Monday, February 23, 2009

Are Skittles allowed?

Recently diagnosed Type 2 asked if it was okay to continue to eat Skittles. Here is how I answered this question in another forum.

I can see you have a strong fondness for Skittles since you are using it as your nickname.

But the bad news is that a sugar by any other name is still sugar. And that is how our body sees all candy. Including Skittles.

Once you start testing your blood sugar levels, you will be able to see what one Skittle can do to your glucose reading. It causes the blood sugar to spike up very fast and it maximizes the magnitude of the increase as well. So that is double jeopardy.

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