Word: hypoglycemia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hypoglycemia is being diagnosed too often...
...symptoms seem to occur a few hours after meals: dizziness, weakness, tremors, sweating, even heart palpitations. Worried that they might have that "in" condition, hypoglycemia (low blood sugar), the patients consult their physicians. More often than not, after a test or two, the doctors agree with the diagnosis and prescribe a restrictive, highprotein, low-carbohydrate diet with frequent feedings. Indeed, hypoglycemia has reached epidemic proportions. Now some doctors are raising warning flags. They insist that the malady is largely illusory...
...fuel. Derived from all foods, but most quickly from carbohydrates, it is present in the blood in varying amounts at all times. Directly after meals, the glucose level rises. Then, as insulin secreted from the pancreas helps move sugar into cells, the glucose concentration drops. But in people with hypoglycemia it falls to an abnormally low level. In a small percentage of patients, low blood sugar can be traced to tumors of the pancreas, liver disease or previous gastrointestinal surgery. But most of today's cases are attributed to disturbances in sugar metabolism following meals...