Why should healthy people be concerned about controlling blood sugar?
Conditions such as reactive hypoglycemia with symptoms such as shakiness, irritability and fatigue are quite common. Mid afternoon crash anyone? Further down the blood sugar slide is a condition called metabolic syndrome characterized by high insulin levels, high cholesterol levels and increased abdominal fat. This syndrome puts us at much higher risk of heart disease and dementias such as Alzheimers in part due to the inflammation caused by chronically high blood sugar levels. Studies have found that the risk associated with high blood sugar increases with each small increase in blood sugar readings. In fact the risk begins long before we ever reach a diagnosis of diabetes. This means that even those of us with normal blood sugar tests may...