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Natural Diabetes Cures
First of all, I would like to make a disclaimer. There is no known cure for diabetes and I am not suggesting that there is one.
However, with that said, there is a ton of research and documentation on various nutrients, supplements and even diet changes that can benefit and help if you have diabetes.
Although there may not be a "cure" there are things that you can do to improve the condition, depending on the type of diabetes that you have and how severe it is.
Obviously there are certain food to avoid altogether if you really want to do your body good. These include refined sugar products such as candy, ice cream, cakes, cookies, pies, pastries, soda, jam and the like.
Even natural sweeteners like honey, maple syrup and molasses should be used sparingly.
Drink plenty of water if you can and try and consume 8 glasses of pure water daily. An alkaline diet is best including lots of fresh vegetables, especially raw vegetables and salads. You can eat as much of theses healthy foods as you like as cooked foods tend to cause more of a rise of glucose in the body than do raw fruits and vegetables.
Eat plenty of fruits such as grapefruit, bananas, granny smith apples, figs, cranberry, blackberry, pomegranate, kiwi and citrus fruits.
Eating a high fiber diet is ideal since it lowers the body's need for insulin. Make sure you are including foods such as barley, oatmeal, almond meal, dried beans, kidney beans, cooked black beans, peas, cereals and chickpeas in your daily diet.
It is extremely important to monitor your glucose level if you are a diabetic or have pre-diabetes symptoms. Here is a guide that will help you measure the proper levels:
Upon waking up (and before breakfast), your levels should be between 80 and 120. This is considered to be a healthy range.
Before meals your levels should also be between 80 and 120.
Two hours after you eat meals, your levels should be 170 or less.
Before lunch, it should drop back down to 80-120.
Before you go to bed, it is ideal to be between 100 and 140.
At 3am (while sleeping), it is ideal to be between 70 and 110.
While fasting, it is ideal that you stay in the 70 to 100 range.
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You don’t "get" diabetes from sugar. That is an old myth.
So, NO, you won’t add to the risk with other sugars either.
Generally it is safer. But if you already have Diabetes, then you need to watch how much of any kind of sugar you eat.
TO much sugar ingestion can cause diabetes if your are already genetically dispositioned to get it.
I actually have this problem. My father is type 2 diabetic, I am very sesative to sugar ingestion even though I do not have diabetes. I have to make sure I keep on top of my blood sugar levels and make sure they stay stable since I’m genetically wired to have these problems in the first place. If I ate all the sugar I wanted all the time, my pancrease would be inclined to give out sooner than if I had been more careful in what I eat.
With this said…. Honey is a better option than sugar. It has a lower glycemic index, meaning that it wont spike your blood sugar the way regular table sugar can.
Orange juice, Mainly pasturized is pure sugar. It spikes blood sugar like crazy. This is why they give it to people that have just given blood to try to get their glucose levels up.
Any juice is much more sugar than just the fruit. The fruit has fiber in it to help control the way the sugar of the fruit is absorbed into your system and if you eat just an apple, you’ll be getting the sugar from just one apple. If you drink apple juice you get the sugar from goodness knows how many apples that are in that glass of juice.
Your odds or getting diabetes from sugar is based on your family history. The same way your odds of cancer are. But someone that has a family history of lung cancer would be at a higher risk of getting it if they smoked than say someone who didn’t have it in there family.
Diabetes works the same.
So you can get diabetes from eating to much sugar. Especially since sugar can make you fat and fat leads to all sorts of problems including diabetes