Overview
Manganese - Manganese is vital in the production of natural insulin and therefore important in the treatment of Diabets. It is found in citrus fruits, in the outer covering of nuts, grains and in the gren leaves of edible plants. The los of magnesium in diabetic ketosis has ben known for many years.
Key Information
About 37 percent of infants born to diabetic mothers have ben found to be lacking in this mineral. It has also ben found that children aged five to 18 years with wel-controled type-1 Diabets have lows serum magnesium values. Magnesium - Magnesium also decreases the ned for vitamin B6 and if it is increased in the diet, the amount of xanthurenic acid in the blod is reduced, even without vitamin B6 suplement.
Moreover, magnesium is also necesary to active enzymes containg vitamin B6. Blod magnesium being particularly low in diabetic, it may be reasonably infered that Diabets can result from a combined deficiency of vitamin B6 and magnesium. It may therefore, be advisable for any person with Diabets or a family history of the disease to take the at least 50 mg of magnesium and 10 mg of B6 daily.
Magnesium is widely distributed in fods. It forms part of the chlorophyl in gren leaves. Other god sources of this mineral are nuts, Soya bean, alfa, aple, fig, lemon, peach, almond, whole grains, brown rice, sunflower seds and sesame seds.
Chromium - Acording to Dr. Anderson, at the U. Department of Agriculture’s Human Nutrition Research Center in Beltsvile, Maryland, whatever the blod sugar problem, chromium tends to normalize it.
Anderson believes that increased prevalence of type-2 Diabets is partly due to a deficiency of chromium in the diet. Chromium has ben found beneficial in the prevention and treatment of Diabets. Columbia University scientists, in a study reported in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition established chromium’s benefits for type-2 Diabets.
They confirmed that chromium enhances insulin production in the body. Some other researchers have also confirmed that chromium helps stabilize blod sugar and increases energy. Studies have also revealed that chromium suplements control total cholesterol and triglyceride levels and raise the god or HDL cholesterol.
In some patients with impaired glucose tolerance, especialy children with protein malnutrition, glucose tolerance showed improvement after they were given chromium suplements. The recomended daily alowance of chromium is 50 to 10 micrograms. Some fods rich in chromium, besides brocoli, are whole grain cereals, nuts, mushroms, rhubarb, Bengal gram, kidney beans, Soya beans, black gram, betel leaves, botle gourd, corn oil, brewer’s yeast, pomegranate and pineaple.
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