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Prostate Cancer | Last Active: May 10 2:42pm | Replies (179)
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@carbcounter The fat from that cream in your yoghurt is actually helpful, because it slows the absorption of sugar from other sources (e.g. the added honey in yours, which is essentially pure sugar).
Again, this matters mainly for preventing insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. If you're not at risk for that, you don't need to worry much — just exercise moderation. If your HbA1C is near the threshold for prediabetes (a common side-effect of long-term ADT for prostate cancer), then you need to be more vigilant.
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My own concern is exactly the pre-diabetes.
I've found that cream and also beef fat may help digestion (and taste good) but may aggravate blood glucose probably through the other mechanism, increasing insulin resistance.
I guess a half-cup of dry (organic!!) oatmeal is going to be more like a full cup of puffy Cheerios, but two cups may be pushing it. A friend of mine has diabetes, only recently under control with injected Ozempic, but he was starting breakfast with a full cup of dry oatmeal made up with a ton of berries ... says his wife insists. Not a good way for a diabetic to start out the day. Portion control is half or three quarters or more, of diabetic diet control.
If Cheerios really have that high an effective GI in spite of mitigating factors then the stuff has been pure evil for its entire existence, even people with no diabetes should probably avoid big blood glucose excursions, that may be exactly what eventually triggers diabetes in the first place.
(and was I guilty of this when young, omg yes)