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Type 2 diabetes has natural interventions, which work remarkably well and are easy to implement.  With an estimated 366 million of people worldwide who have this condition you would think there would be a better understanding of this approach. The biggest challenge is for the public to understand that pharmaceutical companies have tried different medications to halt the disease and haven’t succeeded. They are dealing with a condition that they have not had much success with. 

Diabetes Epidemic

The International Diabetes Federation described the number of cases as “staggering,” every seven seconds one person succumbs to this condition. The federation is asking for concrete measures to stop the epidemic, urging officials focusing on chronic disease at the United Nations to target ways to prevent cases and to invest in more research. Yes, what we need is more research, we don’t have enough already. We can spend the next decade looking for the magic bullet.

It is estimated that health systems spend $465 billion annually fighting the disease. That includes both Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. If that isn’t enough money to find the cause, which is right in front of their faces then lets go for broke.

Real Problem

The abnormalities that they are looking for is in our food supply, the diagnosis and current treatment are not the answer. Our flagging health is due to the deterioration of our food supply. Food orchestrates a complex balance of hormonal, neurochemical, and electrical signals. What makes us think we can face our deteriorating health with pharmaceuticals? As long as we ignore the warning signs that all point to lifestyle, it will be increasingly difficult to stem the tide.

Type 2 Diabetes Causes

The rise in diabetes is not due to an aging population as the medical experts claim. Diabetes is thought to be a disease of middle age, with obesity playing a part in the development of this condition. Yet, younger people are now in this group. Medical strategies haven’t consistently offered substantial improvement for diabetics.

The global number of diabetics more than doubled in the last three decades according to a study published in the medical journal Lancer. We try to manage the disease with diet, exercise and medication. With all that diabetes still results in kidney disease, blindness, heart disease, more cases of cancer, and amputations.

In the last three decades our lifestyle has been altered. This trend started earlier with the advent of pre-packaged foods, larger portions, lack of sunshine, technology advances that translate to less activity. There are multiple causes and none of them are a drug shortage. Insulin resistance is part of the culture. There are very few people who aren’t affected by this way of life. This is becoming a world wide occurrence because we export our way of eating and farming methods.

To say it is because people are living longer is an insult to our intelligence. Healthy adults who are concerned about what they put into their bodies are much less likely to develop diabetes. We are putting the cheapest “foods” on everyone’s table. Virtually everything in most people’s diet was never eaten 40 to 50 years ago. We can document that insulin resistance is a product of our diet, no amount of research will change that fact.

The Challenge

The challenge that we have is we got to deal with this crisis now. Health care will bankrupt America. Curing today’s health care cost crisis means we need natural solutions. What is essential to realize is for survival purposes we have to prevent and reverse these conditions on our own.

How to Reverse Diabetes

The Journal PLoS ONE reported the discovery by Salk Institute for Biological Studies researchers that fisetin a flavone found in abundance in strawberries, and in other fruit and vegetables, helped type 1 diabetes in mice. They found Kidney enlargement and urinary protein decreased along with anxiety-related symptoms which are a central nervous system complication that occurs in human diabetics. Type 1 diabetes is harder to reverse, this shows that diet is key.

Diabetics are advised to cut fat, reduce saturated fat and include plenty of carbohydrates in the diet. It is essentially a carbohydrate-centered diet. They may say whole grains, however this is how to feed diabetics a diet that will increase fat. When visceral fat accumulates, the inflammatory signals causes the muscle and liver to stop responding to insulin. Now we are developing insulin resistance. Nice going, since the reduction of carbohydrates improves all the diabetic markers and symptoms. Isn’t it time to look to natural intervention to reverse this condition

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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