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<blockquote data-quote="smidge" data-source="post: 819618" data-attributes="member: 29301"><p>Hi Lesley,</p><p></p><p>Firstly, I'm afraid our body's helpful liver dumps are every bit as bad food - a non diabetic would produce insulin when their liver releases glucose to make sure they bring it back under control; our's can't do that.</p><p></p><p>As for snacking to keep your BG stable, that's a tough one. I guess it depends on whether stable BGs that are slightly raised for a long period (i.e. your permanent mid 5s) are better or worse than BG that have a variability with long periods of normal, healthy levels (i.e. high 3s to low 4s) but the occasional short spike up into the 6s when your liver does its thing. I'm afraid I don't know the answer to that. I guess at the levels you currently run, I'd probably settle for the stable mid 5s, but if that started to edge towards stable high 5s I'd go for the low BGs with occasional liver dump spikes. This will probably happen as your condition progresses. Not sure that's very logical though.</p><p></p><p>Smidge</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="smidge, post: 819618, member: 29301"] Hi Lesley, Firstly, I'm afraid our body's helpful liver dumps are every bit as bad food - a non diabetic would produce insulin when their liver releases glucose to make sure they bring it back under control; our's can't do that. As for snacking to keep your BG stable, that's a tough one. I guess it depends on whether stable BGs that are slightly raised for a long period (i.e. your permanent mid 5s) are better or worse than BG that have a variability with long periods of normal, healthy levels (i.e. high 3s to low 4s) but the occasional short spike up into the 6s when your liver does its thing. I'm afraid I don't know the answer to that. I guess at the levels you currently run, I'd probably settle for the stable mid 5s, but if that started to edge towards stable high 5s I'd go for the low BGs with occasional liver dump spikes. This will probably happen as your condition progresses. Not sure that's very logical though. Smidge [/QUOTE]
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