In a healthy alkaline body, special cells in the pancreas called b-cells, produce insulin, which is used to bring sugar from the blood into hungry living cells. A healthy balance of sugar and insulin must be maintained in the blood at all times. Having too much of either for too long can lead to diabetes.

"Diabetes is believed to be caused by insufficient secretions of insulin from beta cells in the pancreas. In modern medical science, an active enzyme called a free radical is said to be involved in insufficient secretions of insulin. Alkaline water releases free radicals out of the body." - Dr. Hidemitsu Hayashi

"When I was serving in the Fire Insurance Association, I used to examine many diabetic patients. Besides treating them with drugs, I provided them with antioxidant water. After drinking antioxidant water for one month, 15 diabetic patients were selected and sent to Tokyo University for further test and observations.
Initially, the more serious patients were a bit apprehensive about the treatment. When the antioxidant water was consumed for some time, the sugar in the blood and urine ranged from a ratio of 300 mg/l to 2 mg / dc. There was a time where the patient had undergone 5 to 6 blood tests a day and detected to be within normal range. Results also showed that even 1 hour after meals, the blood sugar and urine ratio was 100 mg/dc: 0 mg/dc . The sugar in the urine has completely disappeared." - Prof. Kuwata Keijiroo, Doctor of Medicine


NOTE:
More Americans than ever before are suffering from diabetes, with the number of new cases averaging almost 800,000 each year. The disease has steadily increased in the United States since 1980, and in 1998, 16 million Americans were diagnosed with diabetes (10.3 million diagnosed; 5.4 million undiagnosed). Diabetes is the seventh leading cause of death in the United States, and more than 193,000 died from the disease and its related complication in 1996. The greatest increase - 76 percent - occurred in people age 20 to 30.

*From: U. S. Department of Health and Human Services, October 13, 2000 Fact Sheet.

Hmmm, our modern American diet is loaded with sugar. Adult onset diabetes is often looked at by many holistic doctors as an acidosis problem. Sugar is highly acidic. Alkalized water fights acidity in the body. Could this be the reason that doctors in Japan are having success with diabetic patients treated with Alkalized Ionized Water?