New Diabetes Rate Up 90 Percent in Last Decade

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thesillygoose — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 18:23:37 GMT

I have recently received a diagnosis of Type 2 diabetes. I am close to my ideal weight. I eat a VERY healthy diet low in carbs, no junk food, no processed foods, all whole grains, lots of fruits and veggies. I also exercise regularly. Yet here I am with diabetes. It is not always caused by lifestyle. There is nothing more that I could have done to prevent it.

Please don't assume that just because someone has type 2 diabetes that they are not taking care of their bodies.

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dayne201 — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 08:13:30 GMT

Is it really a good idea to skip potatoes? French fries yes, but a boiled or baked potato with butter tastes good, and there are so many nutrients that I don't think are lost when cooked? Does anyone know if the Native Americans ate potatoes (or something like them)?

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Heather Marsh — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 22:12:27 GMT

My understanding of diabetes and other dysfunctions is that they can start before birth - and the effects of disruption to the prostaglandin cycle do persist for generations.

The human body can function with a disrupted cycle - just not as well as it could. And there can be a 'domino' effect.

The prostaglandin cycle requires essential fatty acids in the right balance, plus many vitamins and minerals to ensure that each step in the cycle proceeds properly. Even then, supplementation with evening primrose oil or similar may be required if one has been born with a disrupted cycle - or illness has disrupted the cycle.

Our food now bears little resemblance to foodstuffs available to us at our beginnings. Growth of plants in less than ideal soils with fertilisers and insectides - meat animals raised on diets vastly different to their 'traditional' diets, pollution etc......then harvesting, transporting and storage, processing, refining and so forth all result in foodstuffs vastly different to the original diet. Add GM foods into the mix - and we are being fed and not nourished.

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Heather Marsh — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:19:32 GMT

Years ago, Dr Jonathan S Christie wrote ' Food for Vitality' in which he described diabetes as one of the possible outcomes of a disrupted prostaglandin cycle.

He spoke about the importance of the essential fatty acids and the vitamins and minerals required to use them within the prostaglandin cycle and also of the trans fatty acids/hydrogenated oils which cause severe disruption to this cycle.

We can live with a disrupted prostaglandin cycle - but not be healthy.

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veronica_3 — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:04:20 GMT

I want to know, Dr. Mercola, where you learned about leptin resistance.

You haven't cited any research to support your statements and I would love to see you back your advice up with facts - it would strengthen your stance.

Do you do the research yourself? Do you have others you can reference with this data?

Thank you so much for your help.

I really feel that carbohydrate limiting is the answer for diabetes. My husband has diabetes and getting him to exercise and limit carbs is very difficult. Those old food habits are hard to break. (so, teach your children well and they will grow up healthy!)

I have read about Dr. Bernstein and his 35 years of treating his own Type 1 Diabetes simply with carb avoidance. His book and web site are a worthy read on the subject for both kinds of Diabetes. He has a balanced approach and is himself diabetic who treats other diabetics. Lots of experience.

www.diabetes-normalsugars.com

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Dr. Peggy — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 03:13:38 GMT

Please don't say that Type 2 is "caused by obesity." Type 2 is often a genetic condition, as Dr. Mercola explains. Type 2 is a symptom of insulin resistance. Obesity is another symptom. The two are associated, which should not be confused with cause and effect. Type 2's are often obese because they can't metabolize sugars and other carbohydrates, which then are stored as fat. I am truly compassionate for most type 2 diabetics because they are told they "caused" their diabetes by getting fat. Nothing could be further from the truth. These unfortunate souls have been mislead by medical community, the government, and the media into eating the wrong diet. They are literally starving on their high-carb, low-at diets and of course have no energy to exercise! I know all this because I was almost one of them! Thank God I discovered Atkins, Mercola, Rosedale, Gary Taubes, et. al. and 9 years ago changed my diet. I am 55, slim, healthy, and not diabetic, though I was probably months away from a diagnosis before I changed my diet. I wish more could be done to stop the ADA, AHA, and AMA from "murdering" type 2s with their faulty dietary advice.

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Paul Jaep — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:16:23 GMT

The massive growth in numbers with diabetes is not the only significant statistic …We are experiencing rocketing growth of ALL so called auto-immune diseases.. asthma, allergies. Rheumatoid Arthritis , autism? , . is there a connection! . We’ll it would be strange if there wasn’t a connection ..The link is infection ..it’s proved with Rheumatoid Arthritis [google “rheumatoid arthritis infection”]… The obesity link is a red herring once removed …obesity is caused by inappropriate gut flora ..google “the obesity bug” and read this .

www.telegraph.co.uk/.../Fat-Blame-the-bugs-in-your-guts.html

Our gut bugs can modify the immune response by switching genes ..well , well.. so we don’t want our gut bugs to escape to other areas of the body because they will not be recognised as pathogens .. ask any trauma doc how difficult it is to eradicate gut bugs that have escaped into other areas ..[as in car smashes]

Auto immune diseases is the immune system in wound response pushed there by pathogens that can manipulate the immune system .

Read my site for an explanation, see auto immune disease in the left hand menu

www.yeast-candida-infections-uk.co.uk

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leppert — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:07:08 GMT

Dr. Blaylock recommends a magnesium product by Jigsaw Health. It really is excellent.

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WellAware — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 14:53:36 GMT

Nary a mention in Dr. Mercola's article about magnesium deficiency being a major factor in the development of pre-diabetes and diabetes... Hmmmm. I know he doesn't like to talk about supplements but he does anyway, and after reading four excellent books on the topic of magnesium, and having many clients successfully using it, and using it faithfully myself (and paying mightily when I run out!), I am convinced of the essential nature of magnesium for us. Transdermal is apparently the best way to get enough in, which is Epsom Salts---magnesium sulfate. Foot soaks---about 1c. Epsom salt: 1 pt. water, soak for 30 min. and you can re-use solution a few times. Bath---3 c. Epsom salt:tub of warm water, soak for about 30 min. By far the best way to get extra magnesium and our foods are woefully deficient in this mineral. Best orals are magnesium glycinate, taurate and malate. EAch one has different benefits, but these are the easiest on the digestive system. Go for 2-3 very soft stools/day. Over 300 functions in body CANNOT work if you are deficient in magnesium and more than 80% of us seriously deficient in magnesium!!! Important to have enough Vit. E (best form you can get), B6 and possibly digestive aids if you have malabsorption...).

BTW, I have never, to-date, in over 30 years, had one single regular client (at least once every few months) who has developed diabetes. I am a deep tissue massage therapist.

If you want to learn about magnesium right this minute, go to george-eby-research.com/.../depression-anxiety.html. This man has amassed over 160 pages of material on this site about magnesium and it won't cost you a cent to read it. Just looking at his first page, with his diagram of all the diagnoses that can be helped by magnesium is enough!!! Don't be misled by the title of his link; there's far, far more covered. And please, please, Dr. Mercola, when you talk about the rising diabetes rates, include talking about magnesium depletion!!!!!

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Keith Lurie — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:07:36 GMT

I have a friend who almost died last week because he had been continuing taking insulin while not eating. He was asked not to eat before going for an operation on his colon, and the doc neglected to tell him not to continue with the insulin. He is understandably upset with the doctor. Fair enough, but I could not understand how he did not know not to take insulin while not eating. This is indicitave of the problem of trusting doctors with your health, instead of taking responsibility yourself. If you suffer from a disease or condition, it is incumbent on you to know more about it than your doctor, how can you trust someone else with your health??

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Biggs — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 12:18:20 GMT

type 2 diabetes, need all you 90 minerals,amino acids, & fatty acids for the chromium & vanadium to correct the problem. Stop eating junk processed foods loaded with HFCS & carbs. Of course the way it is now, the organizations doc mercola pointed out want you to make sure you are worth $750,000 (GAO study) to the "health" system. Take care of yourself and please get your "90 essential" nutrients everyday!

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deborah3 — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:38:56 GMT

Please differentiate between Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes. You loose credibility and do all those suffering from diabetes a disservice.

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GRAYWOLF — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 09:55:55 GMT

Does anyone know when they started using HFCS in soft drinks instead of sugar?

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Hospitals amp Asylums — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 19:12:24 GMT

To reduce the incidence of diabetes remove Zyprexa from the market

There is a great possibility that the increase in diabetes in the United States is not only linked to obesity, that I define as the belly being more pronounced than the pectoral muscle when viewed in profile, but to the abusive de-liver-y of the anti-depressant drug Zyprexa. Tens of millions of prescriptions of Zyprexa are sold and circulate through society, specifically in the discrimination, violence and bio-terrorism prone, drug controlled, mis-behaving, and judicially corrupt psychiatric sector.

Zyprexa has been proven to cause diabetes when mixed with alcohol. Although several lawsuits have been brought to remove the drug from the market it is Eli-Lilly's best selling drug and they have paid hundreds of millions in settlements to keep it on the market. The case has been referred to Congress but President Bush invests in Eli Lilly and several acts of Congress have mentioned the company by name to protect its interests.

The increase in diabetes should probably be attributed to gavel crushed pills put in drinks by psychiatrically discriminatory people or bartenders tenderized by the police. Although anyone predisposed to genocide could do it, the diabetic bar seems to be the trademark of the US Marshall, the FBI prefer heart disease and federal courts who refuse to appoint defense attorneys in most medical malpractice and pharmaceutical product liability cases and call the poisoners immune, to foster the real unauthorized practice of law, ultra vires, they de-liver see... Zyprexa Product Liability Litigation
www.title24uscode.org/Zyprexa.htm