Treatment For Hypoglycaemia - 6 Facts You Should Know

- Treating hypoglycemia is a bit like "coming off" drugs. Your body has become addicted to sugars from sugar itself and refined carbohydrates and now has to be weaned off them. But fortunately hypoglycemia does not require drugs or surgery; it requires a change in eating habits, chiefly eliminating refined and processed foods.

- Did you know that if ignored hypoglycemia can and will lead to diabetes and or strokes. Most people who are potentially suffering with low blood sugar levels often ignore this simple fact. Also another thing we need to remember is that stress can often be linked to the start of hypoglycemia. So make sure you get your self checked by a doctor if you think you could have low blood sugar levels.

- Like drugs, it is not easy and requires help and a well laid out plan. But it requires something in addition, something most of us dislike or procrastinate about - TAKING ACTION. You have to come to a strong decision today that you will stop taking in vast quantities of refined foods. You need to realize this above all else. That you will be tempted to have "one little nibble" of a refined food, but you have to absolutely stop. Think of cigarettes or alcohol. You can't go back and have a little taste every now and then.

- That is not to say once you have cured hypoglycemia, you will not be able to relax your diet once in a while or even once a week. This requires a complete lifestyle change in order to keep your body healthy and everything working normal.

- Why is this change in diet so essential? Simply, your Western diet of simple carbohydrates (instant cereals) for breakfast, or no breakfast at all, a donut or pastry at 10:00 am tea and sandwiches for lunch has broken the normal functioning of your body. Your insulin, which regulates the sugar content of your blood levels, has been overworked because your body reacts to simple carbohydrates (refined foods) as though it were sugar and releases insulin to clear the blood of excess sugar. The constant overuse of insulin leads to problems and you then fall into the category of hypoglycemic.

- There are other "no-no" foods and drinks such as coffee and there are other foods which have to be taken instead of refined foods (e.g fiber). And there are other actions which have to be taken (e.g. exercise). All these will be elaborated in other articles.

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