Basic: blood glucose is not the issue

A lot of T2 diabetics are focused on their blood glucose levels. They monitor it and they want medication that will make it go down. But that's the wrong thing to focus on. Kinda.

Blood glucose is a side effect of what the problem really is. High blood glucose, i.e. diabetes, it generated by two causes:

1) High glucid intake.2

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Progress: 1 year anniversary

This is the first year anniversary of my diabetes diagnosis. To celebrate, I had a quarterly blood test done this morning.

The results are in: fasting sugar 86mg/dl, HbA1c 5.4% (down from 5.44% the last time). So, everything is still good, post-diabetes is sticking as expected.

Below is a graph of all my data over the last year: daily average

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Day to day: rice

The one thing that I'm still not entirely happy eating is rice. Pasta, wheat, and everything else doesn't spike me much anymore. But rice keeps my blood sugar high for a long time.

For example, the other night I ate a big bowl of rice and vegetables with breaded "chicken" (wheat since I'm vegetarian). So a nasty combination of rice and wheat in several forms. Before I

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Basics: the “clean” diet

I saw someone recently complain that they had a "clean diet" but after meals they felt bad and nauseous. It's surprising because for a diabetic, it's usually when you eat badly that you feel bad, not when you have a "clean" meal.

So after asking what the "clean diet" was, he explained that it was lots of fruit, rice, oats, all whole food stuff. This is essentially the exact wrong diet for a

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