Diabetes and Stevia

Diabetes can be aided greatly by using Stevia as a sweetener. While sugar raises blood sugar levels, playing havoc with insulin levels, many diabetics have found how hard it can be to avoid the sweet taste altogether. And taking Aspartame actually causes more craving for sugars. All the artificial sweeters on the market have dire health consequences, but Stevia has no side effects, and actually lowers the blood sugar when it is too high. Stevia has been used as a treatment for diabetes in Germany and Japan. 500 studies have been done showing its safety. It is only the politics of the sugar and artificial sweetener industry that keeps us from being able to buy foods with Stevia as the sweetener. But it is available in powdered and liquid form and can be used in the home very easily.

Stevia has been used for centuries in South America, and for twenty years in Japan, Korea, and China. It is 4-50 percent of Japan's sweetener market. It is a perennial shrub native to Paraguay. In Latin America, Stevia is used as therapy for diabetes, as it normalizes the response to glucose, especially in type two.

Diabetes tends to be accompanied by high blood pressure and edema, and slow healing wounds, and Stevia has been shown to help all these symptoms. It affects calcium transport similarly to calcium channel blockers. It has a diuretic effect, and antiseptic properties.

Aspartame actually can diabetes, keeping blood sugar out of control, and it can cause diabetics to go into convulsion. It ruins the optic nerve. The worst thing a diabetic can crave is carbohydrates, which would lead to more sugar imbalances, and Aspartame makes people crave those. Dr. H.J. Roberts, a specialist in diabetes and Aspartame, showed in his studies a shocking weight gain by people who use it. He described this is his Aspartame Disease: An Ignored Epidemic. Dr. Roberts showed many diabetics who had their blood sugar levels thrown out of whack by Aspartame.