Most important steps to reduce your risk of developing diabetes.

1. Regularly engage in some form of exercise that builds and/or maintains your muscle mass. Muscle tissue has significant capacity to store excess blood sugar in the form of glycogen. Simply put, the more muscle you have, the more capacity you have to “soak up” excess blood sugar and maintain a healthy blood sugar level. This is one of the biggest benefits to doing some resistance training on a regular basis.

2. Be active! The more you move your body throughout the day, the more sugar your cells need to burn up to produce energy.

3. Reduce or eliminate your intake of the following most common, sugar-rich foods in today’s grocery stores:
o Pop (soda)
o Doughnuts
o Pastries
o Conventional store-bought cookies, cakes, and muffins
o Conventional chocolate/candy bars
o Many boxed breakfast cereals

4. Eat magnesium-rich foods on a regular basis.
Studies conducted by researchers from Harvard University and published in the January 2004 issue of the journal Diabetes Care indicate that consistent intake of magnesium-rich foods can significantly lower your risk of developing diabetes. Healthy magnesium-rich foods include:
o Brown rice
o Raw almonds
o Spinach
o Swiss chard
o Lima beans
o Avocado
o Raw peanuts
o Raw hazelnuts
o Okra
o Black-eyed peas

5. Consider consuming prickly pear cactus, called nopal in Mexico. Nopal is a natural plant that is grown throughout Mexico and the southwestern United States, and has been shown through several studies to be effective at promoting optimal blood sugar levels.
If you follow the measures described above, you can confidently expect to reduce your risk of developing diabetes and improve your overall health.

One-quarter teaspoon – of cinnamon per day for 40 days consumed in any form can decrease the levels of blood sugar, cholesterol and blood fats. Cinnamon contains compounds that help make insulin more efficient, improving the hormone’s ability to bring glucose to the cells that need it.

Add a little pinch of cinnamon to the morning servings of coffee, orange juice or cereal, Make a cinnamon tea by simply boiling water with stick cinnamon. Cinnamon may also help stave off the onset of type 2 diabetes in people at risk of the condition.

Yoga Exercise:
Kneel down on the hard mattress. Sit on your heals and join both fists(with thumbs inside the fists), and put it on your navel. Exhale your breath and bend your upper body to touch your knees. Maintain your eyes wide open looking straight forward. Wait for 15seconds, raise your body back. Repeat this exercise three times. This exercise will improve the working of your pancreas.

Article has inputs-courtesy Dr. Ben Kim

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