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What is diabetes?

Diabetes occurs when the sugar level in your blood is higher than a normal value. Excessive sugar in blood is harmful for health. Sugar in your blood comes from digestion. In order to get to the cells where it is used as fuel, glucose needs insulin, a hormone produced by the pancreas. Diabetes occurs because of insufficient insulin from the pancreas or because of cellular lack of sensibility to insulin. In both cases glucose level in blood exceeds normal values.

Diabetes signs and symptoms:

• Excessive thirst
• Frequent urinating
• Hunger or exaggerated tiredness
• Weight loss without a reason
• Slow recovery of wounds
• Dry skin, with itching sensation
• Loss of sensibility at the feet level
• Sight problems

There are more types of diabetes, but two of them are more popular:

1. Diabetes, type I, juvenile or which is dependent on insulin, and which occurs in the case of children or young people. It is considered an auto immune disease, in which the immune system attacks cells which produce insulin from the pancreas and it can’t produce enough insulin any more. These patients often need insulin for the rest of their lives.

2. Diabetes, type II, which is a disease specific to adults and which does not mean treatment with insulin. It usually occurs in the case of people older than 40 and it is the most popular type (90-95% of the total). In the case of these people, the pancreas produces insulin, but the organism can’t use it efficiently. The result is glucose accumulation in the blood. Type II diabetes occurs in 80% of the situations in the case of overweight people. Recent data have established that it means cells resistance to insulin action provoked by excessive consumption of animal fats.

The best solution in the case of the second type of diabetes is a diet recommended by your doctor.

The body has a mechanism – cells, breaking down glucose which we don’t use. Cells lose their ability to respond to insulin helping to break down the glucose in type II diabetes. That is the hormone that tells the body to remove excess glucose in the bloodstream. Symptoms like weight-loss, tiredness and blurred vision occur when glucose builds up in the bloodstream. Blindness, heart diseases and premature death occur in extreme cases.

Preventing the mentioned symptoms of type II diabetes, researchers found that cinnamon can help to restore fat cells so that it can respond to insulin for the removal of increased glucose. The substance in cinnamon responsible for this is MHCP. Successful research had already been done on mice where it helped their glucose levels to fall dramatically. This year research started on human beings. With research still on in human beings researchers recommend that those with type II diabetes take one quarter to a full teaspoon of cinnamon every day. Those taking cinnamon as a supplement can already testify of an improvement in their health.

Cinnamon is also popular for energy from which diabetics as well as non-diabetics can benefit. A quarter to a full teaspoon cinnamon in milkshakes or juices per day is prescribed for type II diabetics.

Another feature of cinnamon is its richness in magnesium. Bone density electrolyte balance and enzyme functions all depend on magnesium. Loss thereof as one grows older can be taken in again through cinnamon. It also restores glucose or insulin imbalances.

Type II diabetics develop round about middle-age and prematurely kills millions of people all over the world every year. The glucose that builds up also leads to very high cholesterol levels which is the major cause of heart attacks and heart diseases. Cinnamon’s MHCP ingredients help to control these levels.

As cinnamon is an inexpensive, readily available spice in food stores, supermarkets and hypermarkets it seems as if research wants to have that there is a new cure to an old illness.

Diabetics should consult, or at least inform their doctor before they start taking cinnamon because it may affect their medication requirements.

For an efficient natural cure, first of all you must respect some essential rules. You have to try to reduce your appetite, eating an apple, or a few teaspoons of yogurt, or 4-5 pieces of fresh carrot. After that, your body will not need a lot of food. You may start your meal with some bread and lettuce. Avoid pork, tinned food, salami and sausages, products based on flour, sweets. You can eat liver, dairy products, corn flour, vegetables, brown bread, toast, potatoes, and fish.

Here are some natural ways of treating diabetes. Chicory infusion, can be drunk, 3 cups per day, celery juice, 100 ml per day with an hour before the meals.

Recipe 1:1 kg of green parsley is minced and boiled in 2 liters of milk, at low fire, until it remains only one liter, you decant it, and you may consume from it one spoon every hour, until it finishes. That day you won’t eat and you won’t drink anything.

Recipe 2: peel 200 g of celery, cut it in thin slices, add a little salt, and let it 15 minutes. Peel 200 g of apples cut them in slices, and then you must pour onto them the juice from two lemons. Mix the celery with the apples and put them in the salad bowl. Add 25 g of cream and stir. This mixture will replace the lunch of a day. You may repeat it 2 or 3 times a week.

Recipe 3: cure of green barley juice, 3×50 ml per day.

Recipe 4: fresh fruit and vegetables every day.

Another recipe for curing diabetes

A glass (200 ml) of rough porridge is rinsed in cold water, and you must pour it in a container covered with a lid, and after that you must pour boiling water on it. Then you have to put the lid and let it infuse for 12 hours (20:00 - 8:00). You must decant it through three gauze layers and the liquid resulted must be drunk three times a day. The treatment may last three months, and you have a month break, then you may repeat it.

Moreover, if you believe in naturist remedies, they will be useful for sure.

Nuts and pears cake

Many people suffer from diabetes, a severe disease, which attacks slowly and needs a very strict alimentation, without many sweets, fats or fizzy drinks. Therefore, we offer you a recipe based on sweetener and other healthy ingredients.

Ingredients:

- 400 g flour, 1/2 teaspoon of salt, 30 g yeast, 90 g dietetic juice, 300 ml de light milk, 25 g dietetic bitter chocolate, 200 g nut kernel, 300 g semolina, 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon, 20 g butter, 180 g pears, 1 teaspoon of lemon juice, 100 g dry fruit, 1/4 teaspoon liquid sweetener, special for people suffering from diabetes.

How to prepare it? Mix the flour with the salt. Put the yeast in a bowl, with 50 g syrup, 4 spoons of warm milk, a little salt and mix, then add them to the flour. Let them 15 minutes to grow, mix them, and let the mixture grow for other 30 minutes.
Meanwhile heat the rest of the milk, 40 g syrup, semolina, cinnamon, chocolate and grounded nut. After it cools, add the butter.
Peel the pears, cut them in little cubes and sprinkle them with lemon juice. Add them to the nut, together with the sweetener and the dry fruit, cut in small pieces.
Spread the dough and add the stuff, then roll it over, and put it in a tray. Let it grow for 20 minutes, and then put it in the oven for about 1 hour.

Strawberry jam

Cooking time:
35 min (reduced complexity)

Ingredients
4 kg strawberries, 800g fructose, 3 packets of gelatin 3:1, juice from two lemons

How to prepare it

Wash the strawberries under water jet, let them drain, pick their short tails and weigh them. A quarter from the fruit amount is beaten with the whisk, and it is put in a big stainless steel sauce pan. The fructose and the gelatin are mixed with the lemon juice and they are put on the mashed fruit. Add the rest of fruit. Boil them on high fire no more than 2-3 min, stirring carefully. Take the sauce pan away and pour immediately the hot jam in jars, with a metallic lid, close them and keep them upside down until they cool. They are kept in a dark, cold place.

Enjoy it!

After the diagnostic of diabetes was established, testing sugar level in your blood becomes a habitual activity of your life. Here are some testing techniques.

Look for patterns - Monitor sugar level in your blood by measuring it 4 times a day more weeks. This helps you identify patterns. Test sugar level in the morning immediately after you get up, then in 2 hours after the main meals and the last time, when you go to bed.

Monitor changes - When you change your diet, you should test sugar level immediately before the meal, and in 2 hours after the meal. Before a meal, sugar level could be between 0.8 and 1.2 g/l. After a meal, sugar levels should not exceed 1.65 g/l.
Ideal levels may vary from a person to another, therefore only the doctor can indicate accepted values. You should also test your sugar level more often when you don’t feel well, especially if you take medication against diabetes. Changes can also occur during pregnancy that is why you should go to the doctor’s before your pregnancy is confirmed.

Test your sugar level if you do physical exercises - When you begin a new program of exercises, you have to test sugar level before and after practicing them. If before, sugar level was low, eat a fruit or drink a small glass (125 ml) of juice. Both contain about 15 g carbohydrates, which raise sugar level with about 25 %. Do the same if sugar level decreases after physical exercise.

Perform group tests of sugar level - Most of the people suffering from diabetes are content if they check sugar level in the morning. It is not enough! It is better to check it more times in 1-2 days per month than daily at the same time. If you respect this suggestion, you may monitor better the factors which influence your sugar level.

Write down your tests results. Keep written evidence of sugar level values, as well as of what you eat, when you eat, and how long you take up physical exercises. This information may help the doctor cure you better.

In the case of diabetes there are not standard recommendations concerning nutrition, which can be applied to any person. Each patient should have a personal diet, according to his or her favorite food, ethnic background and culture, other health problems, like high level of cholesterol or high blood pressure, and what changes in their life style they are ready to do.

Firstly, sugar is not totally prohibited but sweets, chocolate or different foods based on sugar have a high calories level and low nutritious value.

Secondly, fats level should be about 30% of the total daily calories amount, in order to reduce the risk of cholesterol growth and cardiac diseases occurrence. You should consume little fat meat, cheese and butter, but more olive oil, vegetal oils or nuts, to contribute to decreasing resistance to insulin. Furthermore, you should eat dairy products without fats, light meat, and you should avoid fats contained by margarine, coconut oil or palm oil, ingredients used in the alimentary industry to make biscuits, cakes and pies.

To continue, salt can be avoided adding less of it in your food or consuming little salt with your meal and checking carefully the labels of different packaged food which contains sodium. Obviously, you should avoid crisps, olives and salted peanuts.

Besides, you should not weigh each piece of food you eat. This was necessary in the past, but it isn’t now. Your diet may match strictly your necessities, you energy consumed during a holiday at home, or during a working day. If you must lose weight, your diet will consist in the absorption of a small amount of calories than it should be normally necessary, so that your body use as a source of energy the fats stored in it. After you attained the ideal weight after this diet, you should increase again the number of calories.

If you are too thin, your diet will consist in the absorption of a higher number of calories than you need during a day, so that your body store this excess and produce more proteins for the muscular mass of your body.