Blood Sugar, Data Centers and MADD

I saw a post today on Art de Vany's blog  about carbs, sugar and insulin resistance which ended with this line:

The really bad part of all this is that there are a lot of high insulin people out there who can "bonk" from low blood sugar if they don't get their carb hit. And then after the hit wears off, they may "bonk" again. They may be driving when this happens and are easily angered and lose concentration. They can be a danger to themselves and others when this happens. I would bet a fair number of auto accidents could be traced to blood glucose/insulin surges.

I thought the last line was interesting. It was literally five minutes later then that I saw this post on Valleywag about the recent outtage at data center RackSpace. Apparently the company's facilities were hit by a truck, whose driver had passet out to... low blood sugar. Interesting.

Perhaps everyone else knew this but me, but apparently this is a common phenomenon, as a quick search of the web will reveal.

Not trying to be glib here, but I wonder why there isn't an organization like MADD encouraging people to be more careful about their sugar intake. Or, in typical MADD fashion, trying to criminalize people with hypoglycemia. Speaking of MADD and neo-prohibitionism, the Reason magazine crowd has been all over them lately.

Also, is it possible that Tony Soprano's issues with blackouts and such were more the result of blood sugar issues than panic attacks? He did have a pretty terrible diet after all. Then again, the creators of the show seemed to make it pretty clear that there was a psychological element rather than anything physiological.

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