If you’re still worried though, keep having tests once a year until you’re satisfied that you don’t have it.

This table includes the glycemic index and glycemic load of more than 2,480 individual food items. Not all of them, however, are available in the United States. They represent a true international effort of testing around the world.

The glycemic index (GI) is a numerical system of measuring how much of a rise in circulating blood sugar a carbohydrate triggers–the higher the number, the greater the blood sugar response. So a low GI food will cause a small rise, while a high GI food will trigger a dramatic spike. A list of carbohydrates with their glycemic values is shown below. A GI is 70 or more is high, a GI of 56 to 69 inclusive is medium, and a GI of 55 or less is low.

The glycemic load (GL) is a relatively new way to assess the impact of carbohydrate consumption that takes the glycemic index into account, but gives a fuller picture than does glycemic index alone. A GI value tells you only how rapidly a particular carbohydrate turns into sugar. It doesn’t tell you how much of that carbohydrate is in a serving of a particular food. You need to know both things to understand a food’s effect on blood sugar. That is where glycemic load comes in. The carbohydrate in watermelon, for example, has a high GI. But there isn’t a lot of it, so watermelon’s glycemic load is relatively low. A GL of 20 or more is high, a GL of 11 to 19 inclusive is medium, and a GL of 10 or less is low.

Foods that have a low GL almost always have a low GI. Foods with an intermediate or high GL range from very low to very high GI.

Both GI and GL are listed here. The GI is of foods based on the glucose index–where glucose is set to equal 100. The other is the glycemic load, which is the glycemic index divided by 100 multiplied by its available carbohydrate content (i.e. carbohydrates minus fiber) in grams. (The “Serve size (g)” column is the serving size in grams for calculating the glycemic load; for simplicity of presentation I have left out an intermediate column that shows the available carbohydrates in the stated serving sizes.) Take, watermelon as an example of calculating glycemic load. Its glycemic index is pretty high, about 72. According to the calculations by the people at the University of Sydney’s Human Nutrition Unit, in a serving of 120 grams it has 6 grams of available carbohydrate per serving, so its glycemic load is pretty low, 72/100*6=4.32, rounded to 4.

Take care>

you are not, at this time, diabetic.

You COULD, though, become diabetic in the future. Have the A1C test repeated once a year, every year, for the rest of your life. If things change this test will catch it early, and you can begin treatment before any serious damage is done.

[BTW: a reading of 111 is within the NORMAL range of 80-120]

1. If you are anaemic or not by counting how many Red Blood Cells you have
2. If you have a serious allergy or infection or a type of leukemia
3. If you have a clotting or bleeding disorder.

There are other things that can be found out from this test as well.

Different age groups would haven different blood tests recommended for them. For instance men and women over 40 years of age would be encouraged to have their Cholesterol levels checked.

The GP / family doctor can request a whole range of blood tests. Depending on a short series of questions and what your physical examination that the doctor performs on you shows up – the doctor may order a Liver Function Test (LFT) if you are a heavy drinker, or a Thyroid Function Test (TFT) if you have puffy eyes, are lethargic and have very dry skin.

If you want HIV and STD testing done you will have to ask for it. These blood tests are not routinely done on a yearly physical on an otherwise healthy patient.