Wednesday, December 28, 2011

How Can You Determine What Food's Have A Naturally High Level Of Glucose?

396545384 Can you use glucose blood test strips glucose urine test strips? how can you determine it's percent? (2%>,2%,1%,.5%)

4 comments:

  1. goldenretrievers - ASK your doctor if he recommends a low carbohydrate diet. Carbs have lots of sugars.

    breads, pastas, junk foods


    some no to little carbs would be..... meats, eggs etc.


    look it up do some research, but PLEASE ask your doctor/dietician what he wants YOUR paticular diet to be at this time as only he knows whats going on with your glucose levels. Call your doctor and
    ask soon or go in.


    We watched the movie FAT HEAD... and it disputes the govts idea that fat is bad. When its fats we need and not so much of the carbs... its a good watch

    ReplyDelete
  2. Ajaz - Sugary, Salty, High in Carbohydrates food.

    ReplyDelete
  3. buffalo - That would be almost impossible.
    But you could easily find the load , or how quick foods raise your glucose levels.

    http://www.mendosa.com/gilists.htm

    This table includes the glycemic index and glycemic load of more than 2,480 individual food items. Not all of them, however, are available in the United States. They represent a true international effort of testing around the world.


    The glycemic index (GI) is a numerical system of measuring how much of a rise in circulating blood sugar a carbohydrate triggers–the higher the number, the greater the blood sugar response. So a low GI food will cause a small rise, while a high GI food will trigger a dramatic spike. A list of carbohydrates with their glycemic values is shown below. A GI is 70 or more is high, a GI of 56 to 69 inclusive is medium, and a GI of 55 or less is low.


    The glycemic load (GL) is a relatively new way to assess the impact of carbohydrate consumption that takes the glycemic index into account, but gives a fuller picture than does glycemic index alone. A GI value tells you only how rapidly a particular carbohydrate turns into sugar. It doesn't tell you how much of that carbohydrate is in a serving of a particular food. You need to know both things to understand a food's effect on blood sugar. That is where glycemic load comes in. The carbohydrate in watermelon, for example, has a high GI. But there isn't a lot of it, so watermelon's glycemic load is relatively low. A GL of 20 or more is high, a GL of 11 to 19 inclusive is medium, and a GL of 10 or less is low.


    Foods that have a low GL almost always have a low GI. Foods with an intermediate or high GL range from very low to very high GI.


    Both GI and GL are listed here. The GI is of foods based on the glucose index–where glucose is set to equal 100. The other is the glycemic load, which is the glycemic index divided by 100 multiplied by its available carbohydrate content (i.e. carbohydrates minus fiber) in grams. (The "Serve size (g)" column is the serving size in grams for calculating the glycemic load; for simplicity of presentation I have left out an intermediate column that shows the available carbohydrates in the stated serving sizes.) Take, watermelon as an example of calculating glycemic load. Its glycemic index is pretty high, about 72. According to the calculations by the people at the University of Sydney's Human Nutrition Unit, in a serving of 120 grams it has 6 grams of available carbohydrate per serving, so its glycemic load is pretty low, 72/100*6=4.32, rounded to 4.

    Take care
    Buff

    ReplyDelete