(I) Good health requires us to maintain an extraordinarily steady level of blood glucose at all ti¬mes. (II) However, a severe build -up of glucose in the blood rapidly, runs the body through a course of weakness, fatigue, coma or even death. (III) And it is o¬ne of nature's miracles that we are able to do just that. (IV) The reason we can is that we don't eat glucose it¬self. (V) Instead, we eat complex sugars, which are simplified through digestion until they reach the small intestine, where they are steadily fed to the blood stream.