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Natural Cures for Diabetes & Hypoglycemia

While there are no known cures for diabetes and hypoglycemia, there are natural ways to control and regulate your blood sugar that keeps them at normal levels.

According to the National Diabetes Information Clearinghouse (NDIC), normal blood sugar levels for people with diabetes should be between 70 and 130 before meals, and less than 180 one to two hours after starting a meal. By carefully managing what you eat, you can keep your blood sugar levels within those norms.

  1. Related Differences

    • Diabetes is high blood sugar, or hyperglycemia. Your body is unable to make enough insulin to dispatch the levels of sugar in your body.

      Hypoglycemia is low blood sugar, and it commonly turns into biabetes later in life.

      In both cases if you eat foods which have too much sugar in them your blood glucose levels will rise quickly.

      If you have diabetes, your body will not be able to bring the blood sugar levels down to a more normal range without the help of medications such as insulin. If you have hypoglycemia, however, your blood sugar levels will drop extremely low rather quickly.

      Both scenarios can be dangerous to your health.

    Food Effects

    • The food you eat has a direct impact on your body's blood glucose levels. It effects how quickly the blood sugar rises and how high it rises. By eating the appropriate foods--and eating more frequently through the day--you can regulate and control your body's blood sugar levels naturally.

      Having several smaller meals or snacks throughout the day helps prevent your blood glucose levels from rising too high or dropping too low. This helps manage diabetes and hypoglycemia while having the added benefit of helping you lose weight, too.

    Good Foods

    • High-fiber foods and healthy sources of protein are excellent foods to help regulate and maintain your blood sugar levels. These types of foods have a combined influence for helping manage your diabetes and hypoglycemia: They help you maintain a healthy body weight while keeping your blood sugar levels from spiking too high too quickly.

      High-fiber foods include leafy green vegetables and whole-grain cereals or breads. Healthy protein includes items such as baked chicken or fish.

    Bad Foods

    • Foods high in sugar should be avoided as much as possible. Likewise, very simple carbohydrate foods which turn to sugar quickly inside your body should be limited.

      High-sugar foods include candy and soda, while simple carb foods include white bread, white rice and plain pasta.

    Understand Portions

    • Learning and understanding what one serving size is goes a long way towards helping you to control your body's blood sugar levels too. Many people believe having a sandwich means they've had one starch or whole-grain serving of food, for example, but in reality they've had two because one standard piece of bread is one serving of starch.

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