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wiseowl_123

wiseowl_123

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Type of diabetes
Type 2
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Good morning now I know nothing about type 1 and even less about type 2 but I know Teresa May is type 1 and yesterday she was on the TV news eating a bag of chips from a fish shop,I thought chips were a no no for me,is food different for type 1's.thank you:)
 
No food is off limits with diabetes. It is all about carbohydrate portion control. I guess it depends how much chips she ate as it whether or not it negatively affected her blood sugar. Also she'd be on insulin so she would've used bolus injection for the chips she ate as well. If you're not on insulin, you can't do that obviously.
 
No, wiseowl, food is not different. What is different is the TREATMENT.
T2s try to avoid food spikes, or face increasing amounts of medicine from their health specialist to control their sugar levels.
T1s have an on-hand remedy for sugar-spiking foods - insulin. The more carbs a T1 takes, the more insulin they can take to 'cover' them. This isn't necessarily a good thing - greater amounts of carbs/insulin increase the risk of wrongly estimating/calculating the insulin needed, thereby increasing the risk of hypos. So, some T1s lowcarb to give them greater control.
Geoff
 
lindisfel said:
political chips! probably eaten to improve the working class vote! she may have had her personal physician monitoring her afterwards! :)
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Just to balance this out do you remember Ed Milliband offering a poor man on the street a Bacon Butty.....
This was a political Bacon Butty and just as nauseating...........

Tony
 
I eat chips and I'm type 2 diet only on around 30g carbs a day.
My secret is only to have 6 chips and not to have them every day. To be honest, 6 chips or no chips with an identical meal makes no difference to my levels.
As far as I could see, she only ate 2 of them.
 
I well remember that Tony! Can you also remember, I thought he was barmy at the time,Gummer feeding his kids beefburgers during the BSE crisis. I bet that helped the farmer vote! Seriously new variant CJD is a terrible disease thank goodness the beef today is safe.regards D

Tony337 said:
Just to balance this out do you remember Ed Milliband offering a poor man on the street a Bacon Butty.....
This was a political Bacon Butty and just as nauseating...........

Tony
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librarising said:
No, wiseowl, food is not different. What is different is the TREATMENT.
T2s try to avoid food spikes, or face increasing amounts of medicine from their health specialist to control their sugar levels.
T1s have an on-hand remedy for sugar-spiking foods - insulin. The more carbs a T1 takes, the more insulin they can take to 'cover' them. This isn't necessarily a good thing - greater amounts of carbs/insulin increase the risk of wrongly estimating/calculating the insulin needed, thereby increasing the risk of hypos. So, some T1s lowcarb to give them greater control.
Geoff
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Beautifully described, @librarising !

I'm a type 1 so I could have chips and bolus insulin to cover them - but I choose to eat low carb so as to minimise getting really narked with myself when it goes pear-shaped. No chips for this girl! (Happy without!)
 
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