Recent us medical research suggests that refusing staple food may lead to memory loss because brain cells energized by glucose cannot store it and must rely on a continuous supply via the blood.

而美国一项医学研究指出，不摄取主食可能造成失忆，因为脑细胞以葡萄糖作为能量，但脑细胞无法贮存葡萄糖，需透过血液持续供应。

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At Mercy Medical Center in Merced, where roughly four patients a day are Hmong from northern Laos, healing includes more than IV drips, syringes and blood glucose monitors.

在默塞德的莫西医疗中心，每天通常有四位病患是来自老挝北部的苗族人，治疗方式不仅仅是打点滴，注射或是血糖检测。

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Andrew Ahn of Harvard Medical School cites the example of diabetes, for which the standard clinical test is a measure of the level of glucose in the blood.

哈佛医学院的安德鲁•安(Andrew Ahn)引用了糖尿病的一个例证，为此来说明标准的临床测试是通过这种方法来检测血液中所含葡萄糖等级。

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"The end of the rainbow is some automated device that will be able to come close to normalizing glucose, " says Francine Kaufman, chief medical officer in the Medtronic diabetes division.

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"When the medical team ran out of intravenous fluids at the camp, oral glucose-salt packets were used to treat (more than) 3, 000 patients, resulting in a reduction in the mortality rate from 30% to only 3.6%, " the journal said.

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The small study, published in the Journal of American Medical Association, is the first to look specifically at how electromagnetic radiation from cell phones affects glucose metabolism, a normal function, in the brain.

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