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Testing Food Response Using a Blood Glucose Meter
By Richard Morris (www.easylocarb.com)
Should you give up certain foods or sweeteners? Well, it depends. We all have different glucose
responses to identical foods. Blood sugar levels in response to foods are highly individual, so the only
way to really know is to test yourself by doing a glucose curve using a retail glucometer.
Not everyone needs to go to this level of detail but if you find after eating certain foods that you just
seem to get hungrier, it’s quite possible that you have a specific glycemic response.
Glucose Curve
You can do a glucose curve with any food. The two questions you want to know are; Will this food turn
quickly into glucose in my blood, and if not will I secrete insulin in response to it anyway.
What you will be doing is taking a glucose curve in response to a challenge. That should directly answer
the first question, and you can kind of extrapolate an answer to the second question. So you want to
test far enough away from an event that would otherwise confound the results.
Normal people are usually back to a normal glucose level after a normal meal in about 2-3 hrs. A type
2 diabetic can take 4-5. Exercise is also a confounder, so give it an hour after mild exercise, several after
hard exercise. Also when you wake up your body produces hormones that goose your production of
glucose.
The best time is probably several hours after waking up, having skipped breakfast.
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