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5 “Health Foods” that May Contain Added Sugar

Ginger Vieira — Mon, 20 May 2013 12:00:04 +0000

With a recent study revealing that younger men are the biggest consumers of added sugars, it’s important to still note that most American adults in general are still consuming about 13% of their calories from added sugar. The recommended total of calories from added sugars and solid fats combined is 5 to 15 percent. The next time you’re observing the ingredients on the nutrition panel of any food, keep an eye out for the many terms for added sugars in this list from Harvard.

Juice: Take a closer look at the juice you buy. Many, many brands that taste and look like any other contain more high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) than actual juice. Even the most highly advertised (and “freshly squeezed) brands of orange juice can be packed with HFCS. My personal favorite source of juice for treating low blood sugars is Juicey Juice, which is 100% juice and contains no added sugars.
Low-fat Salad Dressing: Do you buy low-fat salad dressing to reduce the calories in your salad? You might be better off making your own mix of balsamic vinegar and olive oil because many of today’s low-fat salad dressings simply increase the sugar to make sure the taste is okay without the extra fat. An even better bet would be to get a delicious flavored vinegar (that contains no extra sugar) at one of those trendy vinegar and olive oil shops.
Yogurt: Yogurt is often mistaken for a health food when it’s often packed with sugar. Any of the fruit-flavored yogurts will come with a jelly-like substance that may as well be candy. You’d be better off with a plain yogurt and your own added fruit (like fresh blueberries or strawberries) than any fruit-flavored yogurt.
Tomato Sauce: Next time you in the pasta section of the grocery store, take a moment to look at the sugar content of several tomato sauces. Prego, for example, has 10 grams of added sugar in a 1/2 cup. Paul Newman’s is a little better with only 8 grams. Take a look at what you’ve been choosing!
Instant Oatmeal: Instant oatmeal is truly an insult to the oatmeal family. Heavily processed, often coated in flour, and full of added sugar! You’d be much better off getting the whole rolled oats and adding fresh fruit for extra sweetness. You can actually microwave whole rolled oats just as easily as instant oatmeal…and they actually taste like oatmeal instead of the overly processed instant imitation.

There are absolutely other foods that have sneaky extra sugar in them (ketchup, barbeque sauce, and even granola) but the 5 listed above are often thought of as “healthy choices” when they are really packed with added sugars. Take a closer look at the ingredients lists in your pantry and refrigerator!

Emotional Eating with Diabetes and Your Diabetes Science Experiment, Ginger Vieira has lived with Type 1 diabetes and Celiac disease since 1999. In addition to freelance writing, Ginger is a Wellness & Diabetes Coach and video blogger. She's known in the greater online community for her work as a motivational speaker, setting 15 records in drug-tested powerlifting in 2009/2010, and serving as a diabetes advocate through Living in Progress.

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Diabetes Blog Week: Favorites from the Week

Ginger Vieira — Sun, 19 May 2013 12:00:25 +0000

Today, the third day of the 4th Annual Diabetes Blog Week, the topic is about choosing your favorite entries from everyone’s blogs this week! Here’s yesterday’s post on expressing diabetes with a little artistic creativity. Below is my entry for today’s topic!

My Favorite D-Blogs of the Week:

SixUntilMe: Kerri shares her tears, requests, and gratitude at the doctor’s office in this touching, honest, and powerful post.
The Girl with the Portable Pancreas: Stacey shares a memory of the day her father passed due to complications of diabetes, the same disease she too faces today with a long and healthy road in front of her.
A Sweet Life: Michael recalls the day he accidentally took 12 units of the wrong insulin…and the long process that followed in order to keep his mistake from causing a hypoglycemic emergency.
Sweetly Voiced: Melissa Lee writes a poem about the immense number of hours she’s lived with diabetes…to the tune of “Seasons of Love” from Rent.
Cranky Pancreas: Beatriz talks about her personal evolution, and greatest recent accomplishment, in accepting herself for exactly who she is today.
The Blue Heel Society: Jen shares a poignant truth that trading diabetes for another disease, like hemophilia, only brings other challenges that come with that other disease. None of them are easy!

What were some of YOUR favorite posts from Diabetes Blog Week?

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Diabetes Blog Week: My Fingers Hurt

Ginger Vieira — Sat, 18 May 2013 12:00:05 +0000

Today, the third day of the 4th Annual Diabetes Blog Week, the topic is about your expressing your life with diabetes in the form of art, music, or even poetry. Here’s yesterday’s post on what disease I would swap diabetes for. Below is my entry for today’s topic! Check out more diabetes art entries here.

These photographs are simply an expression of something I feel almost every day: pain in my fingertips. I know there are many people who say finger-pricks don’t hurt, but honestly, mine hurt all the time. Maybe I have sensitive fingertips–I don’t know–but after only 14 years so far of life with type 1 diabetes, and an average of 6 finger-pricks a day, I wonder how the tips of my fingers will feel in another 14 years. Today, my fingers hurt almost every time I prick my finger, at merely a level 2.5 on my lancet device. Any less on the lancet device and it’s not enough to break through the subtle callous on each fingertip. Regardless, I will continue to prick my fingers and check my blood sugars every day, but I’m just sayin’, sometimes it really hurts.

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Diabetes Blog Week: Swapping Diabetes for Hemophilia?

Ginger Vieira — Fri, 17 May 2013 12:00:48 +0000

Today, the third day of the 4th Annual Diabetes Blog Week, the topic is about what disease you would be willing to swap diabetes for and how diabetes has impacted your perspective on other diseases. Here’s yesterday’s post on my most significant accomplishments, big or small. Below is my entry for today’s topic! Read others’ entries here.

Swapping Diabetes for Hemophilia?

Growing up, I went to a support group at the hospital for teens with chronic illnesses. Probably 60 percent of the group lived with type 1 diabetes, but other teens had Crohn’s disease, leukemia, HIV, brain tumors, spina bifida, cystic fibrosis, and hemophilia. Once a year, we all went around the room to say who’d we’d like to switch diseases with and funnily enough, most people said, “Oh, your disease looks really challenging. I’d rather keep mine.” Simply because we are most comfortable with what we are most familiar with.

One of my closest friends in the group lived with hemophilia–a rare condition that means your blood doesn’t clot well after a cut or even a bruise. Several times a week, one of his parents would help him draw his own blood from a vein in his arm, add “clotting factor VIII” to the blood, then put the blood back into his arm. The entire process makes insulin pump infusion sites sound like a good time in comparison.

I remember the week when he announced that he had performed his own blood transfusion entirely on his own. He was getting ready for college, really, and being away from his parents. He’d lived with hemophilia his whole life, watched closely by his mother, always kept out of any of the more aggressive games in gym class, and he certainly wasn’t ever allowed to play team sports like soccer, hockey, basketball or football. However, he was and continues to be awesome at golf.

While his disease doesn’t require an hourly management like type 1 diabetes, it was a constant presence. Constantly whispering in his ear, “You can’t get bumped or bruised. You can’t rough-house with your friends. You can’t wrestle or spar or ever take up kick-boxing. You can’t fall. You have to be very careful. All the time.”

I guess what I’m really saying is that I wouldn’t switch with him for hemophilia for a day, because to me, as a diabetic, it looks daunting to do your own blood transfusions every few days. It looks stressful having to always beware of even the tiniest bumps and bruises. I know life with type 1 diabetes well. It’s a lot of work, but I know it. The idea of switching for something different…well, honestly, just feels daunting. Even if that disease might appear to be simpler in some ways compared to type 1 diabetes.

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Using Marijuana Linked to Better Blood Sugars

David Edelman — Thu, 16 May 2013 14:56:43 +0000

Marijuana may help insulin resistance and fasting blood sugars, says a report published today in The American Journal of Medicine. This may reduce the risk for or delay the onset of type 2 diabetes.

The researchers looked at data collected between 2005 and 2010 from 4657 people. 579 were current users of cannabis, 1975 were former users, and 2103 had never used it. They found that current marijuana users had 17% lower insulin resistance and 16% lower fasting insulin levels. In addition, they found a strong connection between marijuana use and a smaller waist circumference, a well-known predictor of diabetes.

The study did not look specifically at the impact of marijuana on blood sugar control of those already diagnosed with diabetes.

This finding is likely to reverberate through the medical marijuana debate. An accompanying editorial by Dr. Joseph Alpert, Editor-in-Chief of The American Journal of Medicine, calls for dramatically expanding marijuana research:

Much of what we know about cannabis comes from folktales and limited clinical observation. It was in this context that I was pleased to receive the submission published in this edition of The American Journal of Medicine, entitled “The Impact of Marijuana Use on Glucose, Insulin, and Insulin Resistance Among US Adults.” This epidemiologic, observational study demonstrated that among diabetic patients who admitted to using marijuana, insulin resistance was decreased and diabetic control was improved…. These patients had fasting insulin and glucose levels measured along with a test for insulin resistance. Remarkably, fasting insulin levels were reduced in current cannabis users but not in former or never users. Two additional observations were that waist circumference was smaller and high-density lipoprotein cholesterol blood levels were higher in current cannabis users. These are indeed remarkable observations that are supported, as the authors note, by basic science experiments that came to similar conclusions.

Is it possible that THC will be commonly prescribed in the future for patients with diabetes or metabolic syndrome alongside antidiabetic oral agents or insulin for improved management of this chronic illness? Only time will answer this question for us. Nevertheless, what is very clear is that we desperately need a great deal more basic and clinical research into the short- and long-term effects of this agent in a variety of clinical settings, such as cancer, diabetes, and frailty of the elderly. I would like to call on the National Institutes of Health and the Drug Enforcement Administration to collaborate in developing policies to implement solid scientific investigations that would lead to information assisting physicians in the proper use and prescription of THC in its synthetic or herbal form.

We concur. So much information about marijuana is based on folklore. It is embraced as a cure-all by those who like marijuana and as toxic drag on society by anti-drug warriors. (Never mind that if we identified the components of marijuana that provided the benefits we might end up with a viable treatment that doesn’t come with a “high”.)

As the global cost of diabetes heads towards the trillions, we cannot afford to leave any treatments that show promise unexplored.

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Diabetes Blog Week: Accomplishments Big and Small

Ginger Vieira — Thu, 16 May 2013 11:38:54 +0000

Today, the third day of the 4th Annual Diabetes Blog Week, the topic is about your accomplishments, both big and small, in life with this chronic illness. Here’s yesterday’s post on significant memories in life with diabetes. Below is my entry for today’s topic! Read other posts on this topic here.

Accomplishments Big & Small

When I first became interested in training specifically for powerlifting competitions, I had been training in weightlifting with my trainer, Andrew Berry, for about a year. My bench-press strength in particular had increased so quickly (from barely being able to press 85 pounds to doing reps with 135 pounds) that someone saw me bench-pressing one day and said, “You should definitely talk to my boyfriend about competing in powerlifting.”

Honestly, the thought had never occurred to me! Me? Compete in powerlifting? I’d never been a majorly successful athlete in anything before, but I knew I loved weightlifting, so I decided to look into it. After a month of learning different training techniques and the significant differences between “weightlifting for exercise” versus “training for a powerlifting meet” with Andrew, we were on a roll.

I met with my new endocrinologist that same month, and after discovering several high blood sugars in my meter memory (because I was still really learning how to balance my blood sugar around the intense training!), he was very rude and short with me. I said, “I’m really working on things and I’m actually considering competing in powerlifting this spring!”

Instead of meeting me with equal enthusiasm and appreciating my sincere efforts towards becoming healthier and stronger, he rolled his eyes at me and never acknowledged my new athletic pursuits. Thankfully, Andrew never once saw my diabetes as something that would keep me from goals, but instead he approached it practically, saying, “Balancing your blood sugars as well as you can will make you a stronger lifter.”

Six months after that doctor’s appointment, I set 7 records at my first competition with a 175 pound bench press, a 265 pound squat, and a 300 pound deadlift. That first competition was followed by many more wins, but that first competition was an important reminder to me that I cannot and will not let anyone else’s doubt or negativity impact my own perception of what I can or cannot achieve.

Today, I can only imagine how many incredible experiences I would have missed out on if I had let his negativity and rudeness effect me. Instead, it motivated me further. I never went back to that doctor and I dedicated the next several years of my life to learning how to manage my diabetes successfully while competing in powerlifting. I learned so much physiology around diabetes management and exercise through my self-study efforts that it enabled me to write a book to help others with their athletic pursuits.

I can only hope that doctor’s negativity didn’t squash someone else’s motivation and goals.

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Diabetes Blog Week: Most Significant Memories

Ginger Vieira — Wed, 15 May 2013 11:47:25 +0000

The third day the 4th Annual Diabetes Blog Week‘s topic is about your most significant memories from your life with diabetes so far. Here’s yesterday’s post on writing a petition. Below is my entry for today’s topic! Read other entries on today’s topic here!

“Oh, I Thought Your Life Was Perfect.”

I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when I was 13 years old, in the 7th grade, and diagnosed with celiac disease the year after. Despite that most of my classmates knew about the diagnosis, there were several who did not, including a girl I’d grown up with who lived with muscular dystrophy.

Having watched her grow up, it’s clear that life with muscular dystrophy isn’t easy, especially as a kid. Over the years, her ability to walk decreased. Her arms seemed to become less and less useful, and by the time we graduated from high school, she was in a wheelchair and needed a prop to help support the muscles of her neck as they worked to hold up her head. In other words, this young woman’s life was never easy, and the grace and kindness she always carried with her was impressive considering the daily stress and challenges she faced.

In the 8th grade, we had a math class together. And for the first time, she saw me checking my blood sugar in front of her. (I really never hid my diabetes from anyone, anywhere, so I’m surprised she was just seeing my diabetes in real life at this point.)

She asked, “What is that? What are you doing?”
“It’s how I test my blood sugar,” I explained, assuming she knew of my diabetes.
But the confused look on her face said otherwise.
“I have type 1 diabetes,” I added, realizing she didn’t know. Her eyes widened.
“Oh,” she said. “I thought your life was perfect.”

I’ve never forgotten that sentence, because it’s such a clear reminder that you can never tell what kinds of challenges a person faces by simply looking at them. While her challenges were physically obvious to just about everyone, mine were hidden, and only revealed by the visible use of a syringe or lancet device. Today, you’d never look at me and think, “Oh, that girl has type 1 diabetes and celiac disease.”

On the outside, I look quite healthy. I’ve competed in powerlifting. Taught Ashtanga-yoga. Worked as a personal trainer. I’m a healthy weight, and I have a rosy glow in my face (honestly, I think I have undiagnosed rosacea). You’d look at me and assume I was a healthy 27 year old.

And sure, for a person with type 1 diabetes and celiac disease, I am healthy. I might even be healthier than many people who don’t have any diagnosed chronic illnesses simply because I make my health, my diet, my bodyweight and my activity level a major priority, but the point is that you can’t tell by looking at me that I face a daily challenge in my health. Albeit, I don’t think what I face daily is nearly as challenging as what she faces, but that doesn’t really matter.

What’s important, I think, is to remember that you may be surrounded by people whom you’ve assumed have few problems or challenges in their lives, but you never know what kind of challenges they too might be facing every day. Hey, they might even live with diabetes.

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Diabetes Blog Week: Petition to CEOs of Kraft, McD, General Mills & More

Ginger Vieira — Tue, 14 May 2013 12:00:49 +0000

Today, the second day of the 4th Annual Diabetes Blog Week, the topic is about writing a petition to whomever about whatever and the change you would like to see in that area. Here’s yesterday’s post on talking to your healthcare team. Below is my entry for today’s topic! (Read others’ entries here!)

A Petition to the CEOs of Fake-Food Manufacturers:

McDonalds, Kraft, Taco Bell, Burger King, General Mills–I could go on and on–I’m not sure how you all sleep at night, and I often wonder what you feed your own families since you’re fully aware of how poisonously processed, full-of-chemicals, and unsafe the food you manufacture actually is. I can’t imagine you let your children eat that “food.”

I bet–or at least I hope–that you don’t actually feel the “food” you manufacture to your families, because you know how poor quality your own food is, and how well-designed it is to be addicting and fattening. You’d never put that on the dinner table at your home, right? Because you care about the well-being of your own family.

(I highly doubt you would ever feed your family a burger that is such poor quality, so cheap, so far from actual real food that it barely costs $1.00).

As a citizen of this country, and a human being, I petition you to face the reality of what you’ve done to this country and people across the globe with your fake food. I ask that you acknowledge to that world that you’ve purposefully designed your food to be as cheap as possible, as low-quality as possible, and as addictive as possible. I ask that you acknowledge how much you truly don’t care that your food has lead to an immense amount of sickness and financial debt.

I petition you to feed the world as well as you would feed your own family (and please, please tell me you don’t actually feed your family Kraft Mac N Cheese, Poptarts, chicken from birds that are bred to be born with extra wings, neurotoxic chemicals like aspartame that you’ve paid off “health officials” and federations to assure the population are safe for consumption despite all the research you’re so good at hiding, and I can only hope you don’t actually feed your own family fruits and vegetables that are coated in pesticides, wax and much more to ensure that it appears to look like a good quality piece of fruit.

Oh, CEOs, I petition that you turn yourselves in. Put your wrists up and let us cuff you. Empty your wallets, your pockets, your bank accounts, and pay for the debt every country is in because of the poor health they are in largely due to the abundance of crappy junk you’ve been selling disguised as “food.”

Sincerely,

Ginger

(a consumer of mostly real food, not your products)

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Diabetes Blog Week: A Letter to My HealthCare Team

Ginger Vieira — Fri, 10 May 2013 12:00:37 +0000

Today, the first day of the 4th Annual Diabetes Blog Week, the topic is about what you would like to share (and what you don’t share) with your healthcare team. Read other entries on this topic here.

Dear Doc,

Diabetes is about so much more than my blood sugar levels. This disease is both a science and an art that you will never fully understand until you live a few days with a malfunctioning immune-system and insulin-lacking pancreas yourself. You. Will. Never. Understand. Diabetes. Like. I. Understand. Diabetes.

I don’t want you to think I’m not grateful for everything you do, everything you studied, and the energy you put into your job every day, but you need to remember that I know more about my diabetes than you ever will. I need you to respect that by asking me questions about how life with diabetes has been going for the past 6 months rather than gasping at any imperfect numbers you can find on my meter.

I wish you’d ask questions like:

“What’s been the trickiest part of your diabetes management lately?”
“What part of the day have you noticed the most highs or lows?”
“How’s the stress level in your life right now, and is it impacting your blood sugar?”
“How can I best help and support you in your life with diabetes?”

It’s not your fault, really, you can’t help that you don’t have this disease, but I really, really wish you’d remember this when you sit down and gasp at the couple high blood sugars in my meter and gasp at the occasional low. I wish you’d remember that the slightest interference with my “perfect diabetes plan” can throw everything off.

Hey Doc, did you know the having just lost 3 or 4 pounds recently caused me to have severe lows every morning until I dropped my Lantus dose by just 1 unit? Did you know that under-bolusing for a decent-sized apple that actually contains 25 grams of carbohydrates instead of 15, like the dietician says, can easily cause me to have a 250 mg/dL blood sugar?

Those teeny-tiny details can turn my world upside-down if I let them. They can throw it all off course. If I reacted to them like you do, with a jaw-dropping gasp and look of “My Goodness! How’d you let that happen!” then diabetes would easily defeat me.

Fortunately, when I see a 250 mg/dL just because of a goddamn enormous apple, I shake my head and make a mental note that the recent batch of apples I bought (all in similar size) really need 3 units of insulin instead of just 2. And then I carry on with my life doing the best I can do.

Sincerely,

Your patient, Ginger

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Get Ready for Diabetes Blog Week!

Ginger Vieira — Fri, 10 May 2013 12:00:32 +0000

If you’ve never heard of Diabetes Blog Week, you’re in for a treat because the 4th Annual Diabetes Blog Week starts this coming Monday, May 13th thru May 19th. Created by the prolific Karen Graffeo from Bitter-Sweet Diabetes, this week-long event proposes a new blog topic around life with the Big D every day. You can then submit a link to your blog on that day’s topic here.

Graffeo has lived with type 1 diabetes since she was 11 years old (1979). Today, she’s a passionate advocate and JDRF volunteer, knitter, and carries a positive perspective with the tagline: “Life with diabetes isn’t all bad.”

How to Participate:

Sign-up to participate here!
View the list of participants here!
Check out the topics for each day of Blog Week here!

The topics in a nutshell (visit the topics page for full explanation):

Monday: What would you like to share with your healthcare team and what would prefer to never share with them about your life with diabetes? Write a blog-letter as though they will read it….
Tuesday: If you were going to write a petition to change something about life with diabetes, what would aim to change and who would your petition be addressed to?
Wednesday: What is one of your strongest memories so far in your life with diabetes?
Thursday: Share one of your greatest accomplishments in your life with diabetes–big or small!
Friday: If you could swap diabetes for a different chronic illness, why and what would you choose?
Saturday: Whether it’s art, a poem, a song–you name it–get creative in expressing your life with diabetes!
Sunday: Blogs you love–pick 3 D-blogs from the week from others that you loved the most!

WildCard Choices

If one of the topics above just doesn’t get your brain grooving, Karen has 2 other WildCard choices for you:

Your dream of the greatest diabetic device
What do you think would make the best Diabetes Alert animal besides the usual: a dog.

After you’ve published your blog for that day’s topic, go to Bitter-Sweet Diabetes and be sure to share the link so others can find your blog!

Talking with Karen Graffeo:

Ginger: What really prompted the creation of Diabetes Blog Week?

Karen: In 2010, when I used to also regularly post to my knitting blog, I participated in a similar event called “Knit and Crochet Blog Week”. Hopping around to each blog and reading the individual views on the same topic each day for a week really united the fiber arts blog community and I wanted to try to promote the same feeling for the diabetes blog community. So I got to working writing some topics and hoped people would sign up – and the response exceeded my wildest dreams!

Ginger: You’ve seen this events popularity and participation level grow tremendously over the past 4 years, what are some of the most memorable posts or moments for you so far?

Karen: Well, I love when people tell me that Diabetes Blog Week was the push they needed to start blogging. And it might sound corny, but I get excited for each and every person who signs up to participate and each and every post I see throughout the week. Without our community’s excitement and participation, Diabetes Blog Week wouldn’t exist. Also, I really look forward to finding new blogs each year that I hadn’t come across yet.

Ginger: And of course, behind the scenes, what’s the trickiest part of pulling this off every year?

Karen: The hardest part is definitely coming up with the topics. They need to be broad enough that anyone can answer them – whether they have T1, T2, LADA, gestational, T3 (a caregiver / loved one of a person with diabetes) or any other connection to diabetes, and they need to be really worthwhile if I’m going to ask people to blog for a week using those prompts. This year I put a call out to the community for topic suggestions which has worked out fantastically because I’ve gotten a lot of great suggestions (more than I can use this year) and I’m thrilled to include more involvement from the DOC by suggesting topics for the week.

Ginger: Thank you, Karen! Looking forward to seeing everyone’s submissions!

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