I have sugar problem

[Hummin]

5 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

I tell the person cooking the food for me in a food court to leave out the sugar.

 

Sugar is used to balance the chili that is added to many Thai dishes. If the chili is reduced or eliminated, sugar is unnecessary.

And salt accordingly 

[jas007]

26 minutes ago, KannikaP said:

OK, Kiwi juice and Voddy! 555

If you eat the skin of the Kiwi fruit along with the rest of it, that gives you the most fiber.  Maybe a small blender would work. 

[candide]

Easy.

Avoid sugar and anything sweet  such as sodas etc...

Avoid fat, fried food, etc....

Avoid beer like hell.

Eat only very few fruits. Fructose is actually much worse than zaccharose.

Don't eat too much of other carbs: rice, pasta, bread  ....

 

Eat balanced meals: 50% vegetable, 25% proteins, 25% glucides (rice, bread ....). Of course, try not to eat too much, Avoid buffets..

 

There are plenty of good food options left, it's just usually more expensive than eating fried chicken or burgers with fries.

 

Of course, exercise every day.

[Andre0720]

1 hour ago, Lacessit said:

I tell the person cooking the food for me in a food court to leave out the sugar.

 

Sugar is used to balance the chili that is added to many Thai dishes. If the chili is reduced or eliminated, sugar is unnecessary.

By asking a cook to leave out the sugar, it will only get you a meal without refined sugar from the bowl that they all keep aside.

But then the customer will get the sugar that comes from that bowl of refined sugar, and that was previously added to the sauce prepared for meals.

If then if the meal does not require such a sauce, there are so many bottles of sauces that they all use, and that comes from Minimart Super Cheap, and that typically contain some 20% of added refined sugar.

If a cook says that there is no sugar in the meal, is that they do not know the content of the sauces that they use. Just about nobody reads what is in a bottle of sauce. And certainly not a Thai cooker... (I do not even use the word 'Thai cook').

[G_Money]

The Italian in me will not give up pasta, bread, certain pastries and gelato.

 

Total blasphemy.

 

 

[Lacessit]

1 hour ago, Andre0720 said:

By asking a cook to leave out the sugar, it will only get you a meal without refined sugar from the bowl that they all keep aside.

But then the customer will get the sugar that comes from that bowl of refined sugar, and that was previously added to the sauce prepared for meals.

If then if the meal does not require such a sauce, there are so many bottles of sauces that they all use, and that comes from Minimart Super Cheap, and that typically contain some 20% of added refined sugar.

If a cook says that there is no sugar in the meal, is that they do not know the content of the sauces that they use. Just about nobody reads what is in a bottle of sauce. And certainly not a Thai cooker... (I do not even use the word 'Thai cook').

IMO the amount of sugar you would get in a sauce used in cooking would be minimal.

 

I believe if I don't measure it, I can't control it. I have regular blood tests, so far so good.

[Andre0720]

1 hour ago, Lacessit said:

IMO the amount of sugar you would get in a sauce used in cooking would be minimal.

 

I believe if I don't measure it, I can't control it. I have regular blood tests, so far so good.

You might very well be wrong.

A minimal amount of poison, is still poison, and more and more lethal as we age. Just the way it is.

I never used sugar in any of my cooking before I got here. And was just stunned when I found out about it.

No more Thai food, and no more signs of arthritic symptoms.

And I have been testing the effect of sugar on my body since then.

Fruit is fine.

Refined sugar is a trigger for some pains in the joints.

I feel better now that I went back to my regular cooking habits.

And my friend who joined me here with his GF, said the same thing. And I remember him saying; "I thought I was eating healthy here".

[Lacessit]

My blood test figures don't lie.

 

Fruit is glucose and fructose. Refined sugar is also glucose and fructose, in the form of sucrose.

 

Glucose is what is reported in blood tests. Fructose is processed by the liver.

 

Stick to strawberries, raspberries and blueberries if you want minimum sugar. Bananas, mangoes and lychees are loaded with sugars.

[Celsius]

6 minutes ago, Lacessit said:

My blood test figures don't lie.

 

Fruit is glucose and fructose. Refined sugar is also glucose and fructose, in the form of sucrose.

 

Glucose is what is reported in blood tests. Fructose is processed by the liver.

 

Stick to strawberries, raspberries and blueberries if you want minimum sugar. Bananas, mangoes and lychees are loaded with sugars.

 

I suspected the same.

 

What about grapes?

[G_Money]

FFS.  No bread, no pasta, no pastry, no beer. no coke mixers, no ice cream.

 

And now, no fruit.

 

And we’re all going to die regardless.

 

Enjoy life.

 

Get that warm blueberry pie ala mode before you can’t 

[ignis]

19 minutes ago, Celsius said:

 

I suspected the same.

 

What about grapes?

Google is your friend

 

Grapes, especially darkly colored fruits, have an abundance of antioxidant molecules that have the ability to regulate insulin and glucose metabolism and oxidative stress induced in this disease.

 

Strawberries are almost in season

[Lacessit]

26 minutes ago, Celsius said:

 

I suspected the same.

 

What about grapes?

Grapes are high in sugar. Raisins and sultanas are even worse.

[Lacessit]

10 minutes ago, ignis said:

Google is your friend

 

Grapes, especially darkly colored fruits, have an abundance of antioxidant molecules that have the ability to regulate insulin and glucose metabolism and oxidative stress induced in this disease.

 

Strawberries are almost in season

Blueberries are in the top echelon as far as antioxidants go.

 

Red and black grapes have about 15-20 grams of sugars per serving, so it's a mixed bag.

 

The link of antioxidants with regulating insulin and glucose is tenuous, studies are conflicting as to their effectiveness.