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Good or bad for your body?
Many times it comes to dietary supplements as products that collaborate to maintain the body in perfect condition. Generally this class of drugs is eaten by people who do not have very healthy eating habits and they do not want your immune system is vulnerable.

But do these supplements really healthy? Some experts suggest that no major problems generated on the body, while others say they are very harmful to health. However, still no ropes have been specific scientific studies to determine the pros and cons of these nutritional supplements.

One of the most warned about the pitfalls that can bring the intake of these pills is Dr. Wen-Bin Chiou. In his experience people who take supplements tend to enhance their daily habits of eating when they feel that nothing can undermine your body. What do you think of dietary supplements?

In the latter case, the hyperglycemia is less severe than in the rest.

The diet can not cure diabetes but better control and therefore the dietary treatment should take place throughout life.

Should be low in saturated fat, high fiber, balanced, individualized, depending on individual characteristics, lifestyle and specific treatment (insulin or drugs).

With regard to dietary fiber has been shown that it is beneficial for the dietary management of diabetes mellitus, decreasing the rate of absorption of carbohydrates in the diet, avoiding abrupt elevations in blood glucose after eating fiber-rich foods taken together with foods containing sugars quick absorption, reduce the overall rate of absorption of sugars from food, and therefore can include more variety of foods in the diabetic diet.

For example: juice fasting rapidly increases blood sugar levels, while taken at breakfast, with yogurt and nuts, its rate of absorption is reduced considerably.

They are high-fiber foods: salads, vegetables and whole cooked vegetables, whole fruits, nuts and whole grains.

Diabetes is a chronic disease which causes an alteration in the utilization of sugars due to a partial or total deficiency of the hormone insulin or does not fulfill this function.

Insulin allows sugar to enter cells to be used as an energy source, if this is weak or wrong, sugars accumulate in the blood, producing what is called hyperglycemia (levels above the normal sugar-glucose in the blood).

Spain is estimated that 3-5% of the population is diabetic, of whom the majority suffer from diabetes called Type II or adult (non-insulin dependent), and a lesser proportion (15%), diabetes type I or child (precise insulin delivery).

However, there are other types of diabetes: type mody (start in childhood but with characteristics of the adult), pregestational and gestational diabetes (incidence during pregnancy), diabetes III (starts in adults such as R and evolves as the II), diabetes secondary to organic disorders or disease of the pancreas, thyroid, adrenals, and carbohydrate intolerance.