Book Title: Lifestyle Master Program Author(s): Ellen Livingston Publisher: Ellen LivingstonPage 24
________________ Lifestyle Master Program eBook 1.0 by Ellen Livingston 5. Understanding Diabetes and Other Blood-Sugar Disorders The body's ability to regulate blood sugar levels is directly affected by what you eat. Dietary sugar often takes the blame in conditions of blood sugar imbalance. Though refined sugar (such as high fructose corn syrup) is problematic for many reasons, the sugars found naturally in fresh ripe fruits do not stress our bodies. The actual problem usually stems from an excess of dietary fat. Even healthful raw plant fats, when consumed in excess of the body's actual needs, will impair basic body functions. Diabetics, especially, need to take a very close look at the percentage of fat (of all types) in their diet, and work to bring it down below 10% of total calories. This is true as well for anyone with symptoms of hypoglycemia or candidiasis, and actually for everyone who wants to avoid developing any of these imbalances. Dietary fat is challenging for the body to digest and assimilate, and the process requires a great deal of the body's vital nerve energy. It also takes a long time for fat to be digested, much longer than the simple carbohydrates in fresh fruits and vegetables. Fat is sticky, and it adheres to the walls of blood vessels, essentially coating them and thus interfering with the body's mechanism for transporting sugar molecules out of the blood. When blood vessels are chronically coated with sticky dietary fats, the insulin sent by the pancreas to transport sugar out of the blood is ineffective. The receptor sites meant to be ports where the insulin can “pick up" the sugar molecules are blocked by sticky fats, and the mission is unsuccessful. The pancreas pumps out more and more insulin in an effort to overcome this challenge, even calling on the Lifestyle Master eBook 1.0 The Campaign for Aging ResearchPage Navigation
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