2-step OGTT: You do not have to fast for the first part of the test. You will have the glucose drink at any time of day. Your blood sugar level will be checked 1 hour later. If your blood sugar is higher than a certain level, another test will be ordered. You will fast and you...
@popcorn - My mother has Type 2 diabetes and it can be a really difficult medical problem to deal with. If you are taking a fasting glucose test you should know that the normal fasting glucose range is under 100 mg/dL, and those with fasting levels between 100 mg/dL to 125 mg/dL ar...
2-step OGTT: You do not have to fast for the first part of the test. You will have the glucose drink at any time of day. Your blood sugar level will be checked 1 hour later. If your blood sugar is higher than a certain level, another test will be ordered. You will fast and you...
Diabetes is a major issue in the US, yet many people don’t know what it really is. That needs to change! Because it touches so many lives, everyone should know the key facts about diabetes. Very simply put, it’s a group of diseases that now includes prediabetes, gestational, type ...
Dietary Factors and Type 2 Diabetes in the Middle East: What Is the Evidence for an Association?––A Systematic Review by Lena Al-Khudairy 1,*, Saverio Stranges 1, Sudhesh Kumar 2, Nasser Al-Daghri 3 and Karen Rees 1 1 Division of Health Sciences, Warwick Medical School, Un...
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1/3 will be spelt and rye) to make a daily fresh loaf of bread. Yes, I love baking and eating bread, but more importantly, it’s basically the most universally feared food of the 21st century. These days, bread is synonymous with “weight gain”, or even “poison” in some circles...
The following is from AMA #1… Peter’s top five lab tests: Lp(a)-P (or Lp[a] mass is a reasonable approximation). APOE genotype. LDL-P (or ApoB). OGTT with insulin measurements. ALT. –Honorable mentions: Hcy, hs-CRP, oxLDL, and oxPL, fibrinogen, Lp-PLA2, ADMA and SDMA ar...
Well, I suspect there exists a different “frequency distribution function” that describes how often I could binge like this without resuming unhealthy eating habits in the long run. If I had to guess, I think the threshold for recidivism is higher from the behavioral tipping point than it is...
Since its invention/discovery in 1965, there is not a single well-documented case of chronic harm to a human from ingesting aspartame, and prior to its approval for human consumption in the early 1980’s it had been studied in approximately 100 independent studies. A possible exceptio...