[Diabetes-talk] Sugar drinks

[Sandi Ryan]

Bottled water is someone else's tap water, filtered.  I generally don't 
drink it, but if you'd tasted the water in, for instance, Iowa City, Iowa, 
you'd understand why I always carry a bottle or two to a new place.  It lets 
me find out whether the water tastes good, and keeps me from being 
dehydrated until I can get more bottled water if the tap is awful!

Sandi

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com>
To: "Diabetes Talk for the Blind" <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 12:35 PM
Subject: Re: [Diabetes-talk] Sugar drinks


> Bottled water is often no better and no worse than tap water throughout 
> the U.S. Also, unless you specifically buy distilled water, minerals etc. 
> Are not eliminated by using bottled water.
> I just drink from the tap and don't worry about it.
>
> Mike Freeman
> sent from my iPhone
>
> On Mar 26, 2013, at 9:45, "Sandi Ryan" <sjryan2 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I'm not only talking about soda, but also fruit juice and other sugary 
>> drinks (though most are sweetened with high-fructose corn syrup these 
>> days.) For some people, eating out is a license to eat whatever they 
>> want, and drink what they want, and it's a lot easier to get snagged and 
>> do your blood sugar harm by downing a 12- or 16-ounce glass of orange 
>> juice or eating a plate of fries served with a sandwich because "this 
>> doesn't happen very often."  As diabetics, we all make choices--I 
>> certainly drink diet drinks when I indulge (though they have issues, too, 
>> actually)--but some people may fit sugary drinks into their diets by 
>> skipping some of the sweeter foods I'd rather have.  When we took food 
>> last year, we bought bottled water for our room for two reasons:  You 
>> never know what the water in a city you're visiting will be like; and we 
>> wanted filtered water for use in the coffeemaker.  And my husband and I 
>> do limit the amount of any type of sweetened drink we have, whether diet 
>> or regular, so we wanted plenty of water to drink.
>>
>> Sandi
>>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bridgit Pollpeter" 
>> <bpollpeter at hotmail.com>
>> To: "'Diabetes Talk for the Blind'" <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
>> Sent: Tuesday, March 26, 2013 1:09 AM
>> Subject: [Diabetes-talk] Sugar drinks
>>
>>
>>> You mention not drinking sugar drinks, and this makes me think of
>>> something. Is this really a problem for diabetics? Of course this is
>>> rhetorical, but what's the problem with diet drinks? Maybe it's because
>>> I've been diabetic since the age of four, but I always opt for diet
>>> drinks or water. I know so many diabetics who don't do this, and I guess
>>> I don't understand why it's such a big deal. I always assumed it was a
>>> given a diabetic  would avoid the sugary drinks but guess not... And
>>> it's kind of like alcohol, it's empty calories, and I'd rather spend
>>> calories on actual food than a drink, grin.
>>>
>>> Bridgit
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Diabetes-talk [mailto:diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf
>>> Of Sandi Ryan
>
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