Ampalaya

Diabetes mellitus--the fifth leading cause of death in the United States--increased alarmingly in 1999, prompting the government to call the disease an unfolding epidemic. Diabetes accounts for almost 800,000 new cases annually, according to the CDC. By 2025, it is estimated that there will be 22 million Americans with diabetes! The alarming increase in diabetes is largely due to obesity, poor dietary choices, and a sedentary lifestyle, which has increased by 57 percent in the last decade. The end result of diabetes is cardiovascular disease, stroke, loss of eyesight, damaged kidneys, and amputations. As you will learn in Ampalaya: Nature's Remedy for Type 1 & Type 2 Diabetes, type 2 diabetes can often be prevented or controlled with lifestyle changes and by taking supplements of, or eating, ampalaya--an amazing vegetable that is being used around the world to lower blood sugar levels. Research studies on type 1 and type 2 diabetes show that using the dried leaves, fruits, and seeds of ampalaya