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<blockquote data-quote="Brunneria" data-source="post: 1924033" data-attributes="member: 41816"><p>Not unfortunate at all. I chose my words with care.</p><p></p><p>You have provided a link to a page on <a href="http://www.bloodsugar101.com" target="_blank">www.bloodsugar101.com</a> which is very familiar to me, and which I often link to myself. It discusses the long term complications that may arise from chronically raised blood glucose levels, large blood glucose fluctuations, long term fasting blood glucose levels and glucose tolerance tests. None of those are being discussed on this thread.</p><p></p><p>Nowhere does the page mention damage and progressively increased insulin resistance from a one-off self test involving potato that raises blood glucose to 6.6mmol/l (at 3 hrs, with short term higher readings before that). In fact, the closest relevant information offered by that bloodglucose101 page is where it discusses cumulative beta cell damage occurring when blood glucose levels are above 7.8mmol/l, with the damage worsening over time. The longer and higher, the worse the damage. Clearly this is not relevant to a reading of 6.6mmol/l reading (at 3 hrs) and to imply differently is inaccurate, and scaremongering.</p><p></p><p>One of the things I like the most about Jenny Rhul’s bloodsugar101 website is that she recognises that we are all human. We lapse. We enjoy the odd indulgance, and she provides us with the information to understand what is going on when that lapse happens. I once read something she wrote which said that it isn’t a matter of IF we next eat too many carbs, it is a matter of WHEN, and we should understand this, and the potential consequences.</p><p></p><p>It strikes me that Jenny Rhul would be in favour of someone eating a potato and then concluding</p><p></p><p></p><p>Everybody experiences diabetes differently, and there is no one size fits all, whether that is diet, carb intake, medication, exercise or blood glucose targets. Implying that a one-off reading will lead to raised insulin resistance and diabetic complications is neither helpful nor accurate.</p><p></p><p>Edited for typos. Managed to misquote the reading at 6.3 when it should have been 6.6 <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brunneria, post: 1924033, member: 41816"] Not unfortunate at all. I chose my words with care. You have provided a link to a page on [URL='http://www.bloodsugar101.com']www.bloodsugar101.com[/URL] which is very familiar to me, and which I often link to myself. It discusses the long term complications that may arise from chronically raised blood glucose levels, large blood glucose fluctuations, long term fasting blood glucose levels and glucose tolerance tests. None of those are being discussed on this thread. Nowhere does the page mention damage and progressively increased insulin resistance from a one-off self test involving potato that raises blood glucose to 6.6mmol/l (at 3 hrs, with short term higher readings before that). In fact, the closest relevant information offered by that bloodglucose101 page is where it discusses cumulative beta cell damage occurring when blood glucose levels are above 7.8mmol/l, with the damage worsening over time. The longer and higher, the worse the damage. Clearly this is not relevant to a reading of 6.6mmol/l reading (at 3 hrs) and to imply differently is inaccurate, and scaremongering. One of the things I like the most about Jenny Rhul’s bloodsugar101 website is that she recognises that we are all human. We lapse. We enjoy the odd indulgance, and she provides us with the information to understand what is going on when that lapse happens. I once read something she wrote which said that it isn’t a matter of IF we next eat too many carbs, it is a matter of WHEN, and we should understand this, and the potential consequences. It strikes me that Jenny Rhul would be in favour of someone eating a potato and then concluding Everybody experiences diabetes differently, and there is no one size fits all, whether that is diet, carb intake, medication, exercise or blood glucose targets. Implying that a one-off reading will lead to raised insulin resistance and diabetic complications is neither helpful nor accurate. Edited for typos. Managed to misquote the reading at 6.3 when it should have been 6.6 :D [/QUOTE]
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