Elderly people often suffer from diabetes. Perhaps the most common type of diabetes is type II diabetes which does not depend on insulin. Patients with this disease have to constantly monitor their diet as sugar level in the blood depends on food we eat. Medicine can offer tons of medications that help to reduce amount sugar in your blood and live a normal life.
If you choose to treat using natural methods, first of all you should get rid of bad habits. If you want to effectively deal with diabetes, you should eat well and include lots of fruits, nuts and dairy products to your diet.
Natural medicine supporters recommend eating corn bread, cabbage, blackberries, cucumbers, apples and pears, parsley, cranberries, beans, beets, radishes, onions, spinach, lettuce, citrus fruits, rowan berries, blueberries, walnuts and low fat dairy products. It would be great if you eat only fresh products as they contain much more nutrients than boiled or fried ones. This rule should be applied to other products too. For example, you can prepare your oatmeal, by just adding some boiling water to the oats instead of boiling them.
People who have diabetes can also try herbs, such as plantain, burdock, olive buds, walnut tree leaves, birch leaves, and berries, like blueberries, strawberries, cranberries, black currants and blackberries.