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<blockquote data-quote="Scott-C" data-source="post: 1884948" data-attributes="member: 374531"><p>Thoroughly worthwhile motives, Kev. T2 is about 90% of the diabetic population so the T1 voice is sometimes drowned out because of the numbers.</p><p></p><p>I can understand completely why T2s avoid grains, and also why T1s sometimes choose to do that too, but it remains the fact that the right sort of grains, in the right sort of amounts, with the right amount of insulin, can be a good thing for T1s.</p><p></p><p>I'm not talking about white rice here. That stuff is wildly unpredictable, for me at least.</p><p></p><p>Brown/wild rice, that's a different story. It's got fibre/minerals etc. It has nutritional value.</p><p></p><p>What "grain haters", especially the ones who have never ever injected insulin several times a day in order to not die, fail to understand is that complex grains like rice and oats very often have a stabilising effect on T1 bg levels.</p><p></p><p>My experience is that I'm living courtesy of a type of insulin which has a time pattern to it - it acts for several hours. Some grains, some pulses, even egg noodles, match that pattern well, which is why I eat them.</p><p></p><p>Counter-intuitively, a plate of brown rice, or 60g of egg noodles in a ramen broth, makes my life and bg levels smoother and easier because those foods match, for me, the patterns of my insulin.</p><p></p><p>Haven't got any photos, but, whoah, give buckwheat a go, member of the rhubarb family, packed with minerals, and a thing called chiro-inisitol which mimics insulin, boil it for twenty minutes, fry some bacon lardons, chestnut mushrooms, tomatoes, chuck in a few capers or even some samphire if yer getting posh, chuck it all together with some smoky bbq sauce, and it's good to go...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scott-C, post: 1884948, member: 374531"] Thoroughly worthwhile motives, Kev. T2 is about 90% of the diabetic population so the T1 voice is sometimes drowned out because of the numbers. I can understand completely why T2s avoid grains, and also why T1s sometimes choose to do that too, but it remains the fact that the right sort of grains, in the right sort of amounts, with the right amount of insulin, can be a good thing for T1s. I'm not talking about white rice here. That stuff is wildly unpredictable, for me at least. Brown/wild rice, that's a different story. It's got fibre/minerals etc. It has nutritional value. What "grain haters", especially the ones who have never ever injected insulin several times a day in order to not die, fail to understand is that complex grains like rice and oats very often have a stabilising effect on T1 bg levels. My experience is that I'm living courtesy of a type of insulin which has a time pattern to it - it acts for several hours. Some grains, some pulses, even egg noodles, match that pattern well, which is why I eat them. Counter-intuitively, a plate of brown rice, or 60g of egg noodles in a ramen broth, makes my life and bg levels smoother and easier because those foods match, for me, the patterns of my insulin. Haven't got any photos, but, whoah, give buckwheat a go, member of the rhubarb family, packed with minerals, and a thing called chiro-inisitol which mimics insulin, boil it for twenty minutes, fry some bacon lardons, chestnut mushrooms, tomatoes, chuck in a few capers or even some samphire if yer getting posh, chuck it all together with some smoky bbq sauce, and it's good to go... [/QUOTE]
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