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It is often said that it is better to prevent an illness than to cure it. However, most of us are used to have a restful life, enjoying any kind of food we like, living every new experience that we think it is worthy to, or, on the other hand, we get stressed every day trying to be in fashion or working very hard. And, what is worse is that when we get sick, we are sure that ‘it will pass’. But our sickness turns to be actually an illness and when discovering that our life is in danger, we stare to complain and wonder: ‘Why is this happening to me?’ Well, we should really pay more attention to our everyday living.

Diabetes have extended rapidly nowadays among people of any age, and we can easily conclude that the welfare does not suit us very well. So, how can we avoid being ill? Well, diabetes is often associated with the increasing cholesterol level and the vegetarian diet awards protection against this action. Vegetarian diets promote a complex of carbohydrates and fibers, which has a beneficial effect upon metabolism because it diminishes the level of glucoses in blood.

Moreover, the amount of sweets shouldn’t be very high, because fruits can replace most of them and in the same time they prove to be healthier. A balanced alimentation has to be set up in our lives so that we’ll be protected against external disturbing factors.

Moreover, daily exercises shouldn’t be neglected. Our body needs fresh air and physical effort. By doing this, we won’t have just a healthy body, but also a clear mind. What’s more is that we can have great entertainment when meeting other people and playing while keeping us far away from suffering of diabetes.

And last but not least; we shouldn’t get stressed too much. A great fright could also increase the level of glucoses in our blood, and it is known that this is one of the main causes of being ill of diabetes.

Consequently, don’t worry anymore! Diabetes prevention is better than fighting against it. Supervise your alimentation, manner of living and emotions- and you’ll be more than pleased to enjoy your healthy life!

Diabetes is treated mainly by two factors: by medication and by diet. Irrespective of the medication chosen in your case, you must be preoccupied to have an optimal weight. There are people who, at the beginning lose a lot of weight. They are thin, skinny, and they appear to be always ill. They are rare cases. Most often diabetes appears in the case of people who are too fat.

Treatment of type 2 diabetes

In the case of type 2 diabetes, after a meal, the insulin secretion is slow and insufficient, and it determines an exaggerated and extended growth of sugar level. In some cases these problems can be solved without medication, only through diet. In most of the cases the treatment of type 2 diabetes consists in taking pills, associated with diet and physical exercise. Oral treatment is efficient as long as the pancreas secretes insulin. In time, in the case of some patients it becomes inefficient and the only optimal treatment is insulin.

Oral treatment in the case of type 2 diabetes

Pills used in the treatment of type 2 diabetes can be divided in more groups:

- Based on sulfonylurea

- The first substance in a new class of oral medication against diabetes: lunch sugar level regulators.

They stimulate the insulin secretion by the pancreas during short periods, thus protecting the pancreatic cell against overcharge. Medication based on sulfonylurea has as main effect the pancreas stimulation in order to produce more insulin. There are some pills, too which increase the absorption of glucose by the cells.

Treatment with insulin in type 2 diabetes

Treatment with insulin remains the last hope when diet, physical exercise and oral therapy don’t succeed to assure an acceptable control of sugar level. Treatment with insulin will determine a general improvement of metabolism, with normal values of sugar level and fats, a better mood, from the physical and psychical point of view, preventing diabetes subsequent complications. A lot of persons suffering from type 2 diabetes are afraid of the change from pills to insulin and they are worried by the fact that they must inject insulin themselves. Modern injection devices permit a safer insulin injection, so that more people accept the treatment with insulin now.

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.

Most of the people consider that the food they eat changes into energy and that’s all. They ignore the fact that the organism works for them, it digests food and converts carbohydrates in a kind of sugar called glucose, which enters the blood circuit. Furthermore, the pancreas produces insulin, a hormone which travels through the organism, connected to receptors at the surface of the cells. Once attached to the receptors, insulin acts like a key which opens the cell, so that glucose enters the cell and it is used as a source of energy. If the body does not need glucose for energy, it is deposited as fat tissue.

This process is interrupted by diabetes. Millions of people are diagnosed with diabetes, and doctors think that there are other millions of cases which are not diagnosed.

There are two types of diabetes. The first type is based on dependence on insulin, as the pancreas is not able anymore to produce it. Patients need daily injections with insulin.

The second type of diabetes is not based on dependence on insulin, and it may be caused by obesity or sedentary life.

In order to manage diabetes, you should take into account the following aspects.

Firstly, if you are overweight, or in your family there are members who suffer from this disease, or if during pregnancy sugar level in your blood was high, you should have check it on a regular basis.

Secondly, you must be careful not to consume too much sugar or fat foods, or food which is too rich in animal proteins: meat or cheese.

To continue, you should reduce salt consumption, but you should eat more fibers, contained by integral cereals, beans or vegetables.

As far as alcohol is concerned, it should be consumed moderately. Your disease should be a family project, so that you don’t feel frustrated because of your diet. They should eat the same food as a diabetic person, and you need a nutritional plan.

Diabetes can be easily controlled if you drink a lot of water, if you try to reduce stress, and if you keep monitoring any change in your organism since you discovered this disease.

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!

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.