Onions Can Lower Blood Sugar

Online Health - You must have been so familiar with this one type of disease. Diabetes mellitus or crowds call with diabetes is a disease that often become frightening for some people.

Diabetes mellitus is divided into two types namely diabetes type 1 and diabetes type 2. Type 1 diabetes is usually suffered by children or young adults, and only about 5-10% diidap only.

Diidap and type 2 diabetes by about 90 percent of all diabetics. Diabetes is basically caused by the lack or ineffectiveness of the performance of the hormone insulin in the body.

Insulin itself is very vital role in regulating blood sugar levels which is about 10 mg / dl in a state of two hours after meals and 60-120 mg / dl in the fasting state.

In one study, noted that the life expectancy of people with diabetes is on average 15 years shorter than those whom free from diabetes.

What about diabetics in Indonesia? To answer, some data needs to be presented. Note the World Health Organization (WHO) in 1998 found that the number of diabetics in Indonesia is ranked sixth in the world after India, China, Russia, Japan, and Brazil.

It is estimated that the number of people with diabetes will increase to 12 million in 2025 due to an increase in the elderly population and changes in lifestyle, starting from the types of food consumed to reduced physical activity.

Whereas in other studies conducted by Waspadji in 1982 found that there were approximately 1.7% of diabetics in Jakarta, and 10 years later the number increased sharply to about 5.7%.

While the more recent study in 2001 conducted by the Ministry of Health of Indonesia with Indonesian endocrinologist Association found that the number of diabetics as much as 6.2%. And the most populous areas of diabetes is in Manado, which reached 6.1%.

Efficacy Onion

Many people know that no more than a red onion seasoning kitchen that did not have any health benefits. But in fact, it turns out onion merahtelah long been believed by medical scientists have efficacy as controlling diabetes.

Indian researchers have done research on onions, either in the form of red onion or shallot have juiced intact, weighing 25-200 grams on the subject examined.

As a result, more and more onion given then the greater the blood sugar is reduced. There is no difference in efficacy between raw red onions with red onion that has been boiled.

According to many researchers, onion has the ability to affect the metabolism of glucose in the liver, or metabolism of insulin release. Indeed, already many years ago, precisely in 1923, experts had detected blood sugar depressor in this onion.

And in the 1960s the researchers then isolate anti-diabetic compound which was then called with tolbutamide contained in the onion that has a performance similar to the anti-diabetic pharmaceutical drugs are common.

Tolbutamide own way of working is to perform a synthetic stimuli and insulin. In the animal study using rabbits found that the extract of onion, 77 percent as effective as the standard dose of tolbutamide.

In another study found that onion has the effect of lowering levels of sugar and fat in the blood. Hence, many health experts advise to add lots of onions to each dish large enough to remember usefulness, especially for people with diabetes.

However, there are still many "instruments" of nature that turned a lot of benefits for human survival, including red onions.