Across
- 1. diet A diet low in carbohydrates which include sugars, starch, and cellulose
- 4. A blood glucose monitoring system
- 5. A type of physical effort that allows your body to use extra glucose in your blood, and helps manage diabetes
- 7. care A treatment used to cleanse a wound
Down
- 1. A disease that affects the body's ability to produce or respond to insulin resulting in elevated levels of glucose in the blood and urine and abnormal metabolism of carbohydrates
- 2. A simple sugar that is an important energy source for living organisms and a component of many carbohydrates. Too much of this can cause diabetes, weight gain, and increase the risk for heart disease
- 3. A test the measures a person's average blood glucose level
- 6. A medication used to treat high blood glucose; it's also a hormone produced by the pancreas.