60 Ways to Lower Your Blood Sugar by Dennis Pollock

Author:Dennis Pollock
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780736952590
Publisher: Harvest House Publishers, Inc.

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Don’t Be Gullible!

When I was in college I went with some buddies to a carnival. Toward the end of our time there, a man in a booth offered me some free ring tosses. I thought I had nothing to lose (little did I know!) and took him up on his offer. He handed me several rings and instructed me to toss them at the soda bottles he had placed in the center of his booth. After tossing them he congratulated me and began to add up my “points.” According to him I had accumulated around 90 points and was nearly at the goal of 100, which would have enabled me to win a major prize. But of course I would need to pay for the next set of rings.

I figured if I had gotten up to 90 with the first tosses, I could surely rack up another 10 with this next round. Afterward I was up to something like 96—still not enough to win anything but very, very close to that magic goal of 100. On top of this the operator told me this qualified me to win a second prize once I reached the 100 points, and he brought out a portable television (a lot bigger deal in those days that it would be today). Of course I would have to purchase some more rings, and this time they would cost more. I think you can figure out where this is going (I only wish I had figured it out then!). Eventually he cleaned me out of all the money in my wallet, and I was still without a single prize.

As you walk through the grocery store, you should imagine slick carnival guys like this fellow calling out to you, “Come and buy! This food is just the ticket for a diabetic like you!” Of course these are not living and breathing people—they are brightly colored banners that shout at you, “Low-fat,” “fat-free,” “no sugar added,” “gluten-free,” and other such things. It’s not hard to be awed by these important-sounding proclamations and buy the product.

We will consider some of these claims in a moment, but before we do let me give you the most basic and simple rule when deciding whether a food will work for you. The bottom line is the number of grams of carbs (minus the fiber) in the portion size that you will eat. When considering foods with claims of being natural, organic, fat-free, or anything else, your first response should be to go immediately to the nutrition information and find the net carbs. Anything approaching 30-plus grams of carbs in your real-life portion size is near to what you would get in a candy bar.

When your blood sugar is rising, it is responding to the carbs—period! Your body doesn’t much care (blood-sugar-wise) whether those carbs came from raisins or a chocolate bar, whether from orange juice or from Coca-Cola, whether they originated from stone-ground wheat flour or the whitest white flour on the face of the planet.

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