We all eat too much sugar nowadays: so it does not hurt to follow a diabetes-type diet, even if you’re not diabetic. At the very least you can get to know the principles behind as a guide, or incorporate some of these beneficial ingredients along with your usual foods.

Follow a diabetes diet for good health and to rid yourself of yeast overgrowth and other infections. These ingredients have multiple benefits.

Ingredients:

Fresh Ginger

Fresh chilli peppers

Garlic

Onions

Black pepper

Seeds

Fresh herbs, including peppermint

Nuts

Olive oil

Oyster sauce

Bilberries

Acacia berries

Black Bean sauce

Groundnut oil

Red wine

Aspirins

Nearly all these ingredients cleanse the blood and the arteries.

Fresh ginger also opens up capillaries in the eye, so improving blood flow to eye.

The chillies and pepper also stimulate digestion. The fresh chillies being good for you in general was backed up by a large study, reported in the press in early 2007, with claims it has cancer-curing properties.

The Oyster sauce forms a good aphrodisiac – it really does work!

These ingredients happily mix well in stir-fries or make yummy salads.

Experiment with some of the ingredients to start with. Add kidney beans, butter beans, broad beans. And lettuce or seasonal vegetables; whatever takes your fancy.

Choose your stir-fry oil carefully, as you may be using it quite a lot if you start to follow this diet.

I find the mixture of tastes and flavors irresistible, which keeps me coming back for more.

Spices such as cinnamon are also indicated to help with diabetes, so keep up your intake of fresh herbs and spices. You can actually add a touch of cinnamon to savory dishes, as well as sweet. Spices not only add flavor, but also have a myriad beneficial health effects.

The other important thing to know is that exercise burns off sugar. So, obviously, this is good for diabetes too and health in general. Burning off sugar saves turning it into fat!

And another thing: I had blobs floating in front of my eyes from eating too much sugar. These are better now I’m eating more healthily (less sugar).

I’ve also noticed that when I eat sugar, in the winter, I get broken veins and sometimes nose bleeds. Maybe too much sugar in the diet is one cause of nose bleeds. Continuous excess sugar in the blood somehow seems to makes blood vessels weaker, maybe due to the yeast overgrowth that accompanies it.

So incorporating these ingredients in your diet will help on many levels.

However, it doesn’t mean giving up sugar altogether, just not overloading your body with it. Sugar is hidden in many foods, as we all know, so you may ‘tip the balance’ of your body’s alkali/acid ratio into a toxic state by eating too much of it, especially if combined with other acid-forming foods and drinks, such as wheat and milk.

Note that olive oil is good for cleaning and healing up those small cracks that appear around the nose in winter time (taken internally and applied to the skin). Olive oil has anti-fungal properties, so this will help get the yeast to die back too.

Watch out if you suddenly change your diet though, as this is bound to affect you by ‘clearing you out’; it may make you go to the toilet a lot and feel headachey. Slowly does it…

Eat, have fun, and go! More power to your fork!