How reliable are tests done at home?

My mother uses one and rings me to tell me her
sugar varies from 100 one day to 200 the following morning.
She says because she had half a mango.
On the glycemic chart a mango is well within the range.

I have read articles where doctors regularly claim that diabetes
can be controlled and cured with diet alone - if one consumes
foods with low glycemic load.

Has anyone had any experience in this?

Jeff

Some people will have a blood sugar spike even after *any* fruit, and
can also happen in response to any food one is allergic / intolerant
to. It's great that she's using the monitor! That can give her very
good insight into which foods *her* body is able to make best use of.
Anything that causes a spike needs to be either avoided, or perhaps
eating at the end of a protein-containing meal would let it be utilized
better.

As well as sticking to low glycemic load, one needs to eat small,
protein-containing meals spread thru the day (as with a hypoglycemic
diet), as well as plenty of veggies and high-quality fats. There are
herbs that are said to be good too, but hopefully someone else can
remember which those are?
Shannon

On May 14, 2008, at 11:51 PM, <jtikari (AT) vsnl (DOT) com> wrote:

> How reliable are tests done at home?
>
> My mother uses one and rings me to tell me her
> sugar varies from 100 one day to 200 the following morning.
> She says because she had half a mango.
> On the glycemic chart a mango is well within the range.
>
> I have read articles where doctors regularly claim that diabetes
> can be controlled and cured with diet alone - if one consumes
> foods with low glycemic load.
>
> Has anyone had any experience in this?
>
> Jeff
>

Another reason why blood sugar levels (BSLs)are elevated in the morning
is that the liver continues to release glucose through the night. The
absence of movement or exercise during sleep (which would cause muscle
cells to take up and use that glucose) plus reduced fluid intake and
urine output (that would remove some of the glucose from the blood
stream), causes morning BSL's to be higher in the morning in many
diabetics even though they may not have had anything to eat before going
to bed the night before.

Kind regards,

Fran Sheffield
Homeopathy Plus! (Information - Education - Treatment)
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Robert & Shannon Nelson wrote:
> Some people will have a blood sugar spike even after *any* fruit, and
> can also happen in response to any food one is allergic / intolerant
> to. It's great that she's using the monitor! That can give her very
> good insight into which foods *her* body is able to make best use of.
> Anything that causes a spike needs to be either avoided, or perhaps
> eating at the end of a protein-containing meal would let it be utilized
> better.
>
> As well as sticking to low glycemic load, one needs to eat small,
> protein-containing meals spread thru the day (as with a hypoglycemic
> diet), as well as plenty of veggies and high-quality fats. There are
> herbs that are said to be good too, but hopefully someone else can
> remember which those are?
> Shannon
>
> On May 14, 2008, at 11:51 PM, <jtikari (AT) vsnl (DOT) com> wrote:
>
>> How reliable are tests done at home?
>>
>> My mother uses one and rings me to tell me her
>> sugar varies from 100 one day to 200 the following morning.
>> She says because she had half a mango.
>> On the glycemic chart a mango is well within the range.
>>
>> I have read articles where doctors regularly claim that diabetes
>> can be controlled and cured with diet alone - if one consumes
>> foods with low glycemic load.
>>
>> Has anyone had any experience in this?
>>
>> Jeff
>>

On May 16, 2008, at 5:26 AM, Fran Sheffield wrote:

> Another reason why blood sugar levels (BSLs)are elevated in the
> morning is that the liver continues to release glucose through the
> night.

On what planet?
Why do people male statements as if they know they are true when it
is well known that they are not?
Does nobody check their information sources for validity any more?

First allergies, now blood sugar.

Regarding blood sugar in the morning being higher than expected, the
simple reason is that if you fail to eat for 8 hrs (at night or any
other time), your liver will convert some amino acids to glucose to
raise your blood glucose so you do not suffer from hypoglycemia due
to failing to eat.
If one is diabetic and does not want that rise - it is simple: Just
eat good protein and some carb no more than an hour before bed
time, and eat more protein as soon as you awake in the
morning....like half a slice of plain roast turkey or an egg shake.

> The absence of movement or exercise during sleep (which would cause
> muscle cells to take up and use that glucose) plus reduced fluid
> intake and urine output (that would remove some of the glucose from
> the blood stream),
> causes morning BSL's to be higher in the morning in many diabetics
> even though they may not have had anything to eat before going to
> bed the night before.

Where did you get THAT story from!!!!!
Thank goodness that is nonsense. If the liver continuously made
glucose we'd be in BIG trouble!
(By the way most diabetics have *increased* urine output at night.)

A good reference on the genuine metabolic processes involved in
diabetes, syndrome-X, insulin resistance etc - is:
"Dr Bernstein's Diabetes solution." (by Dr Bernstein)

Namaste,
Irene
--
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P.O. Box 4703 Spokane WA 99220.
www.angelfire.com/fl/furryboots/clickhere.html (Veterinary Homeopath.)
"Man who say it cannot be done should not interrupt one doing it."