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To: editor-surveyor

No, I don’t live dangerously. My body just has a knack for failing at inconvenient times. Like blacking out after drinking a beer, and one and a half glasses of sangria while eating Spanish food. It certainly was not the alcohol that did that; I’m guessing the sugar. I chewed the crystals when drinking it.

I would guess I should consume some amount of Gatorade daily. Or maybe something with a good electrolyte count, without the sugar.

Did you take classes for this stuff?


10 posted on 04/09/2009 8:46:24 PM PDT by wastedyears (April 21st, 2009 - International Iron Maiden Day)
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To: wastedyears

What’s your glucose level? if you are blacking out, it isn’t from “sugar in beer or alcohol, because there is none.


12 posted on 04/09/2009 8:49:05 PM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: wastedyears

Many people think that diabetics shouldn’t have alcohol because it has “sugar”. That’s not true. Diabetics shouldn’t have alcohol because it causes them (me) to “crash”. A crash is when your blood sugar levels drop dangerously low.

A hypoglycemic, ( a sort of reverse diabetic, someone who has to constantly eat carbs) goes into a diabetic coma when their blood sugar drops below 4.0 mol. The same thing can happen to a diabetic who takes too much insulin.

Normally, a persons pancreas produces enough insulin to regulate he amount of glucose in your blood. If your diet doesn’t include enough carbs, then your body will produce glucose by burning fat surrounding your liver and intestines. That isn’t a healthy thing to do however. it causes your body to store even more fat in that area if you regularly deprive your body of carbs.


16 posted on 04/09/2009 9:05:32 PM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: wastedyears

Skip the Gatoraid; it has artificial sweeteners that are far more harmful than ordinary refined sugars.

Just spend the dough for the sea salt. It works.


42 posted on 04/10/2009 9:38:16 AM PDT by editor-surveyor (The beginning of the O'Bummer administration looks a lot like the end of the Nixon administration)
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