Re: For T2, are all sugars bad or just glucose?

"RPS" <rps@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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I am not the greatest chemist out there, but I do remember that foods
contain several kind of "sugars", among them glucose, fructose,
maltose, etc.

However, the diabetic narrative is full of glucose and nothing else.
Never heard of a "blood fructose meter". :-)

So I am wondering: Are all sugars bad for T2's, or is it just glucose?

Hi RPS ,
very good question if you ask me :)

Yes you remember that correctly , food contains all kinds of sugars and
sugars are chemically related substances of course.

However in the design of the human body glucose got a very special function
: it is used as an energy carrier.This is by design , you can do nothing
about it.To use an analogy : in a powerplant a fuel , an energy source ,
coal , oil , natural gas , wind etc is converted to electricity.In your body
carbohydrates , bread , potatoes , vegetables , fat , meat etc is converted
to glucose.The glucose is than transported in your blood stream to where
ever it is needed.

Both for the same reason : logistic problems.The transport of electricity
and glucose is easier.So there are all kinds of sytems in your body to
convert things to glucose , to store glucose , to do the glucose bookkeeping
: how much do we have and do we need more of it at the moment.

There is a problem : free glucose is a bit of agressive chemical.It reacts
with all kinds of proteins.So the transport of glucose takes place in your
blood stream at an unbelieveble low concentration which is very tightly
regulated by hormones like insulin and glucagon.

Some parts of these sytems are impaired if you have T2D , the glucose
concentration in your blood may become too high giving rise to all kind of
medical complications : neuropathy ( which I have) , heart- and kidney
problems.So a good thing is to keep your blood glucose levels in check
yourselve now your body does nolonger do that for you fully automatically
:( Oneway to do it is to keep track of the carbohydrates you eat and check
with a bg meter to see what effect they have on you personal.

The checking is of course only effective if you know what to with the
outcome.Measuring your bg in itself is just useless.So your second question
: where are the manuals ? is an even better question.Do not limit yourselve
to the low-carb books.If you want a good book than here is are a few free
ones :
http://www.endotext.org/diabetes/index.htm
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/bv.fcgi?rid=diabetes
and take a look at the science behind it all at :
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/sites/entrez
hth
Gys


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