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37 foods Diabetics should avoid

1French fries
2Processed grains (eg., white rice or white flour)
3Canned vegetables with lots of added sodium
4Vegetable Oil
5Cereals with little whole grains and lots of sugar
6White bread
7Potato Chips
8Fried meats
9Biscuits
10Fried white-flour tortillas
11Instant Noodles
12Deep-fried fish
13Honey
14Veggies cooked with lots of added butter, cheese, or sauce
15Whole milk
16Canned fruit with heavy sugar syrup
17Muffins
18Regular sodas
19Chewy fruit rolls
20Regular yogurt
21Pretzels
22Regular jam, jelly.
23Fruit punch, fruit drinks, fruit juice drinks
24Sweetened tea
25Pork bacon
26Coffee with sugar and cream
27Fast Food
28Regular cheeses
29Energy drinks
30Poultry with skin
31Chocolate drinks
32Packaged Snack Foods
33Frozen Dinners
34Regular ice cream
35Fruit-Flavored Yogurt
36Country-Fried Steak
37Artificial Sweeteners

https://www.webmd.com

https://www.niddk.nih.gov

HERBS which cure DIABETES naturally

  1. Saptrangi – Salacia oblonga
  2. Vizaysaar – Pterocarpus marsupium
  3. Gurmaar – Gymnema sylvestrae
  4. Jamun – Syzigium cumini
  5. Bilva Leaves- Leaves of Aegle marmelos
  6. Karela – Momordica charanatia
  7. Methi – Trigonella foenum graecum
  8. Neem – Azadirachta indica
  9. Tulsi – Ocimum sanctum
  10. Daruhaldi – Berberis aristata
  11. Haridra – Curcuma longa
  12. Sadabahar- Vinca rosea
  13. Amla – Emblica officinalis
  14. Saptrangi – Salacia oblonga
  • Saptrangi – Salacia oblonga 

This is a wonderful remedy for diabetes. It is a tree whose bark is effective in controlling diabetes. It is extensively studied in the western herbal schools, but in Ayurveda, it is being used since ages. The herb has been found to have diabetes controlling properties.

  • Vizaysaar – Pterocarpus marsupium

This is a big tree whose bark is very useful for diabetes. The bark of the tree is made into a wooden glass and the glass is termed as “The miracle cure for diabetes”. Some water is kept in the wooden glass overnight and is consumed early morning by diabetes patients. The color of the water changes to brown and glass is changed after around 1 month when the watercolor does not change. Diabetes support contains an extract of the bark of this miracle tree.

  • Gurmaar- Gymnema sylvestrae

In Hindi language, ‘Gur’ means Sugar and ‘Maar’ mean Kill. Gurmaar means “The sugar killer”. It is a twine that is known since ages in Ayurveda for its sugar controlling properties. Recent studies show that it contains Gymnemic acid molecules responsible for its anti-diabetic action. They bind with glucose molecules in the intestines and inhibit their entry into the bloodstream. Thus it is effective in controlling sugar levels.

  • Jamun – Syzigium cumini
    It is a popular fruit tree growing wild in plains of India. The seeds of this tree are dried up and then a powder is made of them. The powder of the seeds of Jamun fruit is very effective in controlling sugar levels. It is astringent in taste which is opposite to sweet. Anything astringent in taste is useful for diseases caused by excessive sweetness like obesity and diabetes.
  • Karela – Momordica charanatia

The juice of this fruit is a miracle in treating and preventing diabetes and its complications. 30 ml of Karela juice every morning empty stomach is recommended for best results. It can be taken along with Amla juice for better results, as Amla is rich in natural vitamin C and is also effective in diabetes. Karela contains natural chromium and other micronutrients, whereas Amla is also rich in natural anti-oxidants like vitamin C and others.

  • Bilva – Aegle marmelos
    This tree has three leaves together on its branches. The leaves are offered every Monday in Shiva temples. This fruit of this tree is useful in irritable bowel syndrome. The leaves of Bilva are excellent for diabetes. The leaves are dried and powder is made and mixed with other herbs for better results.
  • Methi- Trigonella-foenum-graecum

Since ages, Fenugreek is being used as a medicine in India, Egypt, the Middle East and other ancient civilizations. Fenugreek has excellent properties to bring sugar levels as well as cholesterol levels under control. The seed powder of Methi is used to lower down sugar levels. It can be mixed with herbs described above.

  • Neem – Azadirachta indica-

Azadirachtin, Nimbin and Nimbidin are effective alkaloids found in neem. They act not only as blood purifiers but also controls sugar level very effectively. Neem is also useful in many skin diseases like eczema, psoriasis, rashes. The skin diseases associated with diabetes also respond to this herb quickly. It also helps in clearing away the blocked channels and maintains the flow of bile from within the liver and improves liver function.

  • Tulsi – Ocimum sanctum

It is popularly known as ‘The Holy Basil’ is a sacred plant according to Hindu mythology. People in India worship this plant as it has tremendous medicinal properties. Regular use of leaves of this plant controls blood sugar levels very effectively. It is also useful in many types of cancers, viral and bacterial infections, sore throat, cough and cold, etc.

  • Daruhaldi – Berberis aristata

This is a rhizome growing mainly in South India. The roots of this herb are taken out and grinded well. The herb powder stimulates pancreas to pump more insulin into blood. It also helps in preventing insulin resistance among cells. It acts as a channel opener for glucose into the cells. This also purifies the blood.

  • Haridra- Curcuma longa

This is a very popular herb and is commonly called Turmeric. Turmeric powder is an effective anti-allergic, anti-cancer, anti-inflammatory and one of the best natural anti-diabetic. It works in the same way as Berberis aristata. It helps in purifying the blood, channel opener, helps in reducing the insulin resistance and thus making the way for glucose into the cells.

  • Sadabahar- Vinca rosea

It is always a flowering plant, growing almost in every house in India. It is known as periwinkle in English. The plant contains very precious alkaloids ‘ vincristine’ and ‘vinblastine’ which are used in allopathic medicine as anti-cancer injections. The herb leaves are very useful in controlling diabetes. The herb leaves are mixed with other herbs described above to get good results.

  • Amla – Emblica Officinalis –

Amla is the world’s richest natural source of vitamin C and is nature’s super anti-oxidant. One amla contains 30 times more vitamin C than an orange. It prevents aging and therefore delays the onset of complications of diabetes. Amla powder, Amla juice can be consumed regularly to get the benefits in diabetes and other diseases.

References:

https://EzineArticles.com

Tips to avoid Sedantory behavior

Build Activity into your Day

  • For short trips, walk or cycle and leave the car at home.
  • For longer trips, walk or cycle part of the way.
  • Use the stairs instead of the lift or escalator.
  • Get off the bus one stop earlier and walk the rest of the way.
  • Park further away from your destination and walk.

Active at Work

  • Take the stairs instead of the lift.
  • Walk to deliver a message to your colleague, rather than emailing
  • Leave your desk at lunch time and enjoy a short walk outside.
  • Organise walking meetings.

Active Indoors

Don’t let the weather stop you!

  • Body weight exercises like squats, push-ups, sit-ups and lunges, can all be done indoors.
  • Try indoor activities like;
    • dancing,
    • indoor swimming,
    • yoga or pilates,
    • martial arts,
    • squash, or
    • indoor rock climbing.

Tips for Reducing Sedentary Behaviour

  • Get up to change the channel on the TV instead of using the remote.
  • When tidying up, put things away in multiple small trips rather than one big haul.
  • Preset the timer on your TV to turn off after an hour to remind you to get up and move more.
  • Walk around when talking on your mobile phone.
  • Stand up and move during your favourite TV shows.
  • Instead of sitting and reading, listen to recorded books while you walk, clean, or work in the garden.
  • Stand on public transport and get off one stop earlier than your destination.

If you work in an office:

  • Take your lunch break outside or in another location instead of sitting and eating at your desk.
  • Stand while you read at work.
  • Move your rubbish bin away from your desk so you have to get up to use it.
  • Use the speakerphone for conference calls, and walk around the room during the conference.
  • Ask your boss for a ‘walk and talk’ meeting rather than a sit down meeting.
  • Set an alarm on your computer to remind you to stand up and move more often.

Why not turn off the TV during the day and get out in the garden?

Make your move – Sit less – Be active for life!

Active life

  • reduces blood glucose levels
  • diminishes blood pressure
  • boosts blood flow
  • burns extra calories so you can keep your weight down if needed
  • Enhances your mood
  • increase memory in older adults
  • may enhance your sleep

References:

https://www.health.gov.au/internet/main/publishing.nsf/Content/health-pubhlth-strateg-phys-act-guidelines
https://www.niddk.nih.gov/health-information


Pre-Diabetics

Pre-diabetes is a condition wherein your blood glucose levels are higher than they ought to be but not so high that you are diagnosed as diabetic. Research proposes that up to 70% of people with pre-diabetes proceed to develop full type 2 diabetes.

Yet, this implies 30% figure out how to stop the advancement of diabetes before it turns into a chronic disease… Thus, if you have been diagnosed as pre-diabetic, growing out and out diabetes isn’t inescapable.

You can’t change your past behavior, your age or your genes however you can change your way of life… how you disport yourself and what you eat and drink.

How your digestive system functions?

The foods you eat are for the most part a blend of carbohydrates, proteins and fats in different extents. A bit of meat, for instance, contains for the most part protein and fats. Vegetables, for example, potatoes contain loads of carbohydrates.

When you digest a bit of food, it is separated into its principle segments… carbs, proteins, and fats. These components are then separated further in your digestive system and discharged into your circulatory system (blood-stream) which conveys them around your body.

Your vitality originates from glucose. Glucose is only a simple sugar. In any case, it is your body’s essential source of energy.

Most glucose originates from digesting the sugar and starch in carbohydrates which you get from food, for example, rice, pasta, grains, and loaves of bread, potatoes, fruits, and vegetables. The glucose created by digestion in your stomach is assimilated into your circulatory system which conveys it to your body’s cells.

Glucose is the fuel for your cells… it controls your movements, thoughts and pretty much everything else you do. So as to power your cells, glucose needs to get into them. It can just do this with the assistance of insulin.

Insulin is a hormone produced by your pancreas. The pancreas discharges insulin into your circulatory system where it goes around your body and gets together with glucose on the same trip. The purpose of insulin is to empower glucose to enter your cells.

To do this, insulin attaches itself to a receptor in the surface of the cell. This makes the cell membrane to permit glucose to enter the cell. The cell would then be able to utilize the glucose as its fuel. This glucose-insulin system needs to work appropriately if you are to be healthy.

In the event that the insulin does not carry out its responsibility of ‘opening the cell entryway’ for glucose, the glucose won’t almost certainly get into the cell… also, the cell will come up short on fuel.

Diabetes is a condition wherein the glucose-insulin system does not work accurately.

There are two noteworthy types of diabetes: (a) type 1 and (b) type 2. Over 90% of diabetics have type 2 diabetes.

In type 1 diabetes the pancreas does not create any insulin or, best case scenario, practically nothing. Type 1 can’t be restored. The main way these diabetics can survive is by taking regular shots of insulin.

In type 2 diabetes, the pancreas produces insulin which is discharged into the circulation system. Be that as it may, when the insulin lands at a cell it experiences difficulty attaching itself to a receptor. So it can’t prompt the cell layer to open and permit glucose to enter the cell.

Insulin resistance is the condition in which insulin is unable to attach itself to cell receptors.

Envision a key attempting to slide into a lock in an entryway. On the off chance that the lock is stuck… state, with a bit of chewing gum… the key can’t get in. There is nothing wrong with the key and nothing amiss with the lock. But before the key can get in, the lock has to be cleaned out.

One of the primary purposes behind insulin resistance is having cell ‘doors’ that are stuck with fat. The only way to ‘unjam’ them is to omit all fat as far as possible from your diet for four to six weeks (at least) until the cell receptors are free of fat.

So what do you need to do to prevent type 2 diabetes creating from pre-diabetes to the all-out chronic condition… with its raised dangers of heart attacks, strokes, visual impairment, kidney transplants, leg removals, and other awful conditions?

Change your way of life using:  Exercise and Diet

Here are 12 things you can do:

  • Avoid sedentary behavior – Tips to avoid sedentary behavior
  • Exercise
  • Quit smoking
  • Reduce the fat in your diet
  • Lose weight
  • Eat a high fiber diet
  • Minimize your intake of processed foods
  • Reduce the refined carbs you eat
  • Drink lots of water
  • Take a daily nutritional supplement

Aloe-Vera – A Miracle plant for Diabetic patients

The miracle plant can’t cure diabetes however is an extraordinary item to enhance diabetic medicines as it contains a huge substance of glycol-nutrients which won’t raise glucose levels and is likewise exceptionally useful in wound healing. Wound healing with diabetic patients is extremely moderate and once in a while in serious cases not present by any means.

Aloe’s active compounds: anthraquinones, lectins, and mannans. Studies have shown that aloe Vera extract can regulate fasting blood glucose levels in prediabetics within 4 weeks, and reverse lipid profile levels within just 8 weeks.

An early clinical trial in India was led where 3000 mildly diabetic patients were fed bread incorporating it’s gel – 90% demonstrated a decrease in glucose levels. Numerous investigations have been led in mice with truly positive outcomes. Studies that have been led on people have demonstrated that it increases insulin secretion and lets glucose down to its normal state.

Method 1

Take a tablespoonful of aloe juice two times every day to help regularize insulin stream and lower blood glucose levels. As indicated by the Herb Companion site, a 1995 clinical examination demonstrated that 39 diabetic patients who took this measurements of aloe juice for about fourteen days experienced noteworthy drops in glucose.

Method 2

Take a tablespoonful of aloe-Vera juice two times every day to open choked veins and encourage the conveyance of oxygen and supplements to your circulation system, and to battle the vascular ailment that can go with diabetes. As indicated by the Common Sense Health site, the mannose in aloe Vera opens veins and opens up blood stream.

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Method 3

Take 30 milliliters of aloe-Vera juice two times every day to secure your heart. Aloe Vera juice contains glucomannan, which advances healthy levels of blood triglycerides, or fat; excess triglycerides are connected with the beginning of coronary artery disease. As indicated by the Facts About Diabetes site, results of a 1996 Bangkok study demonstrated that patients with high fasting glucose brought down their triglycerides by 44 percent after taking this portion of aloe-Vera juice for about a month and a half.

Method 4

Apply pure aloe Vera gel to diabetic bubbles to lessen irritation and inflammation. As per the University of Maryland Medical Center site, one examination demonstrated that aloe Vera showed calming impacts better than that of 1 percent hydro-cortisone cream.

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Home Remedies for Diabetes

Diabetes in a large portion of the cases can’t be relieved however can be controlled by making a few alterations in the eating routine and way of life.

  1. Drinking around 150 ml of unpleasant Bitter-melon squeeze early morning in void stomach manages the glucose levels. Utilizing Bitter-melon as servings of mixed salads or in curries produces viable outcomes in treating diabetes.
    Bitter-melon stimulates the pancreas and improves insulin creation.
  2. Soak around 10 grams of fenugreek seeds in water overnight. Drinking the squashed seeds alongside the water next morning is a decent home solution for Diabetes.
  3. Drinking gooseberry juice and fresh turmeric juice, blended in equivalent extents early morning is successful for this treatment.
  4. One can likewise consume a paste made by blending equivalent measures of dried gooseberry powder and turmeric powder in little honey.
  5. Drinking a decoction of mango leaves in water additionally helps in battling this disease.
  6. Taking a few Jamun natural products routinely or chewing Jamun leaves two times every day helps in restoring diabetes at the beginning time.
  7. Cinnamon powder taken either as tea or through different dishes produces brilliant outcomes in bringing down the glucose level.

Expectation home cures given in this response for controlling and overseeing diabetes will help you in bringing down your glucose levels.