Type 2 diabetes, which used to be known as non-insulin dependent diabetes, results from the inability of the pancreas to produce sufficient quantities of insulin, or the inability of the body to use the insulin the right way. The majority of those who have diabetes suffer from this type of diabetes.
Diabetes is accepted to be a disease for a lifetime. However, that in itself need not make you feel that it is a completely negative verdict on your life. It is a disease that can be controlled to a large extent by right diet and right exercise. When it comes to diet, it is the raw vegetables and fruits in the diet that will have significant influence in controlling blood sugar levels.
The best form of plant raw food is juices of fruits and vegetables. Juices need very little digestion, and the nutrients in them are absorbed directly into the body as soon as they are consumed. Potassium, iron, manganese, vitamin A, vitamin B7, and Vitamin E are some of the nutrients found in many fruits, and all these are helpful in controlling blood sugar. Manganese is especially effective in metabolizing glucose and thus reducing insulin resistance, and it is found in many common vegetables like spinach, carrots, parsley, celery, garlic, broccoli etc.
Vitamin B7, also known as biotin, is found in vegetables like cauliflower and spinach, and fruits like peach, nectarine, and mango. Besides maintaining blood sugar, vitamin B7 stimulates enzymes, aids in digestion, and maintains tissues. It is best to create your own juice recipe by choosing the fruits and vegetables that are available at different seasons, and by matching it to your taste and your body needs, based on your general health.
To get the best result from a juicing regimen, it is best to use home-made fresh juice. Various combinations of juices are available in the market, but preservatives are in most cases added to juices while commercially producing them. Further, juices are pasteurized to destroy bacteria and other unwanted microorganisms, and the heating involved in the process destroys many of its nutrients and essential enzymes also. It is so much better to make your own juice at home with a blender or juicer.
A juicer is slightly better than a blender for juice extraction. However, if you do not have a juicer, a blender will also work well. You can put the chopped fruits and vegetables into the blender and run it on the ‘chop’ option for a few seconds and then run it on the ‘puree’ option for a few seconds to make a good juice.
By taking the juice of fruits and vegetables, you will be getting much more nutrition than eating the stuff raw. When you eat fresh apples, you may eat one or at the most two apples. But when you drink a glass of apple juice, you will be drinking the juice of about four apples, and so would be getting double the amount of nutrition. By being on a regular juice diet, not just your diabetes but also some of your other health issues would vanish over a period of time.
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