Fw: cramps.

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cramps.

I need to pass this information on in case it may help some one that has a

problem with cramps in the legs and feet. Last year I began to write down every

time I had a cramp. then I would write down as well what I ate the day before

the cramps started to see if I could find pattern. well I think after a year and

more I have found a pattern in my self for sure. I have noticed by my own

records for about 16 months that the day before all my foot and leg cramps over

the past 16 months that I had ate some foods that contained sugar. I noticed

that flour, pasta, rice and stuff that will turn to sugar in our blood streams

didn't cause the cramps. it was always the food that had sugar in it. I even

noticed by my records that some times it only took as few as ten hours to start

the cramping. I don't think I'm the only one out there that has suffered from

cramps in the muscles. I have had them all my life. my daddy had them as well

and he had a big sweet tooth. I have noticed from my notes that when I go weeks

with out food containing sugar I have no cramps hardly at all and when I do they

aren't bad and don't hurt bad at all. I strongly believe that if any one else

has bad hurting cramps in the foot or legs as I have my whole life should give

it a try them self. try to go with out sugar in your diet for a couple of weeks

and see if your cramps may go away as mine did. It may not be the case in most

people or even all people, but it is worth a try to make sure I'm thinking. I

never would have made the connection with out my records of what I ate the day

before the cramps and I kept these records for more then a year. Now that I've

got my diabetes back under control, I have noticed the cramps have left me all

most completely and what a blessed relief this is to me. I've had cramps so bad

before that it made me cry in pain. nothing you can buy will help a bad cramp

very much. if the cramp isn't real bad, there are some things you can buy to rub

on the muscle that will help a bit. cramps seem to hit worse at night. but they

will come any time. I say you don't have anything to lose by cutting sugar out

of your diet for a few weeks and see what happens with your cramps if you have

them. sugar isn't good at all for us who are a diabetic and the way I look at it

is, if this is God's plan to keep us from slowly killing our self, then God

knows best. causing me to have bad cramping after I have ate sugar that I

shouldn't be eating is a pretty good way of keeping me away from sugar. the cost

to me is to high to pay. that bit of wonderful sweet tasting delight in my mouth

isn't much compared to the pain I have later from the cramping. the cost is to

high to pay for me. I'm hoping that some one can be helped by my records that I

kept for more then a year to see if there was truly a pattern and I really did

find one.