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A Millimole of Glucose weighs 0.18grams [which is very close to 0.2] Hence 5 mmol glucose weighs about 1gram. The blood volume of an adult is around 4.5 - 5 litres depending on body weight ; if normal blood glucose level is about 5mmol/l, an average adult contains about 5g of glucose It also means that a teaspoonful of glucose [which weighs about 5grams] will double your bg if it's not "mopped up" in some way.There's not a lot of glucose between NORMAL and HARMFUL.
Hana
 
So if we weigh 70 kg approximately how many litres of blood do we have circulating around?

Can this also be calculated to litres of blood per kg?
 
The French make it much easier to understand they use grams per litre.
I was diagnosed with 3.85g/l fasting glucose. (thats the same as 385mg/dl in the US or 21.4mmol/l.)
As Hana says it's a tiny amount. I tried to show this visually a couple of years ago.

http://typeonepointfive.blogspot.fr/200 ... sugar.html
 

The same point that Phoenix makes. It isn't that difficult to understand.
 
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