Treat Your Trends™
A logical alternative to standard diabetes care
Treat Your Trends (TYTs) teaches individuals with diabetes how to detect, understand and safely prevent abnormal glucose trends in the future, rather than simply correcting a single glucose test. Assessing a glucose trend requires only a few consecutive glucose tests – before the first bite of food, after the meal processing is complete (about three hours later), and again before the next meal. When glucose control is poor, at least one trend should be reviewed each day. After symptomatic episodes of low and high blood glucose have been eliminated, only a few trends need to be assessed each week to progressively improve glucose control.
The goal is to mimic the normal pancreas by maintaining stable blood sugar trends. When insulin is appropriately matched to food, activity and other factors such as stress or illness the glucose trend should not vary by greater than 2 mmol/L during both meal and non-meal periods of the day and night.
Optimal diabetes management requires individuals to learn to:
~ Detect when glucose trends are changing abnormally
~ Understand why a glucose trend changed abnormally
~ Decide how to prevent the abnormal glucose trend in the future
A logical alternative to standard diabetes care
Treat Your Trends (TYTs) teaches individuals with diabetes how to detect, understand and safely prevent abnormal glucose trends in the future, rather than simply correcting a single glucose test. Assessing a glucose trend requires only a few consecutive glucose tests – before the first bite of food, after the meal processing is complete (about three hours later), and again before the next meal. When glucose control is poor, at least one trend should be reviewed each day. After symptomatic episodes of low and high blood glucose have been eliminated, only a few trends need to be assessed each week to progressively improve glucose control.
The goal is to mimic the normal pancreas by maintaining stable blood sugar trends. When insulin is appropriately matched to food, activity and other factors such as stress or illness the glucose trend should not vary by greater than 2 mmol/L during both meal and non-meal periods of the day and night.
Optimal diabetes management requires individuals to learn to:
~ Detect when glucose trends are changing abnormally
~ Understand why a glucose trend changed abnormally
~ Decide how to prevent the abnormal glucose trend in the future
Remember that each glucose trend today is an educational opportunity to prevent an abnormal glucose trend in the future.
www.treatyourtrends.com | A comprehensive interactive web-based guide to Diabetes management... COMING SOON
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Nutrition and Lifestyle Management
Fruits, vegetables, whole grains and other healthy foods consist mainly of carbs that are rapidly digested into sugar in 1-2 hours; protein and fat are digested over 3-5 hours.
Fruits, vegetables, whole grains and other healthy foods consist mainly of carbs that are rapidly digested into sugar in 1-2 hours; protein and fat are digested over 3-5 hours.
- Limit total carbohydrate to about 50g balanced with a similar amount of protein and about 20g of fat per meal.
- Eliminate routine snacks
- Tone and strengthen all major muscle groups
- Limit sodium to less than 1500mg daily
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