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The unhealthy bonding of a sugar to a protein or a fat is called glycation. Another name is used when a protein actively seeks a sugar molecule and enzymatically assimilates it.

Sugars can glycate to proteins in a haphazard fashion. The protein, in this case, does not seek it because the metabolic function of the protein is then severely degraded.

The stomach is where sucrose, table sugar, is divided into glucose and fructose. Fructose can glycate 10 times faster than glucose.

Sugars are tacky things, the greater the number and the longer the exposure to them the higher the chances of glycation.

Glycations are big trouble to the body because not only do they unset molecular and cellular functions thorough out the body, they generate hydrogen peroxide and other toxic, oxidizing materials.

Glycation severely affects long lived cells in the nerves and brain, long lasting proteins in vital organs as well as DNA. Glycation even attacks beta cells in the pancreas, important because they produce the insulin used to fight glycation. Maybe worst, glycation stiffens as well as weakens blood vessels.

AGEs, advanced glycation end products are what the glycated molecule ends up being, basically it is a toxic waste product. Essentially there are no tissues that are immune to glycation therefore all organs and system are vulnerable to chronic diseases: Alzheimer’s, cardiovascular, cancer, neuropathology’s, diabetes, eyes, ears, etc, etc.

With a lifespan of 120 days, easily accessible red blood cells can be analyzed for recent increases in glycating materials. Recently this has become the most reliable way of determining the blood sugars affect on tissues. This measurement of glycated hemoglobin levels in the cells is called HbA1c,

There are additional pathologies in diabetes beyond glycation, some may be worse, but they are less understood.

As you can see, diabetes is definitely a life shortening disease to be feared. Early diabetes and especially during pre-diabetes one still has time to actively back out of the mess ahead.

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They should mark packages, pre diabetics beware. I was down at the local market the other day wondering if they had anything new to brighten my day. Sure enough there it was in a see-through package, a knock your eye out pastry with a great come either look in its eye

I looked around to see if I was still in the diet food section of the store, I had to be sure I hadn’t drifted subconsciously into the bakery area and was staring at an untouchable.

Nope. The overhead sign read diet foods and supplements – I was okay there. I pinched myself t be sure, because I knew I had struck gold. I tore open the lid, removed the pastry and took a bite, how sweet it was.

Label, what label, do these things have labels? Ignorance is a bliss. When I finally did think of the label I was greatly relief to find there was an acceptable level of protein and fat in the product. That should have been reassuring enough to finish it off, right? However, reluctantly I did nag myself into reviewing the carbs. Only 70 calories, where are the other zeros?

Right away, I wanted to find out how the bakery did it. How did they manage such a delicious, and even generous treat with such a trivial calorie penalty for eating it. The brand was not national, but there was a phone number, so I called it.

The young voice that answered the phone sounded like someone’s daughter, she had such a youthful voice. She was the wife of the baker, they were two years old and doing great with the product that I was investigating.

After she refused to divulge the formula I ask her what laboratory method the bakery used to determine calorie content. She said the Food and Drug agency told her they required a label divulging the contents but did not specify which method the bakery use. I asked her again for the method – she said she looked it up in a book. Her method was to make a guess.

By all safety standards, this product was ready to be consumed, and likely will be by all who choose to believe anything that’s in print.

This is a real personal story. Large food corporations use outside laboratories for food analysis. Regional and smaller companies get along with less. The point: when it come to diabetes and even pre diabetes, the stomach can easily blindfold the eye.

There out there, all the easy ways for a diabetic and pre diabetic to screw up without a diabetic meal plan #1

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