Healthy Eating for Healthy Blood Sugar Feel free to use and share, but please credit: Christopher Chung; B.S. Nutritional Physiology & Metabolism, University of California Berkeley For any inquiries or to request updated versions, contact [email protected]
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Healthy Eating for Healthy Blood Sugar
Feel free to use and share, but please credit:Christopher Chung; B.S. Nutritional Physiology & Metabolism, University of California BerkeleyFor any inquiries or to request updated versions, contact [email protected]
What is diabetes?Too much sugar in the blood, and for too long.
Sugar Blood High blood sugar
1Question
Our blood needs to
have some sugar in it
Normal fasting blood glucose: Blood is “happy”
Elevated fasting blood glucose (pre-diabetes):
Blood is “uncomfortable”
High fasting blood glucose:
Blood is “unhappy”
1. Eat
What makes our blood sugar go up and down?
What makes our blood sugar go up and down?
2. Bread broken down to glucose.
3. Blood glucose goes up.
What makes our blood sugar go up and down?
4. Glucose moves from blood to muscles.
5. Blood glucose goes back down.
What is diabetes?
Answer: Too much sugar in the blood, and for too long.
1Question
What causes sugar to be too high in people with type two diabetes?
• To answer this question, we need to identify two main players
2Question
Glucose “gates” Insulin
With insulin present, the gate opens.
Without insulin, the gate is closed.
Blood
Glucose
Glucosegate
Insulin
Pancreas
Muscle
Muscle
Blood
Normal function
Type Two DiabetesOver time, the gates “lock up” from being overworked.
Type Two DiabetesPancreas says:Blood sugar is too high! I should make more insulin keys!
Type Two Diabetes
Type Two DiabetesPancreas says: I’m exhausted. I need to slow down insulin production.
Type Two Diabetes
What causes sugar to be too high in people with type two diabetes?
2Question
1) The glucose gates stop opening
What causes sugar to be too high in people with type two diabetes?
2Question
1) The glucose gates stop opening
What causes sugar to be too high in people with type two diabetes?
2Question
1) The glucose gates stop working 2) The pancreas gets tired of making insulin
Years later…
What causes sugar to be too high in people with type two diabetes?
2Question
Review: Type Two Diabetes
Review: Type Two Diabetes
Review: Type Two Diabetes
Three prongs of diabetes management and prevention