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"Ed" <ekirstein*nospammers*catskill.net> wrote:

> If you ate the same number of carbs worth of glucose and lentils. You will
> spike big time from the glucose and not spike (for many type 2's) from the
> lentils. That's why there are good carbs and bad carbs. I thought this was
> basic diabetes 101. I'm surprised there's anyone questioning this.
>
People question it based on the evidence of our blood glucose meters.
People told me that oatmeal was a good carb. That's as may be. My blood
sugar peaked well over 200 mg/dl and my hands got all tingly.

For many of the good carbs, the portion size that would *not* cause a
spike is so small as to be not worth bothering with. Beans and lentils
have to be condiments for me to be able to eat them. That is, if I make
chili from about 2.5 or 3 lbs of meat, I can throw in a can of beans.
The can says it has 3.5 servings of beans, but the chili comes out to 7
generous servings; I could easily have stretched it to 8 or 9 servings.

This is graduate level diabetes.

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