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Hopefully you've arrived here because you want to start making small, simple changes to your diet & lifestyle to improve your health.
On this page you will find information on the health benefits of different foods, how to treat certain conditions using food and lifestyle changes, the best food preparation methods and information on health and wellbeing generally.
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Type 2 Diabetes
In adult onset diabetes Type 2 (DT2), the pancreas produces either not enough insulin or the insulin that it produces is not working effectively. This leads to the level of sugar, glucose, in the blood rising too high, causing symptoms like excessive thirst, excessive hunger and excessive urination.
One of the easiest treatments would be to consume less food in general, but especially very sweet, spicy, salty or fatty foods. This includes refined carbs, sugar and processed foods. In most cases, diabetics are deficient in many minerals, especially zinc, chromium, manganese and silicon, as in processed foods these are all removed.
To improve mineral absorption, chlorophyll rich foods, such as Spirulina, wheatgrass or wheat bran will be helpful.
In Chinese medicine, DT2 is separated into two groups:
Excess type DT2 is when the diabetic is a robust person with a diet excessive in fatty foods and refined foods. For such a person, cleansing foods such as raw vegetables and fruits, sour foods like lemons and grapefruits will be beneficial. Dairy should be only from goat’s milk/yoghurt and a small amount of broths with animal protein maybe added to the diet.
Deficient type DT2 is typical mostly of a weak, pale or frail person with a poor appetite, loose stools and excessive tiredness. In this case, all vegetables and fruits should be cooked. Brown rice or oats slow cooked over a long period together with ginger, cinnamon, garlic and fennel will be beneficial. As for excess type, goat’s milk/ yoghurt, broths with animal protein and warming legumes such as peas are recommended.
For both types, flax oil, Evening Primrose oil, and borage are all beneficial but only in small amounts.
Chewing well, eating regularly and not late at night and exercising every day to improve circulation must be part of the new lifestyle.If you try all this, you might be pleasantly surprised as to how easy it becomes to control the DT2. Good luck.
