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Medical Forum / Diseases and Disorders / Diabetes / May 2008Brussels Sprouts????
A small bowl of Brussels Sprouts has me at 8.3 after one hour? Is NOTHING safe?? :)  SignatureAndy H (Type 2 in Greater Vancouver, Canada) > A small bowl of Brussels Sprouts has me at 8.3 after one hour? Is > NOTHING safe?? :) Food that will have you be euglycemic at one hour after a meal will also have you hungrier. Be hungry... be healthy... be hungrier... be euglycemic: http://TheWellnessFoundation.com/BeHealthier Prayerfully in the infinite power and might of the Holy Spirit, Andrew <>< -- Andrew B. Chung, MD/PhD Lawful steward of http://EmoryCardiology.com A latter-day disciple of the KING of kings and LORD of lords. http://HeartMDPhD.com/HolySpirit/DiscipleNow : A small bowl of Brussels Sprouts has me at 8.3 after one hour? Is : NOTHING safe?? :) Do you know what you were before? this sseems a strang result, so you may well have been higher before the brussels sprouts than you thought. It is the difference between befoer and after that is the issue. Wendy On 5/4/08 8:46 AM, in article MPG.22877a2978669703989999@shawnews.vc.shawcable.net, "ajh" <sorry@no.way> wrote: > A small bowl of Brussels Sprouts has me at 8.3 after one hour? Is > NOTHING safe?? :) What do you eat with them? Also, what do you put on them? Cheese sauce? Brussels sprouts shouldn't spike you like that. SignatureMartha T2 Canada 1500mg. Metformin, 4mg. Avandia > A small bowl of Brussels Sprouts has me at 8.3 after one hour? Is > NOTHING safe?? :) How were the sprouts prepared? Any sauce? Signature"[xxx] has very definite opinions, and does not suffer fools lightly. This, apparently, upsets the fools." ---BB cuts to the pith of a flame-fest > > A small bowl of Brussels Sprouts has me at 8.3 after one hour? Is > > NOTHING safe?? :) > > How were the sprouts prepared? Any sauce? No. A little butter, salt and pepper with a dozen or so almonds. I did not have a pre-meal reading because I am always in the mid 5's on waking and have stopped testing. Maybe time to check THAT out tomorrow morning. SignatureAndy H (Type 2 in Greater Vancouver, Canada) >> > A small bowl of Brussels Sprouts has me at 8.3 after one hour? Is >> > NOTHING safe?? :) [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >and have stopped testing. Maybe time to check THAT out tomorrow >morning. Possibly your bg was already pretty low and there wasn't enough carb to what you ate to prevent a liver dump? >A small bowl of Brussels Sprouts has me at 8.3 after one hour? Is > NOTHING safe?? :) What was your BG before you ate? >A small bowl of Brussels Sprouts has me at 8.3 after one hour? Is >NOTHING safe?? :) No way - unless you drowned them in a sauce of some kind! All they are is baby cabbages... pretty yucky ones, IMO, but still! What did you start with? Nicky. T2 dx 05/04 + underactive thyroid D&E, 100ug thyroxine Last A1c 5.6% BMI 25 > A small bowl of Brussels Sprouts has me at 8.3 after one hour? Is > NOTHING safe?? :) One cup of Brussels Sprouts has 14 gms of carbs. I limit myself to two sprouts. I didn't check the GI on them. Take care. SignatureNick. Support severely wounded and disabled Veterans and their families! I've known US vets who served as far back as the Spanish American War. They are all my heroes! Thank a Veteran and Support Our Troops. You are not forgotten. Thanks ! ! ~Semper Fi~ : > A small bowl of Brussels Sprouts has me at 8.3 after one hour? Is : > NOTHING safe?? :) : One cup of Brussels Sprouts has 14 gms of carbs. I limit myself to two : sprouts. I didn't check the GI on them. But that cup contains 4 grams of fiber, so the effective carbs for the whole cup is 10. I find I can eat quite a lot of them with no ill effect. Wendy >: > A small bowl of Brussels Sprouts has me at 8.3 after one hour? Is >: > NOTHING safe?? :) [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] >whole cup is 10. >I find I can eat quite a lot of them with no ill effect. LOL - I could if I wanted to, but the environmental effects would be unfortunate :P Nicky. T2 dx 05/04 + underactive thyroid D&E, 100ug thyroxine Last A1c 5.6% BMI 25 >> A small bowl of Brussels Sprouts has me at 8.3 after one hour? Is >> NOTHING safe?? :) [quoted text clipped - 3 lines] > >Take care. G'day G'day Nick, If you find a source for the GI of brussel sprouts please let us know. The standard Australian sites don't list them. I believe the reason is that the percentage of available carbohydrate is so low eg about 10% for the brussel sprouts that participants would need to eat half a kilo in order to get the standard 50 grams of carbohydrate for the trial. As people's interest in nutrition appears to have increased incredibly here lately perhaps the GI of vegetables will become available. Best wishes, SignatureQuentin Grady ^ ^ / New Zealand, >#,#< [ / \ /\ "... and the blind dog was leading." http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/quentin >A small bowl of Brussels Sprouts has me at 8.3 after one hour? Is >NOTHING safe?? :) G'day G'day Andy, Is NOTHING safe? Well it certainly isn't safe to assume the high reading had anything to do with brussel sprouts. You probably know that from previous experience. Green vegetables have such low percentages of carbohydrates that their glycemic index for most has never been evaluated. I went to http://www.glycemicindex.com/ to check. Click on GI database on the left hand side. Type in brussel and the item isn't to be found. Neither is cabbage for that matter. With 8.7% carbs that would mean 8.7 grams carb in 100 grams of sprouts. http://www.nal.usda.gov/fnic/foodcomp/Data/SR15/wtrank/sr15a205.pdf Its a great site for factual information. To get 50 grams of carbs participants in the trial would eat 575 grams of sprouts. There might not be too many volunteers. So the best we can do is guess at its GI. If we assume green vegetables have a GI of 30 then 100 grams of sprouts would provide 2.6 grams of glucose. That isn't going to raise anyone's blood glucose significantly. If anything it is going to leave you starving. You've eaten something and your body anticipates glucose will be circulating. It does its best to make this come true. One possibility is that your liver has obliged by converting some of its glycogen to glucose. Of course this scenario may be the result of an over active imagination. It could be your finger had some sauce on it and that gave a false reading. Some people make it a habit when they have a reading that "can't possibly be true" to repeat the test paying especial care to clean the sight. It takes only a speck to upset a reading. Best wishes, SignatureQuentin Grady ^ ^ / New Zealand, >#,#< [ / \ /\ "... and the blind dog was leading." http://homepages.paradise.net.nz/quentin |
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