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[Alaskan]

Well... lower blood sugar...



Eat lots of veggies, but no fruits.

Eat your protein without the yummy sauces

Tada, lower blood sugar.

 

[chickadoodles]

Well... lower blood sugar...



Eat lots of veggies, but no fruits.

Eat your protein without the yummy sauces

Tada, lower blood sugar.

Thanks Alaskan!

 

[Alaskan]

Thanks Alaskan! 

No problem.

You need to eat mostly just the veggies and protein.

So definitely avoid carbs. Especially white bread which is the equivalent of pure sugar.

Oh... and exercise, and drink lots.




It sucks... I like all of the bad stuff.


But a slight improvement in diet and exercise levels might be all you need.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Beer that is weird. Your probably right it was very likely the spider.

Deb I guess I missed that you had bells last year. So sorry, and so glad your ok.

I too would love to see all those guinea's hatch!

Al I hope all your critters will be well taken care of while your away.

Can anyone tell me how to lower my blood sugar? I got a call from my Dr.s office yesterday and they said it was a bit high and the Dr. would go over it with me next month when I go back.

Was your blood sugar high according to a fasting test done in the morning...or an A1C which measures the blood sugar from the last 3 months?
Here's a better explanation of the A1C

https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information/diabetes/overview/tests-diagnosis/a1c-test

The foods as Alaskan mentioned. Protein helps slow down the absorption of sugars from foods. Eating a source of protein like nuts, soybeans, meat, egg (<<yes, please) ..helps. Milk is a protein but it also has 12 grams of sugar in one cup of milk. That alone puts me over. I drink milk 1/2 cup at a time and only with another food. I was admitted into the hospital when I was pregnant with gestational diabetes and the diet was 1/2 cup at a time.

For me, these put me over on sugars:

• Overeating (what?...me?)
• Chinese food - It's the sauces like Alaskan mentioned.
  
  And all the simple starches in the breading.
• Milk - In increments more than a 1/2 glass
• Starches - like too much potato
• Sugar laden food like chocolate bars, anything with caramel...caramel is a nasty one
• Mixes with sugar - chocolate milk mix, ice tea mix
• Pasteries, cookies
  
• Alcohols - especially sweet ones like liqueurs
• Hard candies
• Soft drinks - super nasty amounts of sugar

My doctor's exact words "if it tastes good...spit it out." How hilarious is that!

An over-simplified explanation of type 2 diabetes is the body's lack of ability to either produce enough insulin from the pancreas to utilize the sugar and/or the body's inability to utilize the sugar. Somehow the cells can't be properly unlocked to utilize it.

Smaller meals more often are also helpful to keep from overloading your system with sugar.

 

[microchick]

Also look into cinnamon. It's been found that it will lower blood sugar if you use it in conjunction with a low carb, low sugar diet. You want to stay completely away from bad carbs, pastry, sweets, pasta, white rice, etc. All the good stuff is off limits. Do a search for complex carbs. Those you can have on occasion as long as you don't overdo it and you watch your serving size. You also want to reduce your serving sizes in general to what the recommendation is. Veggies are a free IF you cook them without sauces and fats. Raw veggies are great. Meat, 4 to 6 ounce servings only. The rule of thumb is to imagine a deck of playing cards. That is what the size of your meat portion should be. Your whole meal should fit in the palm of your hand. Also shoot for ultra lean meats. Chicken breast, Pork loin, Sirloin, etc. Everything baked or broiled, never fried.

I've heard of a diabetic lowering their fasting blood sugars literally overnight using cinnamon capsules at bedtime. But please, read before you try it.

Drink LOTS of fluids, no sugars and try to avoid artificial sweetners as much as possible as they can cause your body to think they are real sugars and store insulin instead of releasing it into your bloodstream.

Make sure you don't have a secondary infection going on. Bladder infections, sinus infections, even stress can cause fluctuations in blood sugars.

You can do this, @Chickadoodles! Surprise your doctor when you see him next month.

Oh! EXERCISE EXERCISE EXERCISE! And then EXERCISE some more!

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Quote: X 2 on all that.
I also like the bad stuff.

For me...bread doesn't affect me badly. Which is great...'cause I like bread.

Does chicken chores count as exercise???

I had trouble with sugars from the early 90s. I didn't figure it until much later what was going on.
Docs didn't detect anything until 2008. Wasn't on meds until 2013.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

Also look into cinnamon. It's been found that it will lower blood sugar if you use it in conjunction with a low carb, low sugar diet. You want to stay completely away from bad carbs, pastry, sweets, pasta, white rice, etc. All the good stuff is off limits. Do a search for complex carbs. Those you can have on occasion as long as you don't overdo it and you watch your serving size. You also want to reduce your serving sizes in general to what the recommendation is. Veggies are a free IF you cook them without sauces and fats. Raw veggies are great. Meat, 4 to 6 ounce servings only. The rule of thumb is to imagine a deck of playing cards. That is what the size of your meat portion should be. Your whole meal should fit in the palm of your hand. Also shoot for ultra lean meats. Chicken breast, Pork loin, Sirloin, etc. Everything baked or broiled, never fried.

I've heard of a diabetic lowering their fasting blood sugars literally overnight using cinnamon capsules at bedtime. But please, read before you try it.

Drink LOTS of fluids, no sugars and try to avoid artificial sweetners as much as possible as they can cause your body to think they are real sugars and store insulin instead of releasing it into your bloodstream.

Make sure you don't have a secondary infection going on. Bladder infections, sinus infections, even stress can cause fluctuations in blood sugars.

You can do this, @Chickadoodles! Surprise your doctor when you see him next month.

Oh! EXERCISE EXERCISE EXERCISE! And then EXERCISE some more!

I was just reading about ACV the other night (apple cider vinegar) the other night and it's positive effects on blood sugars. That was 2 nights ago...I haven't looked in to it further...but it sounded really good.

I eat more protein than I should sometimes and sometimes its not as lean as it should be. Fat also slows down the absorption doesn't it? I realize it's still not the "best" idea...but I like everything on a pork chop.

 

[Wickedchicken6]

@microchick The first thing I did this morning was to pick up my Babygirl and look at her eyes after reading about your girls. You got me thinking maybe that's why she never goes out far. She's one who has never ventured further than 10 feet away from the coop. She's like a little stuffed animal...lol. As far as I can tell her eyes look normal. Whew. That's really good to know...and something to look for.

I was telling DH about the changes in humans eyes from the Herpes virus that you mentioned. I did not know about that. Scary. I imagine 99.9% of people don't know of the damage it causes.

 

[Beer can]

Chaga and or Reishi mushroom tea is supposed to lower blood sugar.
DW's dad is diabetic, he only has to take a pill though and watch his diet.
His sugar was high one morning and was trying to figure out what it was he are the night before that caused it.
I whispered to the wife (I bet it had something to do with the 12pk of beer)

For some reason he never figures in the beer in his diet.

 

[microchick]

@microchick The first thing I did this morning was to pick up my Babygirl and look at her eyes after reading about your girls. You got me thinking maybe that's why she never goes out far. She's one who has never ventured further than 10 feet away from the coop. She's like a little stuffed animal...lol. As far as I can tell her eyes look normal. Whew. That's really good to know...and something to look for.

I was telling DH about the changes in humans eyes from the Herpes virus that you mentioned. I did not know about that. Scary. I imagine 99.9% of people don't know of the damage it causes.

Yes, it's a pain in more ways than one. There is a treatment for it, an antiviral eye drop as well as the oral Acyclovir. Neither one is a picnic to use or take. The drops have to be used something like 5 times a day and I think my husband said that they really burn when you put them in. One of the things done on humans when their Irises adhere to the cornea and lens is dilate them with an eye drop that eye doctors use to dilate your eyes for an examination. Stuff burns like fire. It's one of those things where the cure is almost as bad as the disease.

ACV mixed with honey is supposed to be a good treatment for high cholesterol also. The honey not so good for your blood sugar but the vinegar definitely. Another big no no for high blood sugar is anything with high fructose corn syrup in it. That stuff needs to be banned.

As for fat on a pork chop oh man, my mom used to make pork steak with the fat fried crisp. Talk about sweet fat of the hog.....Nope, no more and not for over 40 years at least. I do love pork loin and usually fix that with something like shake and bake or bread crumbs. Real Bacon......

I haven't touched it for about 10 years.

For BLTs I use turkey bacon. It's good enough to remind me of the real thing and I don't feel my arteries clamping shut when I eat it.

My big problem is that I have a sweet tooth. Sugars are so bad for you and I wish I could get away from them. I don't eat candy and eat cake and pie sparingly but I do loves my ice cream even if it is low fat.

My little hen Aggie is like that. She isn't a stuffed toy but she knows those roost bars like the back of her wing and can maneuver them like an acrobat. I think she stays pretty much aloft so the roosters don't plague her (she is their favorite party girl) and because she is familiar with that area. I'm glad your hen doesn't have anything suspicious showing in her eyes. This is really a heartbreak. I'd planned to hatch some silver duck wing OEGB chicks this summer but now that is on indefinite hold until I see what happens the next year. I am still seriously considering getting a half dozen Egyptian Fayoumi's next spring. Right now I have 6 birds that are flagged and only God knows what their futures hold.

I was just outside working in the garden and three of the roosters were squabbling over something, you know how roosters are, 'you looked at me' 'no I didn't' 'well then, you looked at one of my hens' 'no I didn't' 'what are you doing out in MY run' so on and so on until feathers were flying. I just shook my head at them and told them to go ahead ans stress themselves out. That would mean more food and hens for whoever survives.

If only they could understand what we are saying to them.