The protein-sparing diet and hypoglycemia

Tran Tien Chanh 2010-07-14

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People who tend to have hypoglycemia obviously are not happy to see you cut back on the sugar in your diet. They should know that hypoglycemia is not caused by a lack of sugar; it is the consequence of an overreaction to excess insulin production, which causes insulin-reaction hypoglycemia or “reflex hypoglycemia”.

If sugar intake is reduced, the pancreas will secrete less insulin and, as a result, reflex hypoglycemia will not occur.

When the body is deprived of sugar, it will turn its amino acids into glucose to meet the needs of glucose-dependent tissues like the brain, red blood cells and part of the adrenal glands...

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