Klpville
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- Type of diabetes
- Prediabetes
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Hello guys,
I would like to share with you some calculations I had to go through. It's not a secret that honey is very useful for people who have cardiovascular (heart) problems. Honey is the one of the well-known natural antibiotics as well. But how do you go about it when you're also diabetic or pre-diabetic? You cannot pretty much eliminate all the carbs from your meals, you simply have to calculate their intake instead and keep them under control as far as I understand it now. Mathematics to the rescue!
My honey label says it contains 80 carbs per 100 grams and the entire pot is 370 grams. If we divide 100 by 80 we'll get 1.25 carbs per 1 gram of honey. Now how many carbs would I eat if I put just one teaspoon of honey into my tea? Any regular teaspoons are 5 milliliters (ml) or 5 grams (g). However, the tricky thing here is to take into consideration density. Honey's is 1.4 g/ml therefore my portion becomes: 1.4 g (honey in question per 1 ml) x 5 ml (teaspoon size) = 7 grams of honey per teaspoon. Since we have 1.25 carbs per 1 gram of honey in question then we have 7 grams in our teaspoon thus we get 8.75 carbs in a teaspoon of honey (1.25 x 7 = 8.75).
Do you guys always go through these kinds of calculations each time you eat? This is just one product. Although I am OK to calculate though all the foodstuff that I eat but I was just wondering how do other people do it? For example I have a big piece of prepared (boiled) and ready to eat turkey meat. It has a label on it with all the carbs, sugars, fats, etc. mentioned. Now if I cut off one slice out of it for just one serving how many carbs would it contain? It also smote me that I might need to go guy some high precision food scales to control my intakes.
Would appreciate any comments at all. Many thanks!
I would like to share with you some calculations I had to go through. It's not a secret that honey is very useful for people who have cardiovascular (heart) problems. Honey is the one of the well-known natural antibiotics as well. But how do you go about it when you're also diabetic or pre-diabetic? You cannot pretty much eliminate all the carbs from your meals, you simply have to calculate their intake instead and keep them under control as far as I understand it now. Mathematics to the rescue!
My honey label says it contains 80 carbs per 100 grams and the entire pot is 370 grams. If we divide 100 by 80 we'll get 1.25 carbs per 1 gram of honey. Now how many carbs would I eat if I put just one teaspoon of honey into my tea? Any regular teaspoons are 5 milliliters (ml) or 5 grams (g). However, the tricky thing here is to take into consideration density. Honey's is 1.4 g/ml therefore my portion becomes: 1.4 g (honey in question per 1 ml) x 5 ml (teaspoon size) = 7 grams of honey per teaspoon. Since we have 1.25 carbs per 1 gram of honey in question then we have 7 grams in our teaspoon thus we get 8.75 carbs in a teaspoon of honey (1.25 x 7 = 8.75).
Do you guys always go through these kinds of calculations each time you eat? This is just one product. Although I am OK to calculate though all the foodstuff that I eat but I was just wondering how do other people do it? For example I have a big piece of prepared (boiled) and ready to eat turkey meat. It has a label on it with all the carbs, sugars, fats, etc. mentioned. Now if I cut off one slice out of it for just one serving how many carbs would it contain? It also smote me that I might need to go guy some high precision food scales to control my intakes.
Would appreciate any comments at all. Many thanks!