Totto
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We used to know how bad sugar is in Sweden too but it seems to have been forgotten in recent decades.
When I grew up we were told to eat proper food and not spoil the appetite with snacks.
We used to know how bad sugar is in Sweden too but it seems to have been forgotten in recent decades.30 years ago they had this knowledge in Norway???? are we really that backward in the uk that we are only just catching on? Shame on us Brits.
Yah like a simple bowl of Kellogs Cornflakes 100g Portion = 84g Carb + 12g for milk???? Less carb in a mars bar!!!! Since i've been on the db forum i'm learning quite a bit about carbs and they are really surprising me. No wonder i was spiking after breakfast, this + Toast = Spike City. I'm like...***!!! where is all this sugar coming from.The worst spikey things are rice and mash. That I know of.
There are a lot of things I never eat so wouldn't know but I guess a breakfast cereal might be as bad or even worse.
but lets say for example the carb count in 1 x weetabix is high...
Carbohydrates 26g
of which sugars 1.7g
but how would this be viewed as a T1 is it all carb or is this a relative break down as the actual sugar content is low, is it a good GI food ie slow release carb???
Shouldn't our injection of insulin deal with this and there should be no spike?
Curious about this one, i like porridge oats and they are a low GI and are harder to break down in the digestive system so they should be a slow release carb, is it not possibly that you are having them mixed with sugar or high milk sugars or they are the refined oats like oats so simple they will spike you more but plain porridge oats shouldn't spike the blood in theory.
but lets say for example the carb count in 1 x weetabix is high...
Carbohydrates 26g
of which sugars 1.7g
but how would this be viewed as a T1 is it all carb or is this a relative break down as the actual sugar content is low, is it a good GI food ie slow release carb???
Shouldn't our injection of insulin deal with this and there should be no spike?
It's all carb, so we have to bolus for it all, and in a perfect world that would be fine. But carb figs aren't exact, and there's at least a 30% margin of error with how much insulin gets through, and that's the door to trouble.
@LucySW as @noblehead said, I think it's the low carb thing that did that to you Lucy. I get greater impact from carbs now than previously, but under a normal carb diet, two teaspoons of ice cream really had very little impact in the past.
I was addressing this question to @tim2000s because I was thinking that not doing an aggressive LCHF means you accept injecting more insulin.No, I bolused for the meal not including the two teaspoons, but I still wouldn't have expected the reaction.
but lets say for example the carb count in 1 x weetabix is high...
Carbohydrates 26g
of which sugars 1.7g
but how would this be viewed as a T1 is it all carb or is this a relative break down as the actual sugar content is low, is it a good GI food ie slow release carb???
Shouldn't our injection of insulin deal with this and there should be no spike?
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