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How
to prevent and heal diabetes?
Pancha
Bhoota, the Five element steps to heal diabetes.
2.
Earth Therapy:
Just read the observation below which holds good for all no matter which
nationality they belong.
Till late 1950's and 1960's in southern parts of India, Diabetes was often
called as the disease of the rich. The main reason it was seen in the rich
was because they consume refined sugar, refined rice and no healthy diets.
The poor people ate only unpolished brown rice and unrefined sugar called
as jaggery or they consumed palm sugar. (Many old folk in Indian
villages tell that white sugar was
used only on festival days). They did not eat too much of diary products
and meat too. Their diet was mainly, locally grown fruits and vegetables,
which varied according to the seasons.
They ate all kinds of leafy vegetables
and also fiber rich foods like jackfruits, plantain stems, flowers,
bottle gourd, bitter melon, snake guard, yam
leaves etc. Apart from this they had good physical activity. They ate a
lot of Bajara or Pearl millet, Barley, Oats, Jawar or Great Millet,
Italian Millet, Maize or Corn, buckwheat
Ragi or African millet, Rice, Rough Chaff or Prickly Chaff, Wheat, quinoa,
Fox-millet, Finger millet, and tapioca. Rich people
considered that it was below their dignity to consume these local foods.
They paid labors to polish the grains to white and ironically they
were more prone to diseases.
After 1960's refined foods became a common commodity for rich and poor
and the diet patterns changed which chiefly ignored the healthy variety
of fruits, vegetables and healthy leaves. Now diabetes is no longer the
disease of the rich. All these observations clearly teach us that change
in diet and physical activity is the cause for diabetes.
Is carbohydrate the cause for diabetes?
Eating more carbohydrates and balanced amount of proteins and fats
is the healthy way of eating. Of course the carbohydrates should be
unrefined. A healthy diet is to use brown rice, whole wheat instead
of white wheat and also eating all foods in the whole form. Especially
to Indians who consume carbohydrates in abundance, switching to brown
rice and whole wheat is the best option. Carbohydrates is not the culprit,
its the refined form of it the cause of culprit. Its sad to say that
scientist mis-informed the public that carbohydrates and fats were
bad for health. No, they are good in the natural unrefined form.
Moderate amounts of Tapioca,
potato and other tubers are good for health. When we consume them in
high amounts they cause imbalances in the body.
The
worst problem is with the
refined sugar, which contains sucrose. Sucrose is made of two different
sugars, glucose and fructose. The fructose damages the cells and increases
the risk of diabetes, obesity and heart diseases. (See Journal of nutrition
has published its recent studies).
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Is it good to munch and take more small meals rather than one or two?
The western doctors say its bad to eat one or two big meals but eating
small meals is good. In fact the other way is the best. Eating one
or two big meal and avoiding small meals is good. This is the traditional
Ayurvedic approach and this is proved by recent research. Every time
you eat, the pancreas is forced to secrete insulin and then the whole
metabolism has to be stabilized.
Ayurvedic approach of diabetes is different.
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How good is to follow glycemic index of foods?
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