Acai Berry: Diabetes
Diabetes does not tend to generate the same sympathy or urgency as cancer or heart disease. Instead, it’s insidious disease.
Diabetes strikes when insulin, for whatever reason, can’t do its job right. Insulin is a hormone that helps the body store and use glucose. One of the functions of pancreas is to produce insulin.
Whenever we eat, glucose enters the bloodstream. Insulin is responsible for delivering glucose (sugar) from the bloodstream to the body.
In essence, people with diabetes have high blood sugar. Type 1 diabetes occurs when pancreas doesn’t make enough insulin and you have to supplement your body. Type 2 diabetes happens when we can’t process glucose for fuel.
Antioxidants and micronutrients in the acai berry can improve our cell communications, metabolism and insulin function. Acai berry can also make our cell membranes that are resistant to insulin (type 2 diabetes) less inflamed and oxidized.
You might be wondering if acai consumption will lead to the elevated level of blood sugar. The problem with fructose is not so much related to the natural foods as to high fructose corn syrup that some of us consume in large amounts.
In addition natural fruits high in fiber, like acai, can lessen to some degree the harmful effect of fructose consumption by moderating the rate of absorption of fructose from intestines.
We tend to think that diabetes happens because we eat too much sugar. The truth is that diabetes happens because we eat too much. When we have insulin resistance and overeat, the cells in our body are unable to absorb the extra glucose.
In effect, the acai berry can help reducing the problems associated with diabetes.
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