Diabetes management: Key factors to understanding blood sugar levels.

This video will explain three predictable factors (carbohydrate foods, physical activity and insulin) and three unpredictable factors (stress, growth and illness) that can increase or decrease blood sugar levels.

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VIDEO CHAPTERS:

00:05 - Introduction

00:27 - Understanding blood sugar balance

02:03 - The 'predictable' factors

03:30 - Predictable factor 1: Carbohydrate foods

03:47 - Predictable factor 2: Physical activity

06:00 - Predictable factor 3: Insulin

06:31 - Predictable factors

06:52 - The unpredictable factors

07:28 - Unpredictable factor 1: Stress

08:08 - Unpredictable factor 2: Growth

08:33 - Unpredictable factor 3: Illness

08:55 - Factors that affect blood sugar levels