Diabetic treatment with natural food.

Did you know that adding cinnamon into your diet could help to improve diabetic condition particularly if you suffered from insulin resistance? Studies and human trials indicate cinnamon could help to reduce blood glucose by as much as 30%.

Cinnamon provides sweetness to our taste buds without the side effect of causing blood glucose to spike. Cinnamon has many benefits. Besides being used for cooking, cinnamon can be used to treat painful menstrual periods, colds and nausea.

Bitter melon, also known as bitter gourd is also effective for treating of diabetes.
It is a vegetable often used by Asians as dishes. Substances in the bitter melon help sugar to enter the cell. It is rich in essential vitamins and minerals such as Iron, vitamin A, B1, B2, and C. It can be used to treat blood disorders and fungal disease.

Cocoa, the main ingredient of chocolate has many health benefits among them for regulating and controlling blood sugar. Diabetic patients that drank a special high-flavonol cocoa for one month discovered that the blood vessel function went from severely impaired to normal. Cocoa contains powerful anti oxidant properties. There are increasing scientific and medical evidence indicating cocoa flavonol helps to reduce blood pressure and improve people with brain cognitive defects.

Diabetes can be treated with natural food. Preventive is better than cure and thus we should eat natural food that helps regulate and maintain blood sugar at healthy level. Processed fine sugar is bad for health. Most of us do not realize that the all too often the food we eat contains sugar that enters quickly into bloodstream.

Like most medicines, be it synthetic or natural, taking large amount of cinnamon or bitter melon is not recommended as overdose may cause complications and in rare cases could be lead to stroke and internal bleeding. Chances are serious side effects rare though when taking natural medicine as compare to lab developed synthetic medicine.

Cinnamon and bitter melon should not be taken together with prescribed medication to control blood sugar as it might leads to low blood sugar. Pregnant women sensitive to bleeding are advised not to take cinnamon and bitter gourd as supplements.Cinnamon has blood thinning effect thus should not be taken together with prescribed blood thinning medications.
If unsure please check with your doctor on alternative treatments to ensure it does not interfere with prescribed medicines you are taking.