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Article: Better blood sugar for better health: 10 diet tips that work wonders.
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- Environmental Nutrition
- Article date:
- December 1, 2006
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Controlling blood sugar used to be something only people with diabetes worried about. But recent studies from Denmark, Australia and here in the U.S. suggest that controlling blood sugar should be a concern for everyone.
According to Simin Liu, M.D., Sc.D., director of the Program on Genomics and Nutrition at the University of California at Los Angeles, the amount of glucose (sugar) circulating in your blood can influence everything from your weight to your risk of developing heart disease, stroke and cancer. And what you put on your plate directly affects how high your blood sugar will go. Here's how to influence that in a positive way.
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