food that turn into starch (sugar) IM a diabetic?

Answer 1

Nothing turns into starch inside us. whether you are diabetic or not. We don't make any.

Starch is one way plants stores energy (ie, fuel). it's glucoses stuck together in great long chains. We store glucose as well, but we store it in liver cells (and muscle cells too) in the form of glycogen, sometimes called 'animal starch'. Not the same thing at all. for that matter, cellulose is also glucose stuck together is great long chains, except that the method of sticking them together is different. And only a few animals have any way to take cellulose apart into its glucoses; cows, sheep, ruminants generally, and termites. Ants, cats, pigs, horses, and us can't do it, so cellulose isn't food for us, it's fiber and gets passed through unchanged.

In a non-diabetic, glucose is stored as glycogen in cells when insulin is high, which is of course caused by increased glucose in the blood. When glucose drops, and insulin also drops, glycogen gets taken apart into glucose and, at least from the liver cells, into the blood. Glucose taken into muscle cells, doesn't go back into the blood since muscle cells don't have the machinery to export it from the cells. In a diabetic, all this is more or less out of whack. Insulin isn't available (in Type 1s) or not listened to (more or less) in the rest (Type 2s). That's the characteristic problem in diabetes.

When we ingest starch, our digestive systems turn it into glucose, which is then absorbed into the blood by the intestines. From there, it's absorbed into cells from the blood.

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fat and carbohydrate

Plants can convert stored fat into glucose (ie, into one kind of carbohydrate), but animals can't. There just isn't the biochemical machinery to do it. So stored fat in animals isn't converted into starch or any other sort of carbohydrate. It can be changed into other sorts of fat (in fact we can manage to do this for all the various kinds of fat we need, except for a couple; these are called the essential dietary fats and their absence causes deficiency disease, rather like vitamin deficiency diseases). There is also a poorly understood, but pretty clear by now, effect from the balance of the various fats. In particular, the ratio of omega-3 to omega-6 fats seems to cause problems, some of them connected with arterial disease (ie, hardening of the arteries). In general, Western diets (and processed foods generaly) have too little omega 3 fats and too much omega 6 fats.

It's possible for us to make some fats starting with glucose, but it's a very expensive effort, and not worth doing for fuel in the form of fat. It's done because we need fat in some forms to make, for instance, cell membranes. Brain tissue, for instance, has a high fat percentage, mostly for these structural reasons. Fetuses , babies and children don't do well on low fat diets since they need a considerable amount of fat in the diet as the build their brains.

Fats are stored in fat cells, to the distress of many of us, because it's not needed for fuel just now. so if you eat some starch, and some fat at the same time, the starch will be converted to glucose, absorgbed by the blood and insulin will force it into cells for use as fuel. The fat will be absorbed as well (though more slowly), but the high insulin levels will tell fat cells to take it from the blood and store it internally. Only when blood glucose levels drop, and insulin drops as well, do those fat cells will take some of their fat stores and put them into the blood for use as fuel. This is entirely normal, and is called ketosis. It's the circumstance in which fat is used for fuel and is the way weight can be lost. Eat less, exercise more, and ketosis will take care of your excess poundage.

Answer 2

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Answer 4

Rice, potatoes, corn (the highest of them all), bread (enriched white wheat flour-contains gluten, a starch), carrots, corn starch (found in MANY processed foods-look on the ingredients label).

My suggestion is to look at all labels when buying foods that are processed. I went on a drastic diet that didn't contain hardly any starches or sugars, and bought only those processed foods that contained 4% or LESS carbohydrates.

I lost weight, my blood sugar levels went down, and I had energy to burn. If I wanted something sweet, I made a glass of chocolate milk, using Hershey's No Sugar chocolate milk powder. It gave my sweet tooth the "sugar" I craved, without wreaking havoc on my blood levels.

Good luck, and a good book to buy (cost is about $6 at Walmart for paperback edition) to keep track of what you should and shouldn't have, is Sugar Busters.

Answer 5

Anything with wheat or grains in them will raise blood sugar very fast. I have discovered that gold fish and chocolate raise blood sugar slowly, but might not be stopped my insulin. Pizza and potatoes are the worst. Try not to eat many grains. Rice is wheat free, although it is very high in carbs (starch/sugar).

Hope that helps!

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Answer 7

Rice,sugar, potatoes,& corn. Try to start eating more frozen vegetables than can vegetables.

Answer 8

Starchy foods such as pastas potatoes, breads etc. I would suggest reading the nutrition labels.

Answer 9

RICE, TAPIOCA,SWEETPOTATO, POTATO, ROOT CROPS ALL CONTAIN THIS STARCH.

Answer 10

what is your blood sugar level?