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> "Paul M. Cook" > wrote in message
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>> "Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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>>>> "Nancy Young" <replyto@inemail> wrote in message
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>>>>> On 6/1/2015 3:01 PM, sf wrote:
>>>>>> On Mon, 01 Jun 2015 14:13:13 -0400, Nancy Young
>>>>>> > wrote:
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>>>>>>> Thanks very much! I've bookmarked that and I'll be sending
>>>>>>> it to my sil.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> YW! Tell her to look up "resistant starch". Does she know about
>>>>>> KalynsKitchen.com? It's full of good ideas.
>>>>>> https://www.pinterest.com/source/kalynskitchen.com/
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks again! Strictly coincidentally, I have a blurb
>>>>> I clipped right here about pasta. It says that when
>>>>> noodles cool, their molecular structure changes. They
>>>>> become a resistant starch, which passes through the body
>>>>> as fiber instead of being absorbed as sugar.
>>>>>
>>>>> So there you have it.
>>>>
>>>> Nancy, pardon my French - but that is absolute horse hockey. Pasta
>>>> will spike your blood sugar worse than white rice. It is one enzyme
>>>> away from glucose and is immediately converted in the stomach to sugar.
>>>> My love of pasta is what led to my diabetes.
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>>> Everyone is different Paul. I can eat white rice or pasta with no
>>> problems at all, provided that I don't eat too much of it. I can't eat
>>> *any* corn, barely or potatoes now. Even a speck causes spike city.
>>> Didn't used to be that way for me. She needs to go by what her brother
>>> *can* or *can't* eat. Or better still, give him something non-edible.
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>> Pasta is white flour, eggs and a little water., It is primarily a highly
>> refined wheat flour. And it is in a form ready to dissolve in the gut
>> within seconds and be converted by enzymatic reaction to glucose.
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> My pasta has no eggs. And I have gastroparesis. So the easier it is to
> digest the food, the better for my blood sugar. I prefer the taste of
> whole wheat but it sticks around in my stomach for longer and raises my
> blood sugar. We are all different.

Yes, and your BG is 300.

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