Salt:
Excessive use of Table Salt puts an extra burden on our kidneys. It’s simply very hard for the body to process. This excess of Salt (refined/table) can cause high blood pressure. When High Blood Pressure present; often times, diabetes is also present.
Excessive intake of salt also promotes water retention in the body, which over time may lead to obesity … which is also a known cause of diabetes.
Now, a certain amount of salt is essential for the body. But that ‘certain amount’ is a very small amount. Small as in 10 to 15 g per day.
Salt is not only used as a seasoning, but it’s most often used as a preservative. It’s added to most, if not all, processed foods. So, yes … you are eating a bucket of salt a day and probably don’t even know it! This preservative problem most often occurs in ‘convenience’ foods which, are very often processed to the inth degree.
All Purpose Flour:
Wheat is the most common cereal used throughout the world for making bread. It is a good source of energy (complex carbohydrates). With its essential coating of bran, vitamins and minerals, it is an excellent health-building food.
Wheat is usually ground into flour for use as food. However refined wheat flour white flour (maida) is especially harmful and it constitutes a serious health hazard. Because it is so prevalent in such a wide variety of foods, like white sugar, we consume it by the bucket loads and don’t even know it.
Whys is it so harmful, you ask? Well, due to the colossal loss of vitamins and mineral in refined wheat flour, it’s consumption has led to widespread prevalence of constipation and other digestive related disturbance and nutritional disorders … including particularly diabetes. The consumption of white flour is thus an important contributing cause of diabetes, and its aggravation if the disease has already developed.
Coffee & Tea:
Drinking tea and coffee is a serious health hazard for the diabetic. The most alkaloid principle in both tea and coffee is caffeine. Caffeine is an addictive drug similar to cocaine in as much as it stimulates the central nervous system. While these effects are short-lived, it has been observed that they lead to withdrawal symptoms of irritability, lethargy, headaches and anxiety. The daily intake of tea and coffee causes indigestion and gas formation, diarrhea, and constipation. They also increase the blood sugar level, which may lead to diabetes or aggravate its symptoms where the disease is already present.
So, with that information in mind, here are 5 simple rules that I’d suggest for managing and then eventually reversing Diabetes (type II).
5 Things you MUST DO ... and KEEP DOING:
1. Not only should you cut back on refined snacks, but you should then move to eliminate them from you r diet altogether. There are many, many alternatives. See the Black Phoenix Meal Plan for some suggestions.
2. Cut back on white flour and embrace whole meal carbohydrates.
3. Stop drinking cocktails, start drinking red wine. Many people know that Cocktails contain sugar, and salt. But they have no idea how much. Beer has carbs, carbs raise the blood sugar. Whiskey has a high sugar content which also raises blood sugars.
4. Consume much, much more fruit and vegetables. Fresh fruit and vegetables are a great way to get all the vitamins and minerals you need.
5. Drink much more water than what your currently consuming. You should drink approx ‘half your weight in ounces’ every day. (i.e. if you weight 180lbs, then you should be drinking 90 oz of water PER DAY.) And, no – that’s not a lot. That’s approx 1 glass per hour while your at work … so don’t hand me that “too much” foolishness J
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