Dairy products are not verboten, but The Zone diet devotes little time to them, except to explain how quickly they release glucose.

It stimulates the liver to release glucose when it's needed, and this raises the level of glucose in the blood.

The kidneys release glucose, providing energy to combat the stressor.

In other words, the epinephrine warns the patient that hypoglycemia is present and signals the liver to release glucose to reverse it.

However, in the setting of insulin resistance, the liver inappropriately releases glucose into the blood.

When your blood sugar begins to fall, a hormone tells your liver to release glucose.

The breakdown of glycogen, a process known as glycogenolysis, releases glucose in the form of glucose-1-phosphate (G-1-P).

One of cortisol's primary functions is to help mobilize energy in times of acute stress by releasing glucose into the blood.

Sympathetic activation also releases glucose from the liver.

Wholemeal bread and flour can be eaten instead, as these are broken down more slowly and do not release glucose all at once.