{"id":612193,"date":"2009-12-19T11:36:40","date_gmt":"2009-12-19T16:36:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/dieting-and-nutrition-diabetes\/46812-glycemic-index-blood-sugar.html"},"modified":"2009-12-19T11:36:40","modified_gmt":"2009-12-19T16:36:40","slug":"glycemic-index-and-blood-sugar-levels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/612193","title":{"rendered":"Glycemic index and blood sugar levels"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I have been reading everything I can get my hands on about diabetes and glycemic indexes but have been unable to find an answer to my question so I thought I would post it here.<\/p>\n<p>When managing your blood sugar what is more important, the blood sugar level attained or how quickly it rises. For example gievn the two following scenarios which one is worse:<\/p>\n<p>Scenario 1 &#8211; food causes a rapid rise of blood sugar over a very short period of time but only attains a level of say about 121 mg\/Dl (6.7 mmol\/L)<\/p>\n<p>Scenario 2 &#8211; a food causes a much slower rise of blood sugar over a longer period of time but attains a level of say  151 mg\/Dl (8.4 mmol\/L)<\/p>\n<p>I am trying to get a complete understanding of my newly diagnosed condition so any insight is greatly appreciated.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks in advance.<\/p>\n<p>Rob L<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have been reading everything I can get my hands on about diabetes and glycemic indexes but have been unable to find an answer to my question so I thought I would post it here. When managing your blood sugar what is more important, the blood sugar level attained or how quickly it rises. For [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-612193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2zg5","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}