I've been diagnosed with diabetes now for about 10 years. Up to now I've had trouble keeping this disease under control. I'm happy to say now that since I've read Dr. Joel Fuhrman's book "Eat to Live" and T. Colin Campbell's book "The China Study" I've had much success in keeping my blood sugars under control. I've cut down my Gliclazide in half which is still giving me lows so I will be off those pretty soon.
What shocked me the most about this way of eating is the amount of fruit I can eat and how my sugars can bounce down to normal after a couple of hours. I used to be afraid to even look at an orange let alone eat one. Now I'm eating oranges, bananas, raspberries, grapes, and strawberries in one meal with very little effect on my blood sugars.
I've recently come across a web site which advocates going on a juice fast for 10 days at a time. Now being diabetic I know that drinking fruit juice extracted with a juicer is not very diabetes friendly.
What I want to know is if anyone who has a Vitamix machine has made fruit juices or smoothies has had any troubles with their sugars spiking even though the pulp is not lost using a Vitamix instead of a juicer.
What shocked me the most about this way of eating is the amount of fruit I can eat and how my sugars can bounce down to normal after a couple of hours. I used to be afraid to even look at an orange let alone eat one. Now I'm eating oranges, bananas, raspberries, grapes, and strawberries in one meal with very little effect on my blood sugars.
I've recently come across a web site which advocates going on a juice fast for 10 days at a time. Now being diabetic I know that drinking fruit juice extracted with a juicer is not very diabetes friendly.
What I want to know is if anyone who has a Vitamix machine has made fruit juices or smoothies has had any troubles with their sugars spiking even though the pulp is not lost using a Vitamix instead of a juicer.