Glucose Quotes

• The brain's preferred source of fuel is glucose/carbohydrates. And when you go on a low-carb/high-protein diet, your brain is using low-octane fuel. You'll be a little groggy, a little grumpy.

  Jack LaLanne

  Brain, Goes On, Fuel

  Source: billphillipsnews.com

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• For diabetes in particular, we know there's a relationship between lack of glucose regulation and complications like blindness and kidney failure. So if you were diabetic and you knew that you could get your glucose in a tight, normal range just by adjusting your lifestyle, wouldn't that be great?

  Eric Topol

  Kidneys, Normal, Regulation

  "Why doctors need to embrace their digital future now". Interview with Thomas Goetz, www.wired.com. January 31, 2012.

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• Your soul: pure glucose edged with hints
  Of tentative and half-soiled tints

  Edith Sitwell

  Soul, Hints, Half

  Edith Sitwell (Dame), Elizabeth Salter, Allanah Harper (1976). “Edith Sitwell: fire of the mind : an anthology”, Michael Joseph

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• Worry, shame, and fear can't be the energy with which we deal with food and weight. It only spurs us to eat more food and produce more glucose/sugar which gets stored as fat.

  Bill Crawford

  Worry, Energy, Spurs

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• No matter how closely you examine the water, glucose, and electrolyte salts in the human brain, you can't find the point where these molecules became conscious.

  Deepak Chopra

  Water, Brain, Molecules

  "Science Set Free (Good News for ‘Lumbering Robots’)" by Deepak Chopra, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 4, 2012.

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• I wear a continuous glucose monitor when I'm racing.

  Charlie Kimball

  Racing

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