Here sits typing one confused UK based diabetic. This is because the diabetic advice I've been given since diagnosis simply hasn't been consistent.
When I was initially diagnosed with diabetes type II I was told that I could eat cakes/deserts as long as they were consumed following a meal. Indeed 'Diabetes UK' website has a paragraph that states 'sweets and chocolate are no more out of bounds to people with diabetes than they are for the rest of us, if eaten as part of a healthy diet'. So this yes, as per this information and the only advice I'd had since my diagnosis I continued to eat sugar, and until this last year my diabetes had been extremely well diet controlled despite this.
Earlier this year (pre-caveman diet) I saw the practice nurse and presented her with my food diary she'd requested, and where I'd diligently noted the teaspoon of sugar I'd taken on my shredded wheat. She was horrified and exclaimed 'you can't eat sugar at all, you're a diabetic'!
Then the next time I attended she'd splashed EATING SUGAR! in caps across my record. I was and am completely miffed about this as this appears as if I was neglecting to follow advice, but the only advice I've ever been given (and also retreived from the website of a British Organisation supporting diabetes) was that that diabetics could eat sugar. The site even goes on to provide plenty of recipes for deserts containing sugar; one of these recipe served 8 and had 8 tablespoons of sugar in it!
Is it any wonder I've been confused? Well, anyway I'm finally engaging with the diabetes which and along with this acceptance have researched and have finally started to better understand my condition. I now wonder why there's any advice that says sugars OK. So although on the caveman diet honey and maple sugar is acceptable it will rarely feature in my diet.
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