If symptoms of hypoglycemia increase
discomfort, patients generally take teaspoonful of sugar. However downward fluctuating
blood glucose levels does not require eating more sugar. On the contrary, all
dietary recommendations and home remedies for controlling hypoglycemia do not
revolve around taking higher sugar intake but in trying to stabilize sugar
levels, so that the body enjoys a constant source of energy during the day.
So, check out what nature provides:
Licorice root:
Licorice root is a very good natural cure for alleviating symptoms
of low blood sugar. It helps increase blood sugar levels in the body. Cut the
root in pieces and add to boiling water and boil this for five minutes, then
drink it once a day.
Licorice also relieves stress related to low blood sugar levels.
Person with high blood pressure should avoid licorice as it is known to
increase blood pressure. Even otherwise, it should be taken in moderate
quantity.
Apple:
Apples are very effective for people with low blood sugar as it
is rich in chromium and magnesium, both of which are known to regulate blood
sugar level. Two apples should be taken after meal everyday for better results.
Wild yam: Wild
yam is a very effective natural cure for low blood sugar, as it controls the
level of insulin in the body, thereby increasing the sugar level in the blood.
Yam should be boiled in water and left for an hour before drinking. The dried
powdered root can be made into a paste, and this paste should be added to a
glass of warm water and consumed.
Molasses:
Molasses is a very useful natural cure for low blood sugar.
Drinking extract of molasses provides the required glucose during exertion.
Take a little molasses and add to a glass of warm water, drink this at least
twice daily to improve blood sugar level.
Dandelion root:
Dandelion root contains large amounts of calcium, which helps in
proper functioning of pancreas and liver, which helps to keep the correct blood
sugar levels. Powder the root and mix the powder in a glass of warm water, take
this mix daily for better results. A concoction made of this root can be taken
twice daily.
Parsley:
Parsley helps in improving the functions of liver and pancreas,
making it a very effective natural cure for low blood sugar. Juice extracted
from the leaves of parsley can be taken daily to rejuvenate liver and pancreas.
Parsley leaves can also be steeped in hot water and taken internally once a day
for beneficial results in Hypoglycemia.
Tomatoes:
Tomatoes contains lycopene which is a potent antioxidant which
help in improving functioning of liver and pancreas. Drinking fresh tomato
juice, twice daily, for two weeks, is very effective way to alleviating
pancreatic disorders which cause low blood sugar. Fresh tomatoes also can be
included in the diet for better results.
Sunflower seeds:
Sunflower seeds are a rich source of poly-phenols, which help
remove destructive oxidants from liver and pancreas. In particular, chlorgenic
acid promotes synthesis of glycogen in the liver and is very beneficial in
regulating sugar levels in the blood. Sunflower seeds can be eaten in raw form
or can be powdered and added to water, taking sunflower seeds daily, is a very
effective natural cure for low blood sugar.
Pumpkin seeds: Pumpkin
seeds are a rich source of several micronutrients including iron, magnesium and
manganese. It is also known to prevent deposition of calcium oxalate in the
kidney and helps in regulating functioning of kidney. This helps regulating the
blood sugar level and is effective in treatment of Hypoglycemia. Powder pumpkin
seeds and mix in a glass of milk or warm water and drink for beneficial
results.
Gentian root: Gentian
root is very useful natural cure for low blood sugar as it boosts the sugar
level in the body. Take gentian root and dip in boiling water, to make a
concoction and drink this twice daily.
Barley: Barley is
a first-rate food for patients if type 2 diabetes or people diagnosed with low
blood sugar. Barley is a rich source of essential minerals, vitamins and
dietary fibers. In particular, Barley contains magnesium and
beta-glucan which helps in regulating glucose absorption in blood.
Balanced meal for low blood
sugar individuals:
An ideal diet for low blood sugar patient
should be well balanced with enough nuts, fruits and fresh vegetables and
carbohydrates. Seeds and nuts should be taken in raw form and grains and seeds,
like buckwheat, should be cooked. Beans and legumes will provide balanced
protein as well.
Chromium: Research
has shown that a balanced intake of chromium is very important for regulating
GTF (Glucose Tolerance Factor), which is responsible for balanced metabolism of
glucose. Thus chromium helps stabilize blood sugar both in cases of hypo and
hyperglycemia. A normal adult requires a daily chromium intake of 200 mcg to
maintain optimal blood sugar level in the body. This can be taken as a
supplement or from food rich in chromium such as brewer’s yeast, potatoes,
peas, whole wheat bread, rye bread and wheat germ.
Magnesium: Magnesium
helps prevent falling of blood sugar levels in people with hypoglycemia. A
healthy adult requires round 340 mg of magnesium in his daily intake. Food rich
in magnesium include artichoke, banana, dry figs, barley, oat bran, prune
juice, almonds, brazil nuts, cashews, beans, broccoli, pumpkin seeds, soybean,
spinach, sweet potatoes and potatoes.
Vitamin B3: Vitamin
B3 (niacin) has been found beneficial in regulating level of blood sugar in
hypoglycemic people. Food rich in Vitamin B3 include portabella mushrooms,
asparagus, green peas, sunflower seeds, and avocados.
Dietary fibers:
Dietary fibers allow sugars to be absorbed more slowly, which regulate glucose
in the blood. Person with low blood sugar should consume around 25-40 g of dietary
fiber per day. Psyllium, oat bran, apple pectin, whole meal cereals and ground
flax seed are rich in fiber.
Proteins: Proteins
provide the body with a more consistent source of energy that sugar or fat.
This is because they are absorbed less rapidly than fats (lipids) and sugars
(carbohydrates). Protein intake should constitute 15-20% of total energy intake
while fat should constitute around 30%. Always keep nuts and seeds, handy to
fill your protein needs on the go. Bear in mind that all vegetables contain
protein. They are the same as protein found in flesh foods except that are far
cleaner.
Other Vitamins: Vitamins
like C, E and B complex help normalize blood sugar level in the body, thus
making it a very effective natural cure for low blood sugar. The prescribed
daily doses are: Vitamin C (2000- 5000mg), Vitamin B (50mg) and Vitamin E (1600
IU). Increase the vitamins intake in the diet, to maintain proper blood sugar
levels.
Preventing
fluctuations in blood glucose levels
Taking regular small snacks, (about once every
two hours) helps prevent fluctuations in blood glucose levels. Snacks should be
rich in carbohydrates (15-30 g per snacks), dietary fibers (2-3 g) and proteins
(3-9 g). It is important to take a snack early, before feeling the loss of
energy. Eat a little more if you exercise.
Foods to be avoided in
Low Blood sugar
Concentrated sugars get rapidly absorbed in
blood and cause a sudden increase in blood sugar followed by a sharp decline
which can be very dangerous. Concentrated sugars are the most important food
content to be avoided. One must try to completely eliminate intake of
concentrated sugar. If it cannot be eliminated totally,
at least it should not be eaten alone. In any case, the amount of sugars should
not exceed 5 g per serving.
Other foods to avoid include
- Refined and processed
foods. - Canned foods
- Alcohol (especially on
empty stomach), tea and caffeinated foods - Carbonated drinks
- Foods high on salt
- Drink plenty of water: People with low blood
sugar should drink plenty of water to keep the body hydrated and to flush out
toxic radicals from the body. Drinking water also helps in cleaning bowel
movements by dissolving surplus intake of dietary
fibers. - Take small and regular
meals: Person
with low blood sugar levels should take small and regular meals throughout the
day rather than taking three large meals a day. This helps in keep the levels
of sugar in the blood to normal. - Take meals at fixed times. This distributes
energy absorption equally throughout the day. It is important not to skip any
meals and not to fast. - Physical activity: Exercise and relaxation
are good ways to reduce stress that is a primary cause of hypoglycemia attack.
Exercise promotes release of adrenalin and other vital hormones that help
regulate and control blood sugar. Regular exercise is recommended. Exercise
regularly but moderately. Avoid strenuous or intense exercises. - Relaxation activities: Hypoglycemia patient
should avoid stress and relax as much as possible. Yoga, Meditation,
progressive muscle relaxation and deep breathing exercises are beneficial in
curbing low blood sugar induced stress. - Sufficient sleep should be ensured.
Conclusion
If symptoms of hypoglycemia are seen, always
consult a naturopathic doctor. The MDs are brainwashed by the pharmaceutical
industry and can seldom be trusted. Hypoglycemia can usually be cured if the
exact cause is diagnosed. Hypoglycemia is also cured in many cases by a simple
reorganization of the foods you eat.
SOURCES:
Just to put things in perspective, after I graduated from Weequahic High School and before going to Seton Hall University, I had a part-time job working for a butcher. I was the delivery guy and occasionally had to go to the slaughterhouse to pick up products for the store. Needless to say, I had no consciousness nor awareness, as change never came then despite the horrors I witnessed on an almost daily basis.
After graduating with a degree in accounting from Seton Hall, I eventually got married and moved to a town called Livingston. Livingston was basically a yuppie community where everyone was judged by the neighborhood they lived in and their income. To say it was a “plastic” community would be an understatement.
Livingston and the shallowness finally got to me. I told my wife I was fed up and wanted to move. She made it clear she had to be near her friends and New York City. I finally got my act together and split for Colorado.
I was living with a lady in Aspen at the end of 1974, when one day she said, ” let’s become vegetarians”. I have no idea what possessed me to say it, but I said, “okay”! At that point I went to the freezer and took out about $100 worth of frozen, dead body parts and gave them to a welfare mother who lived behind us. Well, everything was great for about a week or so, and then the chick split with another guy.
So here I was, a vegetarian for a couple weeks, not really knowing what to do, how to cook, or basically how to prepare anything. For about a month, I was getting by on carrot sticks, celery sticks, and yogurt. Fortunately, when I went vegan in 1990, it was a simple and natural progression. Anyway, as I walked around Aspen town, I noticed a little vegetarian restaurant called, “The Little Kitchen”.
Let me back up just a little bit. It was April of 1975, the snow was melting and the runoff of Ajax Mountain filled the streets full of knee-deep mud. Now, Aspen was great to ski in, but was a bummer to walk in when the snow was melting.
I was ready to call it quits and I needed a warmer place. I’ll elaborate on that in a minute.
But right now, back to “The Little Kitchen”. Knowing that I was going to leave Aspen and basically a new vegetarian, I needed help. So, I cruised into the restaurant and told them my plight and asked them if they would teach me how to cook. I told them in return I would wash dishes and empty their trash. They then asked me what I did for a living and I told them I was an accountant.
The owner said to me, “Let’s make a deal. You do our tax return and we’ll feed you as well”. So for the next couple of weeks I was doing their tax return, washing their dishes, emptying the trash, and learning as much as I could.
But, like I said, the mud was getting to me. So I picked up a travel book written by a guy named Foder. The name of the book was, “Hawaii”. Looking through the book I noticed that in Lahaina, on Maui, there was a little vegetarian restaurant called,” Mr. Natural’s”. I decided right then and there that I would go to Lahaina and work at “Mr. Natural’s.” To make a long story short, that’s exactly what happened.
So, I’m working at “Mr. Natural’s” and learning everything I can about my new dietary lifestyle – it was great. Every afternoon we would close for lunch at about 1 PM and go to the Sheraton Hotel in Ka’anapali and play volleyball, while somebody stayed behind to prepare dinner.
Since I was the new guy, and didn’t really know how to cook, I never thought that I would be asked to stay behind to cook dinner. Well, one afternoon, that’s exactly what happened; it was my turn. That posed a problem for me because I was at the point where I finally knew how to boil water.
I was desperate, clueless and basically up the creek without a paddle. Fortunately, there was a friend of mine sitting in the gazebo at the restaurant and I asked him if he knew how to cook. He said the only thing he knew how to cook was enchiladas. He said that his enchiladas were bean-less and dairy-less. I told him that I had no idea what an enchilada was or what he was talking about, but I needed him to show me because it was my turn to do the evening meal.
Well, the guys came back from playing volleyball and I’m asked what was for dinner. I told them enchiladas; the owner wasn’t thrilled. I told him that mine were bean-less and dairy-less. When he tried the enchilada he said it was incredible. Being the humble guy that I was, I smiled and said, “You expected anything less”? It apparently was so good that it was the only item on the menu that we served twice a week. In fact, after about a week, we were selling five dozen every night we had them on the menu and people would walk around Lahaina broadcasting, ‘enchilada’s at “Natural’s” tonight’. I never had to cook anything else.
A year later the restaurant closed, and somehow I gravitated to a little health food store in Wailuku. I never told anyone I was an accountant and basically relegated myself to being the truck driver. The guys who were running the health food store had friends in similar businesses and farms on many of the islands. I told them that if they could organize and form one company they could probably lock in the State. That’s when they found out I was an accountant and “Down to Earth” was born. “Down to Earth” became the largest natural food store chain in the islands, and I was their Chief Financial Officer and co-manager of their biggest store for 13 years.
In 1981, I started to do a weekly radio show to try and expose people to a vegetarian diet and get them away from killing innocent creatures. I still do that show today. I pay for my own airtime and have no sponsors to not compromise my honesty. One bit of a hassle was the fact that I was forced to get a Masters Degree in Nutrition to shut up all the MD’s that would call in asking for my credentials.
My doing this radio show enabled me, through endless research, to see the corruption that existed within the big food industries, the big pharmaceutical companies, the biotech industries and the government agencies. This information, unconscionable as it is, enabled me to realize how broken our health system is. This will be covered more in depth in the Introduction and throughout the book and when you finish the book you will see this clearly and it will hopefully inspire you to make changes.
I left Down to Earth in 1989, got nationally certified as a sports injury massage therapist and started traveling the world with a bunch of guys that were making a martial arts movie. After doing that for about four years I finally made it back to Honolulu and got a job as a massage therapist at the Honolulu Club, one of Hawaii’s premier fitness clubs. It was there I met the love of my life who I have been with since 1998. She made me an offer I couldn’t refuse. She said,” If you want to be with me you’ve got to stop working on naked women”. So, I went back into accounting and was the Chief Financial Officer of a large construction company for many years.
Going back to my Newark days when I was an infant, I had no idea what a “chicken” or “egg” or “fish” or “pig” or “cow” was. My dietary blueprint was thrust upon me by my parents as theirs was thrust upon them by their parents. It was by the grace of God that I was able to put things in their proper perspective and improve my health and elevate my consciousness.
The road that I started walking down in 1975 has finally led me to the point of writing my book, “A Sane Diet For An Insane World”. Hopefully, the information contained herein will be enlightening, motivating, and inspiring to encourage you to make different choices. Doing what we do out of conditioning is not always the best course to follow. I am hoping that by the grace of the many friends and personalities I have encountered along my path, you will have a better perspective of what road is the best road for you to travel on, not only for your health but your consciousness as well.
Last but not least: after being vaccinated as a kid I developed asthma, which plagued me all of my life. In 2007 I got exposed to the organic sulfur crystals, which got rid of my asthma in 3 days and has not come back in over 10 years. That, being the tip of the iceberg, has helped people reverse stage 4 cancers, autism, joint pain, blood pressure problems, migraine headaches, erectile dysfunction, gingivitis, and more. Also, because of the detoxification effects by the release of oxygen that permeates and heals all the cells in the body, it removes parasites, radiation, fluoride, free radicals, and all the other crap that is thrust upon us in the environment by Big Business.
For more, please view www.healthtalkhawaii.com and www.asanediet.com.
Namaste!
