Mike Adams
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 From this group, 2507 cases of type 2 diabetes were documented. Statistics showed that intake of total fat, saturated fat, and monounsaturated fat (as found in nuts, seeds and avocados), did not influence diabetic risk. However, a 2 percent increase in calories from trans fatty acids raised the risk by 39 percent, and a 5 percent increase in calories from polyunsaturated fat reduced the risk by 37 percent. It is speculated that substituting foods rich in trans fats with polyunsaturated fats could reduce the risk of type 2 diabetes by nearly 40 percent (Salmeron et al. 2001). |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 As Obesity Rises, So Does Diabetes
Increasingly, we're hearing that as more of us Americans become obese, we're experiencing a parallel rise in the incidence of type 2 diabetes, the nation's sixth biggest killer, according to the CDC. Such a close causal connection exists between obesity and diabetes that pediatric endocrinologist Francine Kaufman, M.D. |
| About 40 percent of the new cases have type 2 diabetes, and they're predominantly obesity related. We've found preliminary evidence that these children have significantly more cognitive problems—15 to 20 percent more—than kids the same age [who are] also obese but don't have diabetes. This is going to impair their ability to do well in school, which could affect how well they do in life. It's not just obesity that's causing the problems, but metabolic problems due to the diabetes that's causing the cognitive problems," he adds.
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| As mentioned previously, insulin resistance, a main cause of type 2 diabetes, is a disorder that occurs when your body's cells lose their sensitivity to insulin and no longer use it normally to control blood glucose levels, requiring your pancreas to produce more and more in order to compensate.
In their study, the Joslin researchers compared the metabolic processes of normal mice with those of a second group that had been genetically altered to reduce the number of insulin receptors in their brains. The altered mice experienced reduced insulin activity signaling the proteins in their brains. |
| The] discoveries were important because many obese people have type 2 diabetes, and diabetics are known to have higher levels of dangerous free radicals. Long-term diabetes leads to fallen cognitive abilities probably due to the free radical generation and inflammation," he speculates.
"Those free radicals could damage all tissues in the body, and if you have an excess of sugar in your body, you're doing this continuously," continues Dr. Dandona, who was startled by another discovery—that DNA in the white blood cells of diabetics is damaged by free radicals. |
Michael Pollan
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 It is probably no accident that rates of type 2 diabetes are lower among ethnic Europeans, who have had longer than other groups to accustom their metabolisms to fast-release refined carbohydrates: Their food environment changed first.*To encounter such a diet for the first time, as when people accustomed to a more traditional diet come to America or when fast
*In the past, changes in the food environment have led to measurable changes in human biology over time. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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| The Chows point to a possible progression of syndromes that includes hypoglycemia, glucose intolerance (or impaired glucose tolerance), insulin resistance, Syndrome X (also called insulin resistance syndrome), and finally type 2 diabetes.
Cynthia Geyer, M.D., who sees thousands of patients as Director of Women's Health at Canyon Ranch health resort in Lenox, Massachusetts, puts it another way. |
Michael Pollan
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| Although an estimated 80 percent of cases of type 2 diabetes could be prevented by a change of diet and exercise, it looks like the smart money is instead on the creation of a vast new diabetes industry. The mainstream media is full of advertisements for new gadgets and drugs for diabetics, and the health care industry is gearing up to meet the surging demand for heart bypass operations (80 percent of diabetics will suffer from heart disease), dialysis, and kidney transplantation. At the supermarket checkout you can thumb copies of a new lifestyle magazine, Diabetic Living. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
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 Whole-grain and fiber intake and the incidence of type 2 diabetes. Amer J Clin Nutr. 2003;77:622-629.
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Slavin IL. Dietary fiber and body weight. Nutrition. 2005;21:411-418.
Streppel MT, et al. Dietary fiber and blood pressure. Arch Intern Med. 2005; 165:150-156.
Upton J. New roles for fiber focus on heart disease, diabetes, blood pressure. Environmental Nutrition. 2005;28(4):1,6.
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| Effect of wheat bran on glycemic control and risk factors for cardiovascular disease in type 2 diabetes. Diabetes Care. 2002;25:1522-1528. Jenkins DJA et al. Low glycemic response to traditionally processed wheat and rye products: bulgur and pumpernickel bread. Am J Clin Nutr. 1986;43:516-520. Pereira Mark A et al. Effect of whole grains on insulin sensitivity in overweight hyper-insulinemic adults. Nutr Cancer. 1998;30(2):85-96.
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| DIABETES: Several long-term studies show that people with high whole grain intake had from twenty-eight to sixty-one percent lower risk for developing type 2 diabetes compared with those with the lowest intakes.
Tips on Using Oats
SELECTION AND STORAGE:
• Look for tightly sealed boxes or canisters. Avoid bulk cereals; grains in open bins may be exposed to moisture, mold, and insect contamination.
• Keep oats in an airtight and moisture-proof container to prevent bugs from getting in and mold/fungi growth from forming.
• Properly stored and dry, rolled oats may keep for as long as a year. |
| DIABETES: The addition of flax or components of flax in animal studies slowed the onset of type 2 diabetes and protected kidneys from the typical damage caused by diabetes.
ATTENTION DEFICIT HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER (ADHD): A pilot study conducted in India evaluated the effect of flax oil on behavior in children with ADHD. There was significant improvement in their symptoms, reflected by reduction in total hyperactivity scores. |
| DIABETES: Researchers compared two groups of people with type 2 diabetes who were fed different amounts of high-fiber foods. The group who ate a diet containing 50 grams of fiber a day had lower levels of both plasma glucose and insulin.
Tips on Using Beans
CLEARING THE AIR If you are not used to eating beans and are worried about being "gassy," start off by eating smaller amounts of beans such as 'A cup per day and increase up to l/i cup. Gas produced by eating beans is often due to a sudden introduction of fiber. |
| A review of fifteen studies on coffee and type 2 diabetes, published in The Journal of the American Medical Association, found that people who regularly drank coffee were at lower risk.
BREAST CANCER: Human breast cancer cells responded positively to a treatment with caffeic acid and chlorogenic acid from coffee.
Tips on Using Coffee
SELECTION AND STORAGE:
• To select the best-tasting coffee beans, make sure they are freshly roasted and ground. The beans should be fragrant and free of any cracks.
• The darker the roast, the stronger and more bitter the flavor. |
John J. Ratey, MD
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 High glucose is also a risk factor for obesity and type 2 diabetes in both the mother and the baby, and these physical conditions are bad for the brain. Fortunately, exercise helps regardless of how active a woman was before pregnancy. One study showed that briskly walking five hours a week reduces the risk of gestational diabetes by 75 percent.
Several years ago a group of German researchers decided to test whether exercise would have any impact on the painful process of labor. They brought a stationary bicycle into the labor suite. |
| Evidence of this is everywhere: 65 percent of our nation's adults are overweight or obese, and 10 percent of the population has type 2 diabetes, a preventable and ruinous disease that stems from inactivity and poor nutrition. Once an affliction almost exclusively of the middle-aged, it's now becoming an epidemic among children. We're literally killing ourselves, and it's a problem throughout the developed world, not merely a province of the supersize lifestyle in the United States. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Journal of Applied Physiology showed that making simple changes in the diet, combined with moderate exercise, actually cures type 2 diabetes in more than 50 percent of patients. These changes also significantly improved cholesterol and blood lipid profiles in study participants.
A supplement like Glucotor, when combined with healthy dietary and lifestyle changes, can significantly accelerate your reversal of type 2 diabetes in my opinion. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It will regulate insulin secretion by your pancreas, which is of course one of the major problems with type 2 diabetes, and it may increase insulin sensitivity. We think that vitamin D deficiency may exacerbate type 2 diabetes, there's some mounting evidence in the literature to suggest that.
Adams: So, if I can summarize, it appears that we have a nation that is suffering from chronic vitamin D deficiency that we are giving to a whole new generation of children who are starting out deficient and are therefore at a high risk for these diseases.
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Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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| Their study, which was published in the British Medical Journal, suggests that even before they develop type 2 diabetes, people with insulin resistance and impaired glucose tolerance are getting depressed.
U.K. Researchers Recognize the Obvious Food-Mood Connection
While scientists in the United States have explored some intriguing connections between what we eat and how we behave, experts in Great Britain and Scotland have increasingly taken a leading role in recognizing this link. |
Tori Hudson, N.D.
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 In addition, type 2 diabetes, elevated insulin, and glucose intolerance, conditions that often co-occur with obesity and polycystic ovarian syndrome, are associated with amenorrhea and oligomenorrhea (infrequent menses).2, 3 Usually, oligomenorrhea and chronic anovulation caused by hormonal abnormalities is the cause of the menstrual irregularity in women with significant amounts of excess body fat. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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 A person with type 2 diabetes has lost this glucose-insulin struggle. And so an ugly, vicious cycle begins: It made sense for us to store fat to survive when we were likely to have famines periodically or failed bison hunts, but today that fat causes insulin resistance, which makes us eat more, which causes more fat, which is associated with eating more, so we accumulate more fat, which causes more insulin resistance, and so on.
In the modern world, elevated blood sugars get you frequent-flier miles with your local doctor. |
| Normally, glucose is what gives our cells energy, but when we develop insulin resistance (from having a genetic predisposition such as a family history of type 2 diabetes or from being overweight), the figure El The Great Ooop Like pollution or acid rain, glycosylation junks up the beautiful parts of the city. insulin can't effectively get all the glucose into our cells. If glucose can't get into a cell, it stays in the blood and gunks up the proteins in our body. It's a little bit like acid rain—it damages the things it touches and makes them leaky. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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 Because the body is still producing insulin, type 2 diabetes can often be managed without insulin injections, through a combination of other medications, careful diet, exercise, weight loss, and blood sugar monitoring.
There is also a third type of diabetes, called gestational diabetes because it occurs in pregnant women. Gestational diabetes can be a temporary type of diabetes that tends to resolve itself after pregnancy. In the United States, it occurs in as much as 4 percent of pregnant women—some 100,000 expectant mothers a year. |
Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D.
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 There are so many nutrients shown to be helpful in type 2 diabetes that taking them all individually would be a real chore. You can find in natural-food stores several high-potency 'multiple' formulas designed specifically to aid in blood-sugar control. Look for one with extra chromium and biotin."
"LaDonna was right about that chromium, wasn't she?"
"Yes. Chromium is one of the more important nutrients for type 2 diabetes. Chromium helps to restore the cell-membrane response to insulin. |
Eric R. Braverman
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 I have seen complete reversals of type 2 diabetes with many of my patients, even those with severe forms of this disease. For example, I once treated a woman who came to me with dopamine deficiency and life-threatening type 2 diabetes, and within six months of beginning a strict dopamine diet and nutrient program, she had completely normal sugar levels. |
Marshall Editions
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 Diet: PCOS can increase the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, so make an effort to keep blood sugar levels as stable as possible. Avoid eating foods that are high in refined carbohydrates such as white bread, white rice, and any foods that are a source of white sugar. Instead, opt for foods that release energy slowly and that are high in fiber, such as organic brown rice cakes with a protein topping, fresh, raw vegetable crudites, and a small amount of fresh fruit. |
| Often type 2 diabetes is concomitant with PCOS and it too should be treated if the condition is present.
I" Diet and exercise: Eat a high-fiber, low-dairy diet. It is also important to do 20 minutes of aerobic exercise daily.
Hormone suppression: Oral contraceptives can be used to decrease the androgens (male hormones) that are usually elevated in those with PCOS. Spironolactone is an androgen receptor antagonist that can be added to the oral contraceptive pill. Steroids (glucocorticoids) can also be used to suppress male hormones. |
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HOMEOPATHY
Diabetes is a condition for which it is inappropriate to suggest self-help homeopathic prescribing, since both Type 1 and type 2 diabetes are chronic conditions. As such, any homeopathic treatment that is given will be of a constitutional nature and needs to be provided by an experienced homeopathic practitioner.
HERBALISM
Herbal medicines used to treat diabetes generally aim to lower blood sugar, protect vascular integrity, and preserve the function of the pancreas. |
| Formula one: This can be used to treat either Type 1 or type 2 diabetes. Symptoms of dryness in the mouth and on the tongue, thirst, frequent urination, dizziness, and vertigo are usually diagnosed as an insufficiency of kidney yin. Combine 12 g of Bei Mao Gen (wooly grass rhizome), 10 g of Yu Mi Xu (corn silk), 12 g of Xuan Shen (ningpo figwort root), 12 g of Di Huang (Chinese foxglove), 10 g of Shan Zhu Yu (Asiatic cornelian cherry fruit), 12 g of Tian Men Dong (asparagus tuber), and 12 g of Wu Wei Zi (schisandra fruit) with 3-4 cups of water in a ceramic or glass pot. |
Michael Pollan
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| That is, the chances that a sixty- or seventy-year-old suffers from cancer or type 2 diabetes are far greater today than they were a century ago. (The same may well be true of heart disease, but because heart disease statistics from 1900 are so sketchy, we can't say for sure.)
Cancer and heart disease and so many of the other Western diseases are by now such an accepted part of modern life that it's hard for us to believe this wasn't always or even necessarily the case. |
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