Diabetes is a disease of uncontrolled sugar. In a nutshell, uncontrolled sugar is also a huge contributing factor to obesity and heart disease. When your blood sugar goes too high, insulin comes in to escort that extra blood sugar into the cells where it can be burned for energy. But if insulin doesn't work effectively, you wind up with too much blood sugar and high levels of insulin, and you're on your way to big health problems down the road.


The technical name for this ability of the body to regulate sugar effectively and efficiently is glycemic control.



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