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Is there a need for a device to distinguish between a fruit and a chocolate biscuit?
Australia's National Diabetes Services Scheme says Continuous glucose monitoring or flash glucose monitoring provides more information than blood glucose monitoring with a finger prick check. Katie Collins/EMPICS. Credit: Katie Collins/PA/Alamy
Wireless devices that transmit blood glucose levels to your phone are becoming more widely used by people with Type 1 diabetes, and they are being marketed to everyone as a general health device. Manufacturers of the so-called 'flash' monitoring systems claim they help create good eating habits, but doctors advise that there's more to a healthy life than that.
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