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Muscles use glucose to do work, so your blood sugar levels get lower during exercise. This level will go even lower if there is a lot of insulin in your blood. Although the amount of food needed to prevent low blood glucose during or after exercise is different for each person a few general adjustments in your snacks can make a difference

When you eat, carbohydrates in your meal are the main reason why your blood glucose level goes up but there are many other factors in addition to food that affect your blood glucose normal levels. Here are a few:

Several studies have shown that a realistic amount of vinegar or lemon juice, in the form of salad dressing, consumed with a mixed meal, lowers blood sugar levels significantly. Physiologists have known for a long time that high acid foods slow down stomach emptying; the surprise, however, is how little is needed to reduce blood glucose levels.

Rice is not the best food for diabetics. However, you can use the texture of the rice to guide you as to what effect it will have on your blood glucose level. A fact you need to keep in mind is that the stickier the rice is, the higher your level of blood glucose will climb. Here is a guideline of how different kinds of rice can impact your blood sugar.

If you are diabetic, one of your main concerns is probably keeping your blood sugar levels as close to normal as possible since you may be aware that uncontrolled blood sugar levels can cause serious health problems in the long run. And the best way to keep those levels under control is to know what is causing them to go out of whack.

If you have had diabetes for more than 10 years and you have not kept your blood glucose levels close to near-normal levels, you probably have some symptoms of peripheral neuropathy. It is a condition that affects to 75% of all people with diabetes

In the 1960's, when scientists learned how to measure insulin, they realized that people with diabetes mellitus or type 2 diabetes, had not only high levels of glucose in the blood, but they also had high levels of insulin. Puzzled by this fact, researchers soon realized that type 2 diabetics had become resistant to insulin.

Prediabetes is a condition when the blood glucose levels of a person are above the accepted normal limits for a healthy human but below the levels of a diabetic person. In other terms, it is a condition of intermediate hyperglycemia

Diabetes Mellitus, most commonly and simply known as Diabetes, is one of the most common diseases that is faced by majority of the population across the world. It is defined as a metabolic disorder characterized by the increase in glucose or sugar levels in the blood which could affect the functioning of the body.