The biggest puzzle for those of us with diabetes – and anyone who cares about his or her health – is what to eat while we are away from civilization on the trail. We need our exercise, and many of us find that hiking in the woods or mountains to be the most enjoyable way to get it. But we...
T is for Trail Food
8/15/07 1:04pm
having watched my BGs stumble down to the diagnostic range for type two over the last several months I am somewhat new to all of this. I did an almost 4000 foot vertical gain hike over 5 hours on Mt Rainier. As a quirky experiment I decided to use Dove Chocolate pieces as my trail food. 5 = about 100 calories each of fat and carbs. Through metering it took about 5 an hour to keep sugars at what I thought an appropriate level. With a trail bar (350Cal) and a little jerky I consumed about 1500 calories, and think I expended about 4000. It was too cold for them to be an ideal trail food.
8/15/07 5:33pm
Dear Rob,
That's quite a hike! You have to have lost weight.
10/13/10 5:49pm
I love the works of doctors Bernstein, Eades, Atkins and the writer Gary Taubes. However, I am going crazy trying to figure out how Dr. Charles Simone's science fits into all of this. Dr. Simone is probably the only oncologist on the planet whose scientific work produced the best vitamins for cancer. He offered his scientific evidence for free so cancer patients could take his work to their oncologists. Dr. Simone now trains US military personnel who exercise heavily and he keeps them from becoming dehydrated and teaches olympic athletes to recover, keep hydrated and take in the proper amount electrolytes. During exercise his book says you must ingest carbodrates, like a 10-mile hike. He gives great scientific evidence for his works. He says fats make the body acidic. Athletes like you and me, David, need to keep our electrolytes in balance, same as the above. I drink his 30-50 gm Super Energy drink during and after intense exercise and I have not found my blood sugar to rise (although it certainly rises if I eat Greenfields pasta for dinner). How do we reconcile all these various scientific medical doctors advice, some of which is conflicting. I don't give too much credence to any CDE.
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