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Question: What is a good diet for someone with border line glucose levels?

(Posted by: miss renee on 2010-03-10 20:54:22)

If there are ketones in the urine and glucose levels are borderline high what would be some foods to avoid? I always thought you had to be overweight to have this but I'm not but I have a problem with eating what I want when I want. Gonna have to change a lot of things. My brother is 5 yrs older then me and recently found out he has diabetes pretty bad! I also have a thyroid tumor, liver issues (swollen and enzymes go between normal to high), and reoccuring kidney issues. I been pretty sick lately. Weird thing is I don't hardly ever drink, never smoke and am the right weight and don't have a gallbladder prob and test neg for hepatitis. I hope these army dr's find the problem soon!

Posted by: Tin S on 2010-03-11, 06:20:16

A great way to eat for all diabetics and prediabetics. A low glycemic diet. mendosa.com/ gilists.htm This table includes the glycemic index and glycemic load of more than 2,480 individual food items. Not all of them, however, are available in the United States. They represent a true international effort of testing around the world. The glycemic index (GI) is a numerical system of measuring how much of a rise in circulating blood sugar a carbohydrate triggers–the higher the number, the greater the blood sugar response. So a low GI food will cause a small rise, while a high GI food will trigger a dramatic spike. A list of carbohydrates with their glycemic values is shown below. A GI is 70 or more is high, a GI of 56 to 69 inclusive is medium, and a GI of 55 or less is low. The glycemic load (GL) is a relatively new way to assess the impact of carbohydrate consumption that takes the glycemic index into account, but gives a fuller picture than does glycemic index alone. A GI value tells you only how rapidly a particular carbohydrate turns into sugar. It doesn't tell you how much of that carbohydrate is in a serving of a particular food. You need to know both things to understand a food's effect on blood sugar. That is where glycemic load comes in. The carbohydrate in watermelon, for example, has a high GI. But there isn't a lot of it, so watermelon's glycemic load is relatively low. A GL of 20 or more is high, a GL of 11 to 19 inclusive is medium, and a GL of 10 or less is low. Foods that have a low GL almost always have a low GI. Foods with an intermediate or high GL range from very low to very high GI. Both GI and GL are listed here. The GI is of foods based on the glucose index–where glucose is set to equal 100. The other is the glycemic load, which is the glycemic index divided by 100 multiplied by its available carbohydrate content (i.e. carbohydrates minus fiber) in grams. (The "Serve size (g) " column is the serving size in grams for calculating the glycemic load; for simplicity of presentation I have left out an intermediate column that shows the available carbohydrates in the stated serving sizes.) Take, watermelon as an example of calculating glycemic load. Its glycemic index is pretty high, about 72. According to the calculations by the people at the University of Sydney's Human Nutrition Unit, in a serving of 120 grams it has 6 grams of available carbohydrate per serving, so its glycemic load is pretty low, 72/ 100*6= 4.32, rounded to 4. But you must also add :I know you don't want to hear it, EXERCISE. Walking is fine Nordic walking is great. Google it. I use plain old sticks. With this exercise my Blood Pressure and Cholesterol levels have went from high to very normal. While my HBA1C is 5.5 and fasting glucose level is 111. Please start today. You surely don't want to have diabetes. Its a bummer. It alters your lifestyle dramaticly. Take care Tin

Posted by: Shailja on 2010-03-10, 23:18:51

The condition of diabetes which is not considered as a condition of diabetes is known as borderline diabetes. A borderline diabetic is an individual whose fasting blood sugar level test that comes back from the medical laboratory has a range of 100 to 125 mg/ dL. If an individual has been diagnosed with this condition, it is important to take measures to prevent this condition from moving to being classified as a full diabetic. Some of those measures that can be taken include an exercise program, having one’s blood checked regularly and adhering to a borderline diabetes diet. Although there is no uniform borderline diabetes diet, there are specific diabetes diet guidelines that should be followed. Therefore, a borderline diabetes diet consists of foods that are low in sugar content and consist of the minimal use of animal products.A borderline diabetes diet includes whole grains fruits and vegetable in rich amount. There are also available in the market some pills containing anti diabetic herbs like bitter melon, epicatechin etc.These pills are very helpful in controlling blood sugar and have no side effects as these are purely NATURAL. Much of the daily care involves trying to keep blood sugar levels from going too high (hyperglycaemia) or too low(hypoglycaemia). If left untreated hyperglycaemia can lead to a condition called ketoacidosis, which can be fatal. Ketoacidosis occurs when you start to produce harmful substances called ketones, which appear in your blood and urine. Your doctor will show you how to test your urine for ketones.