How can I reduce my glucose levels please?

Jim Lahey said:

Bread is glucose in drag. Wholemeal or otherwise. Baked beans are glucose in a glucose & fructose sauce.

Personal choice whether or not anyone cares, but the above items will certainly contribute to increasing blood sugar and should be avoided if they are causing problems.

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Captain Crunch said:

As others have said, bread and baked beans are generally no-no's. Personally I can tolerate one slice of wholemeal toast with peanut butter *if* I go for a brisk walk afterwards. Regarding soup, do read the label. Most have a recommended portion size of half a tin. I'm assuming you're having a whole tin? Also (and this doesn't just apply to soup), the nutritional labels can have values per recommended portion or values per 100g. If the latter, check the stated weight of the packet/tin and calculate as appropriate.

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resander said:

Vegetables may not be low carb..

Low carbs: grams per 100g product
mushrooms 0.3, celery 0.8, kale 1.4, spinach 1.5,
avocado 1.9, celeriac 2.3, leek 2.9, spring-onion 3, squash 3, cauliflower 3, broccoli 3.2,
cabbage 4, okra 4, green/red peppers 4,
turnip 4.7, swede 4.8

Medium carbs:
carrots 8, onions 8, peas raw 9, corn frozen 9,
peas mushy canned 11

High carbs:
corn canned 12, lentils 13, butter beans 13,
kidney beans 13, baked beans 14, potatoes new 14,
black beans 15, chickpeas 16, corn cooked 17,
potatoes old 18, mung beans 19, sweet potatoes 21


With dinner I always replace potatoes and rice with mashed/boiled celeriac/cauliflower + a low carb veg or a small quantity of medium carb veg.

And always exclude high carb veg.

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Dr Snoddy said:

Hi, from what you are eating it sounds as though you may be following the dietary advice given by bodies like NICE and Diabetes UK. This is generally what GPs and diabetic nurses trot out.
Many people on this forum chose not to follow that advice and to limit their intake of carbohydrate considerably. This has lead to successful reductions in blood glucose with members being able to give up all medications and maintaining non-diabetic glucose levels.

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Geordie_P said:

17 to 20 sounds quite high.
I get mixed up with the different units, but if those are the normal UK units, then I think the beans and bread need to get kicked into touch immediately, and the soup needs a carb-check to see what's in it.

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Dr Snoddy said:

What was your last HbA1c measurement please?

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Chris26111980 said:

I was told the other day by Diabetes UK, bananas are fine. facepalming.....

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