Diabetics all need to be on a special diet to help them process the sugar that enters their system. This special diet is called a diabetic diet. This diet essentially helps regulate your blood sugar by eating the correct foods. If a diabetic cheats and eats too much sugar, this can lead to the pancreas overworking. Soon the pancreas will not be able to keep up and will leave the excess sugar in your system which will eventually lead to bad health problems.
Once the sugar is built up in your system for a long period of time, health problems can arise. The sugar will start by destroying your blood vessels. It will soon move on to much bigger organs and can cause you to develop heart disease, kidney disease, nerve damage and vision problems. So in order to prevent this from happening and to help keep your body healthy, you need to find out how to effectively lower your blood sugar level.
Cinnamon is one way to successfully lower your blood sugar level. Doctors have proven that if you eat this spice daily, it can lower your blood sugar level by slowing down the rate at which your stomach processes the food. One excellent way to eat this would be sprinkling some onto oatmeal each morning for breakfast. A bad way to eat this would be a Cinnabon cinnamon roll.
Another way is to have some apple cider vinegar. Studies have shown that if you have 2 tablespoons of apple cider vinegar before going to bed and before each meal, it can greatly lower the rise of glucose that usually forms. It is thought that it does this by slowly digesting the starch found in your foods.
Drinking plenty of water can also help reduce the sugar in your body. The water basically acts like a flushing system that dilutes the blood stream and flushes all the bad toxins from your body.
Taking the ginseng herb can also help decrease your blood sugar levels. Studies have shown that if you take ginseng before each diabetic diet meal, it will regulate the blood sugar in your body. Drinking ginseng as a tea is the best way to take it, but make sure you do eat after drinking this because it can greatly lower your blood sugar level.
Exercising is an added way to get your blood sugar lower and it does this very fast. You see, when you are exercising, your body uses energy as fuel source. It obtains this fuel source first from the extra sugar in your system before it looks elsewhere.
It is important that diabetics keep their blood sugar down at a normal level, which is between 90 and 130 mg before meals and below 180 two hours after meals. Sometimes we cheat on our diabetic diet and eat a sugar item which will send our sugar levels soaring very high. My mom's favorite cheat is a huge bowl of ice cream. When this happens, and you just have to cheat, try using these 5 methods to make sure that your blood sugar levels do not rise to fast and remain as stable as possible.
There's a resistance to accepting their doctor's advice to swallow an expensive tablet, that may work and it may cause side effects, worse than their current condition.
Spurred on by Kevin Trudeau's half hour infomercial on the failures of Big Pharma, established medicine and Big Government, diabetics have snapped his Natural Cures books up in millions, making this non-medical industry insider into a messiah.
He's truly struck a chord. And now, Big Pharma, as Trudeau refers to the established pharmaceutical manufacturers, are taking notice. As reported recently in USA Today, they're looking at natural solutions to solve age old illnesses.
While a natural remedy from the pharma companies is sure to be more expensive, it gives some credibility to the thousands of natural products and remedies long spurned by doctors in treating their diabetic patients.
But you don't have to wait for the Big Pharma companies to launch natural treatments. Three promising natural products are already available, backed up by thousands of years of success in countries like India and China. Some have even been clinically-tested by a skeptical medical establishment, and to their surprise proven effective.
Take the "Magic Pumpkin" It's a wild growing fruit, found only in southern India that resembles a pumpkin. Indians have known for centuries that the rind of this purple colored fruit suppresses appetites. It was used by ancient hunters to control their hunger over long periods. It's scientific name is Garcinia Cambogia and you'll find that it's used throughout India for a range of illnesses, even as a food seasoning.
Garcinia Cambogia, in it's purest form (beware of adulterated or watered down versions) has been tested by unbelieving scientists at esteemed medical institutions and proven to lower hunger, give a feeling of satiation and lower weight among users. These same skeptical scientists also found that when taken according to prescribed levels, it actually attacks fat, not muscle. They also found that when combined with a diet and exercise regimen, it provided three times the weight loss results, compared to diet and exercise alone.
Chinese Cinnamon (specifically, the Cinnamomum cassia form) has proven in clinical testing, to help lower blood sugar levels. The study, reported in Diabetes Care (2003) noted that after taking one quarter teaspoon, two to three times per day, users lowered their blood sugar levels, total cholesterol levels, triglyceride levels and even LDL lipoproteins, significantly! All this from a relatively common, age old spice (note that only the Chinese cinnamon was tested and proven effective). This was known by the Chinese over 4,000 years ago, by Medieval health practitioners hundreds of years ago, and now, confirmed effective by modern scientists!
Controlling blood sugar levels (and weight) is the most effective way to manage diabetes. But, not all Type 2 sufferers are willing or able to do so. Now, based on a study conducted by the highly regarded Mayo Clinic, in conjunction with the Russian Medical Academy for Advance Studies, alpha lipoic acid (ALA), a highly powerful anti-oxidant, can help patients control painful symptoms associated with diabetic neuropathy.
"There appears to be a rather large effect on the pain of diabetic neuropathy with ALA", says Dr. Peter Dyck of the Mayo Clinic.
He goes on to state that symptoms such as burning, sharp pain and cutting, prickling sensations can be dramatically reduced in diabetics using ALA. He also notes that the product is "very safe".
While we all welcome the established pharmaceutical industry to the natural remedy market, diabetics can find natural or herbal solutions now, that can help them control their diabetic condition.
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