I think it's time to invest in a testing kit.The downer is the strips seem so expensive!If you test at one and two hours, you’ll find out.
I think it's time to invest in a testing kit.The downer is the strips seem so expensive!
There are affordable BM and test strips, it's a case of researching. It is something you won't regret buying and it's better than you ending up in hospital?I think it's time to invest in a testing kit.The downer is the strips seem so expensive!
I think it's time to invest in a testing kit.The downer is the strips seem so expensive!
If you’re autoimmune then it’s probably fine. If you’re resistant then it’s probably not.
Testing after trying it is one thing but, generally speaking, fructose won’t register as increased blood glucose when measured. What it will do, however, is directly increase insulin resistance so that literally everything you eat next time is just a little more problematic than it was last time.
So for me it’s no, but for you it might be yes. My only point here really is that testing blood glucose to confirm or disconfirm the effects of fructose, is probably about the least effective use of test strips I can imagine. In my opinion.
Now I didn't know that! Thank you.
For clarity, I’m not suggesting for a moment that honey won’t raise blood glucose. I’m sure it will, just not the fructose component (mostly). Fructose is public enemy number one for anyone with insulin resistance, and a blood glucose meter cannot hope to accurately measure its deleterious effects from one meal to the next.
I didn't know about the correlation between fructose and IR, only the triglyceride increase. More reading for me.
Fructose is dealt with entirely in the liver. It doesn't reach the stomach. The liver regards it as toxic, a bit like alcohol. It converts it to fat, which it then stores around itself. Hence fatty liver, which equals insulin resistance.
Thank you for explaining this.When the limited glycogen stores are full, the excess fructose is changed directly into liver fat through de novo lipogenesis.
Since being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes I've cut out all processed sugar(in my case this was mainly soft drinks).I was wondering if I could add a small amount of honey to my yogurt,which i mix with nuts,seeds and blueberries in the morning.Ive heard the spike in blood sugar is short lived compared to refined sugar.Is this true?
As usual it depends on your condition and how much honey .For me as a Type 1 it causes a big ,sugar surge and lasting about 3 hours . Last time I had honey ,we were out for a family meal ,informed them I was a Type 1 and ordered liver and bacon with all the trimmings at a good restaurant in Perth ,it arrived ,covered in honey ,when I sent it back ,out comes the chef informing me ,it didn’t count as honey was natural ?Since being diagnosed with type 2 diabetes I've cut out all processed sugar(in my case this was mainly soft drinks).I was wondering if I could add a small amount of honey to my yogurt,which i mix with nuts,seeds and blueberries in the morning.Ive heard the spike in blood sugar is short lived compared to refined sugar.Is this true?
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