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Complications?
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Complications are not always control (or lack of it) related, but by keeping good control you will be lessening your chances of complications.
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I think all you can do is try to lessen the odds, by trying to keep your weight under control and eating to keep within the NICE recommendations or as close to them as you can get without living like a monk or something.
I always set my sights on a treat, fish and chips down at the Blue Dolphin at Hastings or a trip to the American burger bar in the next town (proper lean beef burgers). I don't eat all the chips these places serve up, I don't even eat the top of the burger bun at the American diner, but looking forward to these trips did help get me through the 'eating less' stage I went through, now though I don't even think I'm eating a small meal, for me it was all about re training my mind set about eating. A smaller diner plate helped too, really
I always set my sights on a treat, fish and chips down at the Blue Dolphin at Hastings or a trip to the American burger bar in the next town (proper lean beef burgers). I don't eat all the chips these places serve up, I don't even eat the top of the burger bun at the American diner, but looking forward to these trips did help get me through the 'eating less' stage I went through, now though I don't even think I'm eating a small meal, for me it was all about re training my mind set about eating. A smaller diner plate helped too, really
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If you read Bernstein, You will find that he believes that keeping to non-diabetic blood sugars should prevent complications.
the Medical establishment believes that complications happen despite good sugar control. To me it all hangs on the definition of "Good Control"
If that means, spending most of your time with a blood glucose reading of 1.5 - 2 times that of a non-diabetic, There's not much protecttion there. It is the level of glucose circulating in the bloodstream which does the damage.
Non-diabetics have blood glucose around 5 Most of the time and if it goes up, It drops back pretty quickly
And before anyone jumps on me to say that's not true, they might like to know that non-diabetics with high HbA1cs have a tendency to get "diabetic complications" too.
That's my main reason for believing that a target blood glucose level leading to HbA1c of 7%[average bg of about 8.6mmol/l and peaking after meals at 9 mmol/l ] is not sufficiently stringent to protect from them.
The balance of choice must be:
Are you prepared to be strict with yourself pretty much always or will you accept a greater risk of complications? It's your decision
the Medical establishment believes that complications happen despite good sugar control. To me it all hangs on the definition of "Good Control"
If that means, spending most of your time with a blood glucose reading of 1.5 - 2 times that of a non-diabetic, There's not much protecttion there. It is the level of glucose circulating in the bloodstream which does the damage.
Non-diabetics have blood glucose around 5 Most of the time and if it goes up, It drops back pretty quickly
And before anyone jumps on me to say that's not true, they might like to know that non-diabetics with high HbA1cs have a tendency to get "diabetic complications" too.
That's my main reason for believing that a target blood glucose level leading to HbA1c of 7%[average bg of about 8.6mmol/l and peaking after meals at 9 mmol/l ] is not sufficiently stringent to protect from them.
The balance of choice must be:
Are you prepared to be strict with yourself pretty much always or will you accept a greater risk of complications? It's your decision
