Clearly, many of you are not into detailed logging of your diabetes records. Honestly, I’m not that diligent with the logging either. But I do love to have a close look at all the newest tools on the market for managing diabetes. Anything that can help with carb-counting is of particular interest, because I’m so imperfect at that. So I was quite intrigued when I stumbled on HealthSimple, a set of clear and simple products…
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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]
-…
Back in 2003, when I was diagnosed, nobody seemed to know anything much about the connection between Type 1 diabetes and celiac disease. Or at least it wasn’t mainstream, certainly not for my doctors at the time. Celiac is of course and intolerance to gluten, a composite of proteins contained in wheat, rye and barley. Having it therefore means eating no foods that contain those grains. Picture that!
But my point was that suddenly, I…
We like to think we’ve got a handle on this carb-counting thing. But the truth is, most of us have very little clue — not least because nutrition labels on packaged products are so darn confusing. One of our beta testers over at the new community recently posted this query:
When I’m counting carbs I often read the “category” of carbs that are in the food I’m eating (i.e. Dietary Fiber, Sugar, Other Carbohydrates, etc.).…
I always find it fascinating to have a window into diabetes “from the other side” — i.e. what doctors and healthcare providers are doing and talking about. Something that caught my eye in the latest issue of the AADE’s journal, The Diabetes Educator: a new 10-step guide to teaching carbohydrate counting, called (oh so cleverly!) C-O-U-N-T C-A-R-B-S.
It’s apparently a program to help nurses teach diabetes patients diet tactics with more confidence, which is “shown…