Does anyone know how to cook/bake for a NO sugar, or substitute, and no carb person?
Husband has both Type 2 Diabetes and Rheumatoid Arthritis....no carbs, no wheat, gluten free, fruit free? Been looking into Paleo...... All responses so appreciated.
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You could consider increasing the amount of spices used in your recipes - some of them exhibit the ability to increase the sweetness in a recipe with negligible amounts of natural sugars, such as vanilla, nutmeg and cinnamon. I've learnt at university that cinnamon especially has promising potentials in regards to type 2 diabetes due to its ability to decrease blood glucose and lipid levels and increase in HDL's, it also lowers the rate at which carbohydrates are absorbed as glucose, which could be beneficial if added to your husband's foods. I also have a family friend who swears on cinnamon and honey to reduce pain associated with her rheumatoid arthritis - though this is not scientifically proven (unlike cinnamon's effect on diabetes as outlined above) so I'm not sure whether it is effective.
I know that you might not want to use sugar substitutes, but there are several safe ones you could potentially look into, that have very minimal impact on raising blood glucose levels after consumption. Not artificial sweeteners like aspartame and sucralose (which could exacerbate diabetes), but glycosidic sweeteners such as stevia & luo han guo, and also polyols such as erythritol which has the least glycemic and gastrointestinal impact on the human body. These however, as bigpan pointed out, are not too economically viable and different amounts may need to be used.
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