You never know what you will find out.

[Sailorsong]

While this isn't really related directly to MS I thought I would pass it along to my friends here.

Since my DX for diabetes and actually getting my meter a couple of weeks ago I have found that when I go out to eat ( which is quite often ) my blood glucose has been going up around 30-40mg after I eat. But last night when I checked 1.5 hours after eating it had only gone up by 9mg. This had me completely baffled as to what made the difference. I even checked my meter with its control solution and retested myself. But still only 9mg. ????

I ate pretty much the same thing I had before:

Grilled BBQ chicken breast
Brown bread with butter
Broccoli with mayo ( a California thing )
Mashed potato with brown gravy and mushrooms.

The only difference was that instead of sweet tea I had coffee with cream & sugar to drink.

Now I could not believe that sweet tea could have that much more carbohydrates in it than the coffee that I drank. So I kept wondering about this all day. Talked to my friend Dave about it as he also has diabetes.  Twas a puzzlement!

Then I tries goggling coffee and diabetes and up popped a report on a study from Jan. 13, 2011.  about just this. The researchers studied 40,000 women and found that if they drank 4 cups of coffee with  caffeine per day they decreased their risk of type II diabetes by 56%. For some reason that I didn't quite understand the coffee helps your body use insulin correctly.

I stopped drinking coffee about 10 or so years ago and have only had maybe 6 cups in all those years. In fact in the last 6 years when I have soda it is of the caffeine free type. And I usually have sweet tea when I go out to eat.  

So tomorrow I get to go out and buy some coffee and related items so that I can start drinking it again.  Since it seemed to work so good with my dinner maybe if I drink more it will get my blood sugar under control.

So the moral of the story is to drink that coffee ( high octane style) so that you don't end up where I am.

Dennis

[Sailorsong]

Oops! I misread what Alex wrote. Guess my MS is showing. :)

I thought she was trying to say that normally potatoes are good for you but was shocked to find they are one of the highest things on the glycemic index.

Dennis

[Guitar_grrrl]

No, potatoes really are high on the glycemic index, and should be avoided by diabetics.  A smarter choice would be brown rice, or better yet, a mix of brown and wild rice.  Still good for soaking up those pan juices...  ;-)

[Sailorsong]

Huh? Did you really mean to say best things to eat?

Dennis

[HVAC]

White potatoes are one of the worst things you can eat. They are one of the highest things on the glycemic index. I was shocked to find that out.

Alex

[meg321]

Yayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy







then I am so doing it right..no tea, more coffee !  I live in fear that a Dr, will want to take it away from me..  thank you for the info..

are you drinking your coffee yet, Dennis ???

loving it ............meg