Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
ONE hundred kids sat down to a lunch in Parliament's Great Hall on Thursday, only the menu on every table offering a hint there might be a distinction between these and any other children. Each plate of chicken breast with kipfler potato, zucchini and sauteed spinach, the menu informed, equated to 24 grams of carbohydrate. A slice of watermelon was 1.3 grams, ruby grapes were 0.75 grams apiece.
Most of us wouldn't have a clue why such esoteric detail would be of interest, but virtually every kid in the House and all their parents studied the numbers with intent. Carbohydrate, essentially, is sugar, and if you happen to suffer diabetes type 1, you must know precisely how much sugar is in your food, and therefore headed to your bloodstream.
http://www.smh.com.au/national/when-life-is-lived-one-needle-at-a-time-20121130-2amf4.html
Most of us wouldn't have a clue why such esoteric detail would be of interest, but virtually every kid in the House and all their parents studied the numbers with intent. Carbohydrate, essentially, is sugar, and if you happen to suffer diabetes type 1, you must know precisely how much sugar is in your food, and therefore headed to your bloodstream.
http://www.smh.com.au/national/when-life-is-lived-one-needle-at-a-time-20121130-2amf4.html