Category Archives: Diabetes
Chili (Capsicum annuum) is a small plant of about one metre height, with lush green leaves and angular branches that bear white flowers followed by purple, red or yellow fruit. Chili has been cultivated in South America for thousands of years and was discovered by Christopher Columbus on his voyages to the New World in the 15th century. He introduced it to Europe before Portuguese and Spanish traders took this new spice to India and Asia, where it has since become an integral part of the cuisine. Despite its heat, chili is a nutritious fruit containing vitamins A and C, β-carotene, magnesium, potassium and iron.
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While most readers would have a reasonable idea about what kind of food constitutes a Cafeteria-style diet, few would be aware that it is actually a fast-evolving scientific construct used for clinical research into common metabolic diseases. In fact, a lot of our current evidence-based research is founded on clinical trials involving lab-rats such as pedigree Wistar or Sprague Dawley rats, which are fed a variety of controlled pelletised diets called ‘rat chow’.
(more…)A plethora of synthetic sweeteners are now available as an alternative to cane sugar and high-fructose corn syrup. Aspartame is one of the most prevalent, promoted for its supposed benefits to the obese and diabetic alike in a myriad of diet or low-calorie beverages and foods, and yet it is linked to disturbing research indicating that it may in fact be worse than the sugars it replaces.
(more…)A sugar-free diet may sound straightforward but it’s a little more difficult than it seems because avoiding sugar actually means avoiding all urban convenience foods—they all contain cane sugar and high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS).
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If you happen to read an article published recently in the journal Oxidative Medicine and Cellular Longevity, you would certainly form the impression that honey is a potent medicine, as it has been considered by physicians for thousands of years. That is if it is certified organic, a requirement that is apparently necessary in order to make sure that it has not been adulterated on its journey to your table with the kind of sugars that actually cause diabetes. (more…)
Patients with blood sugar irregularities are usually advised by the doctor to adopt a healthy diet and do some exercise. They resolve to take action, procrastinate and their blood sugar continues to rise along with their weight, blood pressure and other markers of metabolic syndrome. These patients progress to a lifetime regime of pharmaceutical medicines which contributes to the patient’s declining health with a barrage of side-effects. (more…)