The Drink Your Body Loves
By Michael Roizen, M.D., and Mehmet Oz, M.D.
Many women see comfort in a cup of chamomile tea, thanks to its slightly sedating effect and its ability to ease anxiety, menstrual cramps and skin problems. Your bloodstream finds it comforting, too. Because there’s something in chamomile that not only helps keep blood sugar stable (at least in the lab), but also guards against the tsunami of damage that high blood sugar can do.
Too-high levels of blood sugar can act like scouring powder on your arteries, weakening junctions between cells, allowing nicks between cells that encourage an ugly pileup of inflammation and plaque. Everything that’s happening in there eventually makes itself known in the form of a heart attack, stroke, memory loss, impotence, wrinkled skin and more. But chamomile can change all that.
If you don’t like tea (and even if you do), there’s plenty more you can do, with next to no effort, to keep blood sugar even and its damage at bay (in addition to eating well and exercising):
Fill up on broccoli. It’s rich in a compound called sulforaphane, reputed to cut blood sugar damage to arteries.
Spice things up with cinnamon. This favorite spice may turn on insulin receptors and help your body use glucose better (no pileups of sugar in your blood). Cloves and allspice also may help prevent diabetes damage.
Say yes to spinach. People who fill up on this green have lower rates of diabetes, possibly because of its magnesium content.
Sourced and published by Henry Sapiecha 19th October 2009
Why is it that we are encouraged to drink milk? Because of its calcium right? Well, where do cows get their food from? The grass! The grass is green and it contains huge amounts of calcium, as well as the other alkalizing minerals. We have been brainwashed into believing that cow's milk and dairy are essential for us to grow big and strong.I don'tthink is right especially when you consider the following... Cow's milk provides 118 mg of calcium/100 g. The daily recommended intake (depending on the authority) is between 800 - 1200 mg of calcium per day. Therefore, to meet daily requirements, and assuming that dairy is a balanced source of calcium (which it is not), you would need toconsume at minimum 0.88 - 1.22 liters of 2% milk per day(considering 1 g of 2% milk = 1.1 ml)! That's four to five 250 ml cups of milk per day. That's insane! Dairy is the most common food allergen in the world! After the age of 2, our body no longer produces the enzyme lactase to breakdown lactose (sugar in dairy). This leads to a myriad ofproblems including bloating, gas, indigestion, skin problems (such as eczema), and excess mucus production. There is an alternative to dairy however (and it's not soy milk). DOES THIS MEAN THAT WE SHOULD ALL CONSUME MORE GREENS? Published by Henry Sapiecha 18th Jan 2010
