In alt.support.diabetes Dreamstar > wrote:
: In article >, wrote

: > I have often tested beverages with my One Touch strips (all kinds) and
: > they register high glucose (over 600mg/dl) for drinks made with high
: > fructose corn syrup or other sugars. I only test when I've had a swig
: > of a drink that I recognize as non-diet, non-sugarfree, since I
: > recognize it immediately. Tonight I tested on MaiTai mix (as an
: > experiment), which is only sweetened with corn syrup, and it tested
: > "high" on the meter. You're pretty safe to just use your regular blood
: > glucose meter strips. Why buy urine strips just for testing foods?

: [ ]

: Why bother testing at all?
: Once you have identified a safe source of nourishment then why bother
: the endless search to try and achieve a facsimilie of pre diabetic
: eating habits? Oh sorry, I forgot, there are a lot of people out there
: whose only pleasure in life is stuffing their gullet. I wonder if it is
: a comfort thing originating from an insecure childhood.

Having once been blindsided by one of those self-service soda places at a
local pizza shop(where I didn't eat any pizza) I will occasionally test
with a diastix if I am at a roadside place or somehere new. I use this
just for soda, wich is so easy to mison set-up with all those tubes they
have to connect.

Wendy