8 Snacks to Prevent Hypoglycemia

Eating regularly scheduled meals and low-glycemic snacks helps prevent blood sugar dips and, in the long run, may help prevent some serious health implications.

Maintain Your Blood Sugar with Snacks

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If you have experienced hypoglycemia, you're familiar with the warning signs: sweating, dizziness, weakness and unsteadiness.

Besides these immediate issues, hypoglycemia may put you at a higher-than-normal risk of developing cardiovascular disease, and possibly stroke and dementia. Sometimes, you may not even be aware that your blood sugar is dropping, so the best thing to do to prevent those lows is stick to a fixed schedule of meals and snacks. Always have snack foods like these on hand—they’re quick and low on the glycemic scale, which means they won’t rocket your blood sugar levels to extreme highs or lows.

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Written by Susan McQuillan, MS, RDN, CDN