CHD better, indeed, than high levels of blood sugar, the standard symptom of diabetic disorder.

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As an example, a serving of white rice has nearly the same effect as eating pure table sugar a rapid, high spike in blood sugar.

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Gordon Weir, a researcher at Harvard-affiliated Joslin Diabetes Center, Boston, believes a strategy using short-term insulin treatment a couple of weeks or months to drive blood sugar back to safer levels, may eventually prove effective and become a treatment strategy.

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Previous studies have found that foods with a low glycemic index (typically whole grains, fruits and non-starchy vegetables, which increase blood sugar at a slower rate than more processed foods) generate hormonal changes that could reduce this hunger an effect that protein-rich meals might bolster.

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Results of a new study published April 4th in the American Heart Association Journal, Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology, discovered that individuals who walked briskly were able to reduce their high blood pressure, elevated cholesterol, and blood sugar (diabetes), as much as runners did and actually to a higher degree.

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Whether reason or intuition is used may depend simply on the decision-maker's blood-sugar level which is, itself, affected by the process of reasoning.

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If this occurs, he or she may need an emergency injection of glucagon a hormone that stimulates the release of sugar into the blood.

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A1C is the amount of sugar that has attached to hemoglobin the substance that carries oxygen inside red blood cells in your blood.

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