All About Diabetes And its Preventions

Reply to All About Diabetes And its Preventions on Wed, 08 Jun 2016 10:22:14 GMT

starlight1968sg — Wed, 08 Jun 2016 10:22:14 GMT

NTUC FairPrice gives discount on wholegrain rice in support of war against diabetes

http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/h ... t-diabetes

Reply to All About Diabetes And its Preventions on Wed, 18 May 2016 07:03:03 GMT

johncostas — Wed, 18 May 2016 07:03:03 GMT

Being a diabetic patient is really a serious thing. One should avoid eating sugar and rice in excess.

Reply to All About Diabetes And its Preventions on Sun, 15 May 2016 09:43:16 GMT

pirated — Sun, 15 May 2016 09:43:16 GMT

Try the purple rice if really must eat rice

Reply to All About Diabetes And its Preventions on Sun, 15 May 2016 06:29:38 GMT

sharonkhoo — Sun, 15 May 2016 06:29:38 GMT

I saw in the ST that rice with fat (ie. nasi lemak and chicken rice) are lower GI than white rice! If we follow all the advice dished out periodically, we’ll just be totally messed up.

Anyway, my husband persuaded us to try mixing 20% brown rice with our white rice, and it’s actually not very noticeable. Looks like we may continue.

Reply to All About Diabetes And its Preventions on Sun, 15 May 2016 02:10:52 GMT

pirated — Sun, 15 May 2016 02:10:52 GMT

there is supposedly a new guideline coming out from MOH / HSA to recommend total cholesterol not more than 100 as the norm

and to zerorize refined sugar in food as much as possible

Reply to All About Diabetes And its Preventions on Sun, 15 May 2016 01:44:35 GMT

kitty2 — Sun, 15 May 2016 01:44:35 GMT

Some of my friends are on Ketogenic diet, their cholesterol and sugar level are improving.Some are back to normal range. They don’t eat carbohydrate.

Reply to All About Diabetes And its Preventions on Fri, 13 May 2016 02:47:11 GMT

tankee — Fri, 13 May 2016 02:47:11 GMT

Sunshine has this Smart Carb bread that is jointly developed with Temasek Poly.

This bread has a low GI of 37.

Taste like german bread.

Reply to All About Diabetes And its Preventions on Mon, 09 May 2016 01:35:08 GMT

sharonkhoo — Mon, 09 May 2016 01:35:08 GMT

starlight1968sg:
Slmkhoo

Do you mean japanese rice is worse than our plain white rice for diabetes?

I believe that Japanese rice is usually short grain, and that would mean the GI is higher, so not as good for diabetics. But if you don't have diabetics in your household, it's probably ok in moderation.

Reply to All About Diabetes And its Preventions on Mon, 09 May 2016 01:23:46 GMT

starlight1968sg — Mon, 09 May 2016 01:23:46 GMT

Slmkhoo

Do you mean japanese rice is worse than our plain white rice for diabetes?

We like plain white rice too

It is a habit, so mixing white rice with some brown rice shld not be a big issue for my family

Reply to All About Diabetes And its Preventions on Mon, 09 May 2016 01:09:00 GMT

sharonkhoo — Mon, 09 May 2016 01:09:00 GMT

starlight1968sg:
Rept seems to say add brown rice to white rice would be ok

I still like white rice

What abt the japanese rice?

Japanese rice is short-grain, so the GI would be higher than our normal white rice which is longer grain. We have eaten the brown-white rice mix when we stayed with friends who did that, but my family still prefers plain white. I guess I could experiment with brown rice and see, but I'm not sure I want to mix them. I'm thinking of looking for recipes that use brown rice, but not in the same way we would normally eat white rice.

Reply to All About Diabetes And its Preventions on Mon, 09 May 2016 00:52:52 GMT

starlight1968sg — Mon, 09 May 2016 00:52:52 GMT

Rept seems to say add brown rice to white rice would be ok

I still like white rice

What abt the japanese rice?

Reply to All About Diabetes And its Preventions on Mon, 09 May 2016 00:06:06 GMT

sharonkhoo — Mon, 09 May 2016 00:06:06 GMT

I really wonder about the call to reduce rice intake. After all, the high rate of diabetes is in the last couple of decades (when sugary drinks and foods became more popular), but white rice has been a Chinese staple for centuries. I can understand that people who are pre-diabetic or diabetic should cut back, but why a call to the general population to change something so basic? Unless they mean that with cutting back on white rice, people can be a bit less strict about sugary foods and drinks. Personally, I prefer to cut back on the sugary stuff and still eat my white rice.

Edited to add: I was curious to find out more, and did a little googling. I discovered that the Harvard study was published in 2012, so the HPB is a little late? They don't quote any other major study which is more recent. Anyway, some critical voices:

Yoni Freedhoff (Canadian obesity specialist):
The most generous way I can spin it would be that this study, using pooled cohorts that left out tremendously important controls and considerations, when analyzed, suggested that white rice consumption increases the risk of diabetes development in Asian, but not Western, populations.

The worst way to spin it? The fact the cohorts used to determine this study's conclusions failed to consider incredibly relevant diabetes confounders like family history of diabetes, socioeconomic status, and dietary consumption patterns, including the dietary consumption of other categories of refined grains, makes quantifying the effect on diabetes development due to white rice consumption from this data set impossible.
http://www.weightymatters.ca/2012/03/wh ... e-and.html

BMJ editorial (where the Harvard study was published):
Although the findings of the current study are interesting they have few immediate implications for doctors, patients, or public health services and cannot support large scale action. Further research is needed to develop and substantiate the research hypothesis.
Quoted from https://www.minnpost.com/second-opinion ... erspective

Reply to All About Diabetes And its Preventions on Sun, 08 May 2016 15:21:37 GMT

pirated — Sun, 08 May 2016 15:21:37 GMT

tankee:
but ... I need my rice :sad:

not true

is a matter of getting used to

Reply to All About Diabetes And its Preventions on Sun, 08 May 2016 14:49:05 GMT

tankee — Sun, 08 May 2016 14:49:05 GMT

but ... I need my rice :sad:

Reply to All About Diabetes And its Preventions on Sun, 08 May 2016 14:47:46 GMT

tankee — Sun, 08 May 2016 14:47:46 GMT

Diabetes: The rice you eat is worse than sugary drinks

The health authorities have identified one of their top concerns as they wage war on diabetes: white rice. It is even more potent than sweet soda drinks in causing the disease.

Sharing his battle plan to reduce the risk of diabetes, Health Promotion Board chief executive Zee Yoong Kang said that obesity and sugary drinks are the major causes of the condition in the West.

But Asians are more predisposed to diabetes than Caucasians, so people do not have to be obese to be at risk. Starchy white rice can overload their bodies with blood sugar and heighten their risk of diabetes.

Mr Zee is armed with data. A meta- analysis of four major studies, involving more than 350,000 people followed for four to 20 years, by the Harvard School of Public Health - published in the British Medical Journal - threw up some sobering findings.

One, it showed each plate of white rice eaten in a day - on a regular basis - raises the risk of diabetes by 11 per cent in the overall population.

Two, it showed that while Asians, like the Chinese, had four servings a day of cooked rice, Americans and Australians ate just five a week.

But Mr Zee does not plan to ask Singaporeans to stop eating rice, a popular feature of meals here. What he would like is to see more people turn to healthier varieties.

Long grain white rice is also better than short grain when it comes to how it spikes blood sugar - a rise in sugar levels causes the pancreas to produce more insulin, and frequent spikes can lead to diabetes.

He would also like people to try adding 20 per cent of brown rice to their white rice. This amount is enough to reduce their risk of diabetes by 16 per cent.\"There is no need to fully replace what they now eat. Just increase the quantity of whole grain and brown rice.\"

Health Minister Gan Kim Yong said last month that this disease is already costing the country more than $1 billion a year. Diabetes is a major cause of blindness, kidney failure and amputations in Singapore.

Dr Stanley Liew, a diabetes expert at Raffles Hospital, advised people to eat less rice. He added that most junk food and sodas are just as bad and should be discouraged.

http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/h ... ary-drinks

Reply to All About Diabetes And its Preventions on Sun, 08 May 2016 14:45:16 GMT

tankee — Sun, 08 May 2016 14:45:16 GMT

Asians 'more at risk of diabetes than Caucasians'

Asians are genetically more predisposed to diabetes than Caucasians, said Dr Annie Ling, director of policy, research and surveillance at the Health Promotion Board (HPB).

For the same BMI, or body mass index, an Asian has 3 per cent to 4 per cent more fat than a Caucasian.

This is why although only 10.6 per cent of people here are obese, 11.3 per cent are diabetic. In Britain, which has an obesity rate of 25 per cent, only 6.2 per cent of its population are diabetic, said Dr Ling.

In fact, Singapore has the second- highest proportion of diabetics in its population among developed countries, trailing only the United States.

Indians are particularly susceptible, said Dr Ling. An Indian woman with a BMI of 20 - which is in the healthy range - has the same risk of getting diabetes as a European woman with a BMI of 30, which is classed as obese. A Chinese woman has the same risk with a BMI of 25.

Dr Ling said that for the same amount of carbohydrates consumed, the glucose response in the blood of Asians could be as high as double that of Caucasians.

This is why it is even more important for Asians to reduce consumption of food with a high glycaemic index as it can result in sugar spikes.

With more glucose in the blood, the pancreas has to produce more insulin. When this happens frequently, it could lead to either a shortage of insulin or insulin resistance. This could leave sugar in the blood, a condition that could damage organs such as the kidneys or the eyes.

Dr Ling said people here are consuming about the correct proportion of carbohydrates, which make up 52 per cent of the food they eat. The problem is that instead of taking rice and wheat in their natural form, most consume refined carbohydrates. These are digested quickly and result in a sugar spike.

Wholegrain rice made up only 5 per cent of rice sold here last year.

Aside from food, Dr Ling said exercise is important in reducing the risk of getting diabetes. Just a 15- minute walk every day can cut the risk of dying of the condition by 4 per cent. She added that the benefit of exercise for diabetics is even higher than for the general population.

http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/h ... caucasians

Reply to All About Diabetes And its Preventions on Fri, 06 May 2016 02:29:41 GMT

starlight1968sg — Fri, 06 May 2016 02:29:41 GMT

Alicia_Q:
Apparently, never eat too much \"unhealthy\" sugar..

what food has unhealthy sugar?

Reply to All About Diabetes And its Preventions on Fri, 06 May 2016 02:26:21 GMT

Alicia_Q — Fri, 06 May 2016 02:26:21 GMT

Apparently, never eat too much "unhealthy" sugar…

Reply to All About Diabetes And its Preventions on Fri, 06 May 2016 02:13:00 GMT

mummychua — Fri, 06 May 2016 02:13:00 GMT

diabetes prevention is not just about eating more or less rice. rather than cutting out rice, stop unhealthy snacking, refine carbo like cakes, biscuits and soft drinks 1st.

i think exercise plays a major role esp when most of us at leading a sedentary lifestyle. and genetics plays a important role too.

Reply to All About Diabetes And its Preventions on Fri, 06 May 2016 01:20:47 GMT

MrsKiasu — Fri, 06 May 2016 01:20:47 GMT

I will try to cook more dishes so that dh will eat lesser rice. My hubby is a rice person.

Reply to All About Diabetes And its Preventions on Fri, 06 May 2016 01:03:25 GMT

pirated — Fri, 06 May 2016 01:03:25 GMT

Time to cut back and look for white rice replacement.

As a matter of fact, old people with type 2 diabetes just starting is reversible by cutting off rice and sugar intake. That’s that serious/effective

Reply to All About Diabetes And its Preventions on Fri, 06 May 2016 01:00:00 GMT

starlight1968sg — Fri, 06 May 2016 01:00:00 GMT

I am more concern abt the rice! My family eats a lot of rice daily and although we mix our white rice with a bit of brown rice or grain, somehow I still like white rice the best.

Reply to All About Diabetes And its Preventions on Fri, 06 May 2016 00:57:15 GMT

pirated — Fri, 06 May 2016 00:57:15 GMT

starlight1968sg:
Some soft drinks claimed zero sugar but still taste rather sweet.

Zero sugar but full of sugar replacement