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the sugars part of carbs...?

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rubymolloy

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hiya,
am learning all the time but am stuck on fully understanding carbs...on the labels, it says carbs..x amount per100g of which sugars...x amount.
ok, so far so good.
my partners nurse says to stick to anthing that says 9g or under sugar wise....
does this apply the same to the sugars part of the carbs also?

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how much carb of which sugars do other people find acceptable, or not...!? please...

hope you can help.
thanks rubyx
 
I ignore the sugars part completely and worry about the amount of carbs given... Even if you think sugar is fast, it can still be slower than something like the starches in mashed potato or white bread.

The sugars part has no real information in it other than for them to do their anti-sugar "traffic light" symbol...

Personally, I believe the traffic lights need completely redefining to concentrate on the amount of carbs per 100 grams of product instead as it's the total carbs that matter, especially for pre-diabetics and diabetics.
 
Glad to see you back Ruby. How are negotiations going with your BF? Hope that you and he are working together to help his situation. I agree with Paul except for one point. One thing we know about sugars without fail is that they are 100% empty calories. While I am not a calorie counter per se, I have a hard time NOT loosing weight on a low carb regime so every calorie counts towards real nutrition. So to purchase a product that is high in sugar as a percentage of carb content is a waste of nutritional value. Certainly the amount of carbs consumed is a major consideration with respect to blood sugar but the number of empty calories are important with respect to nutrition. Because I believe that type 2 diabetes and perhaps even type 1 has its roots in the inflammation caused by improper care of the immune system, nutritional and inflammatory value of food has become as big of a focus of mine as my meter readings.

Kenny
 
We should be mostly concerned with what our meters tell us, rather than what is on a label as some of us will be able to eat things that others can not.

All carbs turn to sugar so that is the figure we should be most concerned with.

However the "of which part sugars %" is also quite useful in that it gives you an idea of how fast the carbs in that tin, packet, product will hit your blood. I was told to eat foods that had less than 10% of the carbs as sugar which is quite sensible really as they are the foods which will give the slowest release of glucose into the blood keeping spikes to a minimum.

So the information you were given is not wrong but is just half the story :D
 
thanks so much for your replies.
yes, he is mostly so afraid of food...we dont live together and he is often working so i cannot feed him and tackle things as fully as i would like to.
i accidently found this karo coconut milk drink in the soya milk section in sainsburys, and he LOVES that and uses it to make his porridge in the mornings instead of cows milk, we realised that cows milk has a lot of sugars in it if you drink half a pint in one go...so its small steps really.
made him rose elliots chocolate bar recipes, and cheesecakes, and carrot cake, to encourage him to trust that it can be done!! i counted meticulously every carb and calorie etc and its amazing how it can be got around. so his confidence is growing and i think it helps for him to know there is a better alternative to enjoy.
have started to keep a notebook of what doesnt have any effect on his blood sugars and the recipes that suit. I use xylitol to sweeten, and almonds.
its hard on him this diabetes thing, hes had it for 10 years, bringing up a kid on his own, and i think has been very alone with it and hasnt really got to grips with it and has basically been afraid, as i guess one can be.
when i first knew him back in the summer, i didnt know much about it either and of course he was keeping it hidden from me!! sort of embarrassed by it, we used to go to the seaside and walk about all day and he would eat chips AND doughnuts!! which he got away with because he was walking about but after seeing what the chips did to him without the walking recently he has happily kind of accepted the mad amount of carbs that made him feel ill.
i used to have a problem with drinking too much alcohol so both of us together make a good pair really. we have both had to change our lives and be focused on what makes us feel better :)
this forum is very supportive and im very grateful for the advice.
many thanks.
am going to experiment with coconut flour next, if i can get hold of some!
bye for now
ruby
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I did an explanation of what carbs are recently. Sugars are carbs, therefore, listing them separately isn't very useful.
Hana
 
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