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I'd like to know about fruit. Is fruit ok? She does take a glass of unsweetened grape juice with a banana in the morning?

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Can alcoholism increase the diabetic condition? Can a diabetic take alcohol? If so how much? My wife's sugar level was more than 600 (after meals)in the latest test(she's only 30). We both are alchoholics, taking more than 3 drinks a day. I put her only on two drinks, but the figures are not going down.You advice complete absistence?
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I am afraid that when you are both alcoholics, I must advise complete abstinence. I know that is not easy. I don't know what 600 means, but if this means 600mg/100mL then this is extremely high.

Normally one glass of alcohol after a meal may lower the blood sugar level, but in the case of alcoholism, that does not apply.

Please read:

“Alcoholism (Addiction) is a Treatable Disease” at:
http://www.hypoglycemia.asn.au/articles/alcoholism_treatable.html

and please discuss this with a doctor. Follows doctor's advice.

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Jurriaan Plesman, BA(Psych), Post Grad Dip Clin Nutr
Editor: HYPOGLYCEMIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA at
www.hypoglycemia.asn.au
Author: “Getting off the Hook” at
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I don't see any harm in that, but if you have any worries, you should always ask your doctor, because he should have ALL the details of the medical condition.

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Jurriaan Plesman, BA(Psych), Post Grad Dip Clin Nutr
Editor: HYPOGLYCEMIC HEALTH ASSOCIATION OF AUSTRALIA at
www.hypoglycemia.asn.au
Author: “Getting off the Hook” at
Google Book Search

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Jurriaan Plesman, Nutritional Psychotherapist

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I have a degree in Psychology from the Sydney University and a Postgraduate Diploma in Clinical Nutrition. I am also the author of “GETTING OFF THE HOOK” which deals with the nutritional and psychological treatment of personality disorders. It is freely available on the internet at Google Book Search. I am interested in the relationship between nutrition and behaviour, and as a Probation ans Parole Officer facilitated groups for offenders, many of whom were alcoholics and drug addicts, sex offenders or compulsive gamblers, as well as the whole gamut of “personality disorders”. I am also the ex-editor of the Hypoglycemic Health Association of Australia Newsletter, a quarterly publication dealing with hypoglycemia and related health problems. Its web site, together with a shortened course of PSYCHOTHERAPY can be visited at: http://www.hypoglycemia.asn.au

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Nutritional Psychotherapy

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The Hypoglycemic Health Association of Australia

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Book: "Getting Off the Hook"freely available on the internet at Google Book Search.
Editor: Hypoglycemic Health Association of Australia
http://www.hypoglycemia.asn.au

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BA(Psych), Sydney University, Post Grad Dip Clin Nutr (International Academy of Nutrition)

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