Re: Almonds

Mak <stopthespam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Wed, 05 Jul 2006 02:47:55 GMT, Wes Groleau
<groleau+news@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Huffed and Puffed the following into the
madness of usenet:

Mak wrote:
On Tue, 04 Jul 2006 19:47:43 GMT, Wes Groleau

Mak wrote:
non-diabetics don't have problems with high BGs no matter what they
eat.
This goes back to the thread about diagnostic criteria.

By the "official standard," my wife is non-diabetic.
Yet her FBG is sometimes higher than mine and her PP
is usually higher than mine.

In other words, she DOES have a problem with high BG.

what have her numbers actually gotten up to?

I have measured over 140 several times. Once 191.
But her A1c is nearly normal.

Then simply for her own good, she should, act as if, she is already
diagnosed as type 2 and eat and exercise accordingly. Look up
pre-diabetes. Other than that not much to do about it.

It's likely she would be officially diagnosed as diabetic if she could
get a doc or an endo to administer an OGTT. If prescription costs are
an issue, it might be easier in the US just now to get an official
OGTT test and be diagnosed diabetic rather than finding a doc/medical
insurer willing to diagnose/accept pre-diabetes and prescribe/pay for
(strips for example). That's one of the sillinesses of the current
ADA diagnostic procedures, and the reason why the WHO differ from the
ADA over the use of the OGTT.

(Apologies if I haven't managed to cover the variability in current US
procedures in the above paragraph. US diabetics have a much more
complex medical system to deal with of which I only have hearsay
knowledge.)

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