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Message: <blockquote data-quote="sip" data-source="post: 287199" data-attributes="member: 2419">Look up "glycemic index", a term which is increasingly being linked to diabetes control. Most information appears in three columns, low GI, Medium GI and High GI -- beans usually fall into the low GI category. Some sites will also give numerical (GI) values for different foods.A good place to start would be:<a href="http://www.nhs.uk/chq/pages/1862.aspx?categoryid=51&subcategoryid=164" target="_blank">http://www.nhs.uk/chq/pages/1862.aspx?c ... goryid=164</a>Eating tons of beans isn't going to make you give up your meds, but you may well suffocate from the effects of producing your own gases.The other thing to read about is corn, a very versatile crop -- gives you ethanol and also sugars, which are used to enhance flavours of low-fat foods -- read this article (and weep):<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/jun/11/why-our-food-is-making-us-fat" target="_blank">http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012 ... ing-us-fat</a>I do not eat baked beans as I am put off by the sauce the beans have to swim in</blockquote>

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