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Supermarkets and Diabetes

The state of the world today
I wonder what the health warning on my receipt would be for :

2 x Full Fat Greek Yoghurt
4 x 250g Butter
3 bottles "Everyday Value"vodka
1 jar Sauerkraut
2 packets of firelighters
Large box of Cook's Matches
Metal tea pot.

Answers on a postcard please !

Signy
 
Avocado Sevenfold said:
I think the problem of it taking too long to read labels on packaging can be easily resolved. Don't buy foods with labels. Buy a cauliflower. Or a tomato. Or a fish etc.
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I agree with what you say but I still like the use of labels. If there weren't labels I would not have discovered that corned beef is zero carbs and I would not have been able to confirm the fact that some processed ham and cheese have potato starch in them. Who'da thunk.

Basically I find that labels have given me information enabling me to widen my choice.
 
A drunken Greek or someone who barbecues in a teapot.
 
Indeed, but once you have learned that the corned beef is ok, you will commit that to memory and not have to read the label again. We soon build up a vast shopping list in our heads
 
I think a lot of this is the wrong way round.
For example there is a lot of effort to produce starch based foods for coeliacs, when they could take a leaf out of the diabetic cook book and just avoid starch.
It seems weird to go to so much effort to produce 'safe' bread rolls, as if bread rolls were essential to health and nutrition.

Diabetic friendly aisles are fruit&veg, meat, dairy.
Warning signs on the spuds and parsnips.

Plus tea, coffee, nuts and seeds etc.

Pure cooking oils such as Extra Virgin Olive Oil.

Much better to have a warning sign on all the other aisles - danger, diabetic aggressive foods.

That should see 80%-90% of the aisles marked up ;-)

Cheers

LGC
 
I did see a loaf in Sainsbury's I think it was called HiLo (or similar) and was particularly low carb - about 3g per slice - but the price wasn't very diabetic friendly about £1.69 for a small sliced loaf.
 
gfgeoff said:
So go into most supermarkets and you will find an aisle dedicated to gluten free products for coeliacs etc etc now go and find the diabetic aisle?you won't and yet we are told diabetes has reached epidemic proportions?Go figure cos I can't !
Geoff T2
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Best not give the supermarket boffs this Idea, They might give us a diabetic section similar to the "free from section" and quadruple the prices.
 

That could be related to the "Eatwell plate" which makes a big thing of "starchy foods".
Problem is that many so called "experts" don't appear to know even the basics of human nutrition...
 
Bit strange this, coeliac disease is an intolerance to gluten, so it stands to reason that coeliacs need gluten free food.

Diabetes on the other hand -
We have, Type1, Type 1.5, Type 2, LADA, Pre-Diabetes, Gestational Diabetes etc etc, we also have the NHS healthy plate, LCHF, Newcastle Diet etc etc how exactly are supermarkets supposed to deal with that?


No lamb???
 

Aarrrggghhhhh!

Signy
 

Type 1.5 is the same thing as LADA. With Gestational Diabetes being a variation on Type 2. There's also MODY which involves very different biochemistry from T2.
If someone is or isn't taking insulin is also a factor in how much dietary glucose they are able to cope with.
 
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