"Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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> "Paul M. Cook" > wrote in message
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>> "Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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>>> "Paul M. Cook" > wrote in message
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>>>> "Nancy Young" <replyto@inemail> wrote in message
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>>>>> On 6/1/2015 9:32 PM, Paul M. Cook wrote:
>>>>>> "Nancy Young" <replyto@inemail> wrote
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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.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> 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.
>>>>>
>>>>> I see that the process is called retrogradation.
>>>>>
>>>>> Another thing I've learned over the years, on this newsgroup,
>>>>> is nothing is black and white when it comes to how people
>>>>> react to foods, what works for one person doesn't for the next.
>>>>> I'm sure not trying to convince you or anyone else. People have
>>>>> to monitor their own blood sugar to see how foods affect them.
>>>>
>>>> That may be true for many foods but pasta is just plain bad for
>>>> diabetics. No ifs ands or buts. It is a super glycemic carb, amongst
>>>> the highest next to pure sugar. It is converted to glucose in the gut
>>>> within seconds of intake. Diabetics can eat pasta so long as they
>>>> measure it carefully and have insulin on hand to cover the spike.
>>>> Don't get me wrong - losing pasta was worse than losing my first love.
>>>> I got over her.
>>>
>>> Bull pucky! I can eat it with no problems. It's just too bad for me
>>> that it isn't a favorite food as it does work quite nicely for me. I
>>> probably eat it 2-3 times a month now, if that.
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>> The last thing you need is pasta, toots. You and your severely advanced
>> neuropathy which almost killed you. You are hardly a measure for ANYBODY
>> to consider. Miss blueberries are the grossest thing ever. Sheesh.
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> It almost killed me? How so? And newsflash!!!! It was the neuropathy
> that led to my diagnosis.

The sepsis? That is often fatal. Or at least requires amputation.




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