Word: hypoglycemia
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...fused in ever more outlandish combinations. Rockefeller University obesity researcher Jules Hirsch estimates that there were about 500 foodstuffs available to Americans 100 years ago, compared with more than 50,000, ranging from pop-tarts to Portobello mushrooms, today. Food, which once served primarily as a cure for hypoglycemia, has become an entertainment medium...
...regimen has its own risks. As the number of insulin shots increases, so does the chance that patients will accidentally push their blood sugar too low -- a condition called hypoglycemia, which can lead to seizures and death. Most diabetics recognize the early symptoms, such as light-headedness, and eat something sweet before the effects become dangerous. But because of the risk of hypoglycemia, the intensive treatment program is not recommended for children under seven and elderly people who are frail...
...response to rising blood- glucose levels, these tiny factories release the granules into the bloodstream. As glucose levels fall, the insulin release tapers off, thus preventing blood sugar from plummeting to dangerous levels and starving the brain of fuel -- and consciousness. Fortunately, this life-threatening condition, known as hypoglycemia, can easily be countered by eating or drinking something sweet...
Intensive insulin therapy may prevent or delay complications, but it also sharply increases the likelihood of hypoglycemia. For this reason, in 1982 the National Institutes of Health launched a clinical trial to assess the connection between blood-sugar levels and the development of complications. Half the 1,441 volunteers are following the standard policy of two insulin * shots a day. The rest belong to an intensive-therapy group that tries to keep blood sugar as close to normal as possible. Some participants, like Ken McDonald, are using insulin pumps. Others inject themselves with insulin four times a day. The results...