What You Should Know About Nutrients and Diabetes
Author: Mario Carini
When your doctor prescribes medications to help control your blood sugar, he likely doesn’t
mention the need for supplementation.
While drugs do help to keep your glucose on an even keel they do not address the underlying
causes of the disease nor do they help prevent the complications of retinopathy, neuropathy and
weight gain that strike so many with diabetes. Controlling blood sugar is an important step for
every diabetic. But drugs miss out on one crucial element. Without it you can suffer blindness,
amputation and kidney failure.
Much of the reason for these complications stems from the lack of certain nutrients that are
lacking in the diabetic diet.
The majority of Americans are woefully deficient in many essential vitamins and minerals. In
fact most don’t even meet the RDA recommendations as set by government health agencies. It’s
hardly surprising that heart disease, cancer, arthritis, Alzheimer’s and many of the
degenerative diseases we see around us afflict so many.
If the levels of vitamins and minerals is low among so many average people, it goes double for
the diabetic. Since the diabetic kidney is stressed as it attempts to rid the body of excess
glucose, it unfortunately flushes out many nutrients too. It’s the lack of these essential
nutrients that leads to diabetic complications, not necessarily the result of high blood sugar.
Supplementation for diabetics is an absolute necessity. You need to replace what you lose
everyday. The fact is that you can suffer the same symptoms of a diabetic even if you are not
diabetic. Just neglect to take the right nutrients and you are well on your way toward eye,
foot and organ problems.
You might be asking yourself why your doctor doesn’t mention the need for supplementation?
Clearly there’s no profit in it. The medical community and the media often publish the need for
eating a proper diet and exercise. But a proper diet is next to impossible. Our highly refined
foods have been stripped of nutrients so most of what you eat are empty calories with high fat
and sugar.
Most of the produce on your supermarket shelves have been grown on farms whose soil is largely
devoid of nutrients. And if that wasn’t enough, that produce has been chemically treated with
herbicides, pesticides, coloring and many other unwholesome ingredients.
Supplementation is not just for diabetics. Everyone needs to supplement.
What vitamins should you be taking to avoid diabetic complications? For the diabetic, they are:
-Vitamin C. A lack of it leads to poor wound healing. Foot ulcers and gangrene are the
symptoms of a lack of this important vitamin.
-Vitamin E.
-Niacin (B-3).
-B-6 (Pyridoxine).
Among the essential minerals you need to supplement with are:
-Chromium.
-Magnesium.
-Potassium (A better substitute for sodium).
-Manganese.
-Zinc.
Clearly, without these important vitamins and minerals in your diet, you are likely to lose
your eyesight and lose feeling in the feet that can lead to amputation. Simply by not getting
the essential nutrients, you are vulnerable to many diseases that no drug can address.
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About the Author:
The author has been a diabetic for over 8 years. Like many he experienced the symptoms. He has
since tackled the disease by losing weight and normalizing his blood sugar through natural
means. If you should be interested in finding out about some products that have helped, you’ll
find them in the Resource section of his website-in-progress at:
http://www.newagediabetic.com
