Diabetes is a lifelong condition, wherein the body cannot convert food into energy due to lack of insulin, or in other words, the inability to use insulin. A person with diabetes will have high blood glucose content. The normal range of glucose is about 70 to 110 mg/dl. Blood glucose usually shoots up after eating, and then returns to normal range after an hour or two.
Many confuse the symptoms of diabetes to be the usual tiredness and out of sorts feeling. More than fifty to eighty percent of people, who have diabetes, are not aware of their condition.
A study conducted by the Boston University, revealed that too little sleep could increase the risk of diabetes. The researchers questioned about 1486 people about their sleeping pattern, and then collected their blood samples to check glucose tolerance.
The results revealed that those who slept for less than five hours were two and a half times at a greater risk for developing diabetes, than those who slept for the regular seven to eight hours.
Daniel Gotten, the study author, suggests that lack of sleep could trigger the production of fatty acids, compelling insulin to work overtime to clear away the acids.
So folks, take care not to miss the eight hours of sleep and put your health at risk.
If cinnamon taken/consumed directly (may be about an inch), help improve health? Or is it required to take it in the form of powder only? How good is it for diabetic patients and how should it be consumed?
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