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Friday, October, 23, 2009

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Controlling the Dawn Phenomenon

By David Mendosa Health Expert

One of our most stubborn challenges is to control the dawn phenomenon. That's when our fasting blood glucose readings in the morning are higher than when we went to bed.

The dawn phenomenon is a normal physiological process where certain hormones in our body work to raise blood glucose levels before we wake up, as we wrote in The New Glucose Revolution: What Makes My Blood Glucose Go Up...And Down? Professor Jennie Brand-Miller of the University of Sydney, Kaye Foster-Powell, and I co-authore...

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