How to manage your blood sugar levels – part 2
Normal Blood Sugar Levels
The following guide for “normal” blood sugar levels is given in “Prescription for Nutritional Healing (4th Ed)” by certified nutrional consultant Phyllis A. Balch (a highly recommended book for your home library – see link under recommended reading).
Note: to convert mg/dL to mmol/L, just divide these figures by 18.
eg 110 mg/dL / 18 –> 6.1 mmol/L
Strategies to manage your blood carbohydrates levels
I have drawn two charts to show you what a good day should be for your body but also what does a bad day do to you.
A good day for your cholesterol levels
A good day is when you eat every two hours, do not miss your breakfast, have a nornal lunch, a snack in the afternoon and a dinner.
The chart below show the level of carbohydrates in your blood throughout the day measured in mg/dL.
Note the two danger zone you’re trying to avoid as much as possible.
A bad day for your cholesterol levels
In this bad day, you do not take a breakfast or a snack in the morning. Your body starves and starts harvesting fat from your body. Your lunch is heavy and your carbohydrates levels shoot up to unacceptable territory. Your body must produce insulin to bring levels down and this makes you fell tired.
In conclusion
- Be aware of your Carbohydrate levels throughout the day
- If your body Carbohydrate level is <70mg/dL then your body will effectively eat what you have stored for giving your power. Not a good thing. In the future you will feel weaker. If you eat poorly like in example 2 most of the day you will simply not have enough energy to do well
- When Insulin is produced your body is using energy and you feel tired.
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