Type II Diabetes

Our diets lack highly unsaturated fatty acids and contain an excess of man-made oils known as trans fats (or partially hydrogenated oils). These oils are very much like cholesterol and our bodies cannot tell the difference. Trans fats are also responsible for Type II diabetes, since insulin is a very large molecule it has a difficult time passing through a cell wall created with man-made fats and not cholesterol.

The cell may still have some good ports so increasing insulin will still help. Over time as the body continues to store excess glucose as triglyceride in fat cells and doesn't burn fat the person becomes obese--just look around you, it's everywhere.

Since plant sterol esters can reduce the absorption of cholesterol it is important not to do so with plant sterols that have been hydrogenated, as in food store products that reduce cholesterol!

Rice Bran oil contains Gamma Oryzanol, a naturally occurring plant sterol which has been shown to reduce cholesterol absorption, it too is sold in food stores.

Lucinda Ball

07/12/2011