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DIABETES 194

When you get over 40 and definitely over 50 you better be aware of this and have your doctor looking for ways to keep you away from this killer.

You do not have to be old to get the disease, Shawn Putman, a top 10 player is a young guy, but over weight and he found out he had it. He is right now into a serious life style change with a new diet. Kid Delicious, very over weight, 300 lbs plus, got it and went off the tour with a serious illness. Just lose weight, cut out the junk and cookies. It will begin with blurred vision and bad fatigue. A proper diet and good exercise will help to prevent this.

57 million Americans have pre diabetes, meaning, they are ready to step right into it at any time. They are doing damage to their bodies and they do not know it. If you are over 45 and over weight, you are a prime candidate.
I spend a lot of time with my 90 year old mother in a 14 story semi nursing home and I see a lot of this there. It’s mostly old men who were alcoholics and the sugar in the booze got them. Serious drunks do not eat so it won’t kill the buzz and almost live on the sugar. That is why they are so thin; they eat as little as possible.
When Diabetes gets rolling it becomes a living nightmare seeing parts of your body literally rot and fall off. Your toes, one at a time turn black and are cut off, then go your lower leg, and then your upper leg and you then lose both of them and are in a wheel chair.

My Grandmother died from it and she had a drinking problem. Her leg filled up with gangrene puss and when the doctor was trying to lance and drain it out it literally blew up in his face and the poisons inside put his eye out. Cutting back on the booze and too much sugar is step one. Here are other ways by Dan Vierria.

It is a grim statistic but this may be the first generation in which children live shorter lives than their parents. Why, the epidemic of diabetes which in the 90’s increased by 70% in people ages 30 to 39, and 40% in those 40-49 and younger people are now getting it which used to be rare. 1 in 3 children now in the US will become diabetic, 1 in 2 Hispanics and African Americans. Obesity is partly to blame and this condition affects just about every organ in the body. It reduces blood flow to your heart leading to attacks, blow slows to your brain leading to strokes, to your sexual organs leading to impotence, to your legs and feet and they turn black and rot off. You get more infections and are more likely to die of pneumonia or influenza. Diabetic eye disease is the leading cause of new cases of blindness in people ages 20 to 74 and its being found it raises the risk of Alzheimer’s. The higher your blood sugar the higher your risk of dementia as you age.

Did I just give you a giant reason to stop eating triple burgers with cheese and bacon and get on a diet and exercise program.

Drink milk, studies show it increases insulin and lowers blood sugar. A Harvard study found that men who drink 3 glasses of milk a day have a 23% lower risk of developing diabetes than men who drank little or none.

Snack on Walnuts, eat oily fish like tuna or salmon twice a week and take Omega-3 pills. It protects against heart disease.

Sleep more; studies show people who slept 6 hours or less were 66% more likely to have diabetes than those who slept 7 to 8 hours. Insufficient sleep causes the release of adrenaline like substances that induce insulin resistance.

Get real fat, and die when you turn 50, or shape up now while you still have time to make your life style changes. Start walking and exercising every day.

No time for breakfast and too much TV can trigger diabetes. Fitness magazine in its April edition, reports on 9 surprising diabetes risk factors. The disease affects 21 million people in the USA and the fatter we keep getting the more this problem increases.

Skipping breakfast increases our risk 30 to 50%, and watching TV for 2 or more hours per day boots it 14%. The main reason for the story was to point out that people can lower their risk in about a month. While the exact cause of diabetes is still unknown, the Americans with disabilities act points to studies that have concluded genetics and lifestyle factors like obesity and lack of exercise appear to be linked with the disease.

TV, get off your butt and exercise instead. More TV means less activity. Limit TV to 10 hours a week and plan regular times to exercise.

Drinking just one soda a day increases your risk by 83%. They are full of sugar and 100 calories each easily which leads to weight gain. Move to diet soda, then to water or unsweetened tea.

Skipping breakfast raises your risk 50%. Not having that morning meal increases the appetite stimulating hormone ghrelin, making you hungrier and likely to eat more. Eat high fiber cereal with low fat milk and one half cup of fruit in the morning. Chop up a banana in it. This makes your cells respond better to insulin. Consuming dairy products may also cut the risk for insulin resistance by 72%. I drink a lot of milk and eat cheese.

A bout of major depression raises you by 23% which alters your body chemistry in a way that makes us more prone to the disease. Talk hard long walks, exercise, jog out of it.

Waking in the middle of the night raises you 98%. Not being able to stay asleep means you’re not getting enough sleep making you more prone to developing insulin resistance and leading to diabetes. No caffeine after breakfast. No TV or alcohol right before bed. Stay off the cpu late at night.
Eating fast food more than twice a week raises you 100% at risk. Eating burgers, fries, sodas, puts on 10 extra pounds and makes you twice as likely to become resistant to insulin. Eat wisely with smaller portions. Stay out of buffets and all you can eat places.

High stress raises your risk 184%. Stress can interfere with your ability to make insulin and process glucose. Learn to meditate. Every day close your eyes for 10-15 minutes and relax.

Consuming lots of processed meat raises your risk 43%. Hot dogs, bacon are loaded with preservatives that may destroy insulin producing cells in your pancreas. Stop eating them.
A Harvard study found that women who had these meats less often than once a week had the lowest risk.
I am not a big fan of the doctors and medical community and I look upon them as Bones did in the starship enterprise when they went back in time. But, right now the system and they are all we have. I just despise the incest relationship the doctors have with the drug manufacturers. I am not like the guy KT who wrote the natural cures book who is telling you to not take medicine or doctors treatments. For much serious illness if you don’t you will die. I am saying follow the doctor’s treatment, but explore treating yourself with as many natural cures as you can find. One of the two might get lucky and work. What do you have to lose? If your natural cure works, then you can drop the meds to see if that was it?
In the movie Michael the arc angle is pouring sugar on everything. He said you can’t get too much. I wonder if the sugar industry paid them to say that. You know they pay producers to have the stars smoke cigarettes. Be careful of the propaganda being fed to you today. Disgusting, there is no sugar in my house, never in my tea either, I used lemon juice. Sugar is empty calories. Read this one and I guarantee you that you will round up all the sugar in your house and toss it in the trash can.



Is sugar bad for you?
The white crystalline substance we know of as sugar is an unnatural substance produced by industrial processes (mostly from sugar cane or sugar beets) by refining it down to pure sucrose, after stripping away all the vitamins, minerals, proteins, enzymes and other beneficial nutrients.
What is left is a concentrated unnatural substance which the human body is not able to handle, at least not in anywhere near the quantities that is now ingested in today's accepted lifestyle. Sugar is addictive. The average American now consumes approximately 115 lbs. of sugar per year. This is per man, woman and child.
The biggest reason sugar does more damage than any other poison, drug or narcotic is twofold:
• (a) It is considered a "food" and ingested in such massive quantities, and
• ( The damaging effects begin early, from the day a baby is born and is fed sugar in its formula. Even mother’s milk is contaminated with it if the mother eats sugar, and
• © Practically 95% of people are addicted to it to some degree or other.
Sugar is eaten to excess
It has been said that the criteria as to whether a substance (any substance) is harmful or medically beneficial is the quantity in which it is used in the human body. To point to a dramatic illustration: we all know that the venom of a rattlesnake, a cobra, water moccasin, coral, and other venomous snakes is deadly to the human system. There are some snakes whose bite is so deadly it can cause death within a matter of seconds. Nevertheless, even snake venom, deadly as it is, has been used for therapeutic, medical purposes when used in minute quantities.
History of sugar
Whereas sugar had been around in minute quantities for several thousand years, it was practically unknown and formed an insignificant part of the average diet in the Classical civilizations of Egypt, Greece and Rome. The Greeks (who had a word for nearly everything!) did not even have a word for it. Even in medieval Europe it was practically unknown and then only a rare delicacy in the royal courts.
During the last major Crusade that ended in 1204 some of the Christian Crusaders were introduced to sugar freely used by the Saracens. The Moors when invading and colonizing the southern part of Spain grew sugar cane on Spanish soil and refined sugar. When Spain drove out the Moors, it inherited some of the cane plantations. It was during this time that Christendom took its first big bite of the forbidden fruit and liked it.
Sugar is an unnatural chemical
Why is sugar so devastating to our health? One reason is it is pure chemical and (like heroin) through refining has been stripped of all the natural food nutrition that it originally had in the plant itself.
Heroin and sugar are arrived at by very similar processes of refinement. In producing heroin, the opium is first extracted from the poppy: The opium is then refined into morphine. The chemists then went to work on morphine and further refined it into heroin, proclaiming they had "discovered" a wonderful new pain-killer that was non-addictive. So they said.
Similarly, sugar is first pressed as a juice from the cane (or beet) and refined into molasses. Then it is refined into brown sugar, and finally into strange white crystals C12H22O, that are an alien chemical to the human system.
Sugar is addictive
A second reason that sugar is so harmful is that like heroin it is addictive, and being delectable and seductive to the taste, it is also habit forming. Starting with sugar in the baby's formula, people not only develop a strong taste for sugar but an insatiable craving for it so that they never seem to get enough of this poison.
Slow but insidious
A third reason is that the damage sugar does is slow and insidious. It takes years before it ruins your pancreas, your adrenal glands, throws your whole endocrine system out of kilter and produces a huge list of damage.
Foods are loaded with sugar
A fourth reason is the outrageous amounts of sugar civilized nations consume. Americans in particular are told how they are the best fed and best nourished people on the face of the earth. If we are talking about processed junk food - this is true.
If you examine the "foods" in any supermarket more closely and start reading labels, you will find just about everything contains sugar. Most of the foods are loaded with it - from cereals, to soups, to ketchup, to hotdogs. Even flue-cured tobacco can contain as much as 20% sugar by weight. Some cereals are as much as 50% sugar. Never buy your kids any cereal coated with sugar.
List of Damages
We have stated that sugar is deleterious to your health: that it is more damaging than all other narcotics combined; that it is a long term chemical poison. Just what damage does sugar do to the human body? The list is endless.
When we talk about sugar, we are including bad nutrition as a whole, since anyone who indulges in sugar has bad dietary habits per se.
1. Sugar is by far the leading cause of dental deterioration - cavities in teeth, bleeding gums, failure of bone structure, and loss of teeth.
2. Sugar is the main cause of diabetes, hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia.
3. It is either a significant or contributory cause of heart disease, arteriosclerosis, mental illness, depression, senility, hypertension, cancer.
4. It has an extremely harmful effect in unbalancing the endocrine system and injuring its component glands such as the adrenal glands, pancreas and liver, causing the blood sugar level to fluctuate widely. It has a number of other extremely damaging effects on the human body.
Some of the other effects of sugar on the body are:
• Increases overgrowth of candida yeast organism
• Increases chronic fatigue
• Can trigger binge eating in those with bulima
• Increases PMS symptoms
• Increases hyperactivity in about 50% of children
• Increases tooth decay
• Increases anxiety and irritability
• Can increase or intensify symptoms of anxiety and panic in susceptible women
• Can make it difficult to lose weight because of constantly high insulin levels, which causes the body to store excess carbs as fat.
There are a number of books available on the subject, but perhaps one of the most interesting ones is "Sugar Blues" by William Dufty. It is available in most Health Food stores.



Sue Hoffman of Florida reports battling diabetes can be very challenging and for 3 years my husband was diagnosed with type 2. We started exercising and eating a lot more protein, fruits, vegetables and low-fat no sugar foods. We now real all food labels for fat, carb and sugar content. Within 2 years my husband lost 100 lbs and I took off 30. His diabetes is under control: His blood pressure is excellent. He stopped snoring and no longer need acid reflux meds. This wakeup call was actually a blessing in disguise. We are in our 50’s and in the best shape ever.

Gregg Macklin of Indiana says, my doctor and certified diabetic educator suggested I was nuts for wanting to try diet and exercise to avoid talking medication. I started power walking and recently ran my first 5K race. My blood pressure is normal, my resting heart rate is excellent and I no longer take the meds. I have diabetes, diabetes does not have me.
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Doctors push meds, they make money on pushing drugs. They do not make money telling you to go run in the park. That is not going to buy them their 2nd home on the beach they all want and end up with by writing you prescriptions you have to pay them office visits to get. That is the con. The hook they put in you. They do not take the time to push holistic medicine because there is no money in it for them.