Hi everyone, I have beens told underground food is not good for T2, But i have been nuts are ok, can anyone please let me know, which is true and if nuts are good for us T2, does it have to be certain nuts?
i know google is there but same time google is not always correct and as fellow diabetics i would prefer your advice the most. i have only been told im T2 from yesterday, This is all new to me, sorry for all the questions i post as stupid as some of my questions may be, im just trying to understand T2, as well as unknowingly try reduce sugar and lose weight same time.
I'd turn it round. It's not that some foods are good for us, high carb foods may be bad for us.
The usual thing is that underground vegetables are higher in carbohydrate - that covers things like potatoes. Swede is not one of those - around 3% carb.
https://www.dietdoctor.com is a good and reliable (in my experience) source.
You also have to remember that it's not just the percentage carb that matters, it's also how much of the food you eat. I eat (for example) a mixed pickle that's about 25% carb - because I eat only 10g (one teaspoon) of it at a time, total carb 2.5g. I wouldn't (usually) eat 250g of an 8% vegetable because that's 20g total, and I aim for about 20g in a full day.
All nuts are not the same. You can check here:
https://www.dietdoctor.com/low-carb/nuts. I eat almonds, hazelnuts, pecans, and walnuts regularly. I'll get through a 200g Lidl bag in about 2 weeks.
The key thing that will help you understand how you deal with particular foods is using a glucose meter. Tagging
@Rachox who has an up to date list.
The normal pattern is to test just before you eat - this establishes a baseline. Eat whatever it is - if it contains carb, your blood glucose will start to rise after about 15-20 minutes as the carb is digested to glucose and absorbed into your bloodstream. At that point your body starts producing insulin and the action of the insulin moves the glucose out of your blood stream and into your skeletal muscle cells and the nervous system where it's used as fuel. The glucose peak will probably be reached somewhere in the first hour, and then start to fall.
You're not testing to find the peak. You're testing to see how well your system deal with whatever carb/glucose load you've placed on it.
By +2 hours your system should have cleared all or almost all of the glucose out of the blood. The test at +2 hours shows how well your system operated. That's why the ideal is that at +2 you are both a) under 7.8 and b) within 2 points of your starting reading. Non-diabetic people generally manage this because a) they produce enough insulin to do the job and b) their cells are not insulin resistant.
T2s on the other hand usually have some problem with insulin resistance. This means that we often do not clear the excess glucose from the blood (so you get a much higher reading at +2 hours than you should) and that excess glucose is stored as bodyfat. The obvious solution to having too much glucose after a meal is not to eat it (ie carb) in the first place.