“If your blood sugar drops an hour after eating, you’re hypoglycemic. If it drops two hours after eating, you’re hyperglycemic.”

“If you pack a wound with sugar, it practically heals without a scar.”

“Another routine screening practised in certain countries is for so-called gestational diabetes. If the amount of glucose in the blood is considered too high after absorption of sugar, the ‘glucose tolerance test’ is positive. This diagnosis is useless because it merely leads to simple recommendations that should be given to all pregnant women, such as: avoid pure sugar (including soft drinks, sodas, etc.), choose complex carbohydrates (pasta, bread, rice, etc.), and have a sufficient amount of physical exercise. A large study, at the level of the Canadian population, demonstrated the only effect of routine glucose tolerance screening was to inform 2.7% of pregnant women that they have gestational diabetes. The diagnosis did not change birth outcomes. Even the routine measurement of blood pressure in pregnancy may be reconsidered. Its original purpose was to detect the preliminary signs of pre-eclampsia, particularly at the end of a first pregnancy. But an isolated increased blood pressure, without any protein in the urine, is associated with good birth outcomes. The prerequisite, to diagnose pre-eclampsia, is the presence of a certain amount of protein in the urine. It is actually more useful to rely on the repeated use of the special strips for ‘urinalysis’ one can buy in any pharmacy. Measuring blood pressure is thus not essential.”

A — It does … unless her doctors TREATED her for it.