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Understanding About Diabetes
The Glycemic Index
Your health is the most important part of your life. With out your health you can not take care of family or yourself. You can start by fixing your diet. Once you get your diet under control then you can move on from there with exercise and other personal health care activities. Lets look into diet and the glycemic index.
The Glycemic Index is a common food ranking system that is used to determine the overall effect that particular foods play when it comes to the issue of the glucose level in the blood. It has been discovered that food types that are carbohydrate based and break down in a quick manner in the process of digestion have the highest index when it comes to the Glycemic Index. This means that the overall response from the sugar levels in the blood is relatively fast and occurs at a very high rate. If the same type of foods breakdown at a slow rate, then it is said that those foods have a low Glycemic Index.
There should be an emphasis on the Glycemic Index when it comes to the foods that we consume and our diet in general. The following groups of people should be especially concerned about this:
1. Individuals who have diabetes, or those who are at high risk for developing this medical condition
2. Those who are engaging in a diet program
3. Individuals who are involved in athletics
4. Individuals who suffer from medical conditions like a resistance to insulin, and even Syndrome X
5. Those who suffer from the effects of hypoglycemia
If foods that are consumed have a high index as far as glycemics is concerned, there are many complications that can arise. The following outlines the many problems that may develop when it comes to the foods that break down the fastest when it comes to digestion:
1. Individuals who experience foods with a Glycemic Index that is really high often experience small bursts of hyperactivity and long periods of fatigue immediately thereafter.
2. Those who consume these foods often find that their physical performance is hindered a great deal.
3. Those who consume these types of foods are most likely to gain weight more quickly than individuals who consume foods that have a low Glycemic Index.
If you are concerned about your weight, your blood glucose level, and your health in general, it is absolutely imperative to ensure that you learn as much as you are able when it comes to the Glycemic Index.
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1000 Calorie Low Glycemic Index DietDiabetes And Obesity Are Responsible For A Society Epidemic Of Unparalled Importance
Diabetes and obesity go hand in hand as two of our biggest killers. Diabetes is the sixth most natural cause of death in the United States and the biggest cause of diabetes is obesity.
Although diabetes is manageable with proper glycemic control and insulin therapy, it’s estimated that about one third of diabetics have never been identified and therefore are never treated. So, the big question is how do we halt this mass epidemic and how can those disposed to diabetes and obesity reduce the risk of cardiovascular events in their future?
The solution is not complex. Reducing one’s sugar consumption, getting out and exercising on a daily basis, supplementing you food intake with good nutritional supplements, and eating healthy will multiply one’s chances of a long healthy life. It sounds easy but as we “foodies” know, it’s easier said than done. We just have to make up our minds is it more important to fill our bodies with high fat snacks or to have the quality of your life reduced to dependency?
For many years, diabetes has simply been thought of as ahereditary sickness, but now people of younger and younger ages are becoming affected. Diabetes is the primary reason adults go blind. According to the American Diabetes Association, diabetes has the possibility, for the first time in over a hundred years, shrink Americans life expectancy.
Eventually diabetes will affect us all, whether it is taking care of relatives with the illness or simply paying the higher insurance premiums and taxes. In this couch potato society in which we live, there has been a sharp rise in cases diagnosed worldwide. So, what can we do to stop this and to call attention of this problem?
In addition to the things listed above, we also need to inform people to get a regular checkup by a doctor. Some signals that you could have undiagnosed diabetes are frequent urination; wounds that will not heal; constantly thirsty; recurring skin, bladder, and gum infections; numbness in hands and feet; extreme fatigue. Even though you may not experience any of these symptoms, do not think that you’re off the hook.
A change of lifestyle will have to be made to eliminate the possibility of the disease from showing up as an uninvited guest in your future. Studies show that nearly 60% of newly diagnosed cases could have been eliminated or at least significantly postponed if the person had simply got down to a health body weight. In this day of junk food and video games, it can be hard to make the choice to eat healthy and get plenty of exercise. Everyone has their excuses but we need to give them hope that it can be done and ideas of how to start.
As a country we can curtail the epidemic of diabetes and obesity but only if we get the word out and encouraging those who are eating themselves to poor health
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This article came across my desk today and it struck a real note of warning with me. It is not my article but one written by William Campbell Douglass II, M.D. - but it seems to confirm what i’ve recognised for some while. That pollutants in our water cause untold harm and in this case Arsenic seems to be linked to a great prevalence of diabetes.
I’ve worked for years in the water and sewage industry and i know that none of the so called sewage treatment processes do anything otehr than screen out solids and reduce the bacterial load. The chemicals are getting more concentrated in our oceans every day and that affects the water we drink and the food we eat. What can we do about it - demand better water purification - yes possibly - but are we able to pay for it - the cost is horrendous. One alternative would be to put a reverse osmosis purification system in each home but then the cost is again huge. My advice is use the best activated charcoal filtration system you can get your hands on and don’t let it go more than 6 months before changing the filter.
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Aspartame - It isn’t safe
You’ve probably heard the adage “What doesn’t kill you makes you stronger” as many times as I have over the years. In fact, there have been plenty of days where I’ve used it as my personal mantra. But all morale-boosting aside, there are some instances where it isn’t true. Take aspartame, for example.
For years, the food industry and mainstream health “experts” have clung to the idea that this artificial sweetener is safe for human consumption because, they claim, there is no concrete proof that it’s toxic. Of course, you and I both know that simply isn’t true. But even if it was, the argument doesn’t hold much water: Just because something may not be poisonous doesn’t make it safe – after all, I buy non-toxic carpet cleaner, but I don’t think it would be a good idea to put it on ice and drink it with a twist of lemon.
But it looks like some new research has shot even more holes in the mainstream’s already-flimsy case for aspartame.
A recent review published in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that while aspartame may not kill you, it certainly won’t make you stronger. In fact, it may have a significant weakening impact on your brain, setting you up for problems ranging from mental and emotional disturbances to learning disabilities.
According to this recent analysis, despite what earlier studies and reviews have claimed, aspartame does appear to cause both direct and indirect changes in brain chemistry. The researchers found that, among other negative effects, aspartame can disturb the brain’s ability to metabolize amino acids and proteins, damage the integrity of nucleic acids, and interfere with the functioning of neurons.Based on all of the data they examined, the research team concluded that “excessive aspartame ingestion might be involved in the pathogenesis of certain mental disorders, and also in compromised learning and emotional functioning.”
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Little or No Evidence Supports Conventional Medical Treatments
I saw this article and couldn’t help echoing its sentiments.
by Barbara L. Minton (see all articles by this author)
(NaturalNews) Do you ever get the feeling that your doctor doesn’t know what he’s doing? Well, you are probably right. There is little or no evidence that today’s $2 trillion-dollar medical system works any better than various other alternatives. Whether you have diabetes, heart trouble, back pain or cancer, this judgment applies. If you are contemplating surgery, you should know that the orthodox disease establishment doctors have little clue about the success rates for the procedures they endorse.
Dr. David Eddy, a consultant for healthcare giant Kaiser Permanente and leader in the development of clinical evidenced based guidelines admits that the medical profession does not know what its doing, according to an article published by Alan Stang. Even today, with a high-tech health-care system that costs the nation so much money, there is little or no evidence that many widely used treatments and procedures actually work.
Eighty-five percent of what doctors do is not backed by hard evidence, which presumably means that only fifteen percent is. “Doctors dangerously over treat patients, because they get paid to treat; they don’t get paid not to treat,” claims Stang.
A hundred and fifty years ago, Ignaz Semmelweis claimed that his fellow physicians were killing women delivering babies in Vienna’s hospitals. Women were so terrified of hospitals that they considered a hospital stay the same as a death sentence. Their families had to bring them there by force because the women would try to escape. Semmelweis suspected that the reason for the deaths was that doctors were going from surgery to surgery without washing their hands. When he demanded that they scrub and sterilize their hands, the death rate dropped dramatically.
Although you would suspect that modern practitioners certainly wash their hands between patients, especially between surgeries, you would be wrong. Eighty percent of hospital infections happen today because doctors don’t wash their hands, resulting in deaths of thousands of people and costs of over a billion dollars a year. For instance, more than one-quarter of the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center’s doctors don’t wash, because proper washing takes time and costs them money they would otherwise be making, according to an article in Business Week that interviewed some of the nation’s leading doctors.
According to these doctors, some of their colleagues are killing and robbing thousands of Americans a year. And these unindicted felons are the same critics calling for the power of the government to raid health food stores and throw so-called “alternative” practitioners into jail. These are also the same moral miscreants who use government propaganda to warn disease victims to reject any other treatment and therapy except theirs. They are the ones in collusion with the pharmaceutical companies who are trying to ban nutritional supplements with Codex Alimentarius. They point with their unwashed hands at anyone who dares to contradict them.
Stang recalls the story of Abraham Cherrix who had Hodgkin’s disease. The doctors told him to take chemotherapy so he did. It failed and the cancer returned. The chemo had left Abraham so weak that he couldn’t walk. He didn’t want to do it again, wanting instead to try “alternative” treatments to restore his immune system. Doctors used the courts to force him to again take the same chemotherapy that had failed him and left him so weak.
Abraham’s dad asked the social worker, “What will you do with my little boy? Will you take him somewhere and strap him down and put duct tape on his mouth and pump him full of this stuff if he doesn’t want it?” The social worker replied, “No, I will come to your house with a uniformed officer, and I will take your son by force if he resists. And I will take him to somebody else who will do that.” As the result of the huge public outrage over this case, Abraham finally won and was returned to his parent’s custody.
How could this have happened? The disease establishment is willing to do anything to protect and maintain its multi-billion dollar control of the people. Establishment medicine as practiced in the U.S. is monopoly medicine. Any threat to that monopoly is taken seriously. The four big players in monopoly medicine are the government, the AMA (American Medical Association), the drug companies, and the medical schools.
No matter how beneficial prevention modalities and alternative treatment modalities are to the people, they must be concealed, controlled, and done away with. There is a kind of psychic disconnect practiced by the establishment mentalities that want to do away with the means to prevent and treat conditions that may eventually threaten their own lives.
As the drug companies and politicians try to line us up for forced vaccinations and treatments, it’s good to remember that forced medical treatment was one of the main principles of Nazism. The Holocaust did not begin with the extermination of Jewish people. It ended with them.
The Holocaust began with the doctors when Hitler was still in jail during the Weimar Republic established after World War I. The Allies had promised Germany there would not be a punitive peace. Of course they lied and ended up imposing a ruinous war debt at the Versailles Conference. When Germany could not pay, the doctors decided to do their patriotic duty by eliminating “useless eaters”. They began with handicapped children and worked their way to criminals and beyond. Since doctors were running the program, the public swallowed it as just being “humane”. Only years later was this program known as the Holocaust, which many people today wrongly believe only exterminated the Jewish.
The fact that Business Week was able to publish much of this information in their cover story suggests that the disease establishment may be losing some of its control. But like many large beasts, monopoly medicine is probably more dangerous in its death throws.
Sources:
Author not noted, “Medical Guesswork”, Business Week, May 29, 2006.
Stang, Alan, “Today’s American Medicine: The Cure,” (www.AlanStang.com)
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Diabetes is rife with complicated names for simple situations. Insulin Resistance is just one of these terms that needs explanation.
Insulin resistance occurs when the body’s cells become less responsive to insulin. Therefore, the body must secrete more insulin to maintain normal metabolism.
I find that using a simple analogy often helps. Imagine that you go to a bar and drink a pint of beer every day at athe same time. The result is that your body gets used to having alcohol in the system for most of the day. To get the same or similar effect in week 2 you’d probably need to drink twice the amount every day to get a similar effect. That is what happens with insulin resistance.
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Insulin resistance, which is very common, doesn’t cause type 2 diabetes by itself. The pancreas usually rallies to compensate for the resistance by pumping out more insulin. For most people with insulin resistance, blood sugar levels stay within a normal range. But for some, the insulin-producing cells eventually fail to keep up with the increased demand. Blood sugar levels rise, resulting in type 2 diabetes.Diabetes or Uncontrolled Blood Glucose Levels
There is a great deal of fear around diabetes - i should know most of my family have been diagnosed with it and many have died because of ignorance and misplaced trust in drugs.
Diabetes, in very simple terms, occurs when the body for one reason is unable to control the glucose levels in the blood. This is normally achieved by the body’s natural production of Insulin and the body’s natural response
there are 2 cases when glucose levels are not controlled - insulin resistance and insulin exhaustion - both can occur at the same time but insulin resistance is the normal starting point.
Come back soon to read the next part of the story.
Living With Diabetes - controlling your blood glucose levels
Diabetes is a problem of such large scale that it is attarcting the attention of the fiscal controllers in Government around the world. It is wholly treatable but very costly and once drus are used they probably have to continue for the rest of a persons life.
What is not so well known is that with very simple dietary modification before onset we can prevent diabetes entirely. Once it has taken hold then we can achieve the same or similar result with a much more radical diateray regime. The point of this entry is to alert you to the fact that you can do a lot to prevent diabetes and it can be redressed without drug intervention in most if not the majority of cases.
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Living well with diabetes - controlling your blood glucose levels
The odds are that you or someone you know has diabetes already or is at risk for developing this disease. Nearly 21 million Americans—or roughly one in every 14 people—have diabetes, and many more are at risk. Of course, if you or someone you love has diabetes, the disorder is about much more than a statistic. It means a new way of life.
However, there’s plenty of good news emerging about diabetes. Research shows that keeping your blood sugar levels as close to normal as possible is worth the time and effort. Rigorous blood sugar control can enable you to delay or even prevent the progression of diabetes and its debilitating long-term complications.
The treatment regimens needed to achieve and maintain near-normal, or “tight,” blood sugar control differ for type 1 and type 2 diabetes. Type 1 treatment centers on replacing insulin to offset the body’s inability to produce it. Type 2 treatment typically relies on exercise, weight loss, and one or more medications to overcome insulin resistance and compensate for the insulin shortfall. Insulin injections, though, may become necessary. Most people with type 2 diabetes also have the added burden of managing one or more other conditions, such as obesity, high blood pressure, or high cholesterol. Your treatment goal, regardless of which type of diabetes you have, is to keep your blood sugar levels as close to normal as possible to prevent damage to your eyes, kidneys, heart, nerves, and blood vessels.