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"If there's already enough sugar in the blood (blood sugar) then the pancreas secretes insulin to lower blood sugar. The insulin turns this sugar into fat and stores it for later. After this process runs its course, your blood sugar is left significantly lower and you actually start craving more sugar (breads, carbohydrates) because you now have low blood sugar levels. Then, again, bread goes in, blood sugar goes up, insulin is released and you continue to get fat. OTreat breads and pastas like the sugars they really are and you'll lose weight quickly." - Kevin Gianni and Annmarie Colameo, The Busy Person's Fitness Solution (Get the book.)

"In addition, protein has a gentle, steady effect on blood sugar, as opposed to the quick, steep rise in blood sugar caused by carbohydrates like white bread, cookies, or a baked potato. Finally, the body uses more energy (i.e., calories) to digest protein than it does to digest fat or carbohydrates. Fish is a great source of protein. Salmon, trout, herring, water-packed tuna, and mackerel are also excellent sources of omega-3 fatty acids, which medical studies have found to have a strong cardiovascular benefit." - C. W. Randolph, M.D., From Belly Fat to Belly FLAT: How Your Hormones Are Adding Inches to Your Waistline and Subtracting Years from Your Life (Get the book.)

"For instance, hormones are used to regulate blood sugar, which normally stays within narrow limits to keep the body, and especially the brain, supplied with the correct amount. If blood sugar is too high, the pancreas secretes insulin, which signals the cells to take up glucose, thus lowering blood sugar and returning to normal. If blood sugar drops too low, the pancreas secretes glucagon, which signals the liver to break down glycogen into glucose to raise blood sugar. In this way, different hormones act in pairs like a thermostat, turning systems on and off." - Raymond Francis, Never Be Sick Again: Health is a Choice, Learn How to Choose It (Get the book.)

"Even slight fluctuations in blood sugar levels can very quickly produce these vision changes. If you do have diabetes, these color vision distortions can make it very difficult for you to monitor your blood sugar levels using color-coded urine test strips. So this is yet another reason to say no to cake. WARNING SIGN It's not unusual for athletes with diabetes to experience vivid color vision ifjfe changes after strenuous practice sessions or games. This can be a very early warning sign of diabetic eye disease." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"HYPOGLYCEMIA • Food as Medicine L/ow blood sugar is all about swings—and managing them. Diabetics—who know all about controlling the sugar levels in their blood—often suffer hypoglycemia when they skip meals or take too much insulin. As a result, their blood sugar levels can dip dangerously. For nondiabetics, the symptoms—sweating, weakness, tremors and headaches—are similar though generally milder, and severe reactions, such as coma, are extremely unlikely. How, then, to control the swings?" - Bottom Line Books, Uncommon Cures For Everyday Ailments (Get the book.)

"After this process runs its course, your blood sugar is left significantly lower and you actually start craving more sugar (breads, carbohydrates) because you now have low blood sugar levels. Then, again, bread goes in, blood sugar goes up, insulin is released and you continue to get fat. OTreat breads and pastas like the sugars they really are and you'll lose weight quickly. Look at your plate of pasta and loaf of bread like a piece of cake. They're both filled with sugars. Would you eat cake every meal? No. So apply the same principle to pastas and breads." - Kevin Gianni and Annmarie Colameo, The Busy Person's Fitness Solution (Get the book.)

"Carbohydrases are also good at raising blood sugar. The carbohydrases from fungal sources are amylase, maltase, glucoamylase, alpha-galacto-sidase, hemicellulase, xylanase, pectinase, and phytase. If you have sugar cravings, food cravings, and low blood sugar, amylase in particular may help tremendously. The carbohydrase enzymes that digest sugars are involved in breaking down sucrose, lactose, and maltose." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.) "Some experts suggest that it is not a low blood sugar count per se that causes the symptoms of hypoglycemia, but rather the rapid fall of blood sugar levels. There are two categories of hypoglycemia: drug-related and nondrug-related. Drug-related hypoglycemia is the most common and occurs in people taking medication or insulin in the treatment of diabetes. Nondrug-related hypoglycemia is less common. There are two types of nondrug-related hypoglycemia: fasting and reactive. Fasting hypoglycemia is usually related to an underlying disease or disorder." - Tom Bohager, Everything You Need to Know About Enzymes to Treat Everything from Digestive Problems and Allergies to Migraines and Arthritis (Get the book.)

"If blood sugar is too high, the pancreas secretes insulin, which signals the cells to take up glucose, thus lowering blood sugar and returning to normal. If blood sugar drops too low, the pancreas secretes glucagon, which signals the liver to break down glycogen into glucose to raise blood sugar. In this way, different hormones act in pairs like a thermostat, turning systems on and off. This chemistry presents a delicate balancing act. All the hormones interact with each other in ways modem science is only beginning to understand." - Raymond Francis, Never Be Sick Again: Health is a Choice, Learn How to Choose It (Get the book.)

"The insulin had caused her blood sugar to crash to such a low level that she was on the verge of suffering brain damage. She recovered fully, but her father says he will never view a hospitalization in quite the same way again. In his book Human Error, British psychologist James Reason argues that complex systems that depend upon everybody doing everything right all the time are inevitably filled with what he calls "latent errors," accidents just waiting to happen. Not surprisingly, latent errors abound in medicine." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "Everything from high cholesterol to slightly elevated blood sugar, which aren't diseases in themselves but merely signs that a patient might be at risk for one, now warrants a prescription or treatment. We all assume that treating risk factors is based on good evidence, which has shown that early intervention will lower our chances of getting the disease, or dying from it. That's often not the case in the real world." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "The less a diabetic's blood sugar fluctuates, the more slowly he will develop the downstream effects of the disease, including heart disease, kidney damage, and blindness.) But if the patient was in a capitated plan, he might be told not to come back for months. At the same time that managed care began to abandon capitation and loosen some of its restrictions, patients seemed to become even more demanding. They had seen the stories about patients who were refused needed care." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.) "You don't need a doctor to learn to monitor your blood sugar or to learn to eat properly. Some insurers have figured this out and now employ battalions of nurses, who spend their time on the phone checking up on patients with chronic conditions. Franklin Health, a company based in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey, manages so-called complex cases for private insurers. Complex cases are the sickest of the sick, patients with multiple or terminal illnesses, who are also the most costly to treat." - Shannon Brownlee, Overtreated: Why Too Much Medicine Is Making Us Sicker and Poorer (Get the book.)

"These interventions include preventing heart disease (with statin drugs), mitigating the complications of diabetes (with drugs to control blood sugar, statins to protect the heart, and ACE inhibitors to protect the kidneys), treating strokes after they occur (with an expensive new treatment that actually helps fewer than one out of 25 stroke victims), and relieving the pain of osteoarthritis (with expensive new arthritis drugs). There are also medical treatments for obesity itself: surgery (now even in children) and new medications in the pipeline that are sure to be instant blockbusters." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"If blood sugar is too high, the pancreas secretes insulin, which signals the cells to take up glucose, thus lowering blood sugar and returning to normal. If blood sugar drops too low, the pancreas secretes glucagon, which signals the liver to break down glycogen into glucose to raise blood sugar. In this way, different hormones act in pairs like a thermostat, turning systems on and off. This chemistry presents a delicate balancing act. All the hormones interact with each other in ways modem science is only beginning to understand." - Raymond Francis, Never Be Sick Again: Health is a Choice, Learn How to Choose It (Get the book.)

"Release blood sugar from storage. (c) Enter through the calcium channel. (d) All of the above. 18. Kidneys release which substance to raise blood calcium levels? (a) Calcitriol. (b) Calcidiol. (c) Cholecalciferol. (d) Cholesterol. 19. Calcium can be depleted from the bones by: (a) Excess vitamin D. (b) Excess sodium and protein. (c) Excess vitamin A. (d) Excess vitamin E. 20. Calcium removed from bones is: (a) Replaced quickly. (b) Impossible to replace. (c) Time-consuming to replace. (d) Never removed from bones. 21. Which type of calcium supplement is best absorbed?" - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.)

"Add that to the existing pool we've been collecting, and I'm ready to tell you how to use this simple nutrient to protect yourself from one of our epidemic health problems: keeping your blood sugar levels in check. Remember, type 2 diabetes is an epidemic these days! More and more studies document a high occurrence of low magnesium states in people with diabetes, as well as those with the syndrome called insulin resistance (IR) or Syndrome X. The good news is knowing this association gives us a new leg up for treating and preventing IR and diabetes, two very problematic endocrine problems." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"Psychiatric patients. (d) blood sugar. 5. Which mineral is NOT used in the structure of bones? (a) Phosphorus. (b) Calcium. (c) Sulfur. (d) Magnesium. 6. Increased magnesium in muscle cells results in: (a) Increased relaxation. (b) Increased contraction. (c) Increased muscle tone. (d) Faster contraction. 7. Average amounts of magnesium intake for Americans (a) Less than the RDAs. (b) The same as the RDAs. (c) Higher than the RDAs. (d) Almost none. 8. A good source of magnesium: (a) Hamburgers. (b) Enriched bread. (c) Nuts and seeds. (d) All of the above. 9." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.) "Biosynthesis of vitamin C Step 1. blood sugar (glucose) is made into glucuronate. ^GJucuronate^ Step 2. Glucuronate is converted to L-gluconate. I ^UGluconate^ Step 3. L-gluconate is i----reduced with the enzyme L-xylo-hexulonolactone. C^^g^no-gamma-lactone^) Step 4. L-Ascorbic Acid is made with the enzyme L-gulonolactone oxidase. This final step is not possible in humans due to the lack of the enzyme L-gulonolactone oxidase. Figure 2-1 Biosynthesis of vitamin C." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.) "The first step in synthesizing vitamin C starts with glucuronate, which is made from blood sugar (glucose), as seen in Figure 2-1. In the second step, glucuronate is converted to L-gluconate. The third step changes the L-gluconate to L-gulono-gamma-lactone. It is interesting to note that humans can perform these three initial steps to synthesize vitamin C. Humans are lacking the enzyme gulonolactone oxidase, in which L-ascorbic acid is made from L-gulono-gamma-lactone. We cannot synthesize vitamin C in our bodies, and must ingest it. This fourth step is catalyzed in the liver of most animals." - Dr. Steve Blake, Vitamins and Minerals Demystified (Get the book.)

"This large study was designed to determine whether diabetes could be prevented in people at high risk (overweight and with mildly elevated blood sugar levels) by drugs or by lifestyle interventions. In June 1996 Dr. Eastman announced that Rezulin had been selected as one of the two diabetes drugs to be included in the study—a real victory for Warner-Lambert, the manufacturer of Rezulin. Also in 1996 Warner-Lambert submitted Rezulin to the FDA for approval, and it became the first diabetes drug to be given an accelerated review. The medical officer evaluating the new drug application, Dr." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Her lab work revealed that she did have a fairly low fasting blood sugar level. To handle the hypoglycemia, I prescribed a specific diet and supplement program. For the PMS, I recommended the following regimen: For the first two weeks of her cycle, a dong quai herbal combination; for the second two weeks, a specific PMS combination containing extra vitamin B6, magnesium and ingredients that detoxify the liver, an important component in treating PMS. (The specific ZAND herbal formulas are particularly effective.) I also recommended regular exercise." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.) "Not only did this cause her to gain weight, but the coffee and sweets induced a hypoglycemic cycle. Her blood sugar levels were irregular, and this caused her to feel anxious. It was as though at a certain time of the day she was going into a withdrawal phase and the caffeine and sugar would help bring her back up. So the first part of her problem was this hypoglycemic cycle. Her other problem was PMS, which had grown worse over the past few months. Her symptoms included mood swings, irritability, water retention, craving sweets and weight gain." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"The kids who are always teetering on the edge of misbehavior because they have attention deficit problems can completely lose the ability to compensate for the sudden fluctuations in their blood sugar and brain chemistry brought on by bad diet. If your child is being fed improperly at every meal, he or she is being kept in a constant and uncomfortable state of imbalance, and it's no wonder that he or she is always getting into trouble, getting stomachaches and headaches, and causing problems for others." - Jay Gordon, The ADD and ADHD Cure: The Natural Way to Treat Hyperactivity and Refocus Your Child (Get the book.)

"Michael Tierra, author of The Way of Herbs, indicated that consistent use of Suma may help combat fatigue (including treatment of chronic fatigue and low-energy conditions), prevent colds and flus, speed healing, regulate blood sugar, and stimulate the sex drive. The key working ingredients in Suma are: • Pfaffic acid, which prevents the spread of various cell disorders. • Pfaffocides and othet saponins, which help stop diseases already in progress. • The plant hormones sitosterol and stigmasterol, which prevent cholesterol absorption and improve blood circulation." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.) "Impaired blood sugar control. • The astounding acceleration of puberty in young girls from an average age of 14 to 15, to now as young as 9 or 10. (This represents a speed up of as much as V3 sooner in their lives and has frightening implications for long-term health.) • And, finally, xenoestrogens have been strongly implicated in declining male sperm production and the increase in the rates of testicular cancer and prostate cancer. What's the Answer?" - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

"The home page informs the reader that diabetes management involves more than just blood sugar control: "People with diabetes must also manage blood pressure and cholesterol and talk to their health provider to learn about other ways to reduce their chance for heart attacks and stroke." There is no mention of the benefit of exercise or diet; for this you must access other web pages." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Anderson has done a number of studies on people with diabetes that show positive effects such as lowered blood sugar when people are supplemented with chromium, particularly at the higher doses (800 to 1,000 meg per day). Chromium has also been shown helpful in the treatment of gestational diabetes and may even be of some help in type 1 diabetes. In one study, even 200 meg of chromium given to people with type 1 diabetes allowed them to reduce their average insulin dosage by almost one-third." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"Although I recommend eating fruits and vegetables, greens drinks have inherent advantages over certain fruits and some vegetables (such as carrots, which can elevate one's blood sugar levels excessively if eaten in large quantities). Because greens drinks contain only the extract of the pigments—where the nutrients are highly concentrated—they are a superior way to derive the essence of fruits and vegetables without consuming the excess sugars and calories." - Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again (Get the book.)

"Instead of promoting a no-sugar diet, sports, less carbohydrates and more protein from natural sources that don't have hormones in them, you promote a pill. blood sugar imbalanced? Oh, pure joy! Again a great market. More and more diseases are defined. Bones a bit weaker? Great! A new star is borne. The star? A wonder pill. Does that not make sense? Fantastic, fantastic new markets! New income sources! So what does that mean? Well, it simply means that, on the hidden agenda of the pharmaceutical drug cartel, there is continuous research for new risk factors." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

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