Green Tea

[Berniecuddles2]

Just bought some green tea bags supposedly helps blood sugars as I'm diabetic .
What if any can I sweeten it up with but not sugar I have just had my 1st cup and it's quite bitter I may try one sweetener next time any thoughts

[Jackdaw33]

Leaf tea in a teapot requires a much longer brewing time.

[Sqad]

Bernie...you drink tea cus you like the taste......green tea or whatever.
The health benefits are at best minimal and at worst absent.
if you need to sweeten your tea, use sugar...........and combine it as a part of your diabetic programme.

[pastafreak]

Even though I'm not a diabetic, I'm at a loss to understand just how health professionals can justify telling diabetics its ok to eat sugar. Particularly when research seems to be saying otherwise...and that diet can reverse the condition. Far better than a cocktail of drugs.
Sqad...I respectfully suggest you look at the work of Dr Jason Fung...he's at the forefront of diabetes research...

https://www.dietdoctor.com/the-perfect-treatment-for-diabetes-and-weight-loss

This is his blog......

https://intensivedietarymanagement.com/reverse-type-2-diabetes-the-quick-start-guide/

There's also Dr Bernstein...a type 1 who has written extensively on diet for diabetes. He's your generation...so maybe he'll be more credible in your eyes. ;-)

[Old_Geezer]

Surely the idea is not to avoid all sugar but ensure the correct balance.
I recall I was working alongside someone so,me years ago and he started to drop into a trace, and the fix was a choc bar from the vending machine because his sugar level was too low. So, ensure you get the right amount, not too much, not too little.

[Sqad]

pasta.....Dr Yung, Dr Fung.....yad dy ya.......yes yes, Type 2 diabetes can be reverdes by diet alone but all research shows that it may well take exercise plus a 1,000 cal diet to achieve this. That is a sincerely low calorie count and many people who are overweight and perhaps have other conditions, hypertension, arthritis, heart disease, may be in some pain, that the only pleasure that they get throughout the day is a meal...eating....a glass of wine.
Are you going to ask them to give up that pleasure in order to get down below 1,000 cals/day in order to achieve that goal. To the majority of people, that is unachievable......they don't want to do it...they would rather live a few months/ years less, to partake in the one ans only pleasure they have......eating and drinking.
Diets don't work.
Do you really think that adding half a teaspoonful of sugar to his Earl Grey tea, within hsi blood sugar levels and his calorie count is going to make the slightest difference to his prognosis.
It ain't.

[Jackdaw33]

Type 2 diabetes is a strange thing. Back in 2008 I was diagnosed with this. No medication and no diet control, though I was given plenty of advice on the latter, all ignored. For 8 years I would go for my bi-annular check ups. After the last one I received a call from the practice nurse to tell me that I was not diabetic after all. She had taken the trouble to review all my results over the 8 years which were perfectly normal. Apparently the original diagnosis was made on the basis of a fasting blood test when in fact it was a non-fasting one, where the limit is much higher. I have wasted NHS resources over this period unnecessarily, but I am not to blame.

[pastafreak]

Sqad...your first few mocking words ((and in reference to another doctor! )are not what I'd expect from a man of your professional status.
Yes, I know about the super low calorie method that is meant to reverse diabetes. That is not lifelong...if I'm not mistaken the initial trial was for 8 weeks, and further similar diets are also of short duration.
What I'm referring to is a lifestyle change that requires a reduction in carbohydrate intake, with moderate protein and higher healthy fats. All good food...and even allowing wine or spirits. There's a misconception that low carb is a lifetime of deprivation...far from it. I'd rather eat butter than take drugs. It would also save the nhs a bundle. But, that's just my opinion...I'm not a medic.

[Sqad]

pasta

"What I'm referring to is a lifestyle change that requires a reduction in carbohydrate intake, with moderate protein and higher healthy fats. All good food."
Yes, and i would agree with that, but this thread is all about Bernie wanting to sweeten his tea, I suggested sugar and you took me to task. His sugar content could well be inside his recommended carbohydrate intake.
As for my "mocking " another doctor, in a lifetime of medical practice and proof reading of papers by "doctors" one becomes rather fed up and blase of the wide swing of medical papers.

[Caran]

I've drunk green tea for years, usually buy ones with lemon or jasmine but plain I find okay.

[Berniecuddles2]

Quick update green tea in dustbin ..yuk yuk yuk not for me !