Diabetics With Low Blood Sugar - A Must-Read For Them
Sugar, honey, sweetie-pie.
These terms of endearment reflect the desirability of sweet tastes.
Sugar is surprisingly prevalent in dishes you may least suspect: For example soups, cured meats, salad dressings, and sauces.
One tablespoon of regular ketchup contains a teaspoon of sugar.
Hoisin sauce, which you often find in Chinese cooking, has just as much sugar, if not more.
A can of soda pop contains several tablespoons of sugar.
Even diet foods contain large amounts of rapidly acting carbohydrates or alternative sweeteners like aspartame (which has been linked to cancer).
If you're surrounded by sugar, how can anyone possibly be suffering from low blood sugar? That's precisely the point and is the reason that make understanding of hypoglycemia very difficult.
Because everything is so sugar-laden, keeping a steady level of blood sugar has become difficult.
If someone is suffering from low blood sugar, the general advice from a lay man could be to incorporate sugary things in your diet.
This is wrong.
It doesn't mean that he/she should eat sugar.
This statement may, at first, appear to be a contradiction.
The paradox is that the more sugar you eat, the less sugar you have in your blood.
Your body can easily obtain the blood sugar it needs to function through unrefined carbohydrates, protein, and fats.
The truth is that even if you eat absolutely no glucose or refined sugar, you'll still have plenty of blood sugar as long as your body is functioning properly.
Always remember that refined carbohydrates are harmful, but unrefined carbohydrates are OK (they should also be taken in moderate quantities).
These terms of endearment reflect the desirability of sweet tastes.
Sugar is surprisingly prevalent in dishes you may least suspect: For example soups, cured meats, salad dressings, and sauces.
One tablespoon of regular ketchup contains a teaspoon of sugar.
Hoisin sauce, which you often find in Chinese cooking, has just as much sugar, if not more.
A can of soda pop contains several tablespoons of sugar.
Even diet foods contain large amounts of rapidly acting carbohydrates or alternative sweeteners like aspartame (which has been linked to cancer).
If you're surrounded by sugar, how can anyone possibly be suffering from low blood sugar? That's precisely the point and is the reason that make understanding of hypoglycemia very difficult.
Because everything is so sugar-laden, keeping a steady level of blood sugar has become difficult.
If someone is suffering from low blood sugar, the general advice from a lay man could be to incorporate sugary things in your diet.
This is wrong.
It doesn't mean that he/she should eat sugar.
This statement may, at first, appear to be a contradiction.
The paradox is that the more sugar you eat, the less sugar you have in your blood.
Your body can easily obtain the blood sugar it needs to function through unrefined carbohydrates, protein, and fats.
The truth is that even if you eat absolutely no glucose or refined sugar, you'll still have plenty of blood sugar as long as your body is functioning properly.
Always remember that refined carbohydrates are harmful, but unrefined carbohydrates are OK (they should also be taken in moderate quantities).
