1. Healthy Eating for Healthy Blood Sugar Feel free to use and share, but please credit: Christopher Chung; B.S. Nutritional Physiology & Metabolism, University of California Berkeley For any inquiries or to request updated versions, contact chrisLchung@gmail.com

2. What is diabetes? Too much sugar in the blood, and for too long. Sugar Blood High blood sugar 1 Question

3. Our blood needs to have some sugar in it

4. Normal fasting blood glucose: Blood is “happy”

5. Elevated fasting blood glucose (pre-diabetes): Blood is “uncomfortable”

6. High fasting blood glucose: Blood is “unhappy”

7. 1. Eat What makes our blood sugar go up and down?

8. 2.Bread broken down to glucose. 3.Blood glucose goes up.

9. What makes our blood sugar go up and down? 4.Glucose moves from blood to muscles. 5.Blood glucose goes back down.

10. What is diabetes? Answer: Too much sugar in the blood, and for too long. 1 Question

11. What causes sugar to be too high in people with type two diabetes? To answer this question, we need to identify two main players 2 Question

12. Glucose “gates” Insulin

13. With insulin present, the gate opens. Without insulin, the gate is closed.

15. Blood Glucose gate Insulin Pancreas Muscle

16. Muscle Blood

20. Normal function

21. Type Two Diabetes Over time, the gates “lock up” from being overworked.

22. Type Two Diabetes Pancreas says: Blood sugar is too high! I should make more insulin keys!

23. Type Two Diabetes

24. Pancreas says: I’m exhausted. I need to slow down insulin production.

25. Type Two Diabetes

26. What causes sugar to be too high in people with type two diabetes? 2 Question

27. 1) The glucose gates stop opening What causes sugar to be too high in people with type two diabetes? 2 Question

28. 1) The glucose gates stop opening What causes sugar to be too high in people with type two diabetes? 2 Question

29. 1) The glucose gates stop working 2) The pancreas gets tired of making insulin Years later… What causes sugar to be too high in people with type two diabetes? 2 Question

30. Review: Type Two Diabetes

33. Three prongs of diabetes management and prevention Meal planning Weight Loss Medication

34. Eat vegetables and complex carbohydrates. (And not too much!)

35. Lose 5 pounds and keep them off.

36. Take your medication every day.