Dennis
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Lufc,
I'm not sure where you get the idea of "a stupid amount of sugar" from. If I can try to put it in a way that won't do your head in, all carbohydrates convert to glucose in your blood and so raise your blood glucose level. Some carbohydrates are slow acting so convert to glucose over a period of time, others are fast acting and convert to glucose quickly. But all forms of sugar (sucrose, fructose, lactose and sugar alcohols) are already glucose so will raise your blood glucose immediately.
This is why it is so important that a diabetic should look not just at what the sugar content is of any food, but what the carbohydrate content is. And it is very easy to be fooled by labels that say "low sugar" when all the manufacturer has done is to switch the sugar for something equally harmful.
Fat doesn't enter into it at all because fat has absolutely no effect on your blood glucose. Its just that some diabetics mistakenly think that they should be looking out for low fat foods (which won't help their diabetes at all) instead of low carbohydrate foods.
I'm not sure where you get the idea of "a stupid amount of sugar" from. If I can try to put it in a way that won't do your head in, all carbohydrates convert to glucose in your blood and so raise your blood glucose level. Some carbohydrates are slow acting so convert to glucose over a period of time, others are fast acting and convert to glucose quickly. But all forms of sugar (sucrose, fructose, lactose and sugar alcohols) are already glucose so will raise your blood glucose immediately.
This is why it is so important that a diabetic should look not just at what the sugar content is of any food, but what the carbohydrate content is. And it is very easy to be fooled by labels that say "low sugar" when all the manufacturer has done is to switch the sugar for something equally harmful.
Fat doesn't enter into it at all because fat has absolutely no effect on your blood glucose. Its just that some diabetics mistakenly think that they should be looking out for low fat foods (which won't help their diabetes at all) instead of low carbohydrate foods.