Diabetics, stay away from pizzas!

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Diabetics, stay away from pizzas!

 

May 09, 2005

 

 

f you are diabetic, a soft, scrumptious pizza can

wreak havoc in your life.

 

A Pennsylvania State Diabetes Center, USA, study

suggests a slow and steady insulin-dosing pattern may

best combat the glucose-raising effects of that common

favourite food.

 

" Keeping glucose levels from jumping too high or

dipping too low may help reduce the risk of

cardiovascular disease, which has been connected to

erratic glucose levels in those with diabetes, " said

Robert Gabbay, M D, Ph D, associate professor of

medicine, Penn State College of Medicine, Penn State

Milton S Hershey Medical Center, and co-director, Penn

State Diabetes Center.

 

" Our study shows that after a high-carbohydrate,

high-fat meal like the pizza we used in this study,

spacing out insulin given by an insulin pump in two

doses, one of which is over an eight-hour period, may

keep glucose levels in a more favourable range than a

single dose of insulin or a double dose taken over a

shorter period, " he added.

 

" We noticed it was very difficult for those with

diabetes who were using insulin pumps to maintain good

glucose values when they ate pizza, " Jones said.

" Because pizza is a favourite food for so many people,

and good quality of life is eating what you want every

now and again, we suggested a study to see how best to

help those with diabetes enjoy this common favourite

food while maintaining good glucose levels. "

 

 

Gabbay cautions this method of insulin delivery may

not be applicable to all high-carbohydrate, high-fat

foods.

 

" Pizza is a complex food and causes prolonged

post-meal hyperglycaemia, " he said. " For now,

generalisation to food types other than pizza may best

be based on foods that are known to cause the same

type of prolonged hyperglycaemia and not necessarily

those that have only the same composition. "

 

Gabbay said future studies will investigate whether

the method works with foods of other compositions.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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