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GLUCOSE TOLERANCE

Glucose levels are one of the most important indicators of health . The difference between a type 2 diabetic and non-diabetic individuals, is the increased risks of cardiovascular problems. Premature aging is much higher in people with impaired glucose tolerance.

FAT

As fat accumulates, especially in the abdominal area, insulin sensitivity and glucose tolerance worsens. This can lead to type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure, elevated cholesterol and triglycerides. The combination of insulin resistance and abdominal obesity is known as metabolic syndrome. This leads to the development of arthrosclerosis and cardiovascular disease.

GLUCOSE MANAGEMENT

Both diabetes and aging contribute to increased free-radicals and tissue damage.  An important strategy to reduce the level of damage is to keep glucose levels in a healthy range under 100mg/dl after a fast. Optimal levels appear to prevent disease, and are a factor in longevity. Unfortunately, the problem of glucose management is negatively associated with the heating processes that food manufacturers use to enhance flavor, color, and texture of packaged food that are on the grocery shelves. This means it is not just the sugar in beverages, baked goods, and prepared foods, but it is also the sterilization, and pasteurization that heat up the food, before it can enter the food chain.

DIABETES

Pre-diabetes, is now a term that is used fairly regularly, to describe a population at risk for developing this major health problem. Diabetes in itself accelerates aging in ways that damages the body and its functions. It can cause; cardiovascular disease, poor circulation, arteriosclerosis, increased prevalence of certain types of cancer, vision problems, impotence, hearing and memory loss, infections, and loss of the skins elasticity and flexibility.

LIFESTYLE CHANGES

Type 2 Diabetes and aging are both conditions that respond to the same dietary, and lifestyle changes. The way to guard against premature aging is the same strategies that will guard against diabetes. The strategies in preventing diabetic complications do not go far enough, because most of the public has not been educated. The fact is diabetes can be reversed, or at the very least controlled to the point that medication is drastically reduced.

DIET

In societies that consume a more natural diet, which means non-processed, plant based, and grass fed meat, the incident of diabetes is just about non-existent. These are studies, which leave no doubt to why we have a condition of epidemic proportions in the United States. It is due to the lifestyle, we have the control, not the doctor or the pharmaceutical company. Pharmaceutical drugs can manage sugar surges, but there is a price.

PREVENT AND REVERSE

It is much easier to prevent the problem, than to treat it. However, it is possible to effectively reverse diabetes. The natural way is the best, because it is the only way for achieving long lasting results. The techniques have been identified by many health professionals outside of mainstream thinking. They have been used successfully by individuals that were willing to take responsibility, and make the changes required. Glucose management is the secret to health when done with the least amount of drugs.

Aging brings on a whole host of problems from fatigue to weight gain according to the prevailing wisdom. So, it is easy to write off diabetes as a condition that is more prevalent with age. However, this defies the statistics that show it is becoming prevalent at earlier ages. Aging is not the cause, or the contributor to most of the conditions plaguing us, it is on our plates that we can find the culprits that is robbing our health.