Hi Sean;
 
Refined sugar to the body is seen as an emergency high blood sugar condition
since refined sugar does not exist in nature..  Think of driving your car,
and you see ahead something blocking the road so you apply the break in
proportion to how close the object is.  If it suddenly appeared a yard in
front of you , you'd slam on the brakes..
 
Chemically this is what the body does as insulin removes sugar from the
blood stream.  But, the body is calcuating on the rate of metabolism of
"natural sugars" which are slower to release than refined, so it thinks
there is vastly more sugar than really is present, and the insulin released
is too much for what is needed, so you get a rollar coaster up then too far
down level in the blood stream.
 
Another anology would be an army unit seeing what they think is a tank
coming at them, so they use enough fire power to stop a massive tank...
Then it turns out to be only cardboard around a small car, too much ammo
for the perceived threat.
 
In medicine the principle translates to advise to people to eat complex
carbohydrates rather than refined sugars if you have hypoglycemia.
 
hope that helps,
 
 Gary & the gang of fur
Timmy's web site=<http://www.concentric.net/~Gferret/>; He's the ferret
totally healed from "terminal lymphoma" without drugs or surgery. :)
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[Posted in FML issue 2422]