Posted on 07/16/2006 7:03:22 PM PDT by neverdem
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=Search&db=PubMed&term=110+mg%2Fdl&tool=QuerySuggestion will give you a start on 876 formal medical references to 110 mg/dl. Take a good look at #24 where a group in Finland evaluated cutting the standard to 100 mg/dl for purposes of reviewing relative morbidity rates.
I've found there's a recovery time ~ working for an hour or two burns out the glycogen faster than it can be replaced, so you need a break for a half hour or so, then things catch up.
Your blood sugar ought to be anywhere from 85 to 95 during that period.
Our natural diet seems to be much more in tune with that of pastoralists ~ herdsmen ~ than hunter/gatherers with their high carbohydrate diets.
I'm with you 100% on that one. I have been in the Long Term Care (PC for Nursing Home) industry for many years.
Alzheimer's is the result of the body out living the brain IMHO.
No offense to you or your husband but Mercola's website appears to be quackery to me. I was wrong to over-generalize and I apologize.
I totally disagree with your opinion of Mercola. He references everything he says.
Oh, I DID disagree with his perception of Bird Flu though :)
Per your suggestion #24
Assessing the preprandial glucose target: 100 mg/dL versus 110 mg/dL.
"OBJECTIVE: To assess the potential value of lowering the impaired fasting glucose (IFG) cut point from 110 mg/dL to 100 mg/dL. METHODS: Data from pertinent published studies are analyzed in an effort to identify the risk of diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and mortality under various glycemic conditions. RESULTS: The risk of developing diabetes increases with advancing age. The relationship is strongest when the 2-hour plasma glucose level is analyzed, whereas the fasting plasma glucose level is generally stable and changes little with aging. The 2-hour plasma glucose level has a linear relationship with cardiovascular disease and mortality. Most patients with acute myocardial infarction have high 2-hour plasma glucose levels but normal fasting plasma glucose values. Increased mortality risk based on the fasting plasma glucose level does not appear until values of approximately 7 mmol/L (126 mg/dL) and remains relatively flat at lower levels. CONCLUSION: Lowering the cut point for IFG from 6.1 mmol/L to 5.6 mmol/L (110 mg/dL to 100 mg/dL) increases the prevalence of IFG but does not predict mortality below 7 mmol/L (126 mg/dL)."
My question: is it normal for FBS to increase as one ages? I already watch my carbs and I exercise.
I developed diabetes a week after my 54th birthday. My father got it when he was 54 and his mother got it when she turned 54. I am not obese, nor is my father, nor was my grandmother.
Certainly sounds genetic to me.
Not going to say to not worry about it, but best shot is to assume you got the genes and you need to follow the diet as best you can.
Unfortunately the pre-agricultural and huntergatherer genes are all mixed up in our population. YOu may not have a problem at all.
Family members who never developed it may have simply had the luck of the draw, or, they spent their whole lives on farms or doing heavy labor in forestry related industry.
It's real easy to lay out a pattern to find out if it's genetic in our case.
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