EDU: Companion Diseases - Diabetes: What to Eat

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Dear friends,

 

Below is a basic chart of foods and their glycemic index. (How much a food

affects your blood sugar)  The food is listed and the number tells you where it

ranks. GI levels are as follows -: below 55 is low, 56 -69 is medium, over 70 is

high. This information is helpful when trying to loose weight or attempting to

manage your diabetes. I like food so knowing what I can eat is important to me.

LOL Enjoy! Smiles, Caroline the First, Empress of CUS

 

http://www.southbeach-diet-plan.com/lowglycemicfoodlist.htm  This is a great

chart and site. You can link to only low GI foods, Medium foods or see the whole

list at once. It will help you know what you can eat.

 

http://www.diabetesnet.com/diabetes_food_diet/glycemic_index.php

 

For additional information on the glycemic index, Carb Counting and blood sugar

control, we also recommend The Glucose Revolution Lifeplan, Using Insulin,

Pumping Insulin or the Pocket Pancreas. You may also want to read about the

Satiety Index, How Carbs Vary, or check out Diet Books

Glycemic Index

Cereals

Snacks

Pasta

Beans

All Bran

51

chocolate bar

49

cheese tortellini

50

baked

44

Bran Buds + psyll

45

corn chips

72

fettucini

32

black beans, boiled

30

Bran Flakes

74

croissant

67

linguini

50

butter, boiled

33

Cheerios

74

doughnut

76

macaroni

46

cannellini beans

31

Corn Chex

83

graham crakers

74

spagh, 5 min boiled

33

garbanzo, boiled

34

Cornflakes

83

jelly beans

80

spagh, 15 min boiled

44

kidney, boiled

29

Cream of Wheat

66

Life Savers

70

spagh, prot enrich

28

kidney, canned

52

Frosted Flakes

55

oatmeal cookie

57

vermicelli

35

lentils, green, brown

30

Grapenuts

67

pizza, cheese & tom

60

Soups/Vegetables

lima, boiled

32

Life

66

Pizza Hut, supreme

33

beets, canned

64

navy beans

38

muesli, natural

54

popcorn, light micro

55

black bean soup

64

pinto, boiled

39

Nutri-grain

66

potato chips

56

carrots, fresh, boil

49

red lentils, boiled

27

oatmeal, old fash

48

pound cake

54

corn, sweet

56

soy, boiled

16

Puffed Wheat

67

Power bars

58

french fries

75

Breads

Raisin Bran

73

pretzels

83

grean pea, soup

66

bagel, plain

72

Rice Chex

89

saltine crakers

74

green pea, frozen

47

baquette, Frnch

95

Shredded Wheat

67

shortbread cookies

64

lima beans, frozen

32

croissant

67

Special K

54

Snickers bar

41

parsnips

97

dark rey

76

Total

76

strawberry jam

51

peas, fresh, boil

48

hamburger bun

61

Fruit

vanilla wafers

77

pot, new, boiled

59

muffins

 

apple

38

Wheat Thins

67

pot, red, baked

93

apple, cin

44

apricots

57

Crackers

pot, sweet

52

blueberry

59

banana

56

graham

74

pot, white, boiled

63

oat & raisin

54

cantalope

65

rice cakes

80

pot, white, mashed

70

pita

57

cherries

22

rye

68

split pea soup w/ham

66

pizza, cheese

60

dates

103

soda

72

tomato soup

38

pumpernickel

49

grapefruit

25

Wheat Thins

67

yam

54

sourdough

54

grapes

46

Cereal Grains

Milk Products

rye

64

kiwi

52

barley

25

chocolate milk

35

white

70

mango

55

basmati white rice

58

custard

43

wheat

68

orange

43

bulgar

48

ice cream, van

60

Drinks

papaya

58

couscous

65

ice milk, van

50

apple juice

40

peach

42

cornmeal

68

skim milk

32

colas

65

pear

58

millet

71

soy milk

31

Gatorade

78

pineapple

66

Sugars

tofu frozen dessert

115

grapefruit juice

48

plums

39

fructose

22

whole milk

30

orange juice

46

prunes

15

honey

62

yogurt, fruit

36

pineapple juice

46

raisins

64

maltose

105

yogurt, plain

14

 

 

watermelon

72

table sugar

64

 

 

 

 

*Actually, the GI indirectly measures a food's effect on blood sugar. It

actually measured the " area under the blood sugar curve " following a set intake

of that carb.

To learn carb counting, these books really help: Pumping Insulin, Using Insulin,

the Carb and Fat Gram Guide and the Good Carb Cookbook. A Gram Scale for your

kitchen makes it easy to accurately measure carbs in cereal, fruit, pancakes,

rice, pasta, and more.

 

 

www.glycemicindex.com This is a community type site where you join the group and

get the latest information regularly. They have recipes and lots of great links.

There is a spot where you can type in a food and get it's GI values. A graph

tells you what GI level is high, low and medium plus lots of great tips.

(Beautiful Southern Oregon, USA)

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May you have enough happiness to make you kind, enough trials to make you

strong, enough sorrow to keep you human, enough hope to make you happy.