| Maybe your doctor recently broke the news that | | | | *Those that can control the blood sugar levels |
| you have diabetes. Or you have learnt that you are | | | | *Those that help in weight loss and thus indirectly |
| at risk of getting diabetes. And so now you are | | | | control diabetes. |
| worried scared of what diabetes will do to you. | | | | To control blood sugar levels |
| Worried about the drugs you have to take and their | | | | Vitamin and mineral supplements help the body to |
| side effects. Its not just you who alone is worrying. | | | | secrete insulin well that helps in controlling diabetes. It |
| There are about 21 million American adults and | | | | is said that minerals like chromium, magnesium, |
| children who suffer from some form of diabetes. | | | | vanadium and zinc help control the blood sugar levels. |
| Though insulin and other anti diabetic drugs are | | | | Many plant foods decrease the blood sugar levels by |
| available, many are now resorting to alternative | | | | virtue of their fiber content among other |
| medicine. | | | | mechanisms. Some of the popular plant foods that |
| What exactly is diabetes? | | | | are used to control blood sugar are fenugreek seeds, |
| Diabetes is condition in which the glucose in your | | | | peas, brewer's yeast, buckwheat, broccoli, garlic, |
| blood is higher than normal either because the | | | | ginger, ginseng, hawthorn, nettle and okra. |
| hormone insulin is not secreted at all or whatever | | | | To control weight |
| insulin is secreted does not work properly. This | | | | Type II diabetes is associated with obesity. It is said |
| increased blood glucose affects almost all the | | | | that maintaining optimum weight is the single most |
| important organs in our body including the heart and | | | | important factor in controlling blood sugar in Type II |
| kidney. It is said that diabetes is the sixth leading | | | | diabetes. People use many substances as part of |
| cause of death. Insulin and oral anti diabetic drugs are | | | | alternative treatment to bring down their weight and |
| routinely prescribed to treat diabetes. | | | | thus indirectly control diabetes. Some of the popular |
| Alternative medicine the new trend | | | | substances used to control weight are extract of |
| The faith in alternative medicine is rising very steeply | | | | Hoodia gordonii, chitosan, camsogia garcinia, pyruvate, |
| and it is estimated that as much as 50% of the | | | | germander, Momordica charanta, Sauropus |
| American people are using some form of alternative | | | | androgynus and aristolochic acid. |
| treatment. One of the surveys conducted on | | | | The other alternative therapies being used to treat |
| alternative medicine concluded that people felt there | | | | diabetes are - faith healing, reflexology, macrobiosis, |
| were added benefits from alternative medicine use, | | | | astrotherapy (tying pieces of coral around the arms), |
| lower cost, and perceived fewer side effects. | | | | pearl therapy (oyster pearls boiled in milk and then |
| The alternative medicine for treating diabetes is | | | | drinking the liquid), meditation, ayurveda and |
| basically divided in to two categories: | | | | homeopathy. |