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Momentary high blood sugar is perfectly fine after eating carbohydrate-rich meals.

• Retric 3y ago
  This was down voted, but it's all about the time scale. A major pathway of transporting energy from your food to your cells is via glucose in your blood and your cells then use or store it for later. Insulin production reduces the spike, but that response isn't instantaneous. So on a second by second basis numbers that would be concerning across an hour are fine. Similarly your average over an hour post meal can be much higher than a healthy average across a day.
  • TylerE 3y ago
    Yup. A1C, which is the main diagnostic measure, due to the way it’s measured is a roughly 90 day moving average with somewhat of a recency bias. Like most things, it’s mostly about area under the curve, as long as the extremes aren’t too much so.
• EasyMark 3y ago
  for sure, the length of the spike is just as important, it's like energy and it's an area under the curve type of phenomena