Diabetes Articles

A diabetic diet is a diet that is the opposite of the one that produced the condition. Diabetes comes from the standard American diet. Americans are in a diabetic mode; from the young to the elderly this disease seems to be having sweet success.

DIABETES

Diabetes comes in two forms type-1 and type-2. Western medicine makes a case for these two types having different prognosis, and outcomes. It is prevailing wisdom that type-2 is brought on by lifestyle, genes, and obesity. This is considered the easier one to manage.

Rather than concentrate on the differences we must realize both are becoming more prevalent.

LOW CARB DIET

The emphasis is on a well balanced diet. That is the same diet that is recommended across the land. Foods are divided into five main groups. One of those groups is grains. Because this is a prevalent and inexpensive food it dominates the food chart.

The problem with that is what does well balance mean. The Inuit (Eskimos) had a diet high in protein and good fats, with little else. The Native Americans had a diet that didn’t meet the criteria of today’s well balance diet.

For both of those groups all forms of diabetes wasn’t a health problem. It just about didn’t exist until they were introduced to the foods that American’s consume on a regular basis.

HIGH CARB DIET

Type-2 diabetes is a consequence of eating a high-carbohydrate diet. This includes high amounts of sugars and starches. The current healthy diet recommendations include a high intake of carbohydrates.

The “balanced” diet that is proclaimed to be healthy is a sugar high diet. It is not only loaded with the sweet taste, it is heavy on starches that turn to sugar.

SWEETS

Sweets cast a deep shadow across the land. For all the joy people think they get from a sugary treat, there are jaw-dropping consequences. That is a blue-ribbon statement. We live in a country hooked on sugar.

The connection between sugar and health has been studied and published. However, you will not see it in most printed main stream publications. The spotlight seems to be on how to bake, and celebrate every special occasion with a sweet concoction.

SUGAR

The profile of sugar

1. Sugar is an immune system suppressor.

2. Sugar is usually the cause of high triglycerides and bad cholesterol.

3. Sugar reduces the good cholesterol.

4. Sugar causes a loss of tissue elasticity and function.

5. Sugar can increase fasting levels of glucose.

6. Sugar causes tooth decay, and periodontal disease.

7. Sugar causes a decrease in your insulin sensitivity.

8. Sugar can cause depression.

9. Sugar depletes your store of vitamins and minerals.

10. Sugar can make a toothless smile

In America you are told even if you are diabetic you can indulge at times. What this means is moderation in the poisons you put into your body.

LOW CARB FOODS

Diabetes may not be caused by obesity, which is why many overweight individuals do not become diabetic. The fact is dietary carbohydrates cause diabetes, and cause obesity. Obesity is evident first so the allopathic medical community ties the two together.

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The type 2 diabetes stupid study will get $1.3 million in new funding from the National Institutes of Health. It is going to be used to continue with the world’s longest running study on obesity and type 2 diabetes.

Arizona Pima Indians

Obesity and diabetes have been described as the major public health concern of the 21st century says Leslie Schulz, executive dean of Northern Arizona University’s study’s principal investigator. “This study is taking those necessary steps toward finding a way to protect people against these pervasive diseases,” she said.

A related study has shown that Pima Indians in Arizona who have a diet and lifestyle similar to most Americans have a much higher rate of diabetes than the national average: 38 percent verses 8 percent nationally, giving them the distinction of being the most diabetes-prone group in the world.

The Arizona Pima Indians have been genetically linked to a village of Pima Indians living a more traditional lifestyle in a remote, mountainous region of Mexico. A 1995 study of the Mexican Pimas revealed only a rare occurrence of diabetes. Schulz explains that the genetic similarities between the two groups of Pima Indians, along with the contrast in their lifestyles, provides an ideal setting to study the relationship between environmental circumstances and diabetes.

The researchers returned in the fall after 15 years to the Mexican village to study the relationship between the Mexican Pima Indians’ increasingly “westernized” lifestyle and their genetic predisposition for obesity and diabetes.

“Since we were last there, the environmental circumstances of the village have changed,” Schulz says, explaining how the electrical supply to the region has increased, cars have become more prevalent and grocery stores have appeared.

She points out that this changing environment affects non-Pima Mexicans who also live in the village as much as it does the Mexican Pima Indians living there.

“These two groups of people have undergone the same lifestyle changes over the past 15 years but they have different genes,” Schulz explains. “Therefore, we hope to separate out the role genes play versus the role lifestyle plays.”

Question

The researchers are attempting to answer why a person who is genetically predisposed to develop diabetes does not develop it.

ANSWER: GENES AREN’T YOUR DESTINY

Just as genes provide the codes for producing proteins, various chemicals called epigenetic marks sit atop genes and offer basic instructions to them, telling them to switch on or off

Biologists offer this analogy as an explanation: if the genome is the hardware, then the epigenome is the software. “I can load Windows, if I want, on my Mac,” says Joseph Ecker, a Salk Institute biologist and leading epigenetic scientist. “You’re going to have the same chip in there, the same genome, but different software. And the outcome is a different cell type.”

At its most basic, epigenetics is the study of changes in gene activity that do not involve alterations to the genetic code but still get passed down to at least one successive generation. These patterns of gene expression are governed by the cellular material — the epigenome — that sits on top of the genome, just outside it (hence the prefix epi-, which means above). It is these epigenetic “marks” that tell your genes to switch on or off, to speak loudly or whisper. It is through epigenetic marks that environmental factors like diet, stress and prenatal nutrition can make an imprint on genes that is passed from one generation to the next.

Save The Money

Save the money, the studies already prove epigenetics is the main factor in gene expression.

There is a study that shows type-2 diabetics have poor impulse control. Researchers writing in BioMed Central’s open access journal BioPsycho Social Medicine, suggested that neurological changes result in this inability to resist temptation, which in turn exacerbates diabetes.

Hiroaki Kumano, from Waseda University, Japan, worked with a team of researchers to assess response inhibition, a measure of self-control, in 27 patients with type-2 diabetes and 27 healthy controls. He said, “Patients with type 2 diabetes are required to make strict daily decisions; for example, they should resist the temptation of high-fat, high-calorie food, which is frequently cued by specific people, places and events. Appropriate behavior modification thus depends on the patients ability to inhibit impulsive thoughts and actions cued by these environmental stimuli”.

In order to gauge the patients’ ability to resist such impulsive behavior, the researchers used a test in which participants had to quickly press a button in response to the correct signal on a computer screen, while pressing the button in response to the wrong symbol counted against their score. They found that patients with diabetes performed significantly worse at the test, suggesting that they struggled to control the impulse to press the button. Other results showed that the inhibitory failure observed in diabetic patients was mainly explained by cognitive impairment of impulse control, rather than by deficits in motor performance, error monitoring and adjustment. According to Kumano, “This suggests the possibility that the neuropsychological deficits in response inhibition may contribute to the behavioral problems leading to chronic lifestyle-related diseases, such as type 2 diabetes”.

Really

Previous generations did not have all the chronic conditions that American’s face today. These studies are similar to a dog chasing his tale. We are going in circles, without understanding the problem. Any amount of neurological damage can occur because of the poor diet being shoved down our throats.

People who are overweight already have an impulse problem. The most common one stems from poor glucose regulation, and poor nutrition. Cravings are set up by the food giants, and now we can study the effects and blame the victim.

Question

Which came first poor impulse control or a poor diet that changed hormones, cells, gene expression, and brain circuitry. Again, it is a question of which came first the chicken or the egg. Science in the 21^st century is chasing their tail at our expense.

Looking at every and any angle of why type-2 diabetics haven’t enough control in front of food is alright, if you ask the right questions. Extending it to impulse behavior that effects other things would make sense, if the whole population wasn’t heading down the same path.

Then the question becomes why is the entire population at risk, including the very young.

Sense and Cents

These studies really don’t make sense. I really would like to see more productive use of the funds that are being used for this so-called research.

Taking a look at our food supply might be a good start. People in this country are nutrient deficient while on a high calorie diet. A good part of the population is undernourished and overweight. All studies are being conducting on people who are not operating at their optimate level. In that case many functions will be frequently out of whack.

Whack rhymes with quack, and I see quack science searching for all the capabilities lost to an American diet. With all the research the solution remains elusive.