This happened to me in 2015 when I had my burst appendix I also was diagnosed as a pre-diabetic.
So, what I'm saying here is from experience. The worst forms of sugar for you to have are not what you might think.
For example, just before I my appendix burst (about a month or two before this) I had been snorkling on Kona side of the Big Island of Hawaii with friends. Now, every time I go to Hawaii (because I have lived on the big Island and on Maui when I was a younger man, I like to eat coconuts from the trees, I like to eat papayas, and I like to eat Mangoes and Portugese Sweet bread (uncut of course) where you tear pieces off and put butter on it and maybe heat it up some. However, I'm not a real fan of Poi which to me tastes a lot like eating Elmer's glue. But, that's just me.
But, this time I was drinking a lot of mango and papaya juices and I noticed I couldn't think straight it was almost like I was drinking a 6 pack of beer every day. Sometimes I could barely drive our rental Dodge Caravan Van to snorkeling at places like 2 Step where the Kahunas and the Hawaiian Kings swam on Kona side of the Big Island.
So, I realized I was getting too much fructose in the juices and stopped drinking juices two days before I had to travel back by plane to San Francisco because I knew I was too out of it to pull that off.
Why?
Because even though I hadn't been diagnosed pre-diabetic yet I knew there was some correlation between juices I was drinking in a hot climate and why I had stopped being able to make good decisions and sure enough, as soon as I stopped drinking ANY fruit juices I was fine before takeoff back to San Francisco, California.
Why?
Because when you are pre-diabetic or Diabetic I found out later, drinking any juices could make you pass out or make you crash in a car because the fructose in fruit juices is just too concentrated. You still might eat whole any fruit you want to at a rate of one a day in most situations (consult your doctor about this by the way). But, for me, as a pre-diabetic I can still eat one big fruit like an apple or papaya, or mango or any fruit (maybe not pineapple) but I still will have Pineapple Fried rice every month or so at a Thai Restaurant and I can usually be okay with that still.
But, Fruit juice and rice are deadly because the sugars convert so quickly in your bodies when you are pre-diabetic.
So, for example, I won't drive a car if I have even eaten a whole Mango or Papaya for an hour. However, I probably could eat 3 pieces of mint chocolate and be fine.
Why?
Because the fat in the chocolate stabilizes the sugar so it doesn't slam your body all at once and put you to sleep or into a diabetic coma.
By the way I have never gone into a diabetic coma but I have had to go to sleep from drinking to much fruit juice.
So, if you are pre-diabetic, you need to think about all this or one day you might crash your car or bicycle or motorcycle and be dead otherwise. Or you could just faint going down the stairs or something like that. So, unless you monitor yourself who is going to?
Who is going to keep you alive if it isn't you?
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