Monday, September 12, 2005

Preventing complications for diabetes sufferers

What are the symptoms of diabetes ?
1) Feeling thirsty most of the time.
2) Unexplained weight loss.
3) Feeling tired even one has enough sleep.
4) Frequent occurences of blurred vision.

Recent researches have found out that OPC from pine bark or pycnogenols and grape seed extracts are beneficial for the diabetes sufferers.
It has the following functions:
1) Acting as a strong antioxiant.
2) It strengthens the blood vessels.

It can help to prevent following damages usually found in the diabetes patients:
a) Retinal damage caused by ruptured capillaries.
b) kidney damage, by reducing albumin excretion.
c) Numbness and pain of the peripherals like the lower limbs
What is the daily dosage:
Take about 50 -100 mg
Blood glucose level after 10 hr plus of fasting should be less than 5.6 to consider yourself as normal
Those with glucose level of 5.6-7 have 4- 8% higher chance of becoming diabetic compare with those whose glucose level are below 5.6

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