
Aromatherapy and Essential Oils for Diabetes
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Aromatherapy and Essential Oils for Diabetes
According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , 8.3% of the population in the United States has diabetes, and the percentage is predicted to increase dramatically. Of those that have diabetes, 27% of these individuals aren't even aware that they have this life-threatening disease. [" Diabetes - At a Glance " CDC.gov. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Web: Accessed 23 June 2013.]
The statistics on the CDC's site are alarming and indicative of a growing diabetes epidemic in the United States and throughout the world.
Effectively stabilizing and controlling blood sugar levels as closely to "normal" is a key goal to ensure the minimization of diabetic complications like diabetic peripheral neuropathy, diabetic retinopathy/blindness, heart attack and kidney failure.
According to a number of online sources and books, the misinformation given to diabetics by well-intentioned doctors and diabetes associations may contribute to diabetic complications --even when diabetics are doing their best to follow the medical advice they are given by their doctors and health practitioners.
It's no wonder that a number of diabetics and pre-diabetics are frightened, discouraged and outraged and are considering holistic aromatherapy as a possibility. Diabetes routinely ask me (a) if there are essential oils or holistic aromatherapy practices that are beneficial to pre-diabetic and diabetic indivi
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