Saturday, July 26, 2008

I am not eating any sugar.Why my blood sugar is always high?

I am asked this question very often.

Answer is very simple.The 'blood sugar' is the common term we use for glucose in blood. Glucose is not the sugar we eat in sweets or add in tea and coffee.

It is a biochemical molecule.

It is produced in the body by several methods. Most of the food substances we eat are digested to smaller and smaller particles and finally turned into glucose. Also, liver and some other tissues in the body produces glucose from other substances like fat and protein.

So not eating sugar do not mean you would not get a high blood glucose.

Not eating anything also do not mean you would not get high blood sugar as the body produces its own glucose.

Body needs glucose continously 24 hours a day for its proper functioning.

In Diabetes the problem is the inability of the body to utilise glucose. As glucose is not utilised, it gets accumulated and produce damages to various organ systems of the body.

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