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--- Elizabeth Beeton <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> What if you're hypoglycemic and going without food
> is not an option?
Is it really that common to be hypoglycemic? I suspect
there may be two definitions that are used. My own
recognition is that hypoglycemia is a dangerous condition
when blood sugar drops too low, and the person goes into a
coma that can be life-threatening. But I thought that with
normal people, once you start fasting you will go into
ketosis before the blood sugar drops dangerously low, and
so you don't die from fasting until maybe a month or more.
There may be another definition, though, i.e. the fatigue
and crankiness that (naturally) comes when we don't eat
regularly. I think though that humans do fast, we get over
that feeling of discomfort. When people say hypoglycemia
generally, what kind of a situation does it refer to?
Jens Wilkinson
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