Sugar Balance...

Definition

The amount of sugar found in the blood stream

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Causes, incidence, and risk factors

Diabetics and hypoglycemics understand the importance of importance of maintaining even blood sugar levels. High glycemic foods over-stimulate insulin and low glycemic foods do not over-stimulate insulin. Controlling blood sugar is key in the maintenance of both diabetes and hypoglycemia. Fourteen millions Americans have diabetes, which makes blood sugar balance a national problem. Excess insulin causes retardation in the rate of wound healing. The more high glycemic foods ingested by the diabetic, the more insulin injections are required to keep blood sugar levels balanced. The more high glycemic foods ingested by the hypoglycemic, the more severe the mood and energy swings. Following ingestion of  high glycemic foods, blood sugar shoots up and then crashes dramatically. The body will respond by releasing adrenaline to mitigate the blood sugar crash. This adrenaline-response causes severe mood reactions in the form of anxiety, shakiness, inappropriate anger, spaciness, and eventual lethargy. After the intial anxiety stage wears off, a generalized feeling of weakness replaces it. In the average person, one whose blood sugar levels are stable, the reaction to ingesting high glycemic foods is an appreciable increase in appetite and hunger. It doesn't matter how much self-discipline you have, when you get a chemical-driven hunger signal, you are going to eat, whether you are really hungry or not. Eating a high glycemic food stimulates false-hunger singals and forces you to rush for a candy bar, a softdrink, potato chips or whatever else you can get your hands on. PMS causes a similar reaction. PMS induces low blood sugar so you crave chocolate, chips, sweet and salty foods. When you reach that chemical-craving level, almost nothing can stop you from eating high glycemic foods in order to raise blood sugar levels quickly. This is symptomatic of a chemical-craving. Low blood sugar causes the brain to demand that you get blood sugar levels up quickly and it doesn't care how you do it as long as you do it now. If you do not understand the glycemic impact of food, you cannot avoid chemical cravings. Reaching for a rice cake when your hungry seems like a harmless choice when you are hungry. In reality, rice cakes are the worst choice you can make if you want insulin balance. It is true that rice cakes are low in fat and low in calories. But we are not talking about fat or calories. Fat and calories are only part of the picture. Ability to stimulate fat-storage and  elevate insulin is the other major factor in human metabolism of foods. Ignore that segment of the equation and you eliminate the possibility of solving human nutrition puzzle.

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