Question on diabetes.?

i have juvenile diabetes. ive had it since i was a baby. i always make sure i drink 100% natural juices, but once in a while i will drink a gatorade. why does 100% juices make my sugar higher than gatorade?

Different types of sugars react differently on the body. Fructose, the sugar produced by fruit, can react quickly on the body. I found that if I eat a banana it really shoots my sugar level up.

Gatorade was developed to replace the electrolytes in your body, so it's ingredients are designed to do that.

You have to be careful of fruits. Even though they are good for you, the sugar in them can produce high sugar levels fast. Just be aware of that.

Oh honey, because 100% fruit juice is FULL of sugars!!!! Fruit sugars are sugars all the same to the body. Milk sugars, table sugars, fruit sugars, any sugars are sugar to the body. It will send your blood sugar soaring! I am diabetic but cannot drink even orange juice. It spikes my sugars up way too high.

I never drink either 100% fruit juice or vegetable juice nor do I drink gatorade. The Juices are all 100% SUGAR with a little water content. Gatorade is about 50% Sugar.

That is why when we are going LOW or HYPO we are advised to drink 4 ounces of orange juice!! It is so good a source of SUGAR and hits the blood stream so fast, that it is what the doctors recommend for raising our sugar levels.