8 Ways to Stabilize Your Blood Sugar

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The meter in the display is showing "US" readings. In Canada we use the other format. Blood levels should be between 4 - 7. Being a Canadian magazine, I think you should publish Canadian items

Submitted by Ann Fitzgerald on Thu. 2011-02-10 12:02pm

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I agree with Anne Fitzgerald that Canadian glucose readings should be used everywhere in Canadian Readers Digest. No one here understands US measurements

Submitted by will jacomen on Thu. 2011-02-24 2:02pm

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I also agree with Ann Fitzgerald and Will Jacomen.

Submitted by Wendy Houle on Mon. 2011-04-11 10:04pm

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I also think readings should be shown in mmol/L. Having been a type 1 diabetic for 20+ years, I'm used to seeing the different US readings, but it can be confusing for new diabetics and others who are just learning about diabetes.

Submitted by Starr Francis on Wed. 2011-06-22 1:06pm

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Regarding "Tech Solutions for Diabetes" in your July issue. As nice as continuous glucose monitoring sounds the costs are prohibitive. I have been a type 1 diabetic for 44 years. I live in Alberta and have a very good extended medical plan associated with my job - $4000 per year of diabetic supplies are currently covered on top of my insulin costs. Even with that I could just barely dent the surface of the monthly costs for CGM. All previous diabetic technology breakthroughs have been expensive, but this is ridiculous. I think if this is mentioned again in an article that this side should also be looked at.

Submitted by Robert Schultz on Thu. 2011-08-04 7:08am

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I agree with the previous comments regarding the picture of the American glucometer. It may seem a silly thing to criticize, but many sites and other resources only give information in terms of either the Canadian way or the American one, seldom both. A very useful article to those of us too ignorant to learn both measurement styles would be one that teaches the conversion in an easy to understand way. I know that I'm ignorant enough not to have learned this and there are probably many others too. I suppose this means that if I were to have a diabetic emergency whilst in The States I wouldn't understand the numbers of any other meter than my own...this could seriously affect the outcome of such an emergency situation. Do you think there is an easy way to explain both systems and make them understandably interchangeable?

Submitted by Dominique Choquette on Wed. 2011-10-05 9:10pm

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