Want To Live A Long And Healthy Life

Heart attack. Stroke. Cancer. These are the diseases that cut people down before their time. And scientists are beginning to realise that blood sugar problems play a role in each of them.

Take heart disease, for example. Some doctors now believe that having high blood sugar is actually as much of an indication of future heart disease as having high cholesterol!

Why? Because too much sugar in your bloodstream can change the chemistry of your artery walls, making them as sticky like flypaper. Travelling blood clots get stuck in the flypaper, possibly causing a blockage.

But of course, the biggest risk you face with high blood sugar is diabetes itself.

Please don’t shrug off diabetes simply because it is a “treatable” disease. If you don’t think diabetes is a serious illness, consider that there are people who have lost a leg because of it. Or who have gone blind because of it. Or who are hooked up to a dialysis machine.

Believe me, diabetes is something you want to avoid. But if your blood sugar is too high for too long, you’re taking a risk by increasing your chances of becoming diabetic.

Fortunately, there’s a lot you can do to get off that road. And you can start doing it today.

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This article is from the book "The Sugar Solution". More information on this book can be found here The Sugar Solution

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