SUGAR AND CARBS

Oh, I would say about 15-20 years ago if you were a diabetic the medical community would tell you stay away from sugar. But sometime between then and now the medical community has discovered that carbs are the ingredient in food that are so detrimental to diabetics. Now that the FDA has instructed food companies to put nutrition information on packaging it is really easy to see how the food you are about to eat will affect your glucose numbers. If someone told you before this packaging change that you should eat only 30 grams of carbs for breakfast you would have been scratching your head and saying, HUH!!


There are those people who still don't understand the carb intake thing. For example we had diner last night with my daughter's boyfriend's mother and her significant other and another couple that were their friends. The wife of the other couple made two apple pies, one regular and one with Splenda. I know she meant well but it's not the sugar in the apple pie that makes you glucose numbers go up, it is also the flour in the pie crust. It's now hard at this point to turn down the apple pie that she made especially for me. So I had a very small piece and tried just to eat the apples.

We had a great time at dinner though and my daughter joined us after she got out of work. The boyfriend was stuck in an overnight to Boston for his job.

We tried our best to stay out of the house today because the contractor was sanding the sheet rock. Yuk!!! what a mess. We took a ride to the Backyard Shed place and placed the order for the shed. Had breakfast and lunch out. He finished about 3 pm and I immediately started cleaning. Took the curtains off the dinning room windows and washed and hung them on the line. Mopped the kitchen and dinning room floors for the fifth time this week with vinegar and water. Even though he had not sanded anything until today just the handling of the sheet rock caused dust.