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Black Tea
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adrian1der
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No, I'm fine with tea. I have a couple of cups in the morning to get me going and then switch to green tea for the rest of the day. I've been lucky enough to visit Japan a couple of times on business and got used to green tea while I was there.
How do you take your tea?
How do you take your tea?
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Hi Karen and welcome
The question most relevant would be "what do you have in your tea?"
A cup of black tea in itself should not affect your blood glucose levels, if that is what you are asking, unless you have it with lots of milk and sugar or honey etc.
Diabetes is an inability to properly metabolize carbohydrates, so whatever carbs you eat, be they from sugar or milk or bread or a banana, will affect your blood glucose levels to some extent. Cutting back on your carbohydrate intake will help your body to cope better as a diabetic. It is amazing how many foods contain carbs and learning to read and understand nutritional information on food packaging is something that many of us who are serious about managing our diabetes become very proficient at.
I see that you posted on someone else's introduction thread but didn't give much information about your diagnosis. Would you like to tell us more here or perhaps start your own thread in the "Newbies" section and tell us a bit about how you came to be diagnosed and what if any medication you have been given and your HbA1c reading, if you know it.... this is the blood test result which is used to diagnose diabetes and is usually a number of 48 or higher and can even be into 3 digits if things are particularly bad. It gives you a starting point for your journey with diabetes and gives us an idea of where you are on the diabetes scale and we can take that into consideration when answering any questions you may have.
The question most relevant would be "what do you have in your tea?"
A cup of black tea in itself should not affect your blood glucose levels, if that is what you are asking, unless you have it with lots of milk and sugar or honey etc.
Diabetes is an inability to properly metabolize carbohydrates, so whatever carbs you eat, be they from sugar or milk or bread or a banana, will affect your blood glucose levels to some extent. Cutting back on your carbohydrate intake will help your body to cope better as a diabetic. It is amazing how many foods contain carbs and learning to read and understand nutritional information on food packaging is something that many of us who are serious about managing our diabetes become very proficient at.
I see that you posted on someone else's introduction thread but didn't give much information about your diagnosis. Would you like to tell us more here or perhaps start your own thread in the "Newbies" section and tell us a bit about how you came to be diagnosed and what if any medication you have been given and your HbA1c reading, if you know it.... this is the blood test result which is used to diagnose diabetes and is usually a number of 48 or higher and can even be into 3 digits if things are particularly bad. It gives you a starting point for your journey with diabetes and gives us an idea of where you are on the diabetes scale and we can take that into consideration when answering any questions you may have.
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Milk has a small amount of natural sugar (lactose) in it but as long as you are not drinking it very milky and having lots of cups straight after each other then there is nothing to have a significant impact on your BG (blood Glucose) levels.
Caffeine is a stimulant so if you were drinking several strong cups of tea, that might start to push your BG levels up too, but if you are used to drinking tea this is likely to have less of an effect, than if you didn't regularly drink tea or coffee and then had a couple of cups of strong stuff out of the blue.
Caffeine is a stimulant so if you were drinking several strong cups of tea, that might start to push your BG levels up too, but if you are used to drinking tea this is likely to have less of an effect, than if you didn't regularly drink tea or coffee and then had a couple of cups of strong stuff out of the blue.
Another question I would ask is when do you have your tea when you notice the blood sugar rise?
The reason I ask is, if it is a cuppa when you wake, I wonder if the rise is due to Foot On The Floor (liver dump) when you get up and the tea is a red herring.
Likewise, if the cuppa is just after a workout, the blood sugar rise could be due to the exercise rather than the tea.
The reason I ask is, if it is a cuppa when you wake, I wonder if the rise is due to Foot On The Floor (liver dump) when you get up and the tea is a red herring.
Likewise, if the cuppa is just after a workout, the blood sugar rise could be due to the exercise rather than the tea.
Toucan
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Hello @Karen999 and welcome to the forum.
We are all different it what affects us when, and as @helli suggests it may be related to the time of day you have your tea.
I would find it difficult to get through the day without my cuppas, but tea will upset me if I drink it first thing in the morning,
I have changed to having a cup of root ginger - a few slices soaked in boiling water, surprisingly tasty and wakes me up a bit as well.
We are all different it what affects us when, and as @helli suggests it may be related to the time of day you have your tea.
I would find it difficult to get through the day without my cuppas, but tea will upset me if I drink it first thing in the morning,
I have changed to having a cup of root ginger - a few slices soaked in boiling water, surprisingly tasty and wakes me up a bit as well.
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