Friday, 30 July 2010

There is a lack of sushi in my life...

An abject lack of sushi.  And not because of a lack of availibility.  Alas, whilst there is pretty good sushi to be found in Huntsville, its a simple consequence of the fact that I'm a diabetic that I can't eat sushi rice.  It spikes my blood sugars like something crazy, presumably because the carbohydrate absorption rate is funky and the rise and fall of my usual rapid acting insulin doesn't match the carbohydrate absorption rate of the rice.  :(

So, I came up with a plan.  As I'm soon going to have an OmniPod, with the ability to more or less mimic the insulin output of the pancreas, all I need to do is find published carbohydrate absorption rate curves for sushi rice.  I mean, they should exist because sushi rice has a published glycemic index value (GI) and the GI value is essentially the area under the carbohydrate absorption rate curve.

But can I find them?  Can I heck!  I've looked everywhere, and no such luck, even Google is not my friend on this one.  I figure, OK, I'm a scientist,  so stand back, I'm going to try science!  I can make my own (crude) carbohydrate absorption rate curves.  All I need are 10-20 volunteers who are willing to eat a meal of sushi and then allow me to attack them with a blood glucose meter every half hour, for the next 3 or so hours.  Who's in?!

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