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<blockquote data-quote="MikeTurin" data-source="post: 1506645" data-attributes="member: 318833"><p>I can't understand the reasoning that testing is unnecessary. I am an engineer, so I have taken courses in control theory and operations research. </p><p>Now if the desired outcome is to have the fasting blood glucose under 5.5 mmol/l and to start to take corrective action when is over 7.2 mmol/l, how do you know that the levels are out of range without testing?</p><p>It's the same thing about weight control. How one knows that isn't putting up fat without weighing himself, or the blood pressure.</p><p>On the other hand it's possible to reduce the number of test to a pattern and increase or decrease the number of test following the compliance to the expected outcome.</p><p></p><p>I don't understand the problem of anxiety or mental damage, because if BG levels are fluctuating out of the desired range hiding the problem doesn't solve anything and if corrective actions aren't taken the damages in future may be uncorrectable and way more destabilizing on mental health than a jumping measure. It's kile to say, don't check the resistance of the just cured concrete and wait the bridge collapsing because there was too much water in the concrete mix...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MikeTurin, post: 1506645, member: 318833"] I can't understand the reasoning that testing is unnecessary. I am an engineer, so I have taken courses in control theory and operations research. Now if the desired outcome is to have the fasting blood glucose under 5.5 mmol/l and to start to take corrective action when is over 7.2 mmol/l, how do you know that the levels are out of range without testing? It's the same thing about weight control. How one knows that isn't putting up fat without weighing himself, or the blood pressure. On the other hand it's possible to reduce the number of test to a pattern and increase or decrease the number of test following the compliance to the expected outcome. I don't understand the problem of anxiety or mental damage, because if BG levels are fluctuating out of the desired range hiding the problem doesn't solve anything and if corrective actions aren't taken the damages in future may be uncorrectable and way more destabilizing on mental health than a jumping measure. It's kile to say, don't check the resistance of the just cured concrete and wait the bridge collapsing because there was too much water in the concrete mix... [/QUOTE]
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