normal BG levels
Just to make a point, this is from About.com
Quote on:
What is a Normal Blood Glucose Level?
A. Blood glucose levels change due to the interaction among what we eat, our
physical activity and insulin. Normal values of blood glucose levels (for a
person without diabetes) are between 70 and 110 mg/dL before a meal, or below
120 mg/dL 2 hours after eating a meal. - Nina Nazor (end quote)
While it is said that diabetics have higher BG after a meal, I don’t buy that we
have to have 140 mg/dl or more after eating because it is well known that such
high levels of BG are a good indication there has already been damage done and
is an indication of continuing problems.
I cruised a little (didn’t keep all the links) and found time and again that 140
mg/dl of bg is an indication we’re getting damage. Keeping post-prandial BGs to
this level is just staving off the worst of the damage. These were not
Bernstein related sites.
The times, they are a changing, as Dylan would say. As more and more
researchers find out how bad it is for us to have eleveated BG levels the more
concerned they are about maintaining high levels in people.
Andrew - you can disagree with Bernstein, but you can’t argue that his methods
get people to have normal BG and that his documenation regarding reversals in
organ damage are anything other than rock solid. Whether you want to follow the
method is another thing. I admit that it isn’t that easy to do. It isn’t easy
for him, either - but the alternative (major organ failure, amputations, etc.)
is a worse alternative.
I talk Bernstein because he is about the only one who makes any sense regarding
surviving diabetes with all my body parts. Can you provide me with information
that anyone else is as methodical and can control diabetes and reverse damage to
the human body who does not use these kinds of methods? I have never seen
anything, and believe me, I have looked.
Best,
Marsha
May 2nd, 2005 at 1:14 am
non diabetics with numbers as high as 120 are not nondiabetics. I have
checked a lot of people and even after icecream and a large dinner the
numbers are not over 90 as a general rule. My husband has never read
over 85. I am very leary of the info on about.com a lot of the time.
These people are paid to gleen info from the web and put it on the
site. They arent always the most accurate. and I find the diabetes
one uses a lot of info from the ada site.
Just my not so humble opinion*G*
Walk in Peace
Ruby
"Tread with gentleness and respect on the Sacred Land: within it are