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Diabetes Diet Prescription
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Glucose
Levels
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 In essence a diabetic diet is
nothing more than a good
healthy diet, it does not mean having to go out and by
specialty foods that cost a lot of money and are hard to
find.
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Glucose or sugar comes from many of the
foods we eat and as our food is digested it enters the
bloodstream.
Once in the bloodstream the glucose in the
normal person is broken down by the insulin produced in the
pancreas and then passed to every cell in your body where it is
used as a fuel to keep the cells functioning.
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If you suspect you may have diabetes there is one particular diabetic test
that most doctors prefer to use above all others to make the most accurate diagnosis possible. If
your doctor wants to confirm your suspicions he will order a Fasting Plasma Glucose Test, this test
for diabetes is considered the most accurate available.
In order for you to take this test you will need to fast for at least 8
hours after which a blood sample will be taken and sent to the lab for testing. If the readings of
this particular diabetes test come back with readings that are between 70 and 100 milligrams for
your blood glucose level chances are pretty good that you do not have type 2 diabetes. However is
if it 126 milligrams or higher you blood sugar levels are too high, and you may need to be place on
medication.
If you have other factors that put you at risk for diabetes, normal
blood sugar levels may not rule out diabetes. Your doctor may order another type of test known as a glucose
tolerance test to make sure he can safely rule out diabetes.
The oral glucose tolerance test is another way that doctors use to detect
diabetes, especially if the standard fasting test results are inconclusive.
This is the only gestational glucose test for diabetes when the pregnant
woman shows the symptoms associates with type 2 diabetes, but has passed the fasting test with
normal levels of blood glucose.
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