Do you know the average glucose level?

Average Glucose LevelWe hear all the time from our doctor’s to watch our weight, watch what we eat, but why? Doctor’s want us to watch everything we do because they want us to maintain the average glucose level in order to stay healthy.

The average glucose level plays an important role on our health, how we feel, the length of our life and many other important factors. There is a standard average glucose level that is used widely for almost everyone no matter of race, age, heredity or any other factors. The average blood glucose level is used to calculate many other numbers throughout our body such as the mean glucose level, range glucose level and what the normal glucose level should be for you according to what time of day it is.

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The Normal Glucose Level Range

Normal Glucose Level RangeWhen it come to the normal glucose level range, there are no hard and fast rules since like everything else in life each person’s individual case is different, but as a general rule the normal glucose level range is between 60 and 120. Of course these numbers can be influenced by any number of factors including weight, age and other health conditions and there is no real way to say that this is or isn’t normal without the advice of a physician and long term tracking and trending of blood glucose levels. Nobody is better at maintaining their normal glucose level range than diabetics.

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Vinegar and Diabetes

Vinegar and DiabetesThe old adage is that you are what you eat, meaning that the things we put in our mouths can have a profound effect on our health and this may be true with the relationship between vinegar and diabetes. While it is true that many people scoff at the idea that something as simple as a spoonful of vinegar could possibly have any effect whatsoever on a dreaded and complicated disease like diabetes there are a few facts that should be taken into account first.

One common question is, “how can vinegar, which is an acid, have anything to do with diabetes which has to do with sugar?” The truth is that whether a person is talking about vinegar and diabetes or coffee and bacon the fact remains that our bodies take in and metabolize whatever we put into them. Practically anything we put in our body has some type of effect on all the bodies’ systems.

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