Beer for Diabetics

That would be a great enhancement to the label info, especially for the Low/No Alcohol beers, for which one of their purposes is very much related to knowing that info.

 

You should probably just limit your intake and just indulge on certain days.

 

I am 48. I was diagnosed Type II ago about 15 years ago and I drink beer. Diabetes is a chronic disease. Full stop. An individual can work the angles as best as possible, hoping something else kills them before complications from the disease does them in. But the disease is probably going to kill you unless you get hit by a bus first. Think about that. You can hope to die from an alternate problem. Hmm.

Make no mistake. Beer is not diabetic friendly. Beer kills diabetics. So called low carb beer kills diabetics slower than some other beers. Limiting or eliminating your intake of beer carbs will help you control the disease.

Look, there is no magic bullet here. Maybe that is not what you are looking for. Maybe it is. It does not exist. My personal advice and my personal opinion is to make smart choices and live your life as best as you can.
Cheers.


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I’ve beer pre diabetes for years, lack of excercise, being overweight are the usual suspects. Insulin resistance is usually linked to the lack of excercise hence the body stores the sugar instead of burning it. Fats a poor conductor where as muscle is much better. I can drop my A1C from 6.5 to 5.8 just by losing a bit of weight and eating right with excercise. 7 is usually the tipping point for medicine to help with sugar problems. Dr and nutritionist are really the key here. If your eating right a beers never a problem, but you have to lay off the crappy high carb high calorie junk

 

Yeah. I was 5'9" 165 pounds when diagnosed and actually quite healthy.

Genetics more than anything is the key factor. But absolutely, staying in shape and reasonably healthy is be the best solution for most every disease in fact. Beer can be worked into a diabetics life, and no two people are the same. But beer and diabetes are not really compatible.

Good Lord I hate being a diabetic.
Cheers.

 

Same with cholesterol, it’s hereditary too. If I’m not taking Crestor mines sky high. Sucks. My brothers type two and he given himself a shot once a week, he’s not a beer guy, he’s got a thing for honey.

 

PtE not being rated by a diabetic is snobbery? Bro, I lived through a plane crash, this site needs more plane crash survivor perspective. For reals...

 

If beer reviews are that "discouraging" to you, I would simply not read them.

I cannot imagine anyone perceiving fairness/insensitivity/snobbery on beer reviews--at least from the intent you imply. A far greater contribution from the brewing community to the health of diabetics and prediabetics would be the nutritional information on their beers and if not on the can/bottle, something on the website. Despite a "general" idea that many of us have, I remained surprised at the caloric/carb content of some beers (when you can find it).

I am certainly not looking to impose more regulation on the industry--not one bit--but that type of information would be as valuable to some people as a plainly stated ABV.

 

Same here man. Been a type 1 for 15 years. I drink craft beer regularly and as long as I stay on top of it, no issues come up. At least no more frequently than foods.