Hello fellow sufferer’s

[Cloughy]

Wow rebrascora what insightful comments. Thank you so much.

I was never offended by your previous comments in the least. And the statement,

It's just that the official dietary advice needs to be right and at the moment it isn't.

Are my feelings exactly. I think that so is sad and not a policy conducive with prevention.

John

 

[Drummer]

You might have fallen foul of there already being a traffic light system for food which is about as much use as a chocolate teapot for anyone who can't cope with carbohydrate.
I stick to foods which are no more than 10 percent carb - and often go for things quite a bit lower. I do have a square of 95percent cocoa chocolate once in a while - but sometimes not for several weeks so it hardly counts.
I got my Hba1c down to the top edge of normal, 42, and it stayed there far some years. I was classed as in remission, eating no more than 50 gm of carbs a day. I thought that I would push the numbers down, so for a whole year I ate no more than 40 gm of carbs a day, and my Hba1c was 42. So much for my cunning plan.....
I do not eat any of the usual high carb foods, no grain, potato, sugary or starchy fruit and veges, but find I can eat very well without them.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Welcome to the forum @Cloughy

An interesting thread!

It reminds me of a study which was published in the journal Cell in 2015, which examined exactly this variability between people eating exactly the same meals, which you might find interesting:

https://www.cell.com/cell/pdf/S0092-86741501481-6.pdf

It really does seem that there are no simple answers to this conundrum, and that genetics, gut biome, and a host of other factors can all combine and conflict to confound expectations about BG impact, even with something as seemingly obvious as pure glucose.

Some years ago there was a lot of talk about Glycaemic Index and Glycaemic Load

Glycaemic index and diabetes

What is the glycaemic index? The glycaemic index (GI) tells us whether a food raises blood glucose levels quickly, moderately or slowly. This means it can be useful to help you manage your diabetes. Different carbohydrates are digested and absorbed at different rates, and GI is a ranking of how...

www.nhs.uk

Which aimed to rank foods by their likelihood of impact on BG levels. However for all the reasons above, GI rankings are only ever a general guide, and can’t necessarily be relied upon to be 100% accurate for any one individual.

Well done on your very effective diabetes management to date. Hope your quest for continued improvement pays dividends.

Look forward to hearing more of your story in the coming weeks and months 🙂