Diabetes and e’Pap

As you know, diabetes is a huge problem in Africa and in Zimbabwe there are unconfirmed figures. One article claims half of the population is suffering from the disease. Click here for the article.  

 

For poor people it is near impossible to get access to good food that does not contain vast quantities of refined sugar. The cause of the diabetes problem is driven by a compromised food chain - refined processed foods remove cereal fat, micro nutrients and fibre.  Commercially grown food is often grown miles from markets and picked green which contributes to reduced nutrient content.  Hence the food most people eat is highly refined and severely lacking in the micronutrients needed to ensure the body works at full capacity.

e'Pap has a glycemic Index of 70. There are many diabetics across Africa who eat e'Pap to get nutrients to their body. 

Our explanation as to the importance of good bio available nutrition in better managing diabetes is as follows.

e'Pap contains 28 nutrients all chosen to maximize absorption to the body which helps bring the body back to a nutrient replete state. In a nutrient replete state, the body’s metabolic processes will work better and will be better able to digest and process food.

Symptoms of type 2 diabetes

Chromium is very important for the management of diabetes because it gives legs to the insulin manufactured by the body (makes it more effective).  Chromium helps reduce the food sweetness craving which is caused by Chromium deficiency.  Interesting - raw sugar and raw wheat can be rich in chromium but gets refined out in the food processing.  e'Pap contains added chelated chromium (chromium bonded to an amino acid to mimic a food form) to help address this deficiency issue.

Zinc is also very important.  Natural insulin is manufactured by the pancreas and is stored by the body with a molecule of zinc. One zinc molecule can store three molecules of insulin. If there is no absorbed zinc - the body cannot store insulin produced by the body, so there are no reserves of insulin to be used when a sugar surge happens as a result of eating refined sterile carbohydrates.  The inability to store excess body produced insulin manufactured by the pancreas can put enormous extra strain on the pancreas. Without insulin storage capability, the pancreas has to react instantly when a sugar surge happens.  With no stored reserves to "buffer the sugar crisis surge" the pancreas will be overworked with continuous stopping and starting.  The hypothesis is simply that with stored reserves of insulin - the body can better manage sugar surges.

There are over 200 enzymic processes that will start to go wrong when the body does not get its daily requirement of zinc in an absorbable form. The amino acids form a complex with the trace elements. One of the most important of these enzymic  processes is in the digestion process that helps break open food to release the nutrients for the body to absorb.

Diabetes, obesity and anemia become an even greater issue for anyone who has a compromised immune system, because the drugs taken by that person interfere and affect the natural nutritional metabolism.  

That is why it is so important to get the 28 bio available micronutrients contained in e’Pap.

An excellent article to learn more about Type 2 diabetes is here...

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