| It is well known that a person suffering of | | | | used at first by natives. It has a strong effect on |
| diabetes has special needs regarding food and diet. | | | | the pancreas, checking the wrong transformation |
| One of the most valuable fruits used in the | | | | of starch into sugar in case of increase production |
| diabetic's diet is the apple. Apples contain in their | | | | of glucose. |
| rind and pulp a high level of pectine, which supplies | | | | The fruit is mostly used for its seeds which are |
| the galacturonic acid needed in the process of | | | | dried, powdered and then mixed with water. This |
| cleaning the body of harmful substances. It also | | | | drink taken three times a day controls the level |
| decreases the body's need of insulin by 35%. | | | | of sugar in the blood, allays thirst and prevents |
| Besides pectine, apples also contain vitamin B1, | | | | excessive urination. |
| which has an important role in preventing brain | | | | In Ayurveda another treatment is considered to |
| damages during diabetic acidosis, and reverses a | | | | be useful in diabetes: the use of white ash from |
| complication that appears in diabetes: the neurosis. | | | | the inner bark of jambul tree, crumbled in the |
| This complication can be relieved by administering | | | | mortar, strained and then bottled. The treatment |
| high doses of vitamin B1. | | | | consists in giving the patient in the morning, on an |
| Another valuable fruit is the grapefruit, a citrus | | | | empty stomach two grams of the ash and then |
| fruit. Besides its appetizing properties and its | | | | the same in the afternoon. It is considered that |
| refreshing qualities, studies have proved its | | | | this treatment controls excessive urination that |
| usefulness in decreasing the level of sugar in the | | | | affects most of the diabetics. |
| blood if taken two weeks, three times a day. | | | | An equilibrate diet, based on vegetables, fruit and |
| Associated to this diet, consume of sweets, | | | | juices, and with less fats and sweets, associated |
| chocolate, and fats should be reduced and | | | | with an active lifestyle, quitting smoking, self |
| replaced with consume of more vegetables and | | | | measuring the level of sugar in the blood and |
| fruits. | | | | losing weight could control the diabetes and allow |
| Other anti-diabetes fruit is The Jambul Fruit (also | | | | the patients to live a normal life. |
| known as the rose apple) which grows in India, | | | | |