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Diabetes type 2 improves with antioxidants from low glycemic fruits and vegetables. A diet rich in natural antioxidants improves insulin sensitivity in insulin-resistant obese adults and enhances the effect of the insulin-sensitizing drug metformin, a preliminary study from Italy finds. The results will be presented at The Endocrine Society’s 92nd Annual Meeting in San Diego.

“The beneficial effects of antioxidants are known, but we have revealed for the first time one of their biological bases of action-improving hormonal action in obese subjects with the metabolic syndrome,” said principal author Antonio Mancini, MD, an endocrinology researcher at Catholic University of the Sacred Heart in Rome.

Antioxidants, which are found naturally in fruits, vegetables, legumes and nuts, include vitamins E and C, selenium and carotenoids, such as beta-carotene. Past research shows that antioxidants can prevent oxidative damage to cells and in some cases also help repair damage.

Mom  Knew

Mom Knew, but the medical community has no idea. But, as everyone discovers sooner or later Mom was right. The medical system is not your salvation, they aren’t capable of anything more than billing you. Your mothers advice was free, when you pay for it, the value seems to increase. Maybe, your mother should have charged you.

Diabetes is Becoming an Epidemic

Diabetes is becoming an epidemic killer, and the only way to be protected from it is on your plate. It is as pure and simple as that. The right food is more potent than the standardized treatments. The ultimate formula to combat this killer is again on your plates. The missing link to all degenerative chronic conditions is the active form of nutrients. These come straight from the garden, Protect your body from oxidative stress with antioxidants.

Appetite

The ultimate challenge for America is to suppress emotional eating, compulsive eating, and overeating. This has become a challenge. Overeating is an epidemic, and combating the causes is next to impossible. Our appetites are set on the food industries standards. Craving for more of there non-nutritious faux foods have been manipulated. This helps pave the foundation for over consumption of both large meals and between meal eating.

To quit eating more than you need or want is a challenge for most people. That is unless they change their diet to a whole food one. This will include plenty of antioxidants. Very few people binge on broccoli, carrots, watercress fennel, cabbage, cauliflower, or even parsley. 

If you pair that up with some protein and fruit you will prevent, stabilize and reduce your need for insulin.

Diabetics low-carb it for results; the proof is in the way it lowers insulin resistance and enables weight loss. A low-carb diet restricts the amount of refined carbohydrates, which alone is worth the effort. The best part it leaves you satisfied. Hunger isn’t your constant companion.

Diabetic Study

Obese women with insulin resistance lose more weight after three months on a lower-carbohydrate diet than on a traditional low-fat diet with the same number of calories, according to a new study. The results were presented at The Endocrine Society’s 92nd Annual Meeting in San Diego.

“The typical diet that physicians recommend for weight loss is a low-fat diet,” said the study’s lead author, Raymond Plodkowski, MD, chief of endocrinology, nutrition, and metabolism at the University of Nevada School of Medicine, Reno. “However, as this study shows, not all people have the same response to diets.”

People with insulin resistance, a common precursor for Type 2 diabetes, metabolize carbohydrates, or “carbs,” abnormally, which may affect their rate of weight loss. For them, Plodkowski said, “the lower-carb diet is more effective, at least in the short term.”

Super Booster

This way of eating shouldn’t be thought of as a super booster for accelerated weight loss. For diabetics this would help stabilize and reverse the effects of the condition.

The composition of the low-fat diet was 60 percent calories from carbs, 20 percent from fat and 20 percent from protein. The lower-carb diet also had 20 percent of calories from protein, it had 45 percent from carbs and 35 percent from primarily unsaturated fats, such as nuts. Menus included a minimum of 2 fruits and 3 vegetable servings a day.

The way they did the study was to use a high percent of carbs in the diet. The low-fat diet with 60 percent of the diet in carbohydrates is a study in disaster. Elimination of all refined carbohydrates is really the name of the game. Whole food healthy eating works. A diet high in vegetables and fruit will provide the fiber and some carbohydrates. It is not a matter of low carbohydrates only, it is where are your getting them from.

It is strange how cake, cookies, pie, white bread, white rice, and sugar are called carbohydrates. That would imply that they are food of some sort. This is where the problem  is. A low fat diet consists of low fat dairy high in sugar, and low fat cookies full of sweetners. The truth is it is easier to overeat when presented with these items. They make you hungry and play games with your endocrine, cardiovascular, brain function, and energy level.

Achieving Health

Achieving health the low-carb way is to unleash your internal defenses with plant compounds found in vegetables and fruit, and Omega-3 fatty acids in whole foods such as grass-fed meat.

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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