Evidence
04-01-2008, 03:59 AM
I had a conversation with a pharmacist today at a local grocery store about diet soda and sparkling water beverages. The reason i ask is beasue for where I work, we have a young diabetic girl who is extremely unstable and there is no registered nurse on staff to really monitor her regularly like she should be. It's in the hands of counselors who are extremely uneducated as a whole about anything to do with her. And I am as well as I'm not a nurse or doctor here. I noticed the staff's typical belief is to just let her drink diet pepsi whenever she wants thinking there is no sugar in it. There are these sparkling water beverages from Giant Eagle I enjoy that come in fruit flavors and have no sugar. I didn't think that it was still good to have her drink this as she pleases as her levels are still all over the place.
The pharmacist said that even though a lot of these drinks do not contain the typical sucrose (regular table sugar), that it is still going to spark an insulin response from the body. Maybe not as intense or at the same level say as if you drank a 12 oz regular bottle of pepsi, but your body is still accepting the signal as sugar. So eventhough a lot of the labels of these drinks say 0g of sugar, it doesn't mean you're body is not secreting an insulin response. This might not be anything new to a lot of you, I just thought i'd pass along.
The pharmacist said that even though a lot of these drinks do not contain the typical sucrose (regular table sugar), that it is still going to spark an insulin response from the body. Maybe not as intense or at the same level say as if you drank a 12 oz regular bottle of pepsi, but your body is still accepting the signal as sugar. So eventhough a lot of the labels of these drinks say 0g of sugar, it doesn't mean you're body is not secreting an insulin response. This might not be anything new to a lot of you, I just thought i'd pass along.