Fast-5 Diet and Lifestyle: Re: [fast5] Fwd: Another Reason to get a glucometer.

Friday, August 14, 2009

Re: [fast5] Fwd: Another Reason to get a glucometer.

I agree about testing. I'm just not sure what it all means anymore.

Like I said, I've had "blood sugar" problems my whole life, but
I don't get a bg rise after a meal generally, but more often
a drop. For people who have it go over 140 though, they should
certainly look at it, see what meals are worse than others.
Interestingly, in some studies, taking yogurt or vinegar
before a meal helps.

The Asians, in particular, eat a very high carb diet, but don't
typically have bg problems. Americans do. *Something* is going
on, for sure. I'm fairly sure eating less, and less often, helps (there
have been studies with 1-day a week fasting and T2 diabetics: it
helped with insulin resistance).

On Fri, Aug 14, 2009 at 4:19 PM, Ellen Ussery<ellen.ussery@gmail.com> wrote:
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> The most common way that diabetes develops is that people have high post
> meal blood sugars for years before their fasting blood sugar becomes
> abnormal. Some times the fasting never becomes abnormal . The trouble is,
> if the post meal is higher than 140 some kind of damage is being done
> somewhere in the body.
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> http://www.phlaunt.com/diabetes/14045678.php
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> So even if this happens for say 2 hours every night after a very big meal
> with dessert and the blood sugar drops back down to a good level for the
> rest of the day it is not a pretty picture. And not only will your fasting
> blood sugar not alert you that there is a problem, neither will the A1c,
> which is a test that is often done by the doctor to determine your "average"
> blood sugar.
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> I write this simply to suggest to people who may for some reason think they
> are having blood sugar problems (being addicted to carbs is one sign or
> *maybe* doing the fast -5 and not losing weight) might want to test their
> post meal blood sugar a few times just to see what is happening. Especially
> if their style of fasting is one huge meal with lots of carbs. If their
> blood sugar doesn't go too high and comes back down quickly, no problem.
> Otherwise they will want to lower their carb intake so that the post meal
> blood sugars do not reach harmful range they can fully enjoy the benefits
> of fasting.
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> http://www.phlaunt.com/diabetes/14045621.php
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> http://www.phlaunt.com/diabetes/19774432.php
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> http://www.phlaunt.com/diabetes/19774432.php
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> Ellen
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