Callista wrote:
The "slow-release" sort you find in most carbohydrates (breads), and the smaller amounts you find in fruit (for example--120 calories worth in a banana, versus the 300 in a candy bar), are generally the best sorts. I call the carbohydrates in bread "slow-release" sugar simply because they aren't sugar until your body actually takes apart the bigger carbohydrates, so you don't get the quick spike that messes with your blood sugar so much.
The slow release (Low Glycaemic Index) function only pertains to certain types of bread, usually wholewheat bread.
Even when I cut down on chocolate and bad-for-you snacks, I still take a lot of sugar in my tea, and I drink tea (Earl grey with milk) quite regularly. I don't mind switching to low GI foods in general, but giving up the tea would be so difficult. I attempted to cut down once, and the cravings were incredible. I can imagine what smokers must go through. I read a summary of a medical paper in which they said that kicking a sugar habit is more difficult than coming off cocaine. I once fasted (religious fast) for two or three days. It is easier for me to give up food than to give up tea.
I am considering trying a gluten-free lactose-free diet because an aspie friend told me it helped him with concentration; but I love milk!
I am pretty sure I could kick the sugar habit eventually it if I set my mind to it, but it would be a great struggle and I need a convincing piece of logical motivation to get me to that point.
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When I must wait in a queue, I dance. Classified as an aspie with ADHD on 31 March 2009 at the age of 43.