Diabetic Diet & Blood Gluecose

A hospital might have one. If your BG was really that high, you wouldn’t be walking around, you’d be in the hospital on an insulin drip.

Cinnamon is supposed to help regulate blood glucose levels. Does anyone have success with it?

I take cinnamon but I truly don’t know if it really helps because I do so much more to control my glucose levels. My fasting is 96 and my hba1c is 5.5. It’s too hard to determine what is working and what is not.
I take 2000 mg of metformin a day and 3 mg. of Amaryl.
Plus I exercise 1 1/2 hours a day . Nordic Walking Google it.
And also I follow a low glycemic index diet ;http://www.mendosa.com/gilists.htm

So who knows. But I will tell you that it sure can’t hurt to try.
Also try the lemon or lime juice and also use vinegar on your salads.
Use ¼ to ½ teaspoon of cinnamon per day. Add it to your coffee, oatmeal, smoothie, or wherever you find it palatable.
If you already suffer from diabetes, be sure to stay on a regular schedule with your cinnamon usage so that your blood sugar levels don’t yo-yo.Use the same amount at the same time every day so that you can get a sense of how cinnamon affects your own personal blood sugar readings.
Use the powdered spice or a cinnamon stick. Cinnamon pills are also available, and can be found easily via an online search. MHCP is water soluble and is not found in cinnamon oil.

Lime and lemon juice delay the digestion of starches as does vinegar. I’ve found that 2-3 tablespoons of lime or lemon juice reduces my post prandial BG response by 10-20 points. Rick Mendosa’s site has a lot of material on acids in the diet. Take a look at http://www.mendosa.com/acidic_foods.htm .

Good luck
Tin

My 11 year old daughter is a Type-1 diabetic. She was diagnosed at age 9 and has gone through extreme medical ups and downs in the past two years. Today her doctor placed her on a restricted diet:
NO potatoes, pasta, sweets, or chips.
VERY LITTLE breads, carbs, starches.
LOTS OF veggies,
as much meat as she wants. Except fatty meats like bacon. All the foods she loves have been eliminated. Where can I find tasty, kid-friendly substitutions and recipes that will ease the transition for her?

www.dlife.com has a ton of great recipes…the best I’ve had, and they’re all lower in carbs. Click on the "Recipes" icon at the top, then you can type "kid" in the search field for kid-friendly recipes, but you’ll find all kinds of foods in there. Focus on keeping her carbs at less than 30g per meal, it will keep her BG’s much more stable.

My mother is diabetic and I used her blood glucose meter this morning and it said my blood sugar level was 76. It that bad.

76 is low for most people, except if you haven’t eaten for a long time, which can lead to low BG’s.

For diabetics, that is to be considered a low BG value, that must be acted upon.

However, I know people that have a tendency to have low BG (a cousin of mine comes to mind), for whom these values can be "normal".

Before making any assumptions one way or the other, you should definitely consult with a doctor, because "normal" sugars hover around 100.

I would like to invite your mother to come join TuDiabetes.com, a growing global community for people touched by diabetes. I think she will benefit from sharing her experience with others living through the same challenges we diabetics experience every day.

Hyperglycemia isn’t a "form" of Diabetes, but instead is a symptom of the condition.
Signs / symptoms of hyperglycemia (high blood sugar) include: extreme thirst, frequent urination, dry skin, hunger, blurred vision, drowsiness, and decreased healing. If you haven’t yet been diagnosed by your doctor as diabetic and you are expriencing these symptoms, definitely go get checked out.

If you have already been diagnosed as being a diabetic, check your BG regularly and watch out for high levels. Most information that I have came across has said that anything over 200 for more than 2 days in a row warrants a call to your doctor. I have also been told (by those more educated and experienced than myself) that anything over 300 is cosidered dangerously high and should be a cause for concern (and probably a trip to the ER).

I try to control my diet and do moderate exercise every alternate days for about 20 minutes. It is difficult to manage my diabetes, friends say having diabetes supplement is another way. Any suggestions.

My husband, Richard is a type 2 for the past 15 years. Due to his high BG and high blood pressure. The main concern is Bg which is at 200. After much pursuasion, I ask him to quit his highly stressful job as a hotelier. I help monitor his his diet, low carb, moderate exercise in the garden and reduce stress. It does not reduce his BG. Our friend, Joey suggested us to try as supplement, Dbethics which has helped many to reduce their BG. I was not interested but later decided to try. After
about 10 days my BG drop to 105 and I went to see my endocrynologist who advised me to reduce my insulin
by 5 units in the morning and another 5 units in the evening.

After 2 months I did my HBA1C tests and was amazed that
it has drop by 3 points. My doctor is equally surprised and
has requested me to continue to monitor my Bg closely. Hope it can help you.

Ok you southern ladies I know that someone out there is a diabetic and is from the south. Help my sister just found out she could be a diabetic and we all have the gene. Help us convert some southern food into what would be acceptable for a diabetic. Thanks Sister from the south.

I grew up in Louisiana, am currently living in Mississippi, I’m 44, and Type 2, and a retired chef. I started out with a BG of 1400 and my A1C was 13 (March 09). Making only minor changes I have gotten my BG under control and my last A1C was 6.8 (May 09). Here is what I did:
Sugar out, splenda in.
Reg. soda’s out, diet in.
white bread out, whole grain in.
White rice out, brown or wild in.
Regular pastas out, wheat came in.
Processed foods, like spag. sauce out, homemade in.
Fresh veggies.
Lean meats.
Reg. jelly out, in came sugar free, same for syrup.

Other then those, I just used PORTION CONTROL. and that is a biggie. Read labels on everything. Measure everything. If a portion is half a cup, that is what I ate. The only items I would eat more of would be veggies, if I needed seconds. Count every thing you put in your mouth, no matter if it is only 5g of carbs. It all adds up. Now I did register and use this site: http://www.fitday.com to track all my car bs, cholesterol, salt, and fat, as well as my vitamins everyday. This is a great site, and has been very helpful to me (it also will keep up with calories that you burn, and your exercises). I still eat mashed and fried potatoes, fried chicken, cornbread, biscuits, and sweets. But like I said, I measure everything, and I count every single carb. Good luck to you.

I am a high school student doing a project on Diabetes. Part of the project consists of asking a few questions to people with Diabetes.

My eleven year old daughter has type 1 diabetes. She was diagnosed at the age of 8. She has been on the insulin pump for 2 1/2 years. Her daily routine starts with testing when she first awakens (about 6:30), followed by breakfast. She enters her blood glucose (BG) and the number of carbs she will eat into the pump and it calculates how much insulin she needs to cover these. At 10:00am she tests again to see if her number is good and either corrects (through the pump) or has a snack to elevate her BG if she is a little low.
She tests again at lunchtime (about 11:45) and repeats the process from breakfast. She tests a 4th time after school, (3:00ish) to see where her BG is. If she is participating in an after school sport she will need a snack to keep her BG up with the extra activity. At dinner time (roughly 6:00) she will repeat the testing and enter into the pump her BG and carbs. She tests for the 6th and last time (usually) at bedtime.
The pump holds insulin in a tube called a resevoir and delivers the insulin through a tube to a canula called an infusion set that is inserted under the skin of her abdomen area. The infusion set and resevoir need to be changed every 2-3 days and is done at home by me.
She sees her pediatric endocronoligist every 3 months for an HbA1c test, height/weight etc and to monitor how well she is managing her BG.
This is our typical daily routine. Which is subject to change at any time as her BG is affected by: an increase in physical activity, illness, stress, problem with the pump or set, etc etc