Feeling Famished

I have vivid memories from when I was a kid of being really, really hungry just before dinner. I can recall crying to my mother that I was starving. She’d tell me dinner would be ready in 40 minutes. I’d be dying for something to eat. She thought I was being impatient.

What was happening, unbeknownst to me, was that my blood sugar levels were crashing. I was getting the shakes and that “I need to eat something RIGHT NOW” feeling. I had no idea that the food I was eating (you know, all those things that come in colorful boxes and claimed to be part of a healthy balanced diet) were causing me to become sugar sensitive.

I still get the I-need-to-eat-right-now feeling now and again. Usually it happens after I’ve not eaten anything for an extended period of time, or after I’ve eaten at a restaurant and unknowingly consumed food with added sugars.

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