Stop Overeating During Low Blood Sugars With Diabetes – by Ginger Vieira

We previously reviewed this author’s “Exercise With Type 1 Diabetes”, and now it’s about managing blood sugars (with either of the most common types of diabetes) without doing the rollercoaster that otherwise often happens.

And why does it happen? As she describes, while you are hypoglycemic, your body is crying out for carbs, certain it will die if you don’t eat every carb in sight. And you know, even while hypo, that the current 50mg/dL will soon be 300mg/dL if you’re not careful, but your body insists to carry on anyway.

How, then, to overcome this? That’s the topic that that this book’s 8 chapters cover, because in practical terms there’s a lot more to it than “just say no”, which has rarely been a viable response to any problem, and doesn’t help here, either.

Instead, we learn about what keeps this vicious cycle going, and how to interrupt it. How to work through the panic and the stress, and how to interrupt the twisted relationship with food that’s likely arisen. Most practically, she also talks us through treating lows with new guidelines, how to understand glucagon metabolism, and other technical aspects to round off the equally important more psychological matters.

The style is direct and personal, yet written with the confidence that comes from her expertise. It is, it’s worth noting, on the absolute lightest end of pop-science, but that’s understandable as the author is not a career scientist, just someone with T1D who’s become an expert out of necessity.

Bottom line: if you or a loved one has diabetes and struggles with this problem, then this book can help a lot.

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