THE JAM, THE SUGAR AND THE DIABETIS

This title sounds like an old western movie of Sergio Leone (1966): “The good, the bad and the ugly“, doesn’t it?
During the free tasting session we regularly organize in the different outlets, some customers hesitate to buy jam because suffering of diabetes. Last day, I saw an impressive woman explaining me she will not buy jam because she was taking care of her hyperglycemia, but in one of her hand there was an ice-cream and a can of soft drink in the other… It seems there is a lack of knowledge about the sources of sugar, their relative quantity and their reasonable use in the diet. 

For example, this woman didn’t realize that, in a can of coke of 355 ml, theres is 40.5 g of sugar. In a jar of 300g jam there is 195 g of sugar. But the big difference is you can drink your can of Coke in one minute and the jar of jam in many days. In the spoon of jam you spread on a slice of bread at breakfast one time a day, you will have something like 3g of sugar.

If you drink one can of coke with one slice of bread with one spoon of jam, you will eat 43.5 g of sugar but 93% of this sugar is coming from the coke.

 According to 

http://www.clivir.com,

“A diabetes diet is one that advocates a proportional grouping of foods, that together help to control blood glucose levels. Your glucose level will be higher after you eat a meal, and lower in between.”

Of course I will never tell people with diabetes to eat one jar of jam every day.

I can only advice people to have a good life hygiene to benefit of a normal life. No smoking, no alcohol and practice of sport is certainly more efficient than no jam in reasonable quantity.