"orangetrader" > wrote in
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> My doctor told me my blood sugar level is quite high, but I do not
> have diabetes, he said he will call it "diabetic tendency" and that
> I should avoid eating things with sugar. Orange juice is ok, but
> sugar drinks (Snapples, sweet tea, Coke...) is not. Now if I look
> at the 100% orange juice cartoon for ingredients, I see sugar listed
> and it's amount is comparable to that of a Gatorade or sweetened ice
> coffee. He said those are different types of sugar. I am a little
> confused what is the difference?

Find a new doctor. For a diabetic, orange juice is only ok if you're
way too low. With diabetes, sugar is sugar and carbs are carbs.

Did he give you any information about what your blood sugar levels
were? Did you have two fastings taken? Did he do an A1c? What is
"quite high"????

What are your cholesterol numbers? My doc thinks I'm too high on my
LDL and wants to put me on meds for it. I have to go down only 14
points. The rest of my lipids are perfect. Oh, BTW, she's *not* my doc
anymore.

I can't speak to the iron thing, but there is a disorder that has
elevated iron and diabetes called hemachromatosis.
http://www.cdc.gov/hemochromatosis/ Did your doc also tell you to make
sure you don't take any vitamin supplements that contain iron? There
are treatments for this.

Sherry