Blood Sugar

What’s the response to your body when you eat sugar?

When a person eats food, the body breaks the food down into glucose (sugar). This is important because the cells use the sugar as energy to fuel your body throughout the day. Once the sugar is broken down Insulin, which the pancreas secretes, transports the sugar from the blood stream into cells throughout your body. Reaching this point of homeostasis is important, because without the balance your body can be contaminated with too much, or not enough sugar, causing multiple problems to occur. This process on restoring your body back to a normal blood sugar level can be seen in the graph below.

This information is from the day in class that Dr. Rood recorded his blood sugar during the class period. He took his blood sugar at the beginning of class, then ate a candy bar and drank a sprite. Every 5 min he recorded his blood sugar. You can see how his blood sugar increases to a certain point, then his body brings it back down to it's regular state. 

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