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biren1973

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Type of diabetes
Type 2
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Tablets (oral)
Hi

I had Liji's granula oatmeal which I believe has lowest carbohydrates (46g in 100gram). I haven't seen any cereal which is lower than 46gm. So I chose it to use 35gram with milk in my breakfast. I also ate two white egg omlette. Here is what I found
1) before breakfast my bg was 5.2
2) one hour after it is 7
3) two hours after it was 6.5
4) don't feel any hungry even after 3 hours

I also walked 1.5km after breakfast.

With my other breakfast which I usually eat two or three white egg omelette + 200 grams of asparagus + walked 1.5 km which gives my bg after 2 hours of breakfast at 5.6 range. But I feel hungry after two hours.

My question is which option is good? To have 5.6 bg and feel little bit hungry or 6.5 and not feeling hungry?

Regards
 
I too walk in the mornings and I find it helps with lowering the blood sugars by quite a bit. It would be interesting to see what happens when you repeat that breakfast without the walk. Perhaps walk later, I am not suggesting that you give up walking, I am just saying that there were two significant events between your tests and we don't know which caused what.
 
bulkbiker said:
Why don't you eat the egg yolks? They would be the filling part hence you wouldn't feel so hungry.
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The reason being is they have very high cholesterol. And I think eating them will raise blood cholesterol.
 
Apart from the fact that cholesterol in your food doesn't translate to cholesterol in your blood, an egg white omelette is as bad as non-alcoholic beer or decaff coffee!
 
All the latest evidence says that whole eggs are the perfect food and do not raise your cholesterol so eat the whole thing and give yourself all the nutrition it provides! I have 2 every day for breakfast with mushrooms and spinach (cooked in olive oil) and I never feel hungry!
 
smw99 said:
All the latest evidence says that whole eggs are the perfect food and do not raise your cholesterol so eat the whole thing and give yourself all the nutrition it provides! I have 2 every day for breakfast with mushrooms and spinach (cooked in olive oil) and I never feel hungry!
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Is it safe to eat two whole eggs with yolks? Doesn't it increase high blood cholesterol?have you tested your cholesterol?

Egg is one of my favourite breakfast, but I fear having it with yellow yolks will increase my blood cholesterol levels, hence eating only white part of it.

But my main question was also why I m not feeling hungry after eating the liji's granula ? I felt hungry after 6 hours. My bg falls to 5.6 after 5 hours. Does it slowly release or manage bg better?
 
biren1973 said:
Is it safe to eat two whole eggs with yolks? Doesn't it increase high blood cholesterol?have you tested your cholesterol?
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As already mentioned, anything that you eat which contains cholesterol does not have any effect on your cholesterol and yes, even Ansel Keys was saying that back in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The more cholesterol you eat the less the body produces and the less you eat the more it produces.

I personally haven't tested my cholesterol, the cheaper test meters haven't been around for that long. You can have a look at some research that Surrey University did back in 2009 at http://www.surrey.ac.uk/mediacentre/press/2009/2840_twoegg_diet_cracks_cholesterol_issue.htm.

I'm currently having PC problems because I can't open that URL, but if you google "surrey university cholesterol" it will be there.

For me, dairy seems to push my cholesterol numbers up, I can keep my total cholesterol to about 4 without medication, which is the name of the game, just have to avoid the cheese and cream.
 
DavidGrahamJones said:
As already mentioned, anything that you eat which contains cholesterol does not have any effect on your cholesterol and yes, even Ansel Keys was saying that back in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The more cholesterol you eat the less the body produces and the less you eat the more it produces.
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Hi

Thanks for your reply. I still don't understand when you say "The more cholesterol you eat the less the body produces and the less you eat the more it produces."

So do you mean eating cholesterol reduces cholesterol in blood?

I checked the link, but that research was based in BHF diet, not low carb diet. Will that make any difference?

Regards
 
As said above, cholesterol in foods such as eggs will not cause your body cholesterol to increase. Our livers manufacture our body cholesterol. Eggs are very nutritious. I eat 2 or 3 every day, sometimes more, and my cholesterol is normal. The fat content will stop the hunger.
 
biren1973 said:
I checked the link, but that research was based in BHF diet, not low carb diet. Will that make any difference?
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I'm only talking about eggs and and cholesterol that you eat.

The body produces cholesterol because our body needs cholesterol.

If you eat a lot of cholesterol the body doesn't have to make so much, the cholesterol in your blood is not affected. That piece of research should have been about 12 students who ate 2 eggs a day for 12 weeks and their cholesterol levels were unaffected.
 
Cholesterol is not a bad thing and it is necessary for the function of your body. Do not believe all the hype saying otherwise. Yes your body will adjust and make more cholesterol if you don't eat it. Your body makes the majority of the cholesterol anyway.
 
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