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- Diet drinks - the artificial sweeteners taste vile.
Having to forswear foods I have loved all my life.
Trying to find low carb meals when eating out.
Basicly high bg means thicker gloopier blood, which puts a strain on the heart as it has to work harder to pump it round the system.
Unfortunately the heart is a muscle too, which can be Insulin Resistant so it's not getting the energy from the blood properly which in turn makes it harder for it to pump the gloopier blood round the system which leads to nerve damage in eyes feet etc..
Which would lead to the assumption that not adding sugar to the blood is the way to go, GI is adding more sugar over a longer period of time.
Which seems counter-intuitive.
No Brunneria I mean that I'm the one trying to be mindful, avoiding a preachy mindset.Didn’t mean to come over as preachy, so apologies to all, if I did.
I also wondered about that. Normal BG is about 100mg/dL or 1 gram per litre. So even if your BG is twice normal, half a teaspoon of glucose in a litre of blood is hardly "gloopy".Do you have references for this?
I had a quick look but couldn't find anything recent or definitive.
For a start I would like to see a comparison between the relative change in viscosity between elevated BG and dehydration, and what the normal acceptable ranges of viscosity are.
But you under stand "gloopy" the word choice it there to not exclude anyone who is unsure what viscid means.is hardly "gloopy".
I don't have any problem with the word gloopy. I was just pointing out that a half teaspoon of glucose in a litre of blood is not going to change its viscosity much on its own. If there is some other mechanism that increases the viscosity, then fair enough.But you under stand "gloopy" the word choice it there to not exclude anyone who is unsure what viscid means.
Remember often times we are speaking to new people or there are a lot of people reading these boards who are just visiting. I am always more than happy to dumb down an idea if it helps get the point across.
I expect the same kindness in return.
HI @LittleGreyCat
Specific references no I took this to be the general accepted view. i have come across more than a few times in papers specifically relating to blood viscosity through "a reduction in the deformability of the red cells and an increase in their tendency to aggregate."
I never kept any of the papers it made sense to me and accepted it and moved on, even if its not a complete picture of how it works, it's within my level of understanding with out having to spend time researching it to understand the concept better.
Quick google search. If your interested the second link is a little bit older.
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2769810/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/6706469
Try gong on google scholar if its something you want to spend time on.
An increase in red blood cells tendency to aggregate, clump together, with hight bg levels is often cited.If there is some other mechanism that increases the viscosity, then fair enough.
And to put it back to the original topic would you consider eating cake, jam and mars bars as part of your daily diet to be a poor way to control diabetes?To put it another way, is this only an issue for very poorly controlled diabetics?
And to put it back to the original topic would you consider eating cake, jam and mars bars as part of your daily diet to be a poor way to control diabetes?
Sorry Gray those articles were not meant to be proof of concept, just somewhere to start if you were interested in blood viscosity. The both deal with microvascular not macrovascular.
Here's an extract from this paper makes an interesting read. http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/37/2/488
"Overall, changes in viscosity in diabetic patients are accepted as common and as a result of the disease. However, the relationship between blood glucose, diabetes, and viscosity may be much more complex."
Although like almost everything it summarises with more research needs to be done.
Is that you giving him his medicalAmerican serviceman. {cough}
would you consider eating cake, jam and mars bars as part of your daily diet to be a poor way to control diabetes?
My only question would be, was it invented by the sugar companies?Isn't the cake, jam, Mars Bar paradox the reason Glycemic Load was invented.
That's cool,I can't say that I agree with most of this thread.
That's cool,
I ask these questions so I can understand more not to persuade or dissuade anyone.
It's hard not to see the world from your own point of view. I have always been very clear about mine T2 is a reversible condition (by itself excluding any other medical factors)
I don't always take into account that many people are in the position of trying to manage or control T2,
It's a shortcoming on my part.
I believe that I open automated sliding doors by using the Force.I don't really believe that T2 is reversible.
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