•Essential Minerals for Diabetics
Far from the news that certain minerals are bad for you or projected as being useless, minerals play an important role in the cellular health and in overall well-being of diabetics. Certain minerals are vital to maintain health. Without them, complications will arise and shorten lifespan.
While we all need minerals to promote good health, the diabetic needs far more than the average man or woman to maintain healthy levels. The diabetic kidney is often stressed from trying to eliminate excess...
•Is Cholesterol Your Real Enemy?
? For years we've heard of the dire warnings that high cholesterol levels lead to heart attack, stroke, diabetes and premature death. The medical community and the media constantly hammer the message that we need the help of statins to lower our cholesterol levels. Invasive heart surgeries are performed every year to bypass and open cholesterol laden arteries. Cholesterol lowering drugs are among the best sellers bringing in over 15 billion dollars in worldwide sales annually.
Some 40 million...
•The Crucial Vitamins for Diabetics
Diabetes, like cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer's, arthritis and others is a degenerative disease, a disease of lifestyle. Most of us simply do not care enough to eat a proper diet and results in weight gain, cancer, arthritis and a host of other diseases. Added to that is the severe depletion of essential nutrients necessary for the body to function properly.
According to the media and the medical establishment, all you need to do is eat a proper diet and exercise. Unfortunately, this...
•The Essential Herbs for Diabetics
India has one of the lowest rates of diabetes and much has to do with the type of food, particularly the spices used in cooking such as turmeric, curry and chili powder. In fact it has been shown that these spices can help diabetics regulate their blood sugar.
Here is a list of essential herbs which you should take to help you lower your blood sugar, control your cholesterol and may even help you lose weight:
Gymnema Sylvestre is one herb that has been used in India for centuries to treat...
•The Glycemic Index and You
Whether you are diabetic or not the glycemic index (GI) and glycemic load (GL) should be something to be concerned about. The kind of food you eat can have a profound impact on your health today and tomorrow.
In fact you may already be on the road to developing cancer, heart disease and diabetes.
Simply put the food you eat is converted into glucose. It is the job of the pancreas to produce insulin necessary to move excess glucose away from the bloodstream and into the cells of the body...
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