Diabetes various degrees

[Skimming]

Are there various degrees of diabetes?

Some of my relatives, who are diabetic, eat rice (it's glycemic index is high) everyday. Nothing happens to them. Their blood sugar levels doesn't increase considerably. Only negligible increase is seen in them despite eating something like rice.

Some diabetic people eat low glycemic index millets yet their sugar levels increase. They have to take insulin injection.

Why such variations in response to foodstuffs?

The relatives in question eat single cooked white rice (not even the brown variety that's high in fiber). The white rice they eat is so fresh that it is still warm from single cooking. Still no appreciable change is seen in their sugar levels. Why then, have they been diagnosed with diabetes by doctors?

@Hack-Hook

Do you know anything about this?

@Paitoo @KedarT @Maula Jatt

 

[KedarT]

Do you know anything about this?

@Paitoo @KedarT @Maula Jatt

No idea about this but I think genetics matter too in many cases. If on eating rice, your blood sugar levels increase considerably, you should just probably be eating less rice since your body isn't predisposed to eating that much quantity.

 

[Redbeanpaste]

Thanks for the tip. I want to try. But can you clear one doubt? One website mentions coconut oil as one of the ingredients required. Does it mean hair oil or coconut water?

Edit-Add: Moreover there is the issue of whether it works on every individuals.

Coconut oil is a fat. It will not raise insulin levels. Obviously you want to eat edible oils not oils with added fragrance.

Exercise , especially walking every day really helps, as does resistance training.

 

[Skimming]

Rice that has been cooled and reheated is high in resistant starches. Maybe your relatives eat leftovers a lot?

Coconut oil is a fat. It will not raise insulin levels. Obviously you want to eat edible oils not oils with added fragrance.

Exercise , especially walking every day really helps, as does resistance training.

Only thing to be trusted is glucose reading before and after the food. It seems everyone is affected DIFFERENTLY. What matters is how the PERSON IN QUESTION is affected. There is a lot of rubbish on internet where people say anything without any evidence.

 

[Skimming]

Indeed there are levels in which patients fall. As a rule of thumb, you can limit your rice and sugar intake and walk around 3 kms daily. Test your sugar levels after 2 months on this routine.
If it doesn't work then, leave all sugars and carbs altogether.

You didn't get the point. The question is NOT why my relatives' sugar levels are controlled. The question is:

Their sugar levels are found to be near normal despite large amount of high glycemic food and sedentary lifestyle. Why then, have they been diagnosed with diabetes for so long? They should have been declared as cured and now normal by doctors. But the doctors continue to classify them as diabetics. Why so?

 

[fitpOsitive]

You didn't get the point. The question is NOT why my relatives' sugar levels are controlled. The question is:

Their sugar levels are found to be near normal despite large amount of high glycemic food and sedentary lifestyle. Why then, have they been diagnosed with diabetes for so long? They should have been declared as cured and now normal by doctors. But the doctors continue to classify them as diabetics. Why so?

Actually two factors:
1) Despite their sugar level is controlled, they are still prone to get diabetic again.
2) A cured and a dead patient is no good for anything for doctor.