Sunday, April 4, 2021

🌹🌹🌹 *TYPE 2 DIABETES: BEAT THE HEAT WITH ONIONS* 🧅🧅🧅Adding onions to daily diet is an excellent food choice to maintain blood sugar control.Weight gain is one of the common complaints of patients with type 2 diabetes. Onions are low in calories. 🍁🍁🍁Perfect Portion: 1/4 cupUse onions as the main ingredient, condiment and garnish, onions add a savoury flavour to a variety of dishes.Cook well, not in refined oil or heaps of spices.Add them cooked or raw to as many dishes as can. Minced raw onions offer the greatest health benefits.🌸🌸🌸Onions contain high amounts of fibre, iron, potassium, vitamin C. Quercetin, a flavonoid antioxidant --highly concentrated in onions, reduces symptoms of diabetes.10% or more of the daily value for vitamin C, vitamin B-6 and manganese.They also contain small amounts of calcium, folate, magnesium, phosphorus.🌼🌼🌼Consumption of fresh onions may reduce blood glucose levels among type 1 and type 2 diabetics.One cup of chopped onion contains approximately:64 calories15 grams of carbohydrate0 grams of fat3 grams of fibre2 grams of protein0 grams of cholesterol7 grams of sugarOnion juice can consumed during summers to fight adverse impacts of the heat, as well as to regulate levels of blood sugar. 🥀🥀🥀Red onions, are rich in the compound quercetin, which is a flavonoid and which have anti-histamine properties.🍂🍂🍂 This means that it stops the release of allergen histamine from cells. It may, therefore, help prevent rashes due to heat on the skin. It also helps in preventing allergies and fights inflammation in the body.🌻🌻🌻

 🌹🌹🌹 *TYPE 2 DIABETES: BEAT THE HEAT WITH ONIONS*  🧅🧅🧅Adding onions to daily diet is an excellent food choice to maintain blood sugar control.Weight gain is one of the common complaints of patients with type 2 diabetes. Onions are low in calories. 🍁🍁🍁Perfect Portion: 1/4 cupUse onions  as the main ingredient, condiment and garnish, onions add a savoury flavour to a variety of dishes.Cook well, not in refined oil or heaps of spices.Add them cooked or raw to as many dishes as can. Minced raw onions offer the greatest health benefits.🌸🌸🌸Onions contain high amounts of fibre, iron, potassium, vitamin C. Quercetin, a flavonoid antioxidant --highly concentrated in onions, reduces symptoms of diabetes.10% or more of the daily value for vitamin C, vitamin B-6 and manganese.They also contain small amounts of calcium, folate, magnesium, phosphorus.🌼🌼🌼Consumption of fresh onions may reduce blood glucose levels among type 1 and type 2 diabetics.One cup of chopped onion contains approximately:64 calories15 grams of carbohydrate0 grams of fat3 grams of fibre2 grams of protein0 grams of cholesterol7 grams of sugarOnion juice can consumed during summers to fight adverse impacts of the heat, as well as to regulate levels of blood sugar. 🥀🥀🥀Red onions, are rich in the compound quercetin, which is a flavonoid and which have anti-histamine properties.🍂🍂🍂 This means that it stops the release of allergen histamine from cells. It may, therefore, help prevent rashes due to heat on the skin. It also helps in preventing allergies and fights inflammation in the body.🌻🌻🌻

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*CONDIMENTS AND TYPE 2 DIABETES* 🌸🌸🌸 Herbs and spices-condiments help to lower the blood sugar levels specially for people with or at high risk of type 2 diabetes. 🍁🍁🍁 *Dalchini / Cinnamon* consuming about half a teaspoon of cinnamon per day shows significant improvement in blood sugar, cholesterol, and triglyceride levels. 🌹🌹🌹 *Kari pattha / Curry* Leaves useful in managing high blood sugar. Several minerals in the leaves maintain normal glucose level in the blood, it influences carbohydrate metabolism and helps reduce the risk of oxidative stress. The curry leaves can been taken as raw , chew a few tender curry leaves daily in the morning on an empty stomach and can also add curry leaf powder to soups and salads. 🌼🌼🌼 *Haldi / Tumeric* contains the compound curcumin, boosts blood sugar control and help prevent the disease. 🌻🌻🌻 *Methi seed / Fenugreek-* seeds, add in warm water overnight soaked, grind into powder form has a significant effect on controlling blood sugar. it to warm water. 🥀🥀🥀 *Tulasi leaves /* Basil a traditional medicine for diabetes increases the secretion of insulin on blood sugar following a meal. 🍂🍂🍂 *Laung / Cloves* are anti-inflammatory, analgesic and digestive health benefits for diabetics. Cloves keep blood sugar levels in check and promote insulin production, further controlling diabetes. 🍁🍁🍁 *Lehsun / Garlic* consumption of garlic increased the serum insulin in diabetics , so adding enough garlic in the daily diet controls sugar levels. 💐💐💐 *Aadrak / Ginger* - in water , brewed into tea, in foods, helps reduce sugar levels.By adding ginger powder or chopped, fresh ginger root to raw or cooked food, by drinking it in a ginger ale. 🌾🌾🌾 *__Aloe vera_*_ juice from the aloe vera plant helps lower blood sugar . The dried sap of the aloe vera plant has been in use traditionally to treat diabetes. Adding juiced pulp to a drink or smoothie is easy way of taking aloe vera. 🌺🌺🌺