Diabetes Tip of the Day

Something I've noticed recently (being that time of year again) that I probably wouldn't have noticed had I not been testing my blood sugar daily:

Sweet potatoes are starches.

Pumpkins are vegetables.

Sweet potatoes cook out starches to become sugars.

Pumpkins cook out sugars to become (relatively) sugar-free.

In diabetes, this translates out to this: I can eat all the pumpkin pie I want and not raise my blood sugar. Sweet potatoe pie is out of the question, though.

It's a sacrifice I'm willing to make, though.

(Heh.)

~~JD~~