| However, if you are overweight or suffer from insulin resistance, high fasting blood sugar, prediabetes, or diabetes, you should strictly limit your intake of carbohydrate-rich foods.
With that caveat, several carbohydrate-rich foods make excellent side dishes. Sweet potatoes and yams have a weaker effect on blood sugar and insulin levels compared with conventional potatoes, and they also have higher levels of protective antioxidant carotenoids. Both sweet potatoes and yams can be served baked and split, much the way you would prepare a baked potato. | | For prediabetes, insulin resistance, or Syndrome X, take 200 mg once or twice daily to improve insulin function and glucose metabolism. For additional guidelines in blood-sugar disorders, see my book Syndrome X: The Complete Nutritional Program to Prevent and Reverse Insulin Resistance.
Alpha-lipoic acid, like any other supplement, will work best when combined with a healthy overall diet. Specifically, a nutrient-dense diet, rich in lean, high-quality protein (fish and chicken) and vegetables will help moderate spikes in blood sugar and insulin. | | Chronically elevated insulin levels (hyperinsulinemia), which occur in diabetes, prediabetes, and Syndrome X, lead to abnormal gene activity, accelerated aging, and higher risks of obesity, heart disease, and cancer. It is far healthier to maintain relatively low and efficient levels of insulin, and supplemental alpha-lipoic acid can help you accomplish this.
Like other micronutrients, alpha-lipoic acid serves a multitude of roles in maintaining and restoring health. |
Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C.
See book keywords and concepts |  Another 41 million have prediabetes, and most of them don't know they have it.
• Type 2, or adult diabetes, which has been considered until recently a disease of aging normally striking adults over 50, is now afflicting pre-teens and teens in alarming numbers.
• There was a 70% increase in adult diabetes for people between the ages of 30-39 from 1990-1998.
• The overall increase in adult diabetes was 33% between 1990-1998.
• Diabetes is the #1 cause of blindness, kidney failure and amputations. |
Brenda Davis and Tom Barnard
See book keywords and concepts |  Without treatment, people with prediabetes are headed down a rocky road to full-blown type 2 diabetes.
For many people, the first step to diabetes is insulin resistance, in some cases even before diabetes can be diagnosed. Insulin resistance can also be part of a syndrome leading to prediabetes and full-blown type 2. Insulin resistance syndrome is characterized by high blood pressure, abdominal fat, high blood fats, low HDL or "good" cholesterol, obesity, and high uric acid associated with increased heart attacks. |
Michael T. Murray
See book keywords and concepts |  This test is particularly useful in determining the severity of prediabetes.
If a patient is going to endure a GTT we recommend also determining insulin levels. Doing so produces what is called a glucose-insulin tolerance test (G-ITT; see Table 1.3). Several studies have shown that the G-ITT leads to a greater sensitivity in the diagnosis of both hypoglycemia and diabetes than the standard GTT. In a study by Dr. Joseph Kraft reported in 1975, G-ITT tests were conducted on 3,650 patients suspected of having diabetes. |
Arthur Agatston, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  That in turn brings about several other blood conditions, all of which are further signs of type 2 diabetes (and even prediabetes), signs that can be seen only by a doctor. They're a familiar list if you've been paying attention to health news over the past decade: High blood pressure, high triglycerides, low good cholesterol, high ratio of total cholestrol to good, and the relatively unknown but critical matter of too-small bad cholesterol particles.
When insulin isn't working properly, it takes longer than it should to store the fat you just ate. | | For many patients, particularly those with diabetes or prediabetes, it is our primary focus. Exercise is important, and there are wonderful drugs and supplements that figure in to a total health plan. But proper diet is absolutely the most essential element.
If you neglect that, you may someday have to take your chances with the so-called miracles of modern cardiology—angioplasty, coronary artery bypass, transplant, perhaps even the totally artificial heart. Such measures may restore sufficient cardiac function to keep you alive. | | It's interesting to note that people with prediabetes or diabetes often have normal cholesterols but high CRPs.
EBT Scanning
There's a final medical measure that must be taken to promote heart health, one with which I am extremely familiar: electron beam tomography (EBT) as a noninvasive tool for examining the heart. More than the electrocardiograph (EKG) or exercise testing, this technology has the power to tell us the exact condition of the blood vessels that supply the beating heart. This test supplies critical information that no other diagnostic tests provide. | | By the latest count, somewhere around 47 million Americans—close to one in five—are estimated to have prediabetes. But the percentage of adults with cardiovascular disease who also have this syndrome is much higher; maybe half of my practice shows signs. Here's a list of the criteria, according the National Cholesterol Education Program. | | Ornish is putting greater emphasis on high-fiber carbohydrates that will not induce prediabetes.
I know and admire Dr. Atkins and Dr. Ornish. They have successfully fought conventional wisdom and have both contributed to the country's growing focus on heart attack prevention via improved diet and lifestyle. They have been criticized for the commercial success of their programs but have persevered. Unless someone popularizes the science of nutrition, America will never get its difficulties with obesity and heart disease under control.
It is my purpose to teach neither low fat nor low carb. |
Brenda Davis and Tom Barnard
See book keywords and concepts | | The good news is that insulin resistance, prediabetes, and type 2 diabetes itself are highly treatable, and often even reversible. And given that the problem of "diabesity" is growing among our children, as well as within our adult population, we need to know how to recognize the problem as it is developing and how to change our lives for the better.
Tom: Recently, a young patient reminded me of just how imperative it is to make healthful lifestyle choices from a very early age. | | Insulin resistance can also be part of a syndrome leading to prediabetes and full-blown type 2. Insulin resistance syndrome is characterized by high blood pressure, abdominal fat, high blood fats, low HDL or "good" cholesterol, obesity, and high uric acid associated with increased heart attacks. Insulin resistance syndrome is also sometimes called metabolic syndrome or syndrome X. Insulin resistance increases your chances of having a heart attack. It can be corrected with weight loss and exercise. |
Gary Null
See book keywords and concepts | | Sugar intolerance causes symptoms of hypoglycemia and prediabetes that go undiagnosed.
2. Gluten allergy from rye, oats, wheat, and barley causes particular chemicals to affect the brain.
3. Allergy to dairy products and the resulting intestinal flora imbalance leads to brain allergy symptoms.
4. Mold allergy from various foods including peanuts and two-day-old leftovers, mold allergy from tobacco, and mold allergy from mildew in your home can all cause mental and emotional symptoms that some people misinterpret as depression. |
Arthur Agatston, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | But we still haven't answered this question: What do obesity and type 2 diabetes or prediabetes have to do with heart trouble?
Effects on the Heart
It starts with that central obesity. Your expanding midsection is not due to an increase in the number of fat cells in there. No, when you're overweight, the number of cells remains more or less constant, but each cell increases in size. In other words, the fat cells themselves grow fat. When these cells expand, the insulin has trouble attaching to them properly and unlocking them. |
Ralph Golan, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  Minerals zinc, magnesium Insulin trans-fatty acids excess saturated fat excess blood cholesterol excess oleic acid excess alcohol excess sugar and excess insulin levels diabetes or prediabetes insufficient protein prolonged fasting copper toxicity radiation aging carcinogens chronic stress (excess Cortisol levels) yeast overgrowth
EPA
Required Nutritional / Biochemical Cofactors:
Vitamins B-3, B-6, C. Minerals zinc, magnesium Insulin
PGE-3) (Favorable)
*Much of the information for this figure comes from H. | | This condition has multiple causes: dental plaque, poor dental hygiene, poor diet, drugs, smoking, alcohol abuse, diabetes, prediabetes, chronic stress, and possibly abnormal electrical currents generated by the interreaction of mixed dental metals (gold, silver, mercury, nickel, etc.).
Periodontal disease may be an early indicator of osteoporosis (see OSTEOPOROSIS).
Treatment and Preventive Measures
CONVENTIONAL MEDICAL TREATMENT
The stage of disease (I-V) determines the extent of treatment, which might include proper hygiene procedures, root planing, and/or gum surgery. |
William Duffy
See book keywords and concepts |  Medicine has only one valid answer for preventing the sugar blues, or hypoglycemia, or prediabetes: preventive nutrition. Stop eating sugar. Stop-before you ruin your adrenals—before you end up with symptoms of the sugar blues, hypoglycemia, prediabetic condition, or whatever you want to call it.
How much money can anybody charge you for simple advice like that?
The 1967 HEW data on sugar blues goes unpublished. |
Cheryle R. Hart, M.D. Mary Kay Grossman, R.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  We will show you how the medical condition insulin resistance, which has been associated primarily with prediabetes, is actually present in as many as three out of four overweight people and is making them fat. You ix can tell if you are likely to have insulin resistance by taking the self-test in Chapter z. You can control insulin resistance and lose weight by following the simple eating methods we teach in this book.
Once you lose the weight, don't you wish you knew how to keep it off? After you read The Insulin-Resistance Diet, you will know how to prevent that weight from coming back. | | Insulin resistance can be considered prediabetes. In fact, studies reveal that diabetes is in the making seven years before it can be clinically diagnosed by high blood sugar levels. This means that if insulin resistance symptoms were recognized and managed early enough, most Type II diabetes could be prevented.
Don't wait until you have the full-blown disease to do something about it. That's like trying to jump on a moving train as it speeds by. Doesn't it make more sense to get on the train while it's stopped at the station? |
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