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<blockquote data-quote="Daibell" data-source="post: 962107" data-attributes="member: 21149"><p>Hi again. The NHS doesn't normally provide meters to T2s due to cost of the strips. Some surgeries will do if you can twist their arm. NICE advice is that they should provide one if the patient knows what they are doing etc. Daisy may be along shortly to offer her standard, good, advice on diet etc from this forum. As all carbs, not just sugar, are converted to glucose in the blood they contribute directly to blood sugar increase. If you are an overweight T2 then you may have insulin resistance due to fat stored in the muscles. This prevents the body's insulin being used and blood sugar goes up. If you are T1, the body isn't producing enough insulin with a similar result. The trafficlight and other labelling systems are based on the (wrong) understanding that it's fat that makes you fat and coats the arteries; it doesn't. It's the carbs that are the main culprit and it's the liver that puts out the fats that can coat the arteries and it stores excess glucose as body fat (I'm simplifying all this!). So, assuming you aren't a special case with your liver condition you should keep the carbs down perhaps to 150gm/day or whatever the meter guides you based on blood sugar readings. You then make up with protein, fats and veg of course. Non-tropical fruits are OK in sensible quantities. All this means keeping bread, pasta, potatoes, rice and so on down. Have eggs and bacon instead of cereal for breakfast for example. I may have a bit of oat-based muesli with cold milk as well. Avoid hot porridge as the oats are 'stewed' and become high GI (easily turned into glucose in the stomach)For snacks have berries, nuts or cheese. Basically think carbs not calories when looking at food packaging labels. There is a lot of good food advice on this website it you look around. When you get the meter, measure every so often 2 hours after a meal and aim for a reading of less than 8.5 mmol</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Daibell, post: 962107, member: 21149"] Hi again. The NHS doesn't normally provide meters to T2s due to cost of the strips. Some surgeries will do if you can twist their arm. NICE advice is that they should provide one if the patient knows what they are doing etc. Daisy may be along shortly to offer her standard, good, advice on diet etc from this forum. As all carbs, not just sugar, are converted to glucose in the blood they contribute directly to blood sugar increase. If you are an overweight T2 then you may have insulin resistance due to fat stored in the muscles. This prevents the body's insulin being used and blood sugar goes up. If you are T1, the body isn't producing enough insulin with a similar result. The trafficlight and other labelling systems are based on the (wrong) understanding that it's fat that makes you fat and coats the arteries; it doesn't. It's the carbs that are the main culprit and it's the liver that puts out the fats that can coat the arteries and it stores excess glucose as body fat (I'm simplifying all this!). So, assuming you aren't a special case with your liver condition you should keep the carbs down perhaps to 150gm/day or whatever the meter guides you based on blood sugar readings. You then make up with protein, fats and veg of course. Non-tropical fruits are OK in sensible quantities. All this means keeping bread, pasta, potatoes, rice and so on down. Have eggs and bacon instead of cereal for breakfast for example. I may have a bit of oat-based muesli with cold milk as well. Avoid hot porridge as the oats are 'stewed' and become high GI (easily turned into glucose in the stomach)For snacks have berries, nuts or cheese. Basically think carbs not calories when looking at food packaging labels. There is a lot of good food advice on this website it you look around. When you get the meter, measure every so often 2 hours after a meal and aim for a reading of less than 8.5 mmol [/QUOTE]
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