, like, say, pulses, that would take much longer to break down into glucose, so a too early injection of insulin would drop me way too low.</p><p></p><p>So T1s, if that turns out to be the diagnosis, do need to pay attention to how simple or complex the carb is.</p><p></p><p>That's my take on it as a T1, but it can have some relevance to T2s as well, some people's natural insulin responses can manage quite well with complex carbs, not so well with simpler carbs.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scott-C, post: 2103643, member: 374531"] Hi, [USER=511442]@Waterlady[/USER] , I see from your posts yesterday that your husband is waiting to hear whether the diagnosis is T1 or T2. While it is true that all carbs turn to glucose, if the dx turns out to be T1, the "of which sugars" part can be quite important. If I as a T1 am eating, say, 50g carbs, of which 40g is sugars, that will absorb into my bloodstream very quickly, so I would be inclined to inject insulin quite far in advance so it has time to get to work and meet the glucose on a level playing field. Whereas if I was eating 50g of which 5g was sugars, like, say, pulses, that would take much longer to break down into glucose, so a too early injection of insulin would drop me way too low. So T1s, if that turns out to be the diagnosis, do need to pay attention to how simple or complex the carb is. That's my take on it as a T1, but it can have some relevance to T2s as well, some people's natural insulin responses can manage quite well with complex carbs, not so well with simpler carbs. [/QUOTE]
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