How fibre in the diet can reduce Diabetes

Dear Friends

When I was in Kuala Lumpur i attended a seminar and was quite amazed to learn how fibre helps us to keep things well in our system.

As you are aware the dietary fibre we have is insoluble and is never absorbed by our bodies. Yet we do need them to play a part in our daily process. There are two types of fibres and you can get those notes from my blogs written in Aug-Sept this year.

Fibres keep the gut clean and help to reduce the absorption of toxic waste that maybe in the large gut from reentring the digestive system again. This in turns can help to further reduce diabetes or hypertension.

How Much Of Calcium Does One Need daily

Our last message was that an average person only gets approximately 200mg per day of Calcium. Now the amount needed is atleast 1000mg and a person should atleast take 1300mg at the lower end. The uppper limit of calcium intake is at 2500mg per day.

Now as we grwo older we change our eating habits and so our calcium intake decreases due to reduce intakes of dairy products. More over older people need Vit D to be synthesised by sunlight to help with the absorption of Calcium. As we grow older our physical activity decreases and so affects our Calcium intakes daily. The levels of calcium in our bodies tend to slide down hill from the ages of 15 to 50 years and then a much steep fall from 50years +.

In 1997 the medical world realised that the RDA for Cacium alone was not enough. Suprisingly before that doctors promoted RDAs.

They realised that the RDA amounts of Cacium were not sufficient to prevent the onset of degenerative diseases. This basic amount was just good enough for bone maintainance.. So to prevent DD we need multiple dosages of RDAs over come what is now called degenerative diseases, or DD.

DRI or dietary recommended intakes, are to optomise health and to slow down chronic diseases.