Pancha  Bhoota healing for diabetes

                                         Earth Therapy: - Part -2

  Is it good to munch and take more small meals rather than one or two?
      It is commonly believed that it is 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. Click here  to read an article from another site.


What happens  to the food we eat?

       The food we eat  is digested in the stomach and intestines and absorbed in small and large intestines. The carbohydrate food (starch) is broken into glucose (blood sugar) and is absorbed into the blood. After 2 hrs of eating starchy food, the blood glucose levels rises in the blood.  Blood glucose provides energy to all cells in the body. But if their levels are too much (above 120 mg/100 ml of blood) then they are toxic to the cells. The insulin molecules therefore moves these glucose into the muscle cells and other body cells.

       Faster the rate of  glucose coming into the blood, more insulin is required to clear glucose from the blood into the muscle cells. The rate of glucose entering the blood depends upon the free glucose in the intestines. If the glucose are trapped in the fiber rich foods, then they enter slowly into the blood and so lower amounts of insulin molecules are required to maintain blood glucose.

       When the food eaten is refined or processed, then they have less or no fiber and so the glucose rush into the blood causing high increase in blood levels. So eating processed food in healthy people cause the pancreas to secrete more insulin and slowly this organ get tired resulting in diabetes, where pancreas produce less insulin.

        In diabetic people eating fiber rich food makes glucose to enter the blood slowly and so even with less insulin molecules the body can manage to keep the blood glucose at a low level. 

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