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 Why the FDA pushes diabetes drugs, not diabetes prevention
The FDA and drug companies don't want consumers to find out the truth about how simple it is to cure diabetes because such information would substantially reduce the sales of highly profitable drugs like Avandia. |
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 That label is the word, 'diabetes.'
So diabetes isn't the cause of the destruction of the beta cells in the pancreas. It is simply the name that is attached to these symptoms. The true cause of diabetes then, remains unexplored if you only pay attention to the description of the disease as offered by conventional medical doctors and researchers.
The next obvious question, then, is: what is the true cause of this autoimmune disorder? Why would the human body attack its own pancreas and destroy the beta cells that are responsible for keeping that person alive? |
| Some doctors say diabetes is a disease that causes the destruction of insulin-producing cells in the pancreas. But that logic is completely backwards, even though it is the popular thinking about this so-called disease. The truth is that first the body attacks the beta cells in the pancreas, then the person gets diagnosed as having this inability to produce insulin, and that pattern of symptoms is given a label. That label is the word, 'diabetes.'
So diabetes isn't the cause of the destruction of the beta cells in the pancreas. It is simply the name that is attached to these symptoms. |
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 Through the month of December, Santa Claus has been working with a team of top nutritional advisors to reverse his diabetes. Thanks to his determined efforts to alter his diet and commit to regular exercise, Santa succeeded in overcoming the disease and is readying himself for a diabetes-free Christmas where he won’t be eating any more milk and cookies.
Type-2 diabetes is a reversible health condition. Since the condition is defined by measurable symptoms, once a person restores normal sugar metabolism and the symptoms disappear, that person is by definition no longer diabetic. |
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 REPPED: Earlier this year, the dairy industry was once again caught hyping a distorted study to claim that milk prevents diabetes. Based on research conducted by the Massachusetts General Hospital and the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, milk proponents claimed that if you drank enough milk, you would reduce your risk of type 2 diabetes. Leave it to the dairy industry to come up with a whopper like this. They'd like you to believe milk will do anything -- it will increase your bone mass, make you lose weight and now it will prevent diabetes. But what's wrong with this study? |
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| He has shown us that we do not need to live a life dependent on drugs to manage diabetes, nor do we have to surrender to a diagnosis or disease label that has been imprinted on us by a doctor. We have the power to take charge of our health, and by rediscovering the healing power of living in greater harmony with the natural foods found on our planet, we can all live lives free of diabetes. This is an epidemic that has a cure, and the cure is available right now to everyone. It’s called nutrition and exercise. |
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 By working with a team of top nutritionists, he has already improved his diet by eliminating foods and beverages that promote diabetes (like sodas, sugary cookies and white bread) while focusing on eating the foods that prevent diabetes and regulate healthy blood sugar metabolism: fresh produce, raw nuts, whole grains, healthy plant-based fats and targeted nutritional supplements that boost insulin sensitivity. (See part one of this story.)
This week, Santa is focusing on boosting his exercise to accelerate his progress. |
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 A better approach toward your diabetes is to say, 'Wow, if I quit eating sugary chocolate and French fries and drinking soda, I'll get my health back. That makes it worthwhile to set aside my sugar habit.'
The entire team agrees that Santa must severely restrict or eliminate his consumption of all refined sugars and carbohydrates in order to beat type-2 diabetes. "Together, we hope to see Santa reinvigorate his health by boosting consumption of fresh produce, plant-based oils and targeted nutritional supplements that include chromium and trace minerals," said Mike Adams. |
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 Like most doctors, Santa's physician offered him a chance to take medications to "control" his blood sugar, but Santa was concerned about possible damage to his liver and heart -- two of the most common side effects of many diabetes medications.
"I want to beat my diabetes and get my weight under control without popping pills," Santa said. "And it's just too risky to take insulin injections when my reindeer tote my sleigh across the sky."
"Besides, if I become dependent on drugs and insulin injections, what message does that send to all the children?" he asked. |
| To solve his diabetes challenge in time for Christmas, Santa invited NewsTarget to assemble a team of nutritionists and experts knowledgeable in the fields of diabetes, blood sugar metabolism and sugar addiction. In response, we brought together some of the top authors and nutritionists in the natural health industry: Connie Bennett, Byron Richard, Dr. Gabriel Cousens and Mike Adams.
Connie Bennett, M.S.J., C.H.H.C., author of the new book, Sugar Shock! (available to order now at Amazon.com, ships Dec. 26) and founder of the SugarShock. |
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| A new FDA standard of safety: Equivalent danger
In other words, Avandia was left on the market not because it has been proven safe (it has actually been proven dangerous), but because it is no more deadly than the other dangerous diabetes drugs on the market. This is a strange bit of FDA logic, where chemicals that are equally dangerous to the public are considered universally safe because no single chemical stands out as more dangerous than the others. |
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| Type-2 diabetes is reversible, though, and Dr. Cousens invited Santa to consider the possibility that conventional medicine is wrong about diabetes. "The most important piece of information to know is that this whole condition can be reversed naturally by a joyful application of a healthy diet and lifestyle," Dr. Cousens explained. "This is contrary to what doctors who follow the allopathic philosophy will advise you; which is that it can not be healed. |
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| So diabetes isn't the cause of the destruction of the beta cells in the pancreas. It is simply the name that is attached to these symptoms. The true cause of diabetes then, remains unexplored if you only pay attention to the description of the disease as offered by conventional medical doctors and researchers.
The next obvious question, then, is: what is the true cause of this autoimmune disorder? Why would the human body attack its own pancreas and destroy the beta cells that are responsible for keeping that person alive? |
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 People with diabetes are commonly deficient in magnesium, a mineral that is directly and indirectly involved in managing blood-sugar levels. In an analysis of nine well-controlled clinical trials, researchers concluded that magnesium supplements could significantly lower fasting blood sugar and raise the "good" high-density lipoprotein form of cholesterol. We recommend taking either magnesium citrate or magnesium aspartate, 200 mg twice a day with meals. If you take too much, you will develop loose stools. Vanadium. |
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| I want to beat my diabetes and get my weight under control without popping pills," Santa said. "And it's just too risky to take insulin injections when my reindeer tote my sleigh across the sky."
"Besides, if I become dependent on drugs and insulin injections, what message does that send to all the children?" he asked.
Santa was diagnosed with type-2 diabetes ten days ago by his personal physician, Dr. North, who explained that for too many years, Santa had been over-consuming cookies and milk left for him by well-meaning children and parents around the world. |
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| A recent study found that people diagnosed with either carpal tunnel syndrome or Bell's palsy (characterized by weakened or paralyzed facial muscles) are often prediabetic and will be diagnosed with diabetes within ten years.
Sleep apnea. This condition entails a swelling of tissues in the back of the mouth, leading to episodes of choking and interrupted breathing during sleep. Severe snoring is really a form of sleep apnea. Being overweight strongly predisposes people toward sleep apnea.
Erectile dysfunction. |
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| To solve his diabetes challenge in time for Christmas, Santa invited NewsTarget to assemble a team of nutritionists and experts knowledgeable in the fields of diabetes, blood sugar metabolism and sugar addiction. In response, we brought together some of the top authors and nutritionists in the natural health industry: Connie Bennett, Byron Richard, Dr. Gabriel Cousens and Mike Adams.
Connie Bennett, M.S.J., C.H.H.C., author of the new book, Sugar Shock! (available to order now at Amazon.com, ships Dec. 26) and founder of the SugarShock. |
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| REPPED: The Food and Drug Administration voted overwhelmingly to keep the diabetes drug Avandia on the market, despite its known deadly effects. Two FDA committees met yesterday in Gaithersburg, Maryland, to consider whether the drug -- which has led to the deaths of 80,000 people -- should be pulled from the marketplace.
The FDA does not deny that the drug is dangerous. |
| Robert Meyer, director of the office within the FDA that approved Avandia's initial application, based his argument in favor of Avandia on the fact that other diabetes drugs carry risks as well -- so leaving Avandia on the market provides "treatment options."
The drug's maker took precisely the same stance: "It's absolutely essential to maintain a full range of treatment options in this very important disease and Avandia has got to be a part of that range,'' said Chris Viehbacher, president of U.S. pharmaceuticals at Glaxo, which earns more $3 billion annually from Avandia sales. |
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 Another disease that's caused by poor food choice is diabetes. Type 2 diabetes is the natural physiological and metabolic result of a person consuming refined carbohydrates and added sugars in large quantities without engaging in regular physical exercise that would compensate for such dietary practices.
The name "diabetes" is meaningless to the average person. The disease should be called Excessive Sugar Disease, or ESD. If it were called Excessive Sugar Disease, the solution to it would be rather apparent; simply eat less sugar, drink fewer soft drinks and so on. |
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| Cardiovascular disease being the leading cause of death of people with diabetes, having a treatment that causes that is something that doesn't make sense to me," he said.
Glaxo inundates the FDA with confusing data
Yet the majority at the FDA sided with the drug company Glaxo. "Let's not throw out the baby with the bathwater," Philip L. Hooper, a physician at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, stated, claiming that doctors need as many pharmaceutical resources as possible, apparently regardless of whether they are actually safe for patients. |
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 You want to look at the etiology of allergies and diabetes? You look at diabetes, you look at the New England Journal of Medicine, July 31, 1992 -- right there, you can look it up! It said that exposure to these bovine proteins, bovine serum lactobumin is a trigger for insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, and a few months later, October of '92, Scientific America talked about the dairy slogan,"Milk, it does a body good." It said, "Milk, it does a body good -- it sounds a little hollow these days. |
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 If your insulin sensitivity is reduced, you are on the track to diabetes. In the medical community this is called pre-diabetes. And once again, it is not a genetic disorder -- it is something that is directly caused by the foods you choose to consume and the level of physical activity you choose to pursue.
If you are pre-diabetic, that means you have reduced insulin sensitivity but haven't yet been diagnosed with full-blown adult onset type 2 diabetes. |
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| Diabetes is not genetic in origin, nor is it an inevitable condition for individuals whose parents expressed symptoms of diabetes. It can be reversed by eliminating the causes of poor blood sugar metabolism and insulin insensitivity – namely, poor nutritional choices and a lack of regular physical exercise.
Santa was offered nutritional guidance by a team of noted authors and nutritionists: Connie Bennett (author of SUGAR SHOCK! and SugarShockBlog.com), Byron Richards of WellnessResources.com and the author of The Leptin Diet, Mike Adams of NewsTarget.com and Dr. |
| Since the condition is defined by measurable symptoms, once a person restores normal sugar metabolism and the symptoms disappear, that person is by definition no longer diabetic. diabetes is not genetic in origin, nor is it an inevitable condition for individuals whose parents expressed symptoms of diabetes. It can be reversed by eliminating the causes of poor blood sugar metabolism and insulin insensitivity – namely, poor nutritional choices and a lack of regular physical exercise. |
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 Click here for more science on aloe vera and diabetes.
Aloe vera lowers cholesterol and triglycerides
When used internally, aloe vera gel improves the quality of the blood and helps rebalance the blood chemistry in a way that lowers cholesterol and total triglycerides (in people with elevated levels). When you consider that blueberries are also powerful cholesterol-lowering medicines, you realize why the Good Cause Wellness Aloe Vera + Blueberry product is such a smart idea: Both ingredients lower high cholesterol! |
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| In fact, many of the complications of diabetes are related to high glucose levels and the free radicals they produce. (Antioxidants and certain vitamins, which we'll discuss in chapter 10, can neutralize free radicals.)
What You Need to Know about Insulin
Insulin is commonly regarded as the hormone that regulates blood-sugar levels, although it does far more than this. Biologically, it's one of the most ancient of all hormones.
In fact, insulin is an extremely potent anabolic hormone, meaning that it promotes the production of new tissue. |
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 Almost 30% of people with diabetes aged 40 years or older have impaired sensation in the feet (i.e., at least one area that lacks feeling).
Severe forms of diabetic nerve disease are a major contributing cause of lower-extremity amputations, in fact more than 60% of nontraumatic lower-limb amputations occur in people with diabetes. |
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 The link between diabetes and accelerated aging is a process called glycation, a common chemical reaction in which a sugar molecule is bonded to a protein or fat molecule inside the body (endogenous glycation) or outside the body (exogenous glycation). Limiting glycation is critical when it comes to preventing, reversing, or treating diabetic complications. |
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