At the Children with Diabetes convention at DisneyWorld in July Dr. Irl Hirsch announced that a new Accu-Chek device is the first good way that we have to measure glycemic variability, because it incorporates new low and high blood glucose indices. It’s a big step forward, but the product’s developer tells me that what it offers is something else.
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We don’t know yet if not getting enough sleep causes high blood glucose or if high blood glucose causes us not to get enough sleep. But a new study shows for the first time that too little or poor sleep does go along with higher A1C levels.
When I learned about the glycemic index right after I got my diabetes diagnosis a dozen years ago, it seemed so logical. It still seems to me that it is the most logical and sensible way for people with diabetes to eat.
That’s why I have such a hard time understanding why so many people think that it is hard to follow.