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Lowering A1C. Does this app help

Bobmky60
Bobmky60 Posts: 1 Member
in Food and Nutrition
Lower A1C does using MFP help. What has worked

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  • yakkystuff
    yakkystuff Posts: 109 Member
    This app can help you see what you are eating; total cals, carbs, fats and proteins and timing.

    There are many food choices and ways to eat. A diabetic educator and dietician can help sort food approach and choices.

    Then track what you actually eat using this app.
  • yirara
    yirara Posts: 10,164 Member
    The app can also help you lose weight, by doing the calculation of how much you eat for you. This assumes you're overweight and need to lose weight. This however requires you to weigh your food carefully and chose correct database entries. Thus if you're having an omelette for breakfast you don't chose a random omelette entry but you weigh all ingredients that go into yours and log them separately, including all oil used. Lots of the database is user sources. I can simply add a random omelette to the database, nobody would know what ingredients are in it other than me.

    Also the app is quite nice for teaching healthy habits. Exercise is good for controlling blood glucose. And if you log exercise you get more calories to eat. Often they are overstated, but eating half of those back should be fine. This way you see directly the impact of any exercise you do.
  • neanderthin
    neanderthin Posts: 10,467 Member
    edited March 2
    Elevated blood sugar levels can be reduced many different ways.

    As far as diet is concerned consuming a diet that focuses on protein and plenty of vegetables and minimizing starchy carbs/grains and sugar will lower the amount of sugars that are available to enable increases in blood glucose levels which is what facilitates elevations in A1C.

    Regular physical activity helps your body use insulin more efficiently, in other words insulin is moving your blood glucose into your cells more effectively for the purpose of energy, lowering blood glucose levels.

    If your overweight or obese losing weight will make you more insulin sensitive which effectively helps glucose to enter cells, reducing the amount of sugar in your blood, which by default lowers A1C.

    All of these measures do the one thing that improves health the most and that is, it reduces chronic inflammation which again improves insulins functionality. Last but certainly not least what effects A1C the most is sugar (carbs), simply because without the sugar(s) elevated A1C would not be a issue to begin with.
  • totameafox
    totameafox Posts: 825 Member
    I have diabetes. Yes this app can help but only to show you what you are eating. You have to chose what food you eat. I always look for food with lower sugar or higher fiber. At one time I did cut out high glycemic foods. But I have found now that eating food in proper portions is just fine. I don't even count carbs. I technically have a low carb diet because I am more of a protein person but rice, pasta, corn... all still in my food well.
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/147555-speak-friend-and-enter
    https://community.myfitnesspal.com/en/group/1772-type-2-diabetes-support-group

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