#255 Defining Diabetes: Glycemic Index and Load
Juicebox Podcast: Type 1 Diabetes
Scott Benner
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🗓️ 23 August 2019
⏱️ 7 minutes
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Defining Diabetes: Glycemic Index, Glycemic Load
Scott and Jenny Smith, CDE define the terms that are at the center of your type 1 diabetes care
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Jennifer holds a Bachelor's Degree in Human Nutrition and Biology from the University of Wisconsin. She is a Registered (and Licensed) Dietitian, Certified Diabetes Educator, and Certified Trainer on most makes/models of insulin pumps and continuous glucose monitoring systems. You can reach Jenny at jennifer@integrateddiabetes.com
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| 0:00.0 | Defining diabetes is made possible by Dexcom, Omnipod, and Dancing for Diabetes. |
| 0:05.0 | Please remember that nothing you hear on the Juice Box Podcast should be considered |
| 0:08.0 | advice, medical, or otherwise, to always consult a physician before becoming bold with insulin |
| 0:12.0 | or making any changes to your medical plan. |
| 0:14.1 | Jenny, what is the glycemic index? |
| 0:23.0 | How do we explain? |
| 0:25.0 | So glycemic index, that's an excellent one. |
| 0:28.0 | So it's essentially a number from 0 to 10. |
| 0:32.0 | That's assigned to a food, |
| 0:34.0 | with pure glucose being represented as 100, |
| 0:38.0 | right? |
| 0:39.0 | And it represents the relative rise in glucose level |
| 0:42.0 | within two hours after eating or taking that food in. |
| 0:46.4 | And the index being from 0 to 100 to 100, 100 being pure glucose, the higher the food's number, like watermelon. |
| 0:56.1 | Watermelon has a GI or a glycemic index of 72, so it's close to 100. |
| 1:01.6 | It's considered a high GI food. The higher the number, the faster and more |
| 1:06.8 | profound the impact is going to be on blood sugar. |
| 1:10.3 | The lower the glycemic index, you know, down in like, you know, less than 55 is |
| 1:15.8 | considered low glycemic index. Those should have slower, lower impact on |
| 1:20.9 | blood sugar in the aftermath of eating. |
| 1:25.6 | Okay, are there any foods with carbs that have no impact? |
| 1:31.1 | Or is that person to person? |
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