Giving up sugar

[DulwichFox]

PokerTime Wrote:

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> After 20 vodkas, the moer sugar the better ;)

>

> I thought the really nasty stuff in red bull was

> the taurine?

Not Really..

Taurine is found in high concentrations in muscle, brain, heart and blood.

A person weighing 70 kg has approximately 70 g of taurine distributed throughout their body.

Put another way, a 70 kg person naturally already has in his body 70 times the amount of taurine contained in one can of Red Bull Energy Drink.

Source.. http://energydrink.redbull.com/taurine

DulwichFox

[srisky]

I feel inspired (no sarcasm), although I still intend to enjoy the good stuff in smaller quantities and less frequently.

Here's a list of foods and their glycaemic indices: http://www.the-gi-diet.org/lowgifoods/

I'm surprised at some of the values e.g. mango versus watermelon.

PeckhamRose, this is probably obvious but have you tried gradually reducing the sugar in your tea/coffee? If you reduce it by minute amounts over a long period of time it should be imperceptible to you, even if it is as tedious as reducing by a gram per week. Whatever reduction you achieve if you can sustain it over the long term then it will be beneficial.

[DulwichFox]

Water Melon..

The GI Glycemic Index is not the best way to measure affect on Blood Sugar

Better to use GL the Glycemic Load.

Watermelon (GI 72; GL 4):

This delicious summer fruit may at first look like a high-glycemic food with its glycemic index of 72,

but it actually has a very low-glycemic load.

Why? Because it's made up of a lot of water, hence the name.

Watermelon is also loaded in antioxidants with high levels of both vitamin C and vitamin A. It also contains

lycopene, which is shown to be helpful for heart health.

GI:

 

[srisky]

I think that's an important point, Fox. A friend recently told me that a glass of orange juice has a similar (or maybe even more) sugar than a glass of coke, however, the former has various nutritional benefits. So comparing foods using a single factor e.g sugar content or GI is not necessarily helpful.

[DulwichFox]

Water Melon..

The GI Glycemic Index is not the best way to measure affect on Blood Sugar

Better to use GL the Glycemic Load.

Watermelon (GI 72; GL 4):

This delicious summer fruit may at first look like a high-glycemic food with its glycemic index of 72,

but it actually has a very low-glycemic load.

Why? Because it's made up of a lot of water, hence the name.

Watermelon is also loaded in antioxidants with high levels of both vitamin C and vitamin A. It also contains

lycopene, which is shown to be helpful for heart health.

GI:-

Low Intermediate High

55 or less 55 to 70 70 or higher

GL:-

Low Intermediate High

10 or less 11 to 19 20 or higher

Want to calculate the glycemic load of instant white rice instead? Well, a portion size of around 2/3 cup of white rice has about 36 grams of available carbohydrates and a glycemic index of 72. Here's the math:

72 x 36 = 2,592 / 100 = 26 glycemic load

So just a small amount of white rice will send your blood sugars through the roof.

People often say. 'Eat a Chinese meal and 30 mins later you hungry again'

Well that is why..

High GI/GL Chinese food will give you a fast rush of Blood Sugar followed by a rapid crash.

So you feel hungry again, so you eat more food and you put on weight. If you keep eating high GI food.

and keep snacking in between, your Pancreas cannot cope and you develop Type - 2 Diabetes.

Foxy

[Nigello]

I gave up added sugar for Lent one year, and it was pretty hard. No cakes, biccies, chocolate etc, but also no crisps, condiments, some pasta/pizza sauces etc. There's a lot of hidden sugar. The upside was that when I did eat something sweet again it tasted almost off-puttingly so, which meant I've ended up eating fewer cakes etc since then.

[PokerTime]

Wow, you know a lot Foxy. I learned a few things.

I used to have a sweet tooth when I was younger Nigello but as I've got older I can't eat anything suger filled, so your taste buds can definitely change.

Someone earlier though mentioned getting the last teaspoon of sugar in tea or coffee to 0. I too have never managed this. Getting it down to one small spoonful was fairly easy, but beyond that there's a bitterness that I can never grow to like. I don't like lager/beer and coffee for the same reason. I taste the same bitterness in those things. Olives are a funny one though because as much as I love olive oil, I always struggled with raw olives, because I find the same bitterness with those. But I can eat filled olives.

[ianr]

DF: quotation delimiters and attributions always please, at least as a courtesy to readers and sources.

[DulwichFox]

Hi PokerTime..

I was diagnosed with Type-2 Diabetes Feb. 2011. I was Horrified at it led to serious depression.

Newly diagnosed people are offered 2 Sessions at Desmonds, a diabetic seminar at Dulwich Hospital.

There we were all told that Type-2 Diabetes was NOT reversible..

I did some research and found there were websites that claimed Type-2 Diabetes could be reversed.

But most of these were quack send me $100's and I will tell you how sites.

However further research indicated that following a VERY low carb diet for 3 months could effectively

reverse diabetes. This initially was not recommended by Diabetes UK.

It was virtually a starvation diet. and I lost a lot of weight. This did keep my blood sugar in control.

But then I injured my back and was on pain killers for 3 months that gage me Severe constipation.

I literally did not go for 10 days at a time. I could not eat as I was Full.

This involuntary starvation led to my diabetes being reversed.

My 6 monthly/yearly HBa1c (a test that gives your average reading over the last 3 months was 5.6mmol/L

and has remained at that level for the last 2.5 years.

I have been re-coded as Non-diabetic. I can/do eat most thing, but I am careful as I do not wish to

become diabetic again.

I did all this by diet alone (No medication)

Type - 2 Diabetes CAN be reversed an Diabetes UK now recognise this.

DulwichFox

[DulwichFox]

ianr Wrote:

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DF: quotation delimiters and attributions always

> please, at least as a courtesy to readers and

> sources.

Not quite with you there..

Info supplied based on my own knowledge...

You can find examples here.

http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/how-to-calculate-glycemic-load.html

DF

[PokerTime]

That's an incredible story Fox. I do think there are a range of conditions that could be treated by diet if only more research were done. You mentioned depression, and I know a lot about that. And similarly have done research into a range of alternatives that can compliment or replace medication, including diet. It's like a car isn't it. If you put the right fuel in, it will run smoothly. Put in the wrong fuel or oil etc, and things start to go wrong.

[Dopamine1979]

DulwichFox Wrote:

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> Water Melon..

>

> The GI Glycemic Index is not the best way to

> measure affect on Blood Sugar

> Better to use GL the Glycemic Load.

>

> Watermelon (GI 72; GL 4):

>

> This delicious summer fruit may at first look like

> a high-glycemic food with its glycemic index of

> 72,

>

> but it actually has a very low-glycemic load.

>

> Why? Because it's made up of a lot of water, hence

> the name.

>

> Watermelon is also loaded in antioxidants with

> high levels of both vitamin C and vitamin A. It

> also contains

>

> lycopene, which is shown to be helpful for heart

> health.

>

> GI:

>

>

>

All things in moderation.

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