Walnuts for type 1 and type 2 diabetes

There is an opinion that various fruits especially favorably affect the organ that they are similar to. Our native nuts, historically called walnuts, clearly resemble brain gyrus. And it is really proven that nuts improve intellectual activity, memory, and relieve headaches. In what context they mention walnuts in diabetes, let's try to figure it out together.

Can I eat walnuts with diabetes?

The use of walnuts in diabetes is an effective way to stabilize sugar levels. Other nuts are also useful in this regard, in that exotic: cashews, hazelnuts, pistachios, bakers, macadamia, chestnut, peanuts. But walnuts are the best. Walnut consumption reduces the risk of diabetes of type 2 diabetes by 47%. [1]

Prospective studies with the participation of 58,063 women aged 52-77 years in the Preyd from 1998 to 2008 and 79,893 women aged 35-52 years from 1999 to 2009 without diabetes, cardiovascular diseases or cancer showed that the use of 1-3 portions per month of walnuts (1 portion) significantly reduces the risk of diabetes of type 2 type 2 women. [2], [3]

The inclusion of 30 g of walnuts per day in a low fat diet is improved by the lipid profile and the ratio of HDL cholesterol to total cholesterol in patients with type 2 diabetes. [4], [5]

• Useful for diabetics are not only peeled nuclei, but almost all components of nuts.

Traditional medicine recommends treating diabetes with tea, infusions and alcohol tinctures. [6] They are prepared from fresh or dry leaves, green peel, hard shells, thin internal partitions. Herbalists recommend even the ash from the shell for good purposes - therapeutic and cosmetic.

It is useful to mix different nuts with each other, add them to cereals, salads, ugly desserts.

Indications

Violation of metabolism is often accompanied by obesity. Diet in this state should take into account the correct ratio of proteins, fats and carbohydrates.

They are an excellent protein source (approximately 25% of energy) and often have a high content of L-arginine. [7] Since this amino acid is the predecessor of the endogenous vasodilator, nitrogen oxide (no), [8] Walnut consumption can help improve vascular reactivity.

Indications for the purpose of various nuts arise due to the usefulness of these products, but with the condition so as not to overdo it and not harm the body. That is, walnuts in diabetes are allowed in limited quantities: 50–70 g per day. More - not always better, and in this case - unnecessary.

• Nuts are recommended for vitaminization of the body, especially in autumn and spring, for the prevention of anemia, improving potency, stimulation of performance and mental activity.

They positively affect the condition of intestinal microflora, cholesterol, pressure, [9] stabilize sugar, improve vision, relieve insomnia. Provide the prevention of coronary heart disease, heart attacks, [10] atherosclerosis, strokes. Polyphenol antioxidants, contacting lipoproteins, can inhibit oxidative processes that lead to in vivo atherosclerosis. [11]

It is proved that walnuts reduce the oxidative and inflammatory load on the brain cells, improve the interneuronal transmission of signals, increase neurogenesis and enhance the sequestration of insoluble toxic protein units, [12] can have a hypophagal and noototropic effect by increasing metabolism 5-ant in the brain. [13]

The product diversifies the diet, motivates to cook new dishes and follow rational diet, without risk to gain extra pounds.

The norm for adults is up to 7 pieces, for children - up to 4. Nuts are very useful for pregnant and nursing mothers, whose milk becomes tastier and richer than useful components.

• True, there are restrictions: this is the presence of psoriasis, allergies, neurodermatitis, individual intolerance to components.

Tinctures, oils, decoctions of various parts of walnut trees find their application for many health disorders: from local application to the skin - to douching of the female organs.

Walnut with type 2 diabetes

The use of walnuts in type 2 diabetes is due to their unique composition. They contain more proteins and trace elements, and fats are slightly less than in other fruits. The iodine, iron, cobalt, copper, zinc, plant antibiotics with anti-cancer effects are represented, alkaloids, essential oils, fiber, vitamins (for example, folic acid, niacin, tocopherols and vitamin B6), minerals (for example, calcium, magnesium, potassium) [14 ] and many Other biologically active components, such as phytosterols [15] and phenolic compounds. [16] fats in nuts are unsaturated compounds that are useful for the body.

• Walnuts in diabetes are not capable of sharply, but gradually increasing sugar, which makes them appropriate snack or addition to the main meal. The best time is lunch or lunch.

Eating only 3-4 nuclei for 2 months reduces the risk of metabolic syndrome, reduces blood pressure, the amount of cholesterol and body weight, stabilizes glucose levels, regulates the metabolism and lipid metabolism.

• Walnut fruits stimulate tone and performance, brain functioning, ensure the prevention of hypovitaminosis and anemia, normalize the gastrointestinal microflora, and act as an aphrodisiac.

Well, if nuts grow in their garden. This guarantees their quality, in particular, environmental. If you have to buy, then it is more reliable to take whole fruits, and not peeled nucleenus. Nuts not only “click” in its pure form, but also put in salads, cottage cheese, baked apples, low-fat desserts. They are combined with almost all types of products, including chicken meat, vegetables, herbs.

With excess mass, calories should be calculated, and along with nuts do not use other fats - neither vegetable nor animal origin.

Benefits

Various types of nuts are of great benefit to diabetics. They are rich in useful fatty acids, proteins, minerals, indispensable amino acids, biologically active components.

Pufa polyunsaturated fatty acids (47%of the total mass), such as linoleic acid (38%) and α-linolenic acid (9%), omega-3 fatty acids, will overdate in walnuts. [17]

In addition to essential fatty acids, walnuts contain many other biologically active compounds, such as vitamin E and polyphenols. Walnuts are one of the most important sources of polyphenols, so their influence on human health deserves attention. The main polyphenol in walnuts is Pedunkulagin, Ellagitannin. After the use of ellagitanins, hydrolyzed with the release of ellagic acid, which turns under the influence of intestinal microflora in uronylitin A and other derivatives, such as u, C and D. Ellagitanins have antioxidant and anti-inflammatory biological activity. In several studies, the potential role of ellagitanins was evaluated in the prevention of the development and progression of diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases. [18]

Walnuts in diabetes have a positive effect on glucose levels, and this is a key indicator of the state of health of the diabetic. The useful properties are as follows:

1. A low glycemic index makes the fruits appropriate for diabetes of both types.
2. Fiber activates digestion. Thanks to various mechanisms, the dietary fiber slows the stomach and intestinal transit, reduce the suction rate of carbohydrates in the intestines and increase the excretion of bile acids with feces. The consumption of some types of soluble fibers can improve a feeling of satiety, reduce blood cholesterol and glucose reaction after eating. [19]
3. Plant fats reduce cholesterol and pressure, clean blood vessels, prevent strokes and heart attacks.
4. Magnesium protects the nervous system from tension and stress.
5. Iron increases hemoglobin.

It is better to eat nuclei fresh, although tastes tastier fried. The fact is that heat treatment leads to oxidation and loss of valuable components.

Minus of nuts is a high calorie content, but a small portion does not have a significant effect on body weight. In order to avoid an overdose, the patient should control the amount of nuts of nuts.

Walnut sheet for diabetes

In the leaves of the walnut, 10 compounds are identified and quantitatively determined: 3- and 5-coffee acids, 3- and 4-p-cumaroilchic acids, p-kumaric acid, quercetin-3-galactoside, quercetin-3- derivative pentoside, querbinoside, quercetin 3-xidetine and kvercetin 3-aminoside. They have antimicrobial ability to ratio gram-positive (Bacillus cereus, B. subtilis, staphylococcus aureus) and gram-negative bacteria (Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Escherichia coli, Klebsiella pneumoniae) and mushrooms (Candidida Albicans, Cryptococcus Neoformans), also have high antioxidant activity. [20]

The results of 2012 studies show that the chloroform fraction of various walnut leaves may contain effective compounds that can be used as a chemotherapeutic agent for the treatment of cancer. [21]

Some studies are demonstrated that the walnut leaves have the ability to increase the fertility and have a useful effect on spermatogenesis and sperm parameters. [22]

Hypertension, atherosclerosis, increased cholesterol, arthrosis - folk medicine treats all these difficult pathologies with the help of nuts. It is proved that the leaves of the walnut have a hypoglycemic effect, are able to regenerate islet or beta-cells of the pancreas. [23], [24]

• Treatment of walnuts with diabetes requires preliminary consistency with a doctor.

Greet walnut leaves for diabetes are used in dried or fresh. They are steamed and left for several hours. A portion of 2 glasses is divided into three doses. The course of treatment with such a drink is 1 month.

Tea or decoction prepared according to such a recipe helps women get rid of menstrual pain. The infusion is a little stronger in case of violation of the monthly cycle, it also has a slight diuretic effect.

• The scope of the use of nut leaves is not limited to diabetes.

The effectiveness of walnut baths for the elimination of skin rashes is known: eczema, lichen, acne, urticaria, skin tuberculosis. The leaves are also used for pulmonary tuberculosis. Gynecological problems, inflammatory processes, the prevention of oncology, the restoration of the forces of an exhausted organism - everything can do with magical leaves with a sharp aroma, which has long been known to the folk healers.

Walnut products are used both internally and externally: for rinsing, douching, drinking, bath. Fresh juice - as drops for inflammatory processes of the middle ear.

• The maximum of the healing properties contain leaves collected in late spring or in early June.

This is very young, still growing greens. You need to tear off 3-5 extreme sheets, then cut off all the petioles. Dry in the sun, a thin layer, periodically turning each leaf. The raw materials should not blacken, otherwise it loses the healing properties.

According to other sources, dry the nuts, like another potion, should be dried in the air, but under a canopy, in the shade. And ideally, it is better to use fresh, not dried raw materials.

Partitions, wallets of walnuts in diabetes

For therapeutic purposes, partitions, wallets of walnuts in diabetes are also used. They have sugar-lowering property, and also prevent diabetic complications. Informed people do not throw out the shell, but prepare diabetic drinks from the "garbage" of walnuts with diabetes - decoctions, infusions, tinctures.

• We offer recipes:

For a decoction, 40 partitions are required; They are kept in a water bath for 1 hour, pouring boiling water. The filtered drink is drunk on an empty stomach (1 hour, twice a day).

Another remedy is prepared in a proportion of 50 g of raw materials per bottle of vodka. Withstand 2 weeks without access to light. The drug is taken 3p. per day, 3ml diluted with water.

Drinking is carried out douching with cervical erosion, I use vodka infusions as an expectorant, in the treatment of cysts, mastopathy, hypertension, and thyroid gland. Even ash from the shell finds application: it treats ulcers, clean the digestive tract of radiation.

The same ash at one time was used by women to remove unwanted vegetation. And they did not know what allergies, irritation, rashes are often provoked by modern cosmetics. A finely crushed shell was used as a scrub. The cream was prepared according to the recipe: for 2 tbsp. tablespoons of the shell - the same amount of grated radish, half a cup of thick sour cream, 3 tablespoons of chamomile tea. Cool the mixture for 5 minutes, apply for 10 minutes. And wash off with water.

Green walnuts for diabetes

Everyone knows how useful ripe nuts are, but not everyone knows that green walnuts in diabetes are even more effective. It's about the stage when they are easy to pierce with a needle or cut with a knife. The green shell is still juicy, and the nucleus looks like a gelatinous mass. Such fruits are usually collected in early summer.

The green husks of the fruits of walnut contains essential oils, glucose and organic substances, such as citric acid, apple acid, phosphate and calcium oxalate. Juglone and phenolic compounds are the most important compounds contained in the leaves and green husk of walnuts. [25], [26], juglone (5-hydroxy-1,4-naftokhinon) is a compound of Naftokhinon, which is contained in the leaves and green husks of the fruits of a walnut.

Juglone, as a toxic connection, is found only in fresh and green walnuts.

• In young fruits, maximum ascorbic acid, many trace elements, carotenoids, quinins, phytoncides, easily digestible proteins.

Medical and vitamin tinctures, jam and even alcohol like liquor are prepared from them. The properties of walnuts in type 2 diabetes are manifested when consuming tinctures on alcohol or vodka. Sweet hoods are also prepared - on sugar, on honey.

Prepare healing elixirs from the shell, pulp and leaves. The washed raw materials are cut, placed in glassware (three quarters of volume) and poured with alcohol. The closed container is withstanding in a cool place for 24 days.

• Treatment agreed with the doctor is carried out by a course of 3-6 months. Dose - 1st. spoon three times a day, in 20 minutes. before eating.

Green nut has contraindications, because it has allergens and is even able to cause anaphylactic shock. Such tinctures are not recommended for people with ulcer, psoriasis, blood vessels. Pregnant and lactating women should also refrain from using the drug.

Walnut tincture for diabetes

Unfumed nuts insist on honey, alcohol or water. Depending on this, a means of walnuts in diabetes, tuberculosis, worms, hypertension, infertility, depression, exhaustion, oncological or other diseases are used. External use is recommended for radiculitis, osteochondrosis, sore joints, heel spurs. Even jam of green nuts has healing properties: it serves to support the thyroid gland, positively affects inflamed buds and is recommended for women who are diagnosed with fibromyoma.

Walnut tincture in diabetes, as with the pathologies of the thyroid gland, is taken at least a month. Dosage - 30–40 drops 4 times a day, in 20 minutes. before eating. Prepare it on vodka in the following way:

• Grind 100 g of nuts with a peel, place in a bottle;
• Pour alcohol and clog;
• Withstand a month in a darkened cool place;
• Strain and drink according to the dosage;
• After a month - a week break.

The suitability of green raw materials for tinctures is determined using a knife. During the period of milk ripeness, the nut is easily cut with a knife, the soft skin does not repair obstacles, because it has not yet been obsessed.

You can store the finished medicine for a long time. So that it is not subjected to oxidation, the dishes should be filled to the top. If you notice the darkening of the product, this indicates the loss of its healing force.

Walnut shell in diabetes

It would seem, what is the importance of the shell of the walnut in diabetes, however, and with any other disease? The place is in the garbage bucket - and nowhere else, our contemporaries believe.

• However, this was not always the case. Our smart ancestors, not spoiled by pharmacists, did not throw things into the trash before using their food and therapeutic potential as much as possible.

It was the observation people who discovered the diverse benefits of walnuts in diabetes. Thanks to ancient recipes, everyone can use this wisdom.

For tincture, useful diabetics, you need to take the shell of only five fruits on a full bottle of vodka. Alcohol is not suitable, because it is easily disappeared with leaky replacement, and it is not recommended to drink it undiluted. The shell is pre-washed with non-wounded water and crushed into small pieces to push through the neck of the bottle.

• The surviving partitions improve the quality of the tincture.

After a week spent in a dark dry place, the drink is ready. In order to avoid harm to the mucosa, the medicine is clearly dosed: 15 drops at the reception are diluted with a spoon of water. They drink twice a day, half an hour before meals.

Improves the condition of the diabetics and decoction of the shell, pods of beans and white mulberry leaves. Wooden shells are boiled for half an hour, then add the remaining ingredients for another 10 minutes. The cooled liquid is filtered, poured and stored in the cold, preferably in dark bottles. (The product does not tolerate light and noise.) They use a glass daily at night.

Walnut oil for diabetes

To prepare walnut oil, with diabetes, successfully used by healers, take ordinary vegetable oil and incapacitated fruits. 100 g of walnut raw materials are crushed for half a liter of oil. The ingredients are transferred to a warm-darkened place for a month. The finished product is filtered and consumed according to the recommendations - inside or external. It retains the beneficial properties of nuts proper, and it can be used locally, that is, in cases where whole fruits are not used.

• Enraged veins, skin with various diseases, frostbite, hair during dropping, are lubricated with walnut oil.

It has a laxative and anthelmintic effect, is effective for pathologies of the nervous system and kidneys. Diabetic nephropathy and diabetic angiopathy are indications for the use of this tool. The usual dose is Art. spoon in 30 minutes before eating.

• Walnut oil in diabetes lowers glucose without the use of medicinal medications, improves blood circulation in the smallest vessels.

The oil agent restores the body that has undergone injuries or surgery, rejuvenates cells, activates the bloodfold process. It not only lowers existing cholesterol, but also relieves the likelihood of increasing it in the future.

What can and what can not?

The diabetic menu is designed to regulate the sugar level and contribute to the therapeutic process. With the correctly developed diet, no additional inclusion of vitamin-mineral preparations is required. The task of walnuts in diabetes is to balance and diversify the diet. Despite the calorie content, they must be included in the diet, because the food advantages of the product significantly prevail, and fatty acids in them are useful, and not those that are deposited in fat depot and increase body weight.

• Nuts miraculously affect the activity of the brain, reduce the amount of cholesterol, and most importantly - blood sugar. Regular use of nuts is used to prevent diabetes, and it is important for people to know about this with a genetic predisposition to this pathology.

What can you eat more, besides nuts, so as not to experience the jumps of glucose and related troubles? Preferred for the patient are products with low and medium glycemic index. This is a key term in diabetic dietetics.

We will call several products that are not yet too popular, but their inclusion in the diet will serve a good service: it will be balanced and diversify.

• Fresh berries are a wonderful alternative to forbidden sweets.
• Olive oil - reduces the risk of pathologies of the heart and blood vessels.
• Cinnamon - lowers sugar.
• Cabbage - vitaminizes, stabilizes glucose.
• Plantain - pharmacy granules regulate sugar.
• Kinoa, or Peruvian rice - is rich in fiber and protein.
• Batate is one of the most useful vegetables in diabetes.
• Beans - supports low sugar.

The basic principles of nutrition for diabetes are built to achieve a decrease in the level of glycemia. The diet answers two questions: what is needed and what can not be eaten? It is known that it is necessary to eat often, at the same time, healthy and fresh dietary food, with sparing culinary processing.

• But you can’t eat what many consider tasty, and nutritionists are harmful, and not only with diabetes.

First of all, these are finished products of industrial production, which for months lie on the shelves of supermarkets, without losing its product and imaginary freshness - smoked, dried, salted, pickled products, semi-finished products, canned food.

When cooking homemade food, frying, panning, smoking, pickling, fatty sauces and meat, white bread and baking should be avoided. On the table of responsible diabetics there are no sugar and any food containing sweet components, alcohol, fatty dairy products, honey, cigarettes. Salt, up to 2 g per day, black coffee are limited: a portion per day is allowed, preferably with milk.

• Bans and restrictions are not a sentence. Despite them, the menu can be made so that the power of the diabetics is healthy, diverse and tasty.

Almonds and walnuts for diabetes are very appropriate products. Green apples, citruses, kiwi, pears, seaweed, berries, jelly based on them also belong to the most useful. With their dosed use, the need for drugs decreases.

Contraindications

Reception of any product based on walnuts in diabetes should be agreed with an endocrinologist or herbal medicine.

The standard contraindication is the individual immunity of the components or at least one of them. Diabetics with increased mass can eat no more than one portion of nuts per day (30g).

• Contraindications apply to people with skin diseases. Although some of them are treated with nut oil.

You can not take nuts for thrombophlebitis, increased blood coagulation. Alcohol preparations are not given to small patients, people with gastritis.

Possible risks

When the nuts are included in the diet, the risks associated with the diet occur during an overdose. It is also possible to manifest side effects - with improper use of walnuts in diabetes, the patient has contraindications.

• Official medicine does not see the positive effect of the product on the body of people with type 1 diabetes. But at SD2 looks differently.

Since nuts and folk recipes based on them have a beneficial effect on metabolism, their use is advisable, but after the mandatory approval of the attending specialist.

In case of non-compliance with a diet, more drugs that stimulate insulin production. Complications can develop, up to degenerative processes.

Complications

Among possible complications, those that occur due to overeating of nuclei are dangerous. Thus, the strong vasodilating effect of the components that make up the walnut fruits provokes headaches. An overdose (over 100 g) negatively affects the throat: it can cause tonsillitis or swelling.

Walnuts for diabetes in the form of external drugs (tinctures, decoctions, hoods, scrubs) are not recommended for people suffering from psoriasis or neurodermatitis, allergies, hypersensitivity. They have an exacerbation of typical symptoms of these diseases.

Detailed menu for each day

When a nutritionist paints a detailed menu for each day, it necessarily contains plant products in sufficient quantities - raw or properly processed. “Correctly” means: not fried, not smoked, not salty, not pickled. Dishes for diabetics are boiled, stewed, steamed, baked. From vegetables, salads, soups, stewed stew, paste, caviar are prepared.

• An important point is the regularity of power. The mode is made up so that the food enters the body at least 5-6 times a day. This frequency stimulates the functioning of the pancreas and timely generation of insulin.

Walnuts for diabetes are not required, but desirable. They can be replaced with other nuts, and even better - to combine fruits in various combinations. In the approximate menu, they usually stand in a lunch or afternoon snack. By the way, a walnut snack is useful not only to diabetics, but also to any adherent of a healthy diet.

• The menu for a day with 5 times nutrition is something like this.

1. Boiled egg with a salad of sea cabbage and carrots with unpeeled oil, green tea.
2. Fruit (apple) or a handful of nuts.
3. Chicken breast soup, breast and vegetable stew, fruit drink or compote.
4. Berry mousse, jelly.
5. Casserole from cottage cheese, tea.

Lunch and afternoon snack are easy to change. Before dinner, you can organize another snack.

Recipes of dishes

Diet is an integral part of therapy for diabetes. It is necessary to eat often, up to six times, with breaks no longer than 3 hours. The day needs to be organized in such a way as to eat in the same hours, and if hunger is felt between them, then it cannot be ignored: you should immediately eat at least something.

• Good snacks - walnuts with diabetes. A snack can be at any time of the day, including evening, so as not to suffer from insomnia caused by hunger.

Nutritionists argue that people who are following proper nutrition suffer less from the accompanying pathologies and live much longer. Diabetics dishes include beneficial ingredients in the correct proportion. Conditionally they are separated as follows: half the dishes are occupied by vegetables, a quarter - fish or meat, the rest - products with starch. In this situation, food is well absorbed, without increasing blood sugar.

Food is prepared from healthy products: chicken and turkey meat, cereals, vegetables, olive oil, mushrooms, low-fat cottage cheese, eggs. With normal weight, a full-fledged diet is offered within 2500–2900 kcal, with increased - energetically reduced: 1200, 1400, 1600 kcal. Calorie content is regulated by portions.

Sahack-free products are excluded from the diet: canned food, tomato paste, semi-finished products, sweet soda and juices, honey, confectionery products, including diabetic. Instead of sugar, substitutes are used, preferably natural, for example, stevia.

Reviews

Most reviews relate to the use of various nut drugs prepared at home. Women are especially fond of: with nut tinctures, decoctions traditionally treat everything - from fibroma to depression with menopause.

Especially a lot of positive comments about the alcohol preparation based on partitions. About walnuts in diabetes, users are still silent.

Results

The use of walnuts in diabetes and drugs based on them contributes to the positive dynamics of the process. The release of glucose from food slows down, its level decreases and excretion from the body is observed. Alkaloids normalize the functioning of the pancreas, prevent the absorption of sugar in the intestinal gastrointestinal tract.

Positive results are observed after three months: with regular use of nuts, insulin indicators improve, which confirms the improvement of the patient's condition.

In some peoples, nuts are considered a symbol of prosperity, and the leaves of the tree are endowed with seductive properties. This indirectly confirms its great benefit, because it would hardly be called a useless plant with such high qualities. The benefits of walnuts in diabetes are invaluable, especially at the early stage of SD2. However, no one managed to defeat this serious disease exclusively by folk remedies, but only in combination with qualified medical care. With this approach, diabetes recedes, and the patient continues a full life.