We are in the midst of a metabolical storm. Every minute you take to read this, someone is dying from preventable diet-related disease. More people have died from metabolic disease since 1980 than the sum of all the world’s military conflicts combined. The Hypoglycemia Support Foundation is forging a healthier world empowered by science-based nutrition and the prevention, early detection, and management of metabolic disease, of which hypoglycemia, also known as low blood sugar, is one of the earliest indicators. The root causes of metabolic diseases are fundamentally the same – poor nutrition. The metabolic system is essentially our cellular engine, making (and destroying) all cells in our body. Hypoglycemia is among a list of metabolic disorders that have a complex range of causes but are primarily food-related. Hypoglycemia may be considered one of the “canaries in the coal mine” of metabolic disease. “The low blood sugar of today is the diabetes of tomorrow!” -Seale Harris, M.D. Dysfunction in blood sugar regulation (low or high) is an indication that something is seriously out of balance with the metabolic system, and disruption in sugar metabolism is caused primarily by poor diet.