With the help of the hormone insulin, cells are able to pull in glucose from your bloodstream to use as fuel. Nearly all carbohydrate-containing foods, from fruits to breads, have some level of glucose, although fruits are usually the highest sources. Since glucose can elevate your blood sugar quickly, if you are diabetic, you may want to avoid regularly consuming foods high in glucose.
Trump Wildly Inflates Unemployment. Donald Trump said he âheardâ the unemployment rate was really 42 percent. Itâs not. That figure would include retirees, teenagers, stay-at-home parents and anyone else who doesnât need or want to work. The unemployment rate is actually 4.9 percent for January.
Smiley is almost completely correct. Based on the Obama administrationâs own latest-available statistics by the most basic economic-performance metrics â with one key exception â black Americans are worse off now than when Obama was sworn in on January 20, 2009. The one bright spot is the unemployment rate. For black Americans overall, that number from the Bureau of Labor Statistics has slid from 12.7 percent when Obama was inaugurated to 8.8 percent last month â down 30.7 percent.