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Manganese - Manganese is essential in the production of natural insulin and therefore important in diabetes. It is found in Citrus outside covering of nuts, cereals and green leaves of edible plants.
The loss of magnesium in the ketosis diabetes is known for many years. About 37 percent of children born to diabetic mothers were found to be lacking in this mineral. It was also found that children aged five to 18 years with well-controlled type 1 diabetes have values of magnesium low serum.
Magnesium - Magnesium also reduces the need for vitamin B6 and if it is increased in the diet, the amount of xanthurenic acid in the blood is reduced, even without vitamin B6. In addition, magnesium is also necessary enzymes active containing vitamin B6. Blood magnesium being particularly low in diabetics, it may reasonably infer that diabetes may result a combined deficiency of vitamin B6 and magnesium. It may therefore be useful to anyone with diabetes or family history disease to take at least 500 mg magnesium and 10 mg of vitamin B6 per day.
Magnesium is widely distributed in foods. It is part of the chlorophyll in green leaves. Other good sources of this mineral are nuts, soybeans, alfalfa, apple, fig, lemon, peach, almond, whole grains, brown rice, sunflower seeds and sesame.
Chrome - According to Dr. A. Richard Anderson, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Human Nutrition Research Center in Beltsville, Maryland, whatever the problem of blood sugar, chromium tends to normalize. Dr. Anderson believes that the prevalence Increased type 2 diabetes is partly due to chromium deficiency in the diet.
Chromium has been found beneficial in preventing and treatment of diabetes. Scientists from Columbia University in a study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition benefits established chromium for type 2 diabetes. They confirmed that chromium enhances insulin production in the body. Some other researchers also confirmed that chromium helps stabilize blood sugar and energy.
Studies have also found that chromium supplements cholesterol control and total triglycerides and increase good cholesterol or HDL. In some patients with impaired glucose tolerance, especially children suffering from protein malnutrition, glucose tolerance showed improvement after receiving chromium supplements.
The recommended daily allowance chromium is 50 to 100 micrograms. Some foods rich in chromium, in addition to broccoli, are whole grains, nuts, mushrooms, rhubarb, Bengal gram, red beans, soybeans, mung beans, betel leaves, bottle gourd, corn oil, brewer's yeast, pomegranate and pineapple.
Dr John Anne
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