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would not be more safe at least to substitute glucose for sugar ?
they are the same thing. glucose is the sugar in your blood.
if your pancreas(sp?) doesn't produce enough insulin to deal with your glucose level then you are diabetic. your glucose can be too high or too low, serious health issues arise from either.
if your pancreas is overactive and produces too much insulin then you glucose level is always too low and you suffer many of the symptoms as a diabetic. that's called hypoglycemic. at some point your pancreas will wear out from overproduction and you'll end up diabetic. it can give you blurred vision, difficulty thinking clearly, make you grouchy, and sleepy, those are just the minor effects!
i suffer from the latter but control it through diet. i have to eat complex carbs to slowly release glucose into my blood and keep my pancreas from over-reacting and dumping a bunch of insulin into my system.
in a wose case senario a hypoglycemic (or diabetic) can pass out from eating too much sugar (just a piece of cake). the hypoglycemic will have a reaction, get too much insulin and the glucose will go too low. the diabetic will have the opposite problem with no glucose regulation and the glucose level will go too high.
you are not supposed to drink alcohol either because it is just simple carbs. i drink in moderation but i believe i get worse hangovers sometimes because of the hypoglycemia causing my glucose level to go too low after drinking.
sorry for the long post, just thought i'd share some info on health defects.