On 5/11/11 10:36 AM, dmt11h...@aol.com wrote:
It has always been my impression that sugar is sugar,
whether it be added (sucrose) or whether it be contained
within a fruit (fructose).
Once upon a time, I handed out cookies at a Century ride.
My grapes had just ripened, so I brought along a few bunches
of those too.
One of the riders was thrilled to see the grapes -- they
would bring her blood sugar up faster than the cookies would.
*Some* diabetics get a bye on fruit because the sugar is
diluted with fiber and stuff. This doesn't apply to juice
that has had the fiber and stuff filtered out. I have heard
that orange juice is the best treatment for insulin shock in
a person who can still swallow a liquid.
Tangent: a long time ago, a paramedic who was teaching a
first-aid course told us that the very expensive glucose
paste for reviving diabetics in insulin shock came only in
huge packages, so that you had to spoil a whole pound every
time you gave a patient a teaspoonful. So he went to
McDonald's and asked for a handful of their honey packets.
Just the right size, no waste, works exactly the same,
tastes better, and McDonald is happy to help out at no charge.
--
Joy Beeson
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west of Fort Wayne, Indiana, U.S.A.
where we went directly from furnace to air conditioner.
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