There are a lot of names for sugar.  There are lot of names for “fake sugar.”  One of the most important things to be cognizant about when you take the evolutionary living journey is to understand the role of blood sugar (glucose) that you have streaming through your body and how this relates to your health and chance of diseases.  Insulin plays a factor here.  But, it all starts with the amount of sugar and carbohydrate (not fat or protein) that you put in your mouth that then becomes glucose.

In the field of endocrinology, in the field of biochemistry, any chart that tries to put it all in perspective has glucose in the middle of the storm of all of the hormonal chemistry reactions throughout our organisms’ constant activity, the primary goal being how to get carbon into the body.

Glucose (Glc), a monosaccharide (or simple sugar) also known as grape sugar, blood sugar, or corn sugar, is a very important carbohydrate in biology. The living cell uses it as a source of energy and metabolic intermediate.

-excerpt from Wikipedia

Here’s a great simple youtube video that explains the role of glucose in diabetes, and as you learn more you’ll understand how high levels of glucose in your body caused by a high dietary intake of carbohydrates (never before seen in the course of human history!) causes other diseases, as well.

This vocabulary lesson is just a building for your journey so when you piece it all together you’re not seeing these issues for the first time, the lightbulb that will pop on above your head will be all the brighter.