Fructose versus glucose?!

Is this a known thing then, that fructose carbs count differently than glucose carbs, or … something?

There’s something called glycemic index. It rates foods based on how much they affect blood sugar levels. I'm not exactly sure how they determine the glycemic index of a food. Certain fruits are better than others. Berries of all types, kiwis are best fruits. Bananas should be avoided, for example.

You can do a search for gkycemic index. 

Sorry I font have an snswer for your original question, does natural fructose lower yourblood sugar? I’ll see what I can find.

Ok, i did find a longterm large scale study that compared fruit consumption with various medical factors. One finding was that non diabetic persons were less likely to become diabetic, the higher their fresh fruit consumption. So fresh fruit appears to have a preventative effect. Higher fresh fruit consumption also correlated to lower heart related disease. Keep on mind heart disease is often correlated with diabetes.

I also ran across an article stating that fresh fruit often provides vitamin C, which many diabetics are deficient in. This brings up the point that fresh fruit often contains necessary  vitamins and minerals.

Your observation is important. I would encourage you to keep track of which foods work best for you and reach your own conclusion. It wouldn't be the first time medical advise is incorrect.

The current accepted belief is that diabetics should limit fruit intake. My observation looking after my mother following diabetic ketoacidosis was that it was extremely important to limit fruit intake following an acute diabetic attack. However, once she became stable through proper diet and other natural approaches, she’s been able to consume fresh fruits without consequence.  

All that I've seen so far is that honey is sometimes associated with benefits for diabetic diets, and one of the theories of why that might be is its fructose content, because fructose does not register as glucose.

That seems a strange place to stop the story, but I see no more information.

Apparently apples and watermelon are *high* in fructose, and purely by chance those are the ones I've been using more in my diet - which has overall been working well for me.  So maybe it's not entirely chance!

But then I'd want to know more about how *much* fructose it takes before it starts raising your triglycerides.  That's an odd thing, as if eating fruit was a bad thing????  So maybe it takes quite a lot before it goes bad???

And this seems like it could be so significant to so many people, yet after six months trying to learn about diabetes (because I've got it!) this is the first I've heard of it.

Thanks for all your efforts.

Catherine, thanks again.

A relatively modest amount of this presumably fructose-sweet melon seems to take my BG readings down between 75 and 85 - American readings.  EXCELLENT American readings!

But I have a couple of other variables to control for.

I think I'll switch off to watermelon tomorrow morning, based on these new parameters, see how that goes.

I've also emailed the melon company (it's a specialized farm) to see if they have fructose figures.

Is it possibke you’re not drinking enough water and the melon is helping hydrate you?

It seems unlikely that hydration is an issue with my blood glucose.

Cantaloupe is listed as low, watermelon is listed as high, and these special melons, trust me, are VERY high on sugars!  They are also juicier than normal cantaloupe. Seriously tasty stuff!  But I don't eat enough of them even so, that it would have any effect on hydration, now that you mention it.

I know the site doesn't like links, but let's try it, if you're in the US:

I'd guess the equivalent is also available in the UK, but no idea how you'd go about finding it.

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The doctor's name is Biswaroop Roy Chowdary and you will find on YT.

Hi Granny, I look after my mother and was told she’d likely never get off insulin and would need to take diabetes meds her entire life. Basically no hope of recovering quality of life and  expense of constantly testing and  medicating.

I couldn’t believe the expense of diabetes: over $1,000/month for diabetes meds and supplies even after her two insurances paid up! Whatever the increased cost of food, herbs, acupuncture, they’re cheaper than the cost of diabetes meds! Certainly worthwhile when you consider the horrible side effects of the disease and the medications.

I was fortunate because my mother had no way to cheat on her food plan... I kept her on a very strict diet for six months, along with herbs and acupuncture. I was SHOCKED at how easily diabetes was reversed! 

Maybe it isn't possible for everyone, but if you don't try, you’ll never know. What’s a little ‘deprivation’ and inconvenient food preparation compared to the hassle and cost of treating diabetes with meds and monitoring?