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Diabetes mellitus (DM), a community known as the sugar disease infecting a person who have elevated levels of sugar (glucose) levels due to lack of insulin or insulin receptors are not functioning well.

“People with diabetes are people with high blood sugar condition, caused by insulin is not functioning properly. Or not produced in sufficient quantities. So that can cause complications in other organ systems. Glucose is in the blood. It can not be entered into in a cell for use as an energy source, “said Dr. Sandra Utami Legal Widiastuti when found in Plaza Senayan, South Jakarta, Thursday (10/12/09).

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Many of us know that garlic is only useful for cooking in the kitchen. Or as a weapon to kill Dracula or a vampire in the movies produced Hollywood. Actually many ingredients  and content of garlic is very beneficial to our bodies.

A. Garlic Glance
Garlic (Allium sativum) is a herbaceous annuals berumpun having a height of about 60 cm. This plant is widely planted in the fields in mountain areas received enough sunlight. Pseudo stems and stalks green. Bersiung lower-cloves, joining a large white bulbs. Each leather-wrapped cloves if sliced thin and very sharp odor. Ribbon-shaped leaves (flat lengthwise), the edge of the flat, sharp edge, grooved, 60 cm long and 1.5 cm wide. Fibrous roots. The flowers are white, long-stemmed and form an umbrella.

B. Garlic Classification
Classification of garlic, namely:
Division: Spermatophyta
Sub Division: Angiospermae
Class: Monocotyledonae
Nation: Liliales
Tribe: Liliaceae
Surname: Allium
Type: Allium sativum
Common name: garlic
Name of area:
Sumatra: garlic (Malays), lasun (Aceh), garlic (Minangkabau), lasuna (Batak), Bacong hedgehog (Lampung).
Java: onion Bodas (Sunda), onions (Java), gaping pole (Madura).
Borneo: onion kasihong (Dayak).
Sulawesi: lasuna kebo (Makasar), lasuna Pote (Bugis), pia moputi (Gorontalo).
Nusa Tenggara: Incuna.

C. Gynecology Chemistry and Chemical Properties Garlic
Garlic contains volatile oil, which is anti-bacterial and antiseptic. Gynecology aliin allicin and related anti-cholesterol power. This power to prevent coronary heart disease, high blood pressure and others. Stem tubers contain substances:
1. Calcium: is calm making it suitable as a prevention of hypertension.
2. Saltivine: could accelerate the growth of cells and tissues and stimulates nerve cell structure.
3. Diallysulfide, alilpropil-disulfide: anti-worm.
4. Sulfur
5. Protein
6. Fat
7. Phosphorus
8. Iron
9. Vitamin A, B1 and C. Read more »

It is highly important that a mother should possess such information as will enable her to detect disease at its first appearance, and thus insure for her child timely medical assistance. This knowledge it will not be difficult for her to obtain. She has only to bear in mind what are the indications which constitute health, and she will at once see that all deviations from it must denote the presence of disorder, if not of actual disease. With these changes she must to a certain extent make herself acquainted.

Signs of health.

The signs of health are to be found, first, in the healthy performance of the various functions of the body; the regular demands made for its supply, neither in excess or deficiency; and a similar regularity in its excretions both in quantity and appearance.

If the figure of the healthy infant is observed, something may be learnt from this. There will be perceived such an universal roundness in all parts of the child’s body, that there is no such thing as an angle to be found in the whole figure; whether the limbs are bent or straight, every line forms a portion of a circle. The limbs will feel firm and solid, and unless they are bent, the joints cannot be discovered.

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