[Sca-cooks] diabetes and beets?

[Bill Fisher]

Yeah, it depends on each individual person's response to them.

My sister can eat beets or corn sensibly, in a normal portion, with a
full meal, and
there will be no impact because the other foods in concert slow down
the processing
and absorbtion of the sugars.  My sister also exercises regularly,
which makes your
body process sugars in a much better manner.

My mother tends to eat them by themselves, and it causes massive panic attacks
and phone calls to me telling me that she is dieing when her sugar
spikes. My mother
can also spike from starches if she eats them first in a regular meal.

All the numbers and jargon from my previous e-mail are just
guidelines.  It just lists
the potential the foods have in your system.  "Your mileage may vary" is a good
caveat in this area.

My personal system is hyper efficient with starches and I digest them
quickly, so I have
to be careful with any root veggies.  My sugar doesn't spike much, I
just know by how I feel after I eat them that they are not good for
me.

Cadoc


On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 13:45:30 -0400, Kirsten Houseknecht
<kirsten at fabricdragon.com> wrote:
> beets are very high in sugar (yes even mundane beets. sugar beets are a much
> worse issue, but a near relative...)
> please bear in mind that as far as i can tell, EVERY person i know processes
> vegetables differently.
> 
> corn is very high on most of the "glucose indexes" worse than carrots! and
> carrots and beets are worse than say.. broccoli......
> BUT
> i know people who can eat carrots without any rise in their blood sugar, but
> cannot eat ANY corn, and others who are the reverse.....
> it seems to have to do with how your body processes certain veggies.
> 
> if they havent been an issue, dont worry about it, but they will raise blood
> sugar in most people.....
> Kirsten Houseknecht
> Fabric Dragon
> kirsten at fabricdragon.com
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> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "caointiarn" <caointiarn1 at juno.com>
> To: "Bill Fisher" <liamfisher at gmail.com>; "Cooks within the SCA"
> <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
> Sent: Monday, September 27, 2004 5:50 PM
> Subject: [Sca-cooks] diabetes and beets?
> 
> >
> > > Not to mention they are very bad for you in terms of blood insulin
> > response.  Anyone
> > > who is remotely diabetic should stay clear of any beet root. <
> > > Cadoc
> >
> >     Oh, REALLY?  I have not heard of any such precaution  -- and I eat
> beets
> > fairly regularly  {once a week}  could you please give me more details?
> >
> > Caointiarn  {diabetic, type 2 since Feb 2003}
> > HGBA1c:  6.3 & holding steady
> > and I lost 6 lbs this past quarter
> > and I lowered my cholesterol {176}since last year
> >
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