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Healthy Eating for Healthy Blood Sugar Feel free to use and share, but please credit: Christopher Chung; B.S. Nutritional Physiology & Metabolism, University of California Berkeley For any inquiries or to request updated versions, contact chrisLchung@gmail.com
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What is diabetes? Too much sugar in the blood, and for too long. Sugar Blood High blood sugar 1 Question
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Our blood needs to have some sugar in it
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Normal fasting blood glucose: Blood is “happy”
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Elevated fasting blood glucose (pre-diabetes): Blood is “uncomfortable”
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High fasting blood glucose: Blood is “unhappy”
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1. Eat What makes our blood sugar go up and down?
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2.Bread broken down to glucose. 3.Blood glucose goes up.
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What makes our blood sugar go up and down? 4.Glucose moves from blood to muscles. 5.Blood glucose goes back down.
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What is diabetes? Answer: Too much sugar in the blood, and for too long. 1 Question
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What causes sugar to be too high in people with type two diabetes? To answer this question, we need to identify two main players 2 Question
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Glucose “gates” Insulin
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With insulin present, the gate opens. Without insulin, the gate is closed.
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Blood Glucose gate Insulin Pancreas Muscle
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Muscle Blood
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Normal function
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Type Two Diabetes Over time, the gates “lock up” from being overworked.
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Type Two Diabetes Pancreas says: Blood sugar is too high! I should make more insulin keys!
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Type Two Diabetes
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Pancreas says: I’m exhausted. I need to slow down insulin production.
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Type Two Diabetes
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What causes sugar to be too high in people with type two diabetes? 2 Question
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1) The glucose gates stop opening What causes sugar to be too high in people with type two diabetes? 2 Question
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1) The glucose gates stop opening What causes sugar to be too high in people with type two diabetes? 2 Question
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1) The glucose gates stop working 2) The pancreas gets tired of making insulin Years later… What causes sugar to be too high in people with type two diabetes? 2 Question
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Review: Type Two Diabetes
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Three prongs of diabetes management and prevention Meal planning Weight Loss Medication
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Eat vegetables and complex carbohydrates. (And not too much!)
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Lose 5 pounds and keep them off.
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Take your medication every day.
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