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There are safer ways than drugs to lower your blood sugar. Its not a quick fix remedy, but will take commitment. Its worth your efforts though since drugs like Avandia can raise your risk of heart attacks!
Here are some tips to get your high blood sugar to go down…
STEP 1: Get off the sugary foods, which means throwing out any refined and processed flour products, such as white bread, white rice, cookies, cakes, candy bars, pancakes etc. The good news is that complex carbs such as 100 percent whole wheat, de-hulled barley, bran, and oats are all okay. Pasta is fine as long as it‘s made from spinach, artichoke, brown rice, or 100 percent whole wheat. It‘s heavy, so try angel hair pasta and don‘t serve as much. You won‘t need it.
Cinnamon is another powerful, yet safe blood-sugar solution. You can more of it in your diet by sprinkling it on apples or fruits, cereals that are hot or cold, yogurt or whole grain pancakes or waffles. This spice improves how your body processes sugar. One recent study showed that cinnamon significantly lowered blood sugar among diabetics.
For this study, U.S. researchers divided diabetics into two groups. One group received one, three, or six grams cinnamon each day. The other group received a placebo. And the results–after just 40 days – were very surprising!
All three groups taking cinnamon made big improvements all around. They lowered their fasting blood glucose levels by 18 to 29 percent, lowered triglycerides by 23 –30%, and cut total cholesterol 12 –26%. So, even taking just ¼ to ½ teaspoonfuls each day made quite a difference. It‘s important to keep it going because when the patients stopped taking the spice, their blood sugar levels rebounded. The people who received the placebo, did not experience any improvements in the markers of their disease.
There‘s no doubt in my mind that if you follow this regimen, along with a little exercise, your blood sugar will come down. But just be careful.
These natural efforts can be so effective that you MUST seek the guidance of a good naturopath or MD who might be more holistically minded rather than pharmaceutical drug minded. In fact, it‘s possible to push your blood sugar down so far that you become hypoglycemic. That being said, its important that your doctor monitors your medications very closely and lowers them as your diet and supplements take effect.
Leave me a comment and let me know how likely you are to try these suggestions.
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