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I'm not sure why, but I can't handle peanut butter on toast, at least not on an empty stomach. Too much starch?.
Correct. I can't do that, either. The ratio of protein to carbs (peanut butter, not to mention the toast, is very carby) is too far off. All those carbs are causing your blood sugar to spike and then crash, and there's not enough protein in the combination to stabilize the blood sugar. Some people are more sensitive to that. Apparently others can handle that level of imbalance ok.
OP, I don't think diabetics should have high-carb foods like peanut butter. And the bread also causes your blood sugar to spike. If you want to cut down on the insulin you use, go low-carb. If you want to get off insulin altogether, read "Dr. Bernstein's Diabetes Solution". The doc himself has Type 1 diabetes, but has worked with many Type 2's in his career. He's worked out a radically low-carb diet that allows him to avoid insulin altogether.
No matter whether you are Type 1, insulin dependent, or a mild case of type 2, that can be controlled by diet, or anything in between, you need some carbohydrates in your diet, you need fat in your diet. The task is to balance your diet to get proper nutrition.
Several factors come into play.
1. How much added sugar is in the PB?
2. What else are you eating with the PB?
3. What level of physical activity are you doing?
4. What level of Blood sugar control are you maintaining?
Whatever the answers, you should probably avoid Reese's PB Cups.
But an ounce or two of Peanut Butter now and again will probably not kill you.
If you want to get off insulin altogether, read "Dr. Bernstein's Diabetes Solution". The doc himself has Type 1 diabetes, but has worked with many Type 2's in his career. He's worked out a radically low-carb diet that allows him to avoid insulin altogether.
This is incorrect. He uses less insulin but he is not off insulin. No type-1's can be off insulin. If they were they would die. Without some type of insulin, whether produced by the body or injected, the body would never recover from the sugar spike.
I'm not sure why, but I can't handle peanut butter on toast, at least not on an empty stomach. Too much starch? My body doesn't like wheat? I'm not sure. Every once in a while I buy a jar of unsweetened almond or cashew butter. I eat it from a spoon or put a wad on a small piece of a multi-grain cracker.
Try some macadamia nut butter......that stuff is delicious, high in fat and very little carbs.
Scroll to page 10.
See what it says about peanuts?
Now go to page 14. Look under nuts. Peanuts are HIGH CARBOHYDRATE CONTENT nuts.
Did I answer your question? Btw, you should have that book pinned in your kitchen somewhere. Invaluable.
Peanuts are 52 PER CENT PROTEIN and the OP is not going to eat a whole jar. What harm is one tablespoon of it going to do. Nothing appreciable.
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