Diabetes Persuasive Essay

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YJT Task 1 Presentation Plan:
A. Purpose: The purpose of this presentation is to persuade people who are pre-diabetic or have diabetes, to consider drinking apple cider vinegar, as an alternative to lowering blood sugar. The goal is to get more diabetics to use this natural remedy as part of a healthy lifestyle to managing diabetes.
B. Audience: The ideal audience for this presentation would be those with diabetes, or those who are in the pre-diabetic stage. The topic at hand of discussion would also be appropriate for any person regardless of age, race, or health status, due to the fact that anyone could develop diabetes.
C. Significance: This topic is important for my chosen audience because managing the components of diabetes can
ACV has similar actions to most diabetic medications, which block the body’s ability to digest sugar and starches which in return regulates blood glucose levels (Hills, 2012).

III. ACV improves insulin sensitivity
a. Insulin sensitivity is the resistance to the hormone insulin, which causes increasing blood glucose. Research has shown that insulin sensitivity improved when 20g of AVC was ingested by diabetics with varying degrees of insulin sensitivity (Johnston, Kim & Buller, 2004).
b. On average 20g of ACV can improve insulin sensitivity by 19-34%, when taken before consuming a high carbohydrate meal (Johnston, Kim & Buller, 2004). IV. Conclusion
A. Restatement of the Thesis: Drinking apple cider vinegar daily is beneficial to people with diabetes, because it lowers blood glucose and improves insulin sensitivity.
B. Summary of main points:
1. Apple cider vinegar has been proven to lower blood glucose.
2. Improvement in insulin sensitivity has been a result of drinking ACV.
C. Closing comments ACV is a simple inexpensive remedy to help along with the management of diabetes. With the health benefits it can offer to pre-diabetics and diabetics, why not give it a try? Visual Aid: ACV lowers blood glucose

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