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People with diabetes can not really eat sweets?
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initforlove
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if you listen to the experts then you should eat everything and they will supply you with ever more drugs and ever more insulin
if you listen to people who prefer to take fewer drugs and maybe never ever need insulin [type 2's] then you avoid starchy carbs and that includes sweets
if you listen to people who prefer to take fewer drugs and maybe never ever need insulin [type 2's] then you avoid starchy carbs and that includes sweets
Sid Bonkers
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When I was first diagnosed I didnt eat any sweets or snacks of any kind for the first 6 or 7 months while I was trying to lose weight and get myself off insulin, which I did and since then I find I can eat the occasional choc bar every now and then and dont find it spikes my bg at all, I will also eat the odd fruit pastille, again not every day just occasionally.
There is nothing nutritious in a choc bar or any type of sweet to my the best of my knowledge so there are best not eaten regularly especially if you are trying to lose weight.
I would say try one and test it if it doesnt spike your bg then the occasional treat probably wont do you any harm, however if you test one and find it spikes your bg higher than you like then they are probably best avoided but unless you test you will never know.
Everything in moderation.
There is nothing nutritious in a choc bar or any type of sweet to my the best of my knowledge so there are best not eaten regularly especially if you are trying to lose weight.
I would say try one and test it if it doesnt spike your bg then the occasional treat probably wont do you any harm, however if you test one and find it spikes your bg higher than you like then they are probably best avoided but unless you test you will never know.
Everything in moderation.
Daibell
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Hi, as Sid says, the occasional small sweet or whatever isn't going to do you any harm compared with the amount of carb in, say, a slice of bread. BTW Sid, chocolate itself i.e. the cocoa bean is very nutritious in various ways including anti-oxidants. I have 85% dark chocolate which is mostly the bean itself, fat and very little carb.
