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On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 00:29:44 GMT, wrote:

>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?

Yup.

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