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Diet Coke & high blood sugar

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fiona35

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Has anyone noticed after drinking a can of Diet Coke that your blood sugars shoot up?
I’ve just come back off holiday and on the day concerned I had my lunch at 12 noon, then we stopped for a drink at 2.30pm and I had a can of Diet Coke. I was rather surprised to hear the libre alarm considering I hadn’t eaten anything recent and had only the Diet Coke.
Just curious if it was the Diet Coke or my lunch decided to be late to the party!!
Thanks
 

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One possible explanation @fiona35 , although your blood sugars went quite high, maybe because of a mechanism called cephalic phase insulin release . Very simply put, this is when your body releases insulin on sight , smell or taste of food. The sweet taste of the sweetness may have triggered this cephalic release of insulin.
So because insulin is being released but no sugars are actually entering your blood stream, your blood sugars may have dipped triggering your liver to release glucose to stabilize your blood sugar levels.

I’m not convinced it is a cephalic release, but a possibility .

I’ll dig out a paper which explains cephalic release.

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Melgar said:
One possible explanation @fiona35 , although your blood sugars went quite high, maybe because of a mechanism called cephalic phase insulin release . Very simply put, this is when your body releases insulin on sight , smell or taste of food. The sweet taste of the sweetness may have triggered this cephalic release of insulin.
So because insulin is being released but no sugars are actually entering your blood stream, your blood sugars may have dipped triggering your liver to release glucose to stabilize your blood sugar levels.

I’m not convinced it is a cephalic release, but a possibility .

I’ll dig out a paper which explains cephalic release.

edited to add paper and last sentence and tag

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Thank you for this link. Really interesting and I never even thought having a diet drink could maybe trigger something like this!
 
fiona35 said:
Has anyone noticed after drinking a can of Diet Coke that your blood sugars shoot up?
I’ve just come back off holiday and on the day concerned I had my lunch at 12 noon, then we stopped for a drink at 2.30pm and I had a can of Diet Coke. I was rather surprised to hear the libre alarm considering I hadn’t eaten anything recent and had only the Diet Coke.
Just curious if it was the Diet Coke or my lunch decided to be late to the party!!
Thanks
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Hi,

Oddly I’m on holiday (Croatia.) & had Diet Coke this afternoon from an identified glass bottle.
I still had to supplement it with 5g of FAC to stave off a hypo?

The only time DC has affected my BGs is when I suspect the wrong button has been pressed when poured “draught?” But then I can taste the difference.

To be fair. You had a can.

I use Lantus & Novorapid.
The graph looks to me like you corrected the wayward numbers then went low?
The graph was looking good, too. :)

What had you eaten for lunch?
 
fiona35 said:
Has anyone noticed after drinking a can of Diet Coke that your blood sugars shoot up?
I’ve just come back off holiday and on the day concerned I had my lunch at 12 noon, then we stopped for a drink at 2.30pm and I had a can of Diet Coke. I was rather surprised to hear the libre alarm considering I hadn’t eaten anything recent and had only the Diet Coke.
Just curious if it was the Diet Coke or my lunch decided to be late to the party!!
Thanks
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Hi Fiona the diet coke is good for you
 
julieclarke said:
Hi Fiona the diet coke is good for you
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Hi,

I feel it’s ideal as a beverage in moderation if a “designated driver” or a refreshing non alcoholic accompaniment with a meal..
But I don’t think it has much going on in the “nutrition department?”

Nutritionix

www.nutritionix.com www.nutritionix.com
 
I've never had any rises in my BG when drinking pepsi max cherry. I don't drink a lot of it, but if I have a can without food or anything my BG just hovvers around the normal figures. However, my BG can go up or down when I've not eaten anything at all - not by a lot but it seems to be affected by such a lot of things and not just food.
 
peterb999 said:
I've never had any rises in my BG when drinking pepsi max cherry. I don't drink a lot of it, but if I have a can without food or anything my BG just hovvers around the normal figures. However, my BG can go up or down when I've not eaten anything at all - not by a lot but it seems to be affected by such a lot of things and not just food.
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I play in 2 bands & drink DC when gigging. (The drive home after. No Novorapid on board, can’t eat prior to a gig.)
Even when my basal (Lantus.) is meant to be tailing off, I can cruise around 4.8 to 5.2mmol..?
 
julieclarke said:
No diet coke is good for you better than coke cola is bad
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I’m afraid it’s a little more complicated than your statement..
There have been numerous debates on Diet Coke consumption.?

www.who.int

Aspartame hazard and risk assessment results released

Assessments of the health impacts of the non-sugar sweetener aspartame are released today by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) and the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) Joint Expert Committee on Food Additives (JECFA).
www.who.int www.who.int

Having said that the sugar in normal coke don’t do favours to diabetics either..
 
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