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The degree to which a unit of insulin lowers the blood sugar helps us understand something called insulin sensitivity.
The more a given unit of insulin lowers blood sugar, the more sensitive you are to insulin.
The pancreas still sends out insulin, but cells, especially muscle cells, are less and less responsive to it, so blood sugar fails to decrease, and blood insulin continues to rise.
That involves a constellation of symptoms, including high blood sugar, increased waist circumference, and high blood pressure.
Whether your food tastes sweet or not, sugar is sugar, and too many carbs can be a problem.
Placebos had to mimic the real treatments in order to be convincing, so they took the form of sugar pills, water-filled injections, and even sham surgeries.
Most of this energy comes from carbohydrates that our body digests into glucose, or blood sugar.
Carbs come in three forms: starch, sugar, and fiber.
While on most nutrition labels, they are all lumped into one total carb count, the ratio of the sugar and fiber subgroups to the whole amount affect how the body and brain respond.
Blood sugar shoots down, and with it, our attention span and mood.
Depending on what we eat, and specifically how much sugar we consume, certain microbes can overpopulate and cause cavities.
Like humans, these microorganisms love sugar, using it as a molecular building block and energy source.
The more sugar our food contains, the more our teeth are put at risk.
In meat-heavy diets, there would have been a low-risk of cavities developing because lean meat contains very little sugar, but that's not all our early human ancestors ate.
So while ancient humans did eat less sugar compared to us, their teeth were still exposed to sugars.
After the Industrial Revolution, the human incidence of cavities surged because suddenly we had technological advances that made refined sugar cheaper and accessible.
Some people are more susceptible to cavities due to genes that may cause certain weaknesses, like softer enamel, but for most, high sugar consumption is to blame.
However, we have developed other ways of minimizing cavities besides reducing our intake of sugar and starch.
The best way to avoid a cavity is still cutting down on sugar intake and practicing good oral hygiene to get rid of the bacteria and their food sources.
A heart-healthy diet is low in sugar and saturated fats, which are both linked to heart disease.
And on the sugar plantations, which really more closely resembled feudal fiefdoms than any modern enterprise, 60 percent of pregnant women tested HIV-positive.
At first, its bitter taste made it suitable as a medicine for ailments, like upset stomachs, but sweetening it with honey, sugar, or vanilla quickly made chocolate a popular delicacy in the Spanish court.
Brands with too much sugar and not enough bacteria may not actually help.
Take the quoll, one of the world's smallest marsupials, which weighs only 18 milligrams at birth, the equivalent of about 30 sugar grains.
The usual suspects, like saturated fat and sugar, nicotine, opiates, cocaine, too much alcohol and chronic stress.
Yet, if you look at the structure by high-resolution electron microscopy, and you ask yourself, what is it made of, surprisingly, it's made of sugar.
Yet it's made of sugar.
Now, what you can see here is essentially a sugar molecule that was added a small little tag that is signaling to us outside of the body, "Hey, I'm here."
And those sugar molecules are injected into these patients by the billions, and they're going all over the body looking for cells that are hungry for sugar.
That's because the heart needs a lot of sugar.
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