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What Is Blood Sugar

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What exactly is blood sugar? And why is it so very important to your health?

Well, blood sugar is to your body what petrol is to your car. It’s the fuel that makes it go.

If your car ran out of petrol, it would sputter, cough, and come to a stop. If you ran out of blood sugar, you would soon go into a coma and die.

Fill Up Your Body’s “Petrol Tank”!

So, like petrol, blood sugar is a good thing. But, as the saying goes, you can have too much of a good thing.

You wouldn’t pour petrol all over your car would you? You wouldn’t grab the hose and spray petrol all over the upholstery, all over the engine, all over the paint.

But when your blood sugar gets high – and stays high – that’s exactly what you’re doing. You’re pouring petrol over your body and all the vital organs inside. Then when you add and additional problem like high blood pressure or high cholesterol, you’re striking a match.

Your goal is to keep your “petrol tank” of blood sugar fill, but not too full. And one of the key tools in this process is a hormone called insulin.

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