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Blood Sugar Stabilization
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Can We Really Blame Fructose For Causing Metabolic Syndrome?

When it comes to survival, the body will do anything it can to beat the odds.  Breaking down ‘fructose’, a naturally occurring sugar, is one of those survival tactics that the body figured out millions of years ago – a time when animals and some humans needed to hibernate.  Unfortunately we are now stuck with

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Skipping Meals vs. Fasting

Skipping meals, the unintentional loss of calories normally consumed during a typical meal hour, is an unhealthy habit our society has gotten into.  Busy schedules, lunch hour meetings, and/or no time to prepare a lunch the night before is the perfect excuse for just not eating between breakfast and the dinner hour.  Fasting, on the

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Blood Sugar Stabilization
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Clock In/Clock Out – Insulin’s Job to Stabilize Blood Sugar

To stay healthy, the body wants blood sugar (blood glucose) maintained in a very narrow range. To do this, the body produces two hormones, Insulin and Glucagon that work on opposite schedules and in opposite ways. 1) Insulin is produced when we are eating to lower high blood sugar and, 2) Glucagon is produced when

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