Hi All...
Just been looking around for some info..regarding the pizza issue....🙂..To see if it may shed some light on it for us all....
Here goes: Pizza contains bread, meat or fish , cheese and veg. In other words its a balanced meal. The problem for diabetics is the pizza contains more bread than a traditional meal. The bread is baked hard which causes the carbohydrate to be absorbed more slowly. Cheese has also a high fat content which causes the stomach to empty more slowly. One way around the peak is to try taking 1-2 extra units of insulin..or to the actual carb content if you have calculated this...with the pizza. Another is to avoid eating the crust..If you take rapid acting insulin (NovaRapid, Humalog), it may be better to take this after the meal.
Hope this helps
Heidi
xx🙂
Just been looking around for some info..regarding the pizza issue....🙂..To see if it may shed some light on it for us all....
Here goes: Pizza contains bread, meat or fish , cheese and veg. In other words its a balanced meal. The problem for diabetics is the pizza contains more bread than a traditional meal. The bread is baked hard which causes the carbohydrate to be absorbed more slowly. Cheese has also a high fat content which causes the stomach to empty more slowly. One way around the peak is to try taking 1-2 extra units of insulin..or to the actual carb content if you have calculated this...with the pizza. Another is to avoid eating the crust..If you take rapid acting insulin (NovaRapid, Humalog), it may be better to take this after the meal.
Hope this helps
Heidi
xx🙂