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Drink This Every Night Before Bed To Lower Your Blood Sugar

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There’s been plenty of buzz around apple cider vinegar (ACV) in recent years. You may have seen it recommended for various ailments, and thanks to its promised health benefits, ACV has become quite popular. But this isn’t just another wellness trend without any science to back it up: Studies around ACV seem to confirm that it really can be beneficial for our health. And if you struggle to regulate your blood sugar, apple cider vinegar could be the answer you’ve been looking for.

While its popularity might be relatively recent, ACV is nothing new. The vinegar, which is made by fermenting crushed apples with probiotics that turn its sugar into acetic acid, has been used as a home remedy for centuries. This compound has a myriad of health benefits, including lowering cholesterol. Key research has also found that it’s an effective way to regulate blood sugar.

How to make apple cider vinegar lower blood sugar?

“A number of studies suggest that vinegar might prevent spikes in blood sugar in people with prediabetes and type 2 diabetes by blocking starch absorption,” according to Harvard researcher Robert H. Shmerling, MD. In fact, Arizona State University testing shows that vinegar can blunt blood sugar spikes.

One study on people who have type 2 diabetes (which means the body has trouble using insulin properly) found that drinking ACV every night before bed reduced their resting blood sugar levels in the morning. This is likely due to the acetic acid in vinegar, which has an antiglycemic effect. Here’s how it works: Starch, which we get from foods like potatoes and pasta, is full of glucose and can therefore cause blood sugar to spike. But acetic acid helps us absorb less glucose.

How To Use Apple Cider Vinegar To Lower Blood Sugar

Participants in the Arizona State University study took about two tablespoons of ACV every night, which you can dilute with water to make it more palatable. That won’t affect the vinegar’s benefits, and will also give you a boost of hydration before bed. Just make sure to brush your teeth after, since vinegar can be harmful to tooth enamel.

Struggling with high blood sugar and diabetes can feel overwhelming, but eating a healthy diet, along with taking a daily dose of ACV, can put you on the path to better health. As always, make sure to consult your doctor before starting a new regimen to ensure it’s the right thing for you.

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‘Irate’ restaurant worker pulls gun on employees

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An Upstate restaurant worker who found out his schedule had changed got rate Monday morning and pulled a gun on the other employees, sparking a school lockdown, police said. Anderson Police Chief Jim Stewart released the police report showing Gary Lamar Brown, 44, of Anderson , was charged with simple assault, second-degree assault and battery, three counts of pointing a firearm at another person and unlawful carry of a weapon. The report said police responded about 9:45 am to a call about a hostile employee who had pulled a gun on other employees at Mission Grill on Greenville Street. The report said Brown was mad because his work hours had been cut, according to employees. Employees told police Brown started scaring and threatening other employees before he left the store. Brown came back to the store 20 minutes later and was told, because of his behavior earlier in the morning, he was fired, the general manager said. That’s when Brown became angry, pulled a pistol from his waist and started ed threatened everyone, the report said. The general manager told police he had just come out of the restroom when he heard a loud argument in the dining room and saw Brown pointing a gun at other employees. Brown hit one of the employees in the back of the head with the pistol, according to the report. Brown also threw a laptop at them as well as damaging a light above the counter the employees were standing behind, according to the report. The general manager said he went to his car and got his concealed carry handgun and that he and another employee blocked Brown from the rest of the employees. The hurt employee continued talking to Brown while the general manager helped get the other employees to the back freezer , according to the report. Brown left the restaurant on a bicycle and was later arrested at his home on Babb Street, according to the report. McCants Middle School was put on lockdown, according to the report. According to Kyle Newton, with Anderson School District 5, several other schools were put on into a “holding pattern” during the incident. The employee hit with the gun was checked out by emergency medical services but was not taken to the hospital, the report said. Investigators said the whole incident inside the restaurant was captured on security video.

ANDERSON, SC —

An Upstate restaurant worker who found out his schedule had changed got rate Monday morning and pulled a gun on the other employees, sparking a school lockdown, police said.

Anderson Police Chief Jim Stewart released the police report showing Gary Lamar Brown, 44, of Anderson, was charged with simple assault, second-degree assault and battery, three counts of pointing a firearm at another person and unlawful carry of a weapon.

The report said police respondents about 9:45 am to a call about a hostile employee who had pulled a gun on other employees at Mission Grill on Greenville Street.

The report said Brown was mad because his work hours had been cut, according to employees.

Employees told police Brown started scaring and threatening other employees before he left the store.

Brown came back to the store 20 minutes later and was told, because of his behavior earlier in the morning, he was fired, the general manager said.

That’s when Brown became angry, pulled a pistol from his waist and started threatening everyone, the report said.

The general manager told police he had just come out of the restroom when he heard a loud argument in the dining room and saw Brown pointing a gun at other employees.

Brown hit one of the employees in the back of the head with the gun, according to the report.

Brown also threw a laptop at them as well as damaging a light above the counter the employees were standing behind, according to the report.

The general manager said he went to his car and got his concealed carry handgun and that he and another employee blocked Brown from the rest of the employees.

The hurt employee continued talking to Brown while the general manager helped get the other employees to the back freezer, according to the report.

Brown left the restaurant on a bicycle and was later arrested at his home on Babb Street, according to the report.

McCants Middle School was put on lockdown, according to the report.

According to Kyle Newton, with Anderson School District 5, several other schools were put on into a “holding pattern” during the incident.

The employee hit with the gun was checked out by emergency medical services but was not taken to the hospital, the report said.

Investigators said the whole incident inside the restaurant was captured on security video.

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Makers of Kitch’n Cook’d chips to close up shop | News, Sports, Jobs

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Mark and Diane Kobayashi pose with a few of the last bags of their family’s iconic Maui Kitch’n Cook’d potato chips Friday afternoon in Kahului. The familiar clear plastic bags with distinctive red-and-yellow prints are soon to be things of the past as the longtime family business closes down Dec. 15. — The Maui News / MATTHEW THAYER photo

For the past 66 years, customers have known that you can’t stop after just one of Maui Potato Chip Factory’s signature “Kitch’n Cook’d” chips.

As the family-owned and operated Kahului business closes on Dec. 15, the next generation may not get to experience this iconic salty snack, but the local company’s legacy is steadfast.

Third-generation owner, operator and potato chip maker Mark Kobayashi said the Maui Potato Chip Factory would not stay in business as long as it has without its regular customers and support from its employees, family, friends and neighbors.

“For us to have survived 66 years is more a triumph of community to take care of the local people here, the local companies,” Kobayashi said Wednesday afternoon. “A lot of times we were lucky because we were a small business and all these people who really didn’t have to step up, they stepped up and helped us out to survive and keep our name in the limelight.”

The original Maui Potato Chip Factory was established in January 1956 when Kobayashi’s late grandfather, Yoshio Kobayashi, took over the business for just $500. Yoshio was already familiar with the art of cooking potatoes, having worked at the factory, and also from his time as a chef at military camps located in “country potato,” like Montana, during World War II.

Founder Yoshio Kobayashi poses with sons Dewey Kobayashi (left) and Takayuki “Joe” Kobayashi in a family photo on display in the sales room of Maui Potato Chip Factory. — The Maui News / MATTHEW THAYER photo

He would ride with the sergeant and distribute meals to the workers in the field, Mark said.

His grandfather tweaked the recipe and produced handmade potato chips with no preservatives. As the business grew, Mark’s father, Dewey Kobayashi, and Uncle Takayuki “joes” Kobayashi stepped in to help. After school in the evenings, Mark and his brother, Edwin Kobayashi, would also assist with backstage operations, such as cleaning and bagging potatoes, in between homework assignments.

“My early memories were of my grandfather, grandmother, mother and my father, they would sit around in a circle and hand-peel bags of potatoes,” Mark said.

Then, while his parents were at work at Maui Pineapple Company, his grandparents would stay back to make the chips, bag them and wheelbarrow the goods across the street to the once-buzzing Kahului Shopping Center to sell their products to the different markets.

Their original idea was to make potato chips for when residents would go to the movie theater in the shopping complex, so that they would have salty snacks to bring in, he recalled.

Under the headline, “Business is Too Good — No More Orders Please,” Dewey Kobayashi graces the cover of Parade Magazine in 1976, which is on display in the sales room of Maui Potato Chip Factory. — The Maui News / MATTHEW THAYER photo

Edwin was eventually supposed to take over the family business, but sadly passed away at 21 years old from cancer, a shock to the family. Mark was going to drop out of the University of Hawaii at Manoa to help with operations, but friends Michael Sueda and Claro Capili Jr. stepped in for one year to allow him to finish his degree in electrical engineering.

“It just blew all of our minds when he passed away and my two friends just stepped up to the plate,” he said. “My father folks really appreciate it.”

The building is currently in its third and final location at 295 Lalo St., where it has stood for 50 years. The original building located near the old Kahului Shopping Center was destroyed by a tidal wave.

Shortly after the second move to Happy Valley, The Wall Street Journal put his dad and his Kitch’n Cook’d Potato Chips on its front page in October 1975. From that point on, the business boomed. Customers started to learn the exact day and time that potato chip deliveries would take place so that they could get in line first.

His father quickly became the face and voice of the company, Mark said.

“Basically we were just the little guy, just trying to survive,” he said. “Then, it got crazy.”

Over the years, the see-through bags with red-and-yellow labels have become a nostalgic childhood memory for the Maui community and are nationally recognized.

At the company’s peak, there were 40 employees, Mark said, but recently he’s been the sole potato chip maker using a long-standing family

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