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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/
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>>>>>> 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.
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>>>>>> So there you have it.
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>>>>> 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.
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> Yes, and your BG is 300.

Uh, no. Lately I have been having a lot of hypos.