In article >,
Handy Gandy > wrote:

> On Tue, 30 Nov 2010 21:03:36 +0000, Aussie wrote:
>
> > He did it, he finished his 'diet'.
> >
> > http://www.20potatoesaday.com/index.html
> >
> >
> >
> > In the end he says he lost 9.5 kilograms, his cholesterol level went
> > from 214 to 147, and his glucose dropped from 104 to 94.
> >
> >
> Interesting but glucose ( by which I presume he meant blood glucose )
> would not be a good measurement because blood glucose varies widely over
> a period of time. The ten point drop could easily be seen if he measured
> the first time 15 minutes after a meal and the second time 3 hours after
> a meal.
>
>
> A better quantity to measure would have been his A1C (30~45 day average
> ofhis blood glucose ) or fructosamine levels ( 14 day average ).

That's why serious blood glucose tests are almost always done fasting.
As he had a lipid panel done at exactly the same time, that just
confirms it in my mind. My experience, which is not necessarily that
broad, is that cholesterol tests are always done fasting. The fact that
his glucose tests have the note that "normal" is 70-99 also confirms
that it is fasting. My personal guess is that his drop in fasting blood
sugar was probably mostly due to his 20 pound weight loss (as well as
his lipids).

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Dan Abel
Petaluma, California USA