Diabetes Type 2 Support Group
Type 2 Diabetes is a condition in which the body either does not produce enough insulin or does not make efficient use of it. Insulin is a hormone needed to convert food into glucose, a sugar that the body uses for energy. Without enough insulin, glucose can accumulate in the blood, and can cause serious health problems such as heart disease and strokes and organ damage...
I love Cashews although most of them sold are packaged with loads of added salt
Cashews could hold the key to tackling diabetes, according to new research.
The seed of the plant contains a powerful extract that might help the body use insulin more efficiently.
Diabetes affects more than three million Britons, most of whom have type 2 diabetes, caused by poor diet and obesity (type 1 is related to immune system problems).
This makes their body less responsive to the hormone insulin, needed to mop up excess blood-sugar.
When researchers fed the cashew seed extract to rats, it boosted the cells ability to take up insulin, reported the Journal Of Molecular Nutrition and Food research.
Extracts of other plant parts had no such effect, the researchers from Canada and Cameroon said.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1325666/Insulin-injections-latest-treatment-reducing-scars.html#ixzz14DB4nQD5
Cashews could hold the key to tackling diabetes, according to new research.
The seed of the plant contains a powerful extract that might help the body use insulin more efficiently.
Diabetes affects more than three million Britons, most of whom have type 2 diabetes, caused by poor diet and obesity (type 1 is related to immune system problems).
This makes their body less responsive to the hormone insulin, needed to mop up excess blood-sugar.
When researchers fed the cashew seed extract to rats, it boosted the cells ability to take up insulin, reported the Journal Of Molecular Nutrition and Food research.
Extracts of other plant parts had no such effect, the researchers from Canada and Cameroon said.
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1325666/Insulin-injections-latest-treatment-reducing-scars.html#ixzz14DB4nQD5
Cashews are good, I just prefer ALMONDS! lol
I read walnuts are the best nuts for you (not sure if it is best for diabetics, though). I could never eat a walnut, just to eat a walnut.
I found out that if I eat a little something when I get up, then my tummy obviously is not so empty. That way when I eat my breakfast with my meds (about an hour later) my blood pressure pill does not cause me any side effects. I would knock me down for about 45 minutes. So now I eat about 12 almonds when I wake up every day and that has done the trick for me as far as morning side effects.
Toty, I like that idea of eating the almonds first!!! Hmmmmmm
I eat a handful of almonds before going to work. Tides me over until 10 or 10:30. Love my almonds. The cocoa ones were just dangerous!
I use walnuts and dried cranberries and white chocolate chips to make my Christmas cookies.....So good