Nutrition and Your Body: Your Body on Carbohydrates

Nutrition and Your Body: Your Body on Carbohydrates — page 5
HIGH AND LOW either store glucose as BLOOD SUGAR fat or use it for energy One of the body's most important functions is right away Then regulating glucose levels in glucose levels in the the blood If levels soar or drop too much there can blood drop back to the be side effects If glucose usual level levels stay too high the body becomes hyperglycemic The body also Symptoms include blurry has a system to keep vision tiredness and frequent urination If glucose levels blood sugar levels sink too low the body becomes hypoglycemic from dropping too Symptoms include dizziness low The pancreas irritability and confusion makes a hormone If either problem goes on too long a person may have called glucagon This eye kidney nerve and hormone tells the liver heart problems to change fat into glucose Then the glucose is released back into the bloodstream for use This process makes sure the body has enough blood sugar to keep all of its parts running 8