Can you answer h.marieh’s question about Diabetes?:

I feel I may have hypoglycemia and have no health insurance. I almost fainted this morning due to low blood sugar. I ate chocolate and had a coke then was fine. This has happened before and I am tired of it, as it isn’t safe.

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Refined foods, the very foods hypoglycemics should not be eating, now make up more than 50% of the modern diet.

Pastas, white flour and bread, most breakfast cereals, polished rice, are all refined carbohydrates and have a similar effect on your low blood sugar levels (hypoglycemia) as does sugar itself.

White sugar is ‘pure’ as the advertisements have described it, but it is so pure that it contains no enzymes, minerals and vitamins. It is nearly 100% sucrose which is void of any health giving food.

It has to rob the missing enzymes, minerals and vitamins from reserves in your body or from other food you eat. The colour of molasses shows how much goodness has been extracted. It tells us which minerals and vitamins are missing in sugar itself. So these elements need to be robbed to allow metabolism of sugar.

To stop eating sugar is not as simple as cutting sugar out of tea or coffee because a look at labels in the supermarket show that it is in a surprising number of products. When shopping check for the following on the packaging: sugar, sugar syrup, glucose, corn syrup, invert sugar, cane syrup, natural sweetener, dextrose and sucrose.

There is no nourishment in sugar and, especially with the vast quantities in modern diets, should be avoided by hypoglycemics. In normal food there are natural starches and sugars, along with proteins, fats, minerals and enzymes.

These slowly release sugar into the blood as fuel when the body and brain requires it. Sugar not only leaches the body of essential vitamins and minerals but also sets off the up and down cycles of blood sugar levels (hypoglycemia).

The constant imbalance, over time, causes hypoglycemia. This must be seen as a warning before diabetes, heart and kidney diseases take hold.

The other big areas where sugar is found in the western diet is in actual candy, chocolates and cold drinks. Today Americans consume 150 lbs of sugar per person per year; up from 125 lbs in 1980.

So, if you thought obesity had become more noticeable in the recent past, it is because it has. A quarter of Americans now eat a ½ lb of sugar per day. They are mainly unaware of this as it is in the vast quantities of processed foods they consume.

Excess sugar and refined products lead to the well known hypoglycemic symptoms of lack of concentration, irritablility and unprovoked anxieties, which if ignored, lead to insomnia and exhaustion.

But it needn’t develop like this. With a little research we can investigate our own symptoms. There is now a lot of research published on Hypoglycemia (low blood sugar levels). Since no-one else is going to help you, it is your responsibility to seek out this information especially as it is now readily available.



Thanks to Noel Glass for contributing this article to our Diabetes blog:

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Can you answer ???’s question about Diabetes?:

very often after i excercise or run around or do a sport i get low blood sugar (my mother is a diabetic) so i kno how to test my sugar and i do it often to see if i am low *blood sugar* BUT I WENT TO THE DOCTER and did a test (( they drew blood and sent it to be tested for anything )) and they said that nothing is wrong with me but when i feel low i get shaky and dizzy and i feel like i can walk. can somebody please tell me whats going on with me? i have no idea and i really want and need to know whats going on with my body because i dont undersand this!!!

Management Of Diabetes Mellitus

When people think of diabetes, they think of extremely high blood glucose levels. People who have diabetes have to constantly regulate these levels because too high of blood sugar levels can be fateful. Some people do everything they can to control the blood glucose levels but still have complications. One of these complications is hypoglycemia. Hypoglycemia is actually the opposite of diabetes. That is, hypoglycemia refers to a condition that results in low blood sugar. The severity and symptoms can vary from person to person. Normally hypoglycemia is “cured” when blood sugar is restored to a safe level.

Those at risk for hypoglycemia include patients who have both type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Patients who have insulin resistance also can be at risk for low blood sugar. Some people can show signs of hypoglycemia even if they do not have diabetes. Any significant drop in blood sugar can result in minor cases of hypoglycemia. Despite the advances in controlling diabetes, hypoglycemic episodes are one of the major factors in achieving favorable blood glucose levels.

Because diabetes is such a high risk disease, high blood sugar is looked at as being dire. However, many people don’t understand why low blood sugar is also bad. The reason is that the body needs fuel to work. The major fuel source is sugar which it gets from complex carbohydrates or simple sugars. A small amount of sugar is stored in the liver known as glycogen. If the body is not getting the sugar it needs, it will go to this stored sugar and make it into fuel. The brain actually depends almost 100% on sugar (glucose) to work. Obviously, the brain cannot make its own glucose and depends on the rest of the body to provide it. If the level of glucose falls too low, the brain cannot function the way it should and gives the body signs that it needs it. 

There are many things the brain will tell the body to do if blood glucose levels are too low. When the liver has to start using the stored glucose, the brain will start letting the body know, “I need more sugar!” Some of the signs a person will show when glucose levels are dropping include nervousness, intense hunger, trembling, weakness, and trouble speaking. Most people, if they start to show these symptoms, will eat something with sugar and the symptoms will go away. These signs are just the beginning of hyperglycemia. If someone experiencing these symptoms consume sugar, as said before, they will start to feel better. If it is not taken care of, dizziness and fainting can occur. The brain is now saying it cannot function anymore without glucose and shuts down. 

Hypoglycemia can be treated by simply allowing the blood to absorb glucose. This is most obviously done by eating foods with sugar or complex carbs. Regular soda, hard candy, juice, or plain table sugar will allow the blood to absorb the glucose it needs quickly. Once the brain has enough glucose to function, the symptoms of hypoglycemia will subside. Along with a balanced diet and medication to control diabetes, taking Diablin by Hamida Pharma can aid the body to better respond to insulin and naturally decrease the risks of diabetes-related complications such as hypoglycemia. 



Thanks to Steven A Johnson for contributing this article to our Diabetes blog:

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Can you answer h.marieh’s question about Diabetes?:

I feel I may have hypoglycemia and have no health insurance. I almost fainted this morning due to low blood sugar. I ate chocolate and had a coke then was fine. This has happened before and I am tired of it, as it isn’t safe.

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