Posted on 03/12/2011 5:58:08 PM PST by decimon
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) How many carbs you eat might be less important for your blood sugar than your food's glycemic load, a measure that also takes into account how quickly you absorb those carbs.
That's the conclusion of a new study of healthy adults, which questions the way people with type 1 diabetes determine how much insulin they should take before meals.
In type 1 diabetes, which affects about 3 million Americans, the pancreas doesn't produce sufficient amounts of the hormone insulin, which helps ferry sugar from the blood into cells. So people with the disease are quickly overwhelmed when the sugar in their food hits the bloodstream.
To avoid the dangerous blood sugar surge, diabetics inject insulin before a meal -- usually based on how many carbohydrates they will be downing.
But the new study, by Jiansong Bao at the University of Sydney in Australia and colleagues, hints the number of carbs alone might not be the best way to go.
Instead, the so-called glycemic load of a food, which also takes into account how quickly it makes the blood sugar rise, might work better. Foods with soluble fiber, such as apples and rolled oats, typically have a low glycemic index, one of the contributors to glycemic load.
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Foods with a low glycemic index cause the blood sugar to rise slowly, and so put little pressure on the pancreas to produce insulin.
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Chemical artificial sugars are literal poisons. Just google them. However, some of the more natural ones like stevia aren’t so bad. Still, get the taste buds used to fresh fruit as your only sugar, used as a “dessert” after a protein meal. Never fruit on an empty stomach.
Are you sure it was me? I have no intelligence.
Didn’t you used to rate the Idol contestants with a number of lobsters??? Wasn’t that you? You were so funny.
Oh, that "AI"...I thought you were talking about Artificial Intelligence.
No, that wasn't me either. I've only watched American Idol for a total of a few seconds as I blew by it while channel surfing.
You were so funny.
I try. but I encourage you to review my posts in hopes that you still think I'm funny.
Thank you in advance.
Thanks!
FReepmail me if you want on or off the diabetes ping list.
From the article: The glycemic index for a variety of foods can be found at http://www.glycemicindex.com/
kJ in the abstract most likely means kiloJoule, another way to express the amount of energy in the food.
They’re just figuring this out?
My son is a type 1. He is pretty well controlled using a pump. But there are a few foods that make his bloodsugar skyrocket even though we enter the carbs listed from the box. His favorite cereal (Quaker Oat Squares) seems to be the worst.
Thanks! I just sent the recipe to my husband, who is a type-2 diabetic. It’s amazing how effective eating low carb has been in reducing his numbers.
They look to be sugary. From the Quaker Oats website:
"Available in 3 delicious flavors: Brown Sugar, Cinnamon and Golden Maple"
Everything but the beer is good. :) Too many carbs in beer.
I don't have diabetes, but I follow these threads fairly closely.
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Surprising, isn't it?
You will be cured of Type 2 diabetes.
OK, I have done exactly that for the last 7 years. Why do I still have type 2 diabetes?
I’ve been a type one for over 40 years and no there are few similarities.I get very disappinted that every time a subject of type one diabetes comes up where the type one’s here have a chance to discuss our illness that it is always taken over by the type 2’s.
Not really surprising at all because type 1 diabetes is a completely different animal than type 2 is. It’s treated much differently and is an auitoimmune diease and what may work for a ype 2 can be deadly to a type one.
I thought that you were probably a type-1. I didn’t mean to take over the conversation, friend. I’m sorry if I have caused a problem on this thread.
I may be wrong, but I don’t think that there is a “cure” for type-2 diabetes. To date we have found nothing better for my husband’s type-2 diabetes than the Atkins diet.
I am type 2 since May of 2007. My A1C that day was 10.3. 3 months later it was 6.0. I have not been above 6.0 since then. I do count carbs, but not the glycemic index, but my A1C is still OK. I splurge a little about once a week, but only moderately, then back on the diet. I guess I am doing OK.
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