{"id":78404,"date":"2009-12-12T18:44:44","date_gmt":"2009-12-12T23:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/diabetes\/46615-should-we-cry-laugh.html"},"modified":"2009-12-12T18:44:44","modified_gmt":"2009-12-12T23:44:44","slug":"should-we-cry-or-laugh-fda-recommendations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/78404","title":{"rendered":"Should we cry or laugh?  FDA recommendations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>I was just on the US FDA website doing a little research, and came across this little gem of a recommendation concerning blood sugar.  It&#8217;s in their medical device section unter Glucose Meters.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;What should your glucose levels be? Your fasting blood glucose level (after not eating for 8-10 hours) should be lower than 126 mg\/dL. Your blood glucose level *immediately after eating  <font size=\"1\">(huh? what does this mean :dontknow:?)<\/font> should be lower than <b><i>200 mg\/dL<\/i><\/b>.<\/p>\n<p>Tsk, tsk.  I guess it&#8217;s true that the benchmarks we on DF talk about <i>are<\/i> under these recommendations, but wow!  Even the ADA&#8217;s guidelines are lower than this.  No wonder people are so confused.<\/p>\n<p>Jen<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was just on the US FDA website doing a little research, and came across this little gem of a recommendation concerning blood sugar. It&#8217;s in their medical device section unter Glucose Meters. &quot;What should your glucose levels be? Your fasting blood glucose level (after not eating for 8-10 hours) should be lower than 126 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":181,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/181"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78404"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78404\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}