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Old Sun, Oct-05-03, 14:27
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You didn't mention how soon after eating you checked your blood sugar, but a 7 point rise after eating is barely a bump, not a spike at all. The cheese alone would have been enough to see the 7 point rise that you reported.
Blood sugars will go up in everyone following eating, diabetic or not. What differentiates the diabetics from the non-diabetics is how much it goes up and how long it takes to return to normal afterwards.
The only way to tell for sure if you are having a large insulin response following eating something is to have your circulating insulin levels drawn at regular intervals for an hour or two after eating (very expensive and not terribly practical). To check the effects of a food on your blood sugar, however, you would need a blood sugar meeter (glucometer) and check 30, 60, 90 and 120 minutes after eating.
Given what you reported, though, (a 7 point rise) I'd say it's safe to assume that you did not provoke an insulin spike with what you ate.
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