The food you eat is broken down in the digestive system and
turned into glucose, which ultimately supplies energy to all the cells.
However,
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hormone produced by the pancreas.
In the case of type 1, or juvenile,
diabetes the pancreas is not able to produce sufficient insulin with the result
that extra insulin needs to be administered medically.
If your glucose level
tends to be higher than normal, you are considered to be pre-diabetic or insulin
resistant. The symptoms of insulin resistance are very subtle and not as obvious
as the other types.The one thing most pre-diabetics have in common is excess
weight.
This condition has in the past
several years been showing up even in children and adolescents. This is not
caused by the pancreas failing to produce enough insulin but, rather, by an
overabundance of glucose in the bloodstream.
Excess fat tissue is laden
with glucose and this eventually causes insulin resistance. The pancreas
increases insulin production in order to offset the glut of glucose. On the
other hand the muscle, fat and liver cells get overwhelmed with the
overabundance of both glucose and insulin. This explains why these folk have
high levels of both glucose and insulin in their bloodstream.
Insulin
resistance, if left unchecked, will develop into type 2 diabetes and resulting
complications. But, the good news is that this can be avoided by losing on
average 5 to 7 percent of body weight, or 10 to 15 pounds simply by making
changes in diet and physical exercise.
Some natural dietary sources that
are said to be highly effective in blood sugar metabolism are magnesium and
zinc. Magnesium is present in green leafy vegetables, whole grains, nuts and
seeds and zinc in oysters, ginger root, pecans, egg yolk,
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beef liver, sardines, almonds,
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In August 2000,
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Agriculture announced findings resulting from a number of studies that cinnamon
increased glucose metabolism in people with type 2 diabetes 20-fold!
In
Pakistan there was an independent study of 60 type 2 diabetics who had been
treated for several years with anti-diabetic drugs, but not insulin. According
to the journal Diabetes Care, the subjects received about two teaspoons of a day
for 40 days.
The results greatly surprised the scientists. The cinnamon
reduced the blood sugar levels, increased insulin production, and lowered the
blood cholesterol in all the patients! These benefits lasted even 20 days after
the end of the study. Furthermore, their LDL, or bad, blood cholesterol levels
were lowered between 10 to 26 percent, but the HDL, or good cholesterol, levels
were not reduced!
These great findings for type 2 diabetics give much hope
for the many millions of both type 2 and insulin resistant sufferers in the
world.
With the right nutrition, you can lower your blood sugar levels,
improve your cholesterol ratios, reverse your insulin resistance (also referred
to as Metabolic Syndrome), and prevent type 2 diabetes altogether. An added side
benefit of cinnamon (as if the above isn??t exciting enough) is that it will
help you lose weight!