Anna wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Dec 2007 10:11:15 -0500, Jackie Patti >
> wrote:
>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> The truth is that sugar has gotten a bad reputation. People with
>>> diabetes can and do eat sugar.
>> People with diabetes also can and do have heart attacks, become
>> impotent, go on dialysis, suffer neuropathy, go blind, have bits
>> amputated and die early deaths.
>>
>> Of course diabetics *can* eat any kind of crap they want; I have
>> diabetic family members who do just that. But it's pretty a high cost
>> for some cake and candy bars; personally, I'd rather spring for the
>> stevia and keep my organs functioning.
>>
>> YMMV.
>Blame the people who don't take care of themselves.
Yeah, like eating piles of sugar as the original poster in this thread
suggested.
> Does your family see a Dr. on a regular basis?? I do. I see mine every
> three months.
My MIL sees several doctors every month.
Don't know about my uncle-in-law or either sister as they don't discuss
their health with me.
> Stevia is non existent here in Alaska but I am able to get Splenda.
I use both. And aspartame and cyclamates also.
And I do have recipes in which a TB of blackstrap molasses is used in a
marinade or something. Very teeny, tiny amounts of sugar spread over
several servings. And yeah, that doesn't spike my bg. But I'd hardly
start a thread announcing that diabetics can all eat molasses.
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