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Volume 1 Issue 3
Nutrition World 2017
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September 11-12, 2017 Edinburgh, Scotland
15
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World Congress on
Advances in Nutrition, Food Science & Technology
Carbohydrates counting as a medical
nutrition therapy for diabetes mellitus
M B Agieb
Saudi German Hospital, KSA
C
arbohydrates have the greatest effect on blood-
sugar levels when digested. Around 90-100% of
the carbohydrate converts to sugar (glucose) within 15
minutes to 1.5 hours. Comparing with only 58% of protein
and less than 10% of fat, are converted into sugar within
several hours after consumption. Counting carbohydrates
is a meal plan that involves matching your insulin dose
to the amount of carbohydrates. Conversion of insulin to
carbohydrate ratio is a guide for determining how much
insulin needed as a bolus dose to help the body process
the amount of carbohydrate consuming in a meal. The
magic number is 15 for counting carbohydrates (15
grams of CHO = one carbohydrate choice or serving).
As an initiation for this method an average might be, 1
unit of insulin for every 10 or 15 grams of CHO for an
adult or 1 unit for every 20 to 30 grams for a school-age
child, depending on the calculation method used and it
will be adjusted as food intake recorded and matching
with blood sugar monitoring. Infants and toddlers need
individualized determinations by the diabetes care team.
Fiber and alcoholic sugar have special consideration in
this method because both of them had an effect on blood
sugar absorption which affect blood sugar levels.
Biography
M B Agieb got her PhD in Human Nutrition from Ahfad University for Women
in Sudan 2009. She joined the Saudi-German Hospital Group as a Head of
the Dietetic Department in 2001. She has taught several courses on Food and
Nutrition at Batterjee Medical College. Her current concern and interests include
nutrition therapy for obesity and diabetes in both adults and adolescents.
mahdiet1972@hotmail.comM B Agieb, Insights Nutr Metab 2017