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Ultimately most of what we eat or drink converts to glucose, the fuel of life, yet the measures for nutritional intake, the calorie and carbohydrate counting methods, are notoriously inadequate because they do not take into account this fundamental process. This leads to difficulties in controlling weight and, in diabetes, may cause inability to properly control your blood glucose levels.

Here is what happens: The average person has only about four grams of glucose in all the blood in his (her) body. Because we only eat a few times a day, the glucose we need to keep us going is supplied by many overlapping cycles of food intake, blood glucose production, excess glucose storage, and finally continuous glucose consumption in each and every cell.

And here is an example of how our patented technology can help you achieve a better, healthier lifestyle: The nutritional panel on a can of non-diet soft drink shows 39 grams of sugar. Sugars are of different kinds, some turning into blood glucose faster than others, but generally the time required for this conversion is minutes. Because the non-diabetic body is blessed with an amazingly efficient metabolism, it immediately adapts to the huge excess in available glucose, but the blood glucose level never exceeds the normal limits. Where did the excess go? It was stored, of course: all the excess glucose, (when not "spent" through physical exercise and the body's basic energy needs), will be met by excess insulin, converted to fat, and stored. We all do this often, which eventually results in fat deposits hard to get rid of. 

Can we avoid creating fat deposits, without starving?  Yes: if we know when the available glucose is likely to exceed the needs of the body, we can proactively prevent that from happening. Our Company’s calculators provides you with additional, prevention-oriented means to control your metabolic status: for each and every meal you want to evaluate, you get to actually see how refined carbohydrates may not be what you need sometimes, how smaller, more frequent meals are better, or even how shifting the timing of a meal or exercise will help. 

Bio-Availability of Glucose (Energy) vs. Time

Following a Single Meal Containing Complex Carbohydrates

Solid Yellow Line: Subject’s Base Line Metabolism

(The Time-Averaged ‘Energy In’ Minus ‘Energy Out’)

The illustration shows how this patient maintains weight if the red and green areas are equal, i.e., no fat is stored over time. The dashed yellow line shows the base line metabolism of a weight loss patient: there is now a deficit in incoming energy bio availability, and the patient consumes fat stores. How is this useful in practical terms? Let us say you want to know how much excess glucose you will get after eating one serving of Roast Chicken with Lemon and Oregano (find the recipe in the Joslin Diabetes Gourmet Cookbook in Lighten Up!): you will find that the meal will have 245 calories, 28 g protein, 10 g carbohydrates, and 11 g of fat. If you then enter these numbers, you will get the following graph, that tells you that, at 22% Glycemic Load, this meal is an excellent choice, and that peak glucose bio availability will occur in about an hour and a half: you may want to time your physical exercise to take advantage of this information, and to ‘stunt the peak’ as well.

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