On Sat, 09 Aug 2003 11:35:59 GMT, Siobhan Perricone
> wrote:
>I don't know all the medical details, but when you're hungry and your tummy
>is empty, your liver releases sugars into your blood stream. That's on of
>the potential causes of the "dawn phenonmenon" (where you have higher BG
>readings in the morning when you wake up because you haven't eaten anything
>at all for 8 or so hours).

Is that why MD's use a fasting bg level done in the AM to determine
if/when a person is diabetic?

Cindi