Type 2 Diabetes and The Chili Pepper Cure for Carbohydrate Cravings!

One of the overlooked minerals in healthy nutrition is lithium. It's important for helping people maintain control over cravings of all kinds, especially sugar cravings, and it's especially abundant in chili peppers. Cravings, especially carbohydrate or sugar cravings, are very common in people with Type 2 diabetes.

Nutritional research into the role of lithium in human nutrition was inspired by an American researcher who noticed that violent crime simply didn't occur in some places in the American West that were otherwise crime centers. Juarez, Mexico, for example, has always been famous for its violence, and El Paso, Texas, literally less than 100 meters away, has always been relatively placid. Similar pockets of placid behavior were found all over the Western United States.

The common connections between the sites of less-than-expected violence turned out to be two-fold: lithium in the drinking water and lithium in the food, especially chili peppers. Researchers later tested adding naturally lithium-rich foods to the diets of inmates in prisons, and they found that salsas, chili peppers, and tomatoes, all naturally rich in lithium, calmed down violent offenders, especially violent offenders who were recovering methamphetamine addictions.

Although there is nothing medicinal about illicit methamphetamines, they do have one interesting effect. They help control blood sugar levels. It turns out that chili peppers and tomatoes also control blood sugar levels, and make managing cravings of all kinds easier.

Chili peppers will never replace diabetes medication, but they can make staying on a healthy eating plan for Type 2 diabetes much easier. Try them in moderation... just be sure that you don't rub your eyes after you prepare them in the kitchen!

A Further Study on the Effects of Chilli: The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, July 2006 reported on a study undertaken by Australian researchers. This study reported that following a meal containing chilli, the amount of insulin needed to lower blood sugar levels after the meal is reduced. And eating chilli flavored meals on a regular basis, reduces the amount of insulin required even more so.

This study involved 36 volunteers who were aged between 22 and 70. All were instructed to follow a bland diet in between eating the following foods for the first two stages:

Stage 1... they were given a bland meal; it contained no spices whatsoeverStage 2... second meal type contained chili

Finally, for:

Stage 3... they changed to a chili-containing diet, followed by a chili-containing meal. (A palatable type of flavoring was used)

Blood sugar levels rose similarly after the three meals, but insulin rose the least following the chili-rich diet and chili-rich meal. So, using chili pepper as a frequently used spice could help reduce your risk of high levels of insulin which is a problem associated with Type 2 diabetes.

So chili all-around sounds like it is helpful in the treatment of Type 2 diabetes; it helps with:

cravingsweight loss due to lower insulin levels, andlower blood sugar levels.