You know how some foods just instinctively seem low-carb — or appear to genuinely be so, based on the package labels, but somehow aren’t? Isn’t that maddening? Here’s my personal list of dreaded “fake-out foods” that spike my blood sugar when they seem like they shouldn’t:
- protein “shake” drinks [tasty and filling, they're supposedly only 9 grams of carb per an 11 oz. can, but my post-drink blood sugar disagrees with that assessment]
-…
I neglected to mention that smack in the middle of our girls’ big birthday bash last weekend, I tested my glucose and got a whopping 424 (!) — the highest BG result I’ve had since hospitalization at diagnosis. Yikes!! Wait just a minute… this can’t be right. So I scrubbed my fingers with soap and hot water and tried again: 142. Can you believe it?
Well sure, there I was serving snickerdoodle birthday cakie (that’s…
You guys are absolutely right: the ADA Conference looks like it’s all about oral drugs for Type 2 this year. But that’s impossible, since virtually every organization who’s anybody in the diabetes industry is involved in this annual conference. Besides the formal research and pharma announcements, there’s always plenty of hoopla.
A couple of items in that category include:
* Desert Dingo racing — Jim Graham and his diabetic Desert Dingo Racing team will make…
The American Diabetes Association’s huge annual conference hits the city of San Francisco this Friday, June 6. Of course I plan to be there, running around like a madwoman trying to catch all the interesting briefings, the movers-and-shakers for interviews, and the best giveaways in the best booths . Dr. Jackson and I have also been invited to show off our KYN book in the AgaMatrix booth on Saturday and Sunday afternoon. So stop by…
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