FIX blood sugar woes… with a carb-blocking ‘grain’?
Listen to your conventional doc or nutritionist for advice on a “diabetes diet“… and they’ll SCARE you off of all the foods you love!
Fruit salad? NOPE.
Juicy steak? NO WAY.
Whole dairy milk or creamy cheese? NEVER!
You may even think that you’ve got to GIVE UP all your favorite starches.
Now, it’s true that you’ll want to DITCH the white bread and other sources of refined carbs that’ll JACK UP your blood sugar.
But SOME grains aren’t just SAFE for diabetics to enjoy…
They’re actually THERAPEUTIC!
Here’s one grain you may have NEVER tried – one that could help CORRECT some of the aspects of health that tend to go OUT OF WHACK with type 2 diabetes.
Fight fire with fire
Amaranth gets its name from the Greek word “amarantos,” which means “everlasting.”
True to its name, this “ancient grain” has been cultivated for at least 8,000 years…
Most notably by the Aztecs of Mesoamerica, for whom it became a staple food (and a religious offering).
But after the Spaniards conquered South America… somehow amaranth’s reputation went DOWN THE DRAIN…
And from then on was called “pigweed“!
It wasn’t until the 1970s that scientists in this country took another look at amaranth… and began to understand why it had been so TREASURED.
You’ve read right here in eAlert how this “godly grain” helps SUPERCHARGE conventional cancer therapies…
But that’s not all.
In India, amaranth is known as “rajgira”… which means “royal grain“…
And the ancient medicinal practice of Ayurveda embraces the consumption of this superfood by diabetics.
What sets amaranth apart from other grains… even “super”-grains… is twofold.
It’s PACKED with protein…
And it’s a rich source of the diabetes-fighting amino acid lysine. In fact, amaranth contains more lysine than ANY other grain does!
In one animal study out of Korea, one type of amaranth (Amaranthus esculantus) helped REDUCE blood glucose levels and INCREASE insulin.
It also helped NORMALIZE…
- liver function
- antioxidant enzyme activity, and
- oxidative stress markers.
That second part is important… because it means that amaranth could ALSO help keep diabetic complications at bay!
According to Italian researchers, amaranth may get its diabetes-destroying power from the presence of a naturally-occurring alpha-amylase inhibitor.
As you’ve read before right here in eAlert, amylase is an enzyme that helps break down starches into smaller pieces.
Those “broken down” pieces, of course, are sugar molecules.
If your body gets MORE sugar than it can use for energy, it STORES it in your liver… fat tissue… and blood.
Alpha-amylase inhibitors BLOCK the metabolism of carbs altogether – so they DON’T get converted into sugar.
Now, in the plant kingdom, amaranth is technically a “pseudocereal.” Its “grain” is actually a seed!
If you’re interested in including amaranth into your diabetes-friendly diet… you can get amaranth seed, flour, or food-grade seed oil at your local health food store.
You may also be able to find amaranth seed extract or oil in capsule form, standardized to contain a minimum percentage of squalene.
To DESTROYING diabetes,
Sarah Reagan
P.S. There’s another “grain trick”… this one from Africa… that can help SWEEP AWAY blood sugar woes. To find out how, just click right here.
