Healthy Blood Sugar Obesity

Here’s how it works: You eat something and the stomach and intestines break the food down into glucose. The cells need glucose for energy, but for the cells to be able to use glucose they also need insulin which the pancreas emits in the response to glucose.

The body, however, can become resistant to using the insulin if there are certain factors occurring, in particular excess fat. So the glucose stays in the blood, which makes the pancreas secrete more insulin. Eventually the pancreas gets tired, very tired and gives up. That’s when pre-diabetes becomes diabetes.

Keeping glucose sugar levels balanced also helps promote weight loss as having low blood sugar (hypoglycemia) will trigger binge eating, which causes the rebound effect of high blood sugar or glucose. The body will rapidly store this high blood sugar as fat.

With a few tricks up your sleeve, you can easily control your glucose levels and avoid more serious health problems.

Here are some guidelines for turning around high blood sugar:

is not working properly, it can create a pancreatic imbalance which leads to insulin resistance in the body. Get it checked and get the thyroid balanced. Women, as they age, seem to lose more of their thyroid capability. Know the secret weapons. Eating protein with sugary carbohydates slows down the blood sugar spike that occurs. Cinnamon and salacia, an aryuvedic herb, are natural blood sugar balancers.

Originally published in 2009