A filtered cup of coffee has blood-vessel-loving, brain-enhancing, headache-defeating powers and more! Sipping four cups of coffee through the day reduces your risk for type 2 diabetes by 50 per cent. How?
Turns out, it’s more than the caffeine that fends off high blood sugar; other chemicals in the brew stop damage to the building blocks of diabetes-preventing proteins.
True, coffee can have side effects: anxiety, migraine headaches, abnormal heartbeats, gastric upset. If you get these, cut back so the risks don’t outweigh the benefits.
Another way to fight type 2 is sleep! So don’t drink that coffee late! Just three weeks of inadequate sleep slows your metabolism and decreases insulin secretion (the hormone that controls blood sugar). That’s a formula for diabetes.
What you need is seven to eight hours a night, every night, and be consistent with your bedtime.
The third smart step around diabetes is to eliminate products made with hormone-disrupting, diabetes-triggering phthalates. The worst offender is dibutyl phthalate (DBP), also ID’d as “butyl ester” or “plasticizer.” It’s in cosmetics and nail polish, kids’ toys and more. If there isn’t an ingredient label telling you it’s phthalates-free, pass it by.
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The hindu
