219. Pancakes

At 34 weeks Rosie was hospitalized with “intrauterine growth retardation” and poorly controlled diabetes. Are the two complications related? One causing the other? Both caused by an unknown factor? Coincidental?  

Anyway, I walk in for morning rounds and find her eating pancakes.  I go ballistic!  Who allowed that? Then I found out that pancakes are indeed on the hospital’s diabetic diet because the venerable American Diabetes Association wants to make sure that diabetic patients get enough carbs so that they don’t crash from hypoglycemia (low sugar).  That’s fine and good for type 1 diabetics whose blood glucose levels vary widely.

But for type 2 diabetes, carbs are the problem, not the solution.  Many type 2 diabetes will resolve with low carb diets.  So no white bread, no white rice, no potatoes, no pasta, NEVER; and rarely whole grain breads and pasta, brown rice.  As for pancakes?  Give me a break.