Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Are Girl Scout cookies bad for you?

Every year at this time of the year, the requests for purchasing (and thus consuming) Girl Scout cookies comes upon us like a great wave of sugar and enriched bleached white flour. I will admit two things about this uniquely American phenomenon: 1) My youngest daughter is a girl scout, so I am required as a parent to engage in the selling of the beastly delights, and 2) I like Girl Scout cookies. So as someone with Type 1 diabetes, how do I reconcile these conflicts? This year I am hyper-focused on my training for the Charlottesville 10-miler running race, so I am able to "just say no" to the sweets more easily than usual. But I also understand that with the advent of the insulin pump and a lot of miles run and calories burned, I can have a cookie or two without any real damage done (the A1C's and daily blood sugars do not lie). Yes, I can discipline myself to just 1-2 cookies. They're good, but not THAT good.

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