Quote:
Originally posted by Tami
She said that no matter what a person eats,
their blood sugar should never go over 120
if they don't have diabetes.
I hadn't been eating anything that was good for me
but she said that didn't matter.
She said that it didn't matter what I ate that my blood sugar
should not go over 120 if I don't have diabetes. Is this true?
Tami |
NO, it is NOT true.
This is not a debatable point.
The level of 120, now reduced to 110, is for the times that
one has not eaten.
In a non-diabetic, the blood sugar is kept from staying too high
by the production of insulin from the pancreas,
but that production only occurs when the BG level
goes above 120. That is when the insulin producing cells in
the pancreas produce insulin.
The blood sugar, even in a non-diabetic,
does indeed go above
120, after eating.
Generally it won't go more than 140-150, with an average size meal,
but of course, "average" varies with the person.
It is considered safe if it stays below 180 for up to two hours
after a very large meal.
In a non-diabetic, the blood sugar will come back down
to a normal level below 120.
But to suggest that no matter what a person eats,
their blood sugar should never go over 120, is just plain wrong
!
It is not a little bit wrong, nor subject to a slight difference of opinion.
It is completely wrong.
That is how the pancreas gets a signal to produce insulin---when the
blood sugar goes up after eating.
That is how it works.
By your own admission, you said that you had not been
eating anything good for you.
So, your BG was above 120 because you tested after eating.
If it stays higher for more than 3 or 4 hours, or after a
10-12 hour fast, then you might have diabetes.
Pre-diabetes, and other extraneous thoughts have nothing to do
with what your Mother said.
A healthy person's BG should always go over 120 after they eat,
especially if they eat a lot of junk food,
which is what it sounds like you did.
Below 120 is for between meals, not right after one has eaten.
Your question was not about normal blood sugars for a non-diabetic.
Your question was about
after eating, and about the
comments from your Mom, which are wrong.
If you have blood sugars that remain high, or are above 120
in the morning, when you first get up, then you will have cause for concern.
This is all so obvious, I didn't expect it to generate any difference of opinion.
Your Mom is wrong. There is no debate about it.
Here are some links to verify it
:
1.
Joslin Diabetes Center - (They should know !)
2.
Normal BG levels before & after eating
3.
Diagnosing Diabetes
4.
Normal Blood Sugars
Even these sites have slightly different numbers because
there are no exact numbers.
If you have a high BG for no reason at all,
then you will know it from testing, and
it won't matter 5 or 10 points one way or the other.
