Grains all bran 51 brown rice 66 buckwheat 54 cornflakes 80 oatmeal 49 shred. wheat 67 muesli 66 white rice 72 white spagetti 50 whole wheat spagetti 42 sweet corn 59 Fruits apples 39 bananas 62 cherries 23 grapefruit 26 grapes 45 orange juice 46 peach 29 orange 40 pear 34 plum 25 raisins 64 Vegetables baked beans 40 beets 64 black-eyed peas 33 carrots 92 chic peas 36 parsnips 97 potato chips 51 baked potato 98 sweet potato 48 yams 51 peas 51 Baked Goods pastry 59 sponge cake 46 white bread 69 w/w bread 72 whole rye bread 42 Sugars fructose 20 glucose 100 honey 87 maltose 110 sucrose 59 Nuts peanuts 13 Meats sausage 28 fish sticks 38 Dairy Products yogurt 36 whole milk 34 skim milk 32 Remember, the pancreas has another major service to perform for the body: secreting digestive enzymes to aid in the digestion of proteins. When the diet contains either too much protein or too much sugar and/or high-glycemic index starch foods, the overworked pancreas begins to be less and less efficient at maintaining both of these functions. Sometimes a stressed-out pancreas gets overactive and does too good a job lowering the blood sugar, producing hypoglycemia. Hypoglycemia is generally accompanied by unpleasant symptoms such as fatigue, dizziness, blurred vision, irritability, confusion, headache, etc. This condition is typically alleviated by yet another hit of sugar which builds an addiction not only to sugar, but to food in general. If the hypoglycemic then keeps on eating sugar to relieve the symptoms of sugar ingestion, eventually the pancreas becomes exhausted, producing an insulin deficiency, called diabetes. Medical doctors treat diabetes with insulin supplements either oral or intramuscular plus a careful diet with very low and measured amounts of sugar and starch for the remainder of the persons inevitably shortened and far less pleasant life. However, sometimes diabetes can be controlled with diet alone, though medical doctors have not had nearly as much success with this approach as talented naturopaths. Sometimes, long fasting can regenerate a pancreas. It is far better to avoid creating this disease!