Diabetes and Stevia,actually lowers blood sugar

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Diabetes and Stevia

By Tantra Bensko

Published May 22, 2006

Diabetes can be aided greatly by using Stevia as a

sweetener.

While sugar raises blood sugar levels, playing havoc

with insulin

levels, many diabetics have found how hard it can be

to avoid the

sweet taste altogether. And taking Aspartame

actually causes more

craving for sugars. All the artificial sweeters on

the market have

dire health consequences, but Stevia has no side

effects, and

actually lowers the blood sugar when it is too high.

Stevia has been

used as a treatment for diabetes in Germany and

Japan. 500 studies

have been done showing its safety. It is only the

politics of the

sugar and artificial sweetener industry that keeps

us from being able

to buy foods with Stevia as the sweetener. But it is

available in

powdered and liquid form and can be used in the home

very easily.

Stevia has been used for centuries in South America,

and for twenty

years in Japan, Korea, and China. It is 4-50 percent

of Japan's

sweetener market. It is a perennial shrub native to

Paraguay. In

Latin America, Stevia is used as therapy for

diabetes, as it

normalizes the response to glucose, especially in

type two.

Diabetes tends to be accompanied by high blood

pressure and edema,

and slow healing wounds, and Stevia has been shown

to help all these

symptoms. It affects calcium transport similarly to

calcium channel

blockers. It has a diuretic effect, and antiseptic

properties.

Aspartame actually can diabetes, keeping blood sugar

out of control,

and it can cause diabetics to go into convulsion. It

ruins the optic

nerve. The worst thing a diabetic can crave is

carbohydrates, which

would lead to more sugar imbalances, and Aspartame

makes people crave

those. Dr. H.J. , a specialist in diabetes

and Aspartame,

showed in his studies a shocking weight gain by

people who use it. He

described this is his Aspartame Disease: An Ignored

Epidemic. Dr.

showed many diabetics who had their blood

sugar levels thrown

out of whack by Aspartame.