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This page leads to our company's patented tools for
estimating the time course of blood glucose.
This is
disruptive technology that will have a huge impact world-wide. To this day
it’s the only scientific approach to attaching the time dimension to
metabolic processes – it provides the only scientific, non-anecdotal, base
for validating nutritional approaches such as Atkins, South Beach, or Dr.
Bernstein.
Until our technology gains traction, the glycemic index, (GI), is still the only metric extant in the vast space between the ‘eat mostly carbs’ and the ‘eat no carbs’ camps. Companies such as NutriSystems have jumped on the glycemic index bandwagon. The South Beach diet lists glycemic indices for several foods, and it might be of interest to quote what a customer from Australia wrote to us: “Several cereal companies, Lowen and Sanitarium are now adding the GI code to their products, this is purely voluntary and is being done in association with Diabetes Australia, some packages have a description panel about the GI is all about. Again rigid government rules apply as the use of the GI information panel.” This example illustrates the need for our solution, and not as an endorsement of the glycemic index itself, which, in our opinion, is a flawed, awkward metric that the scientific world will have to replace. (The reader is invited to follow the link, which leads to the relevant FAO/WHO publication.)
The Meal/Glucose Effect and the Insulin Effect Calculators: The life of the insulin dependent diabetes patient is one of trying to match the effect of the injected insulin with the glucose arriving in his or her bloodstream, primarily after a meal. These calculators will give you an estimate of the effect any combination of foods you eat at one sitting will have on your blood glucose level over time, and will also give you an idea about the time effect of any insulin shot..
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The example picture to the right shows how a combination of nutrients in food may transform to blood glucose over time. The early spike is due to the pure sugar content of the meal. Please note that the glucose time scale and the insulin effect time scale are not the same. Click on the picture to select, on the page that will open next, any specific combination of foods you want to know about. Go here here to see how you might use the Meal Effect Calculator in conjunction with our software, BalancePC or LightenUp! |
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The picture to the right shows how a combination of fast and slow insulins may become effective in time. The early spike is due to the fast insulin. Click on the picture to select, on the page that will open next, a specific combination of insulins you want to know about.
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How many
chambers, and what is the diffusion rate we use to model the various types
of nutrient? At this early state in our state of knowledge about this
important issue, the actual values are probably far from definitive. The
actual diffusion rates we use in our formulas were calculated from
published clinical data, from
glycemic index data, when available, and from our own pre-clinical
trials at Duke University’s Clinical Research Center (type 1 diabetes
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Body Mass Index Calculator (BMI): The BMI Calculator is one of the ways to calculate if a person may be overweight by accounting for the person's weight in relation to the height. The underlying formula does not take into account the percent body fat, so it is only an estimation of your likelihood to be obese. |
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