How's Your Blood Sugar?
by Phillip Day

Chances are, you're one of the millions who suffer from blood sugar abnormalities because of your diet and lifestyle.

The brain runs on glucose, claiming up to 30% of the body's production of this essential sugar. 'Blood sugar' levels are vital to the correct functioning of both brain and body in the right amounts and at the right rate. When this delicate balance is disrupted, hypoglycaemia (low blood sugar) or hyperglycaemia (high blood sugar) result, throwing you into turmoil. It's estimated 1 in 4 of us may be suffering from some form of glucose intolerance, manifesting in the problems above as well as insulin resistance and its end-game, diabetes mellitus, type 2.

Tea, coffee, sucrose, chocolate, junk food, cigarettes and other 'mood enhancers' are constantly available in mental institutions. Not good. These stimulate the production of adrenalin and fool the body into releasing glucose from the liver (glycogen) before it is required. Blood sugar levels soar. Frequent intakes of these foods cause the pancreas to over-produce insulin, the hormone responsible for transporting glucose into the cells. Excess amounts of insulin then cause blood sugar levels abruptly to dive. Symptoms of glucose intolerance set in and a vicious cycle is created as more sugar is craved to relieve the symptoms. Chaotic fluctuations of high and low blood sugar will end you up with an exhausted pancreas and adrenal glands, not to mention the accompanying physical and mental woes described earlier.

All this is controllable with diet and exercise. Remember: bread, pasta, doughnuts, potatoes, chips (fries), rolls, breakfast cereals, rice (no matter how righteous) and all grains break down into glucose in the body. If this energy is not burnt off, your brain will stash it where you hang your six-guns (fat never made you fat!). Since most don't exercise but still hog down these foods, they end up with problems with blood sugar, critters (Candida), and get cranky, growly and wobbly when you ask them to pass the mustard. If that's you, try the following:

· COMMENCE THE FOOD FOR THOUGHT LIFESTYLE REGIMEN (at the back of most of my books), ensuring you cut out junk foods, especially sodas and soft drinks, sucrose, refined high-glycaemic carbohydrates such as grain and potato products
· Eat small meals often to even out blood sugar
· Give up the foods and beverages listed in the Foods to Avoid section, especially alcoholic drinks, and ESPECIALLY BEERS AND LAGERS
· If fungi and yeasts have become a problem, switch to the ANTI-CANDIDA LIFESTYLE REGIMEN (See section on Candidiasis in ABC's of Disease)
· VITAL: Increase water intake to four pints (2 litres) per day
· VITAL: Work up to regular, vigorous exercise (at least one hour per day, 3-4 times per week, and I don't mean dragging Toto round the cricket pitch). Consult a doctor if you have to (one trained in nutrition)
· COMMENCE THE BASIC SUPPLEMENT PROGRAM, and ANTI-CANDIDA/FUNGAL SUPPLEMENTATION if appropriate. Add to that:
· Zinc gluconate, 25 mg, twice per day
· Chromium picolinate, 200 mcg per day, taken every other day, two weeks on, two weeks off.
· Manganese, 10 mg, twice per day

Don't say I don't care about you.

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