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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fizzylaa" data-source="post: 970123" data-attributes="member: 156164"><p>I have always had the feeling that sugar was less problematic than starch for me. But really for me it amounts to this - is a short lived spike in blood glucose better or worse for a diabetic compared to the slow drip - drip of a modest rise in blood sugar over a longer period in time? In other words if I eat a dark choc bar it may raise my blood sugar to 12mmols after 2 hours but by 3 hours it's back in the 5s. If I eat s bowl of porridge (assume same quantity of 'carb' as the choc bar) if may only raise my blood sugar to 8.5mmols after 2 hours but it will stay at that level for 4 or 5 hours after eating. Which is the lesser of the two evils? The sudden drop in blood glucose after sugar consumption is always going to make me feel like I want to eat again but the bloated feeling after some more liquid starches such as porridge or soup is unbearable.  I eat chocolate rather than other sweets because I assume the fat content  slowers the digestion. I think the danger of eating too much sugar is the addictive nature of it. You begin to tolerate more and more which is probably not a good direction to be going.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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