Grazer
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mep73 said:Just be careful though as alcohol can impact on your sugars... it can cause highs if it's full of carbs, or lows also.
The alcohol with the highest carb content is the beers, but even then the alcohol content seems to override the impact of the carbs (stops the liver processing them to glucose while it's dealing with the toxins it sees alcohol as) and my BGs go down. I've never had an alcohol that has raised my BGs personally. Of course, if you mix with non-diet cokes/lemonades etc, then you can get highs.
I suppose that's why insulin dependant diabetics are warned of hypos when drinking ANY alcohol.
I reckon dieticians tell us to mix drinks with water because of the country wide conspiracy against drinking! :lol: Not putting water in my riojas.....