Kate > wrote:
: Can someone please tell me if Yoplait Light Yogurt is OK for a diabetic?

: Many thanks.

: Kate
The short answer is plain yogurt shudl be fine. If you like flavord, add
soem berries or something like cinnamon and artificial sweetener of your
choiceI personally use eithe splenda or Equal(or generics fof same). At
you stage of pre-pre diabetes(my coinage) just avoid the aded sugar stuff
as well as watching your starches, white or brown, but small amounts of
the brown tarches should be OK.

As you are not diabetic, you want to change your way of eatign
sufficiently to prevent your geting full-blown diabees. Weight gain
woould be a broblem as would stressing your beta cell in the
pancreas(thhese guys make the insulin youu need to handle changing your
carbohydrates into energy for the cells). To avoid that overloading yu
have to watch our intake of al kinds of carbohydrates like sugars adn
starches.

At your stage you can , certainly have fresh fruit for a dessert, but not
the same fruit baked in a pie. I think you get the idea.

Exercise will help, not only in weight control, but in helping your body
use its insulin well in dealing with the blood sugar in your body.

If you were a full-blown diabetic the restrictions on eating, etc would be
more strict. Right now you just need a little around the edges. Haveing
a blood glucose meter to use occasionally(not several times a day as well
controlled diabetics do) to see that your blood sugar(blood glcose-hence
bgs) in not jumping up wildly might be a good idea. It might be
interesting for you to see what happens if you eat a sugary desert so you
migh test aan hourr or less after eatign it and then at abouta 2 hours to
see if all is normal again. Curiosity about how your body handles
different foods might be an interest to cultivate, but constant regular
testing would be kind of overkill at this time as far as I am concerned.

Wendy