Comments on: Milk bad for diabetes?

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:24:22 +0000

Our bodies deal differently on the food we eat, we are all different and declaring that one-food-type is good or not good over another-food-type can be misleading. I am type 2 and discovered that almost all starchy foods are my enemy, the drive my blood sugars cracy. White or brown/dark bread; white, brown, black rice; potatoes, beans, etc raise my blood sugar a lot.

Milk does the same. Vegetables, fish, poultry on the other hand, do not.

You could be right in saying, “To tell you the truth, all foods contain sugars except for oils,egg whites,poultry and meats etc and also air and water.” And that is precisely why we need to avoid certain foods over others. Some foods have a higher Glycemic Index (GI) than others, for example, brown rise has a GI of 104 and a banana a GI of 79, while fish has a GI of 28 and eggs a GI of 42. Most green leafy vegatables such as spinach and cabbage have low GI and low carbohydrate levels. Therefore, by omitting foods that are very high in carbohydrates does not automatically translate into ejecting “a complete food group in your diet”. The vegetables that are very low in carbohydrates are metabolised into the sugars that a diabetic body can cope with and thus avoid the danger of high blood sugar peaks over elongated periods of time (read real dangers to some internal organs).

Thanks,
Mark

By: sreelakshmi dietician

sreelakshmi dietician — Sun, 19 Feb 2012 05:23:54 +0000

i suggest my patients to have one and half glasses of milk daily including tea. is it applicable for the patients with diabetes

By: Don

Don — Mon, 17 Oct 2011 13:02:13 +0000

I don’t doubt Alex is right. As I said above, after I quit drinking milk my blood sugar levels dropped by a third. An update is that I have also lost about 18 pounds.

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 12 Oct 2011 23:40:03 +0000

Hi. You are way out of line by just blindly telling everybody that they should drink milk. I’ve heard these claims, that the sugar in milk is converted to glucose slowly, and recently I’ve decided to test it out for myself. I bought a blood glucose meter called accu-check compact plus. On several different occasions I have tested my blood sugar on an empty stomach then tested my blood sugar after drinking 16 ounces of milk. I have consistently gotten approximately 80 before and approximately 150 about 20 minutes after drinking the milk. The lactose in milk is fully capable of making blood sugar rise rapidly. I have gotten the same results with whole raw milk, or whole pasteurized/homogenized milk.

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By: Amanda

Amanda — Wed, 28 Sep 2011 04:47:35 +0000

my husband just found out he is type 2 diabetic… I am concerned about his milk intake he LOVES to drink milk a gallon lasts maybe 2 days. He has always drank milk this way. Should he cut milk completely out or how many cups a day can he have. Also which milk is better for him to drink?