Dr. Mercola November 18 2008 22,075 views
Cheryl Rounds:
This is the horror of BIG PHARMA, they have created a convincing "crutch" that says to people live on the edge, do what you want, we have a safety net for you. In truth, we need to learn how to take care of ourselves to avoid doctors and hospitals, and you are so right we need to learn, or should I say re-learn how to simply feed ourselves. Food is grown, and comes from the earth, not from a box.
Cheryl wrote: The adults do not set healthy examples for the children of today and our schools are falling short in teaching healthy habits.
ALAN: Adults can not teach what they themselves do not know. And where does most everyone get their "education" about what to eat? From commercials on TV where mommy and daddy are taught that their children can live on snacks, junk food and treats, and if they really can't live on them, then they are still vitally important and will brings them lots of friends, happiness and popularity etc. TV commercials teach us that sitting on the couch, drinking beer and eating pizza all day while watching millionaires play football is somehow the American way to spend an afternoon.
We have codes to warn parents about the content of TV programs but what parents really need to be concerned about are the TV Commercials that convince their children that eating snacks with no known nutrition of any kind is a bigger and more dangerous problem than watching something sexy or violent.
"Concerned parents" know how many times someone is killed on TV each week, but do they have a clue about how many times their children are told that to be popular they have to eat white flour coated with sugar instead of an apple?
And is there any school teacher in America who would risk giving his/her students information that the FDA doesn't agree with? Imagine some teacher telling her students that diet and exercise can cure diabetes.
"The rise in diabetes is a result of a nation that no longer knows how to feed itself. We fill our stomachs with nutritionally deprived fast food and processed convenience foods."
Yes we do, and it's not our fault, although it's easy to think so. Our 'food desire mechanism' is broken and is mostly due to PRESCRIPTION DRUGS, including antibiotics and vaccinations.
Those drugs have promoted yeast overgrowth. Yeast lives on sugar and so does our brain. But when the yeast is gobbling up the sugar our brain needs, it screams "I'm dyin' up here! Get me some sugar and get it NOW!"
So day after day, and year after year, we pummel our bloodstream with too much sugar.
And that yeast travels through our bloodstream, pooping out 80 toxins which do us no good.
There are a lot more details here for how to reverse the whole process and not just part of the problem:
hubpages.com/.../How-to-Flatten-Your-Tummy-and-End-Food-Cravings-EFFORTLESSLY
In addition, for diabetics, with each meal I'd take 1,000 mgs of cinnamon and 200 mcgs of chromium picolinate. Cinnamon is a yeast fighter and helps open and close our cell walls to allow the proper amount of sugar in.
The picolinate form of chromium apparently streamlines our insulin so that the otherwise bulky, balky protein can transport the sugar into the cell with greater ease.
The chromium picolinate also does good things for the pituitary, thyroid and thymus, all of which are involved in keeping us from aging too rapidly.
If our sugar problem and subsequent yeast overgrowth is due to the mercury in vaccinations, that needs to be addressed as well. I like broken cell chlorella (Sun Chlorella or Kyoto Chlorella are two good ones) and apple pectin for that.
The best to you.
Kelley Eidem
Together we can cure cancer - one person at a time!
A logical and natural approach to treatment for diabetes involves modifying the diet to a low glycemic diet, exercise program, and weight loss. The Atkins type diet which is low carbohydrates diet, and high in fat and protein has been known to improve insulin resistance and reduce fasting blood sugar values. It is also helpful for weight loss. Eliminate refined sugar and refined carbohydrates for maximal benefit. Also recomennded is Protein Power by Drs. Michael and Mary Dan Eades. An excellent resource is Jenny Ruhl's new book, Blood Sugar 101. She explains how to improve insulin sensitivity by using a glucometer to measure blood sugar after a meal. Knowing how high your blood sugar goes after a carbohydrate loaded meal gives you information about what types of carbohydrates to avoid and keeps your blood sugar under control with diet. By keeping blood sugar under control, the insulin resistance improves automatically.
jeffreydach.com/.../how-to-improve-insulin-resistance-in-type-two-diabetes-by-jeffrey-dach-md.aspx
Jeffrey Dach
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??
Hospitals & Asylums:
This is BIG PHARMA'S circle of life. Create many more sick people, as a means of staying in business. It starts with prescription pain killers, and moves on to anti-depressants. What a world. You think?
what is Zyprexa?
Does it go by other names?
I am curious.
Does anyone know when they started using HFCS in soft drinks instead of sugar?
Graywolf:
It was about 1979, but really took off in the 1980s. It started with sodas, then baked goods, etc.
High FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP (HFCS) was introduced about 1973, IN the year 1975, for the first time, the consumption of soft drinks exceeded that of water.
(I went to a conference in 1964 where the effects and metabolism of fructose was discussed.)
Fructose cannot be used for energy by the body. This molecule is a simple sugar that is transformed in the blood strean m to triglycerides and fatty acids.
It is metabolized vey differently than glucose.
1. Fructose trigers the production of insulin but there is no glucose to react with. This production of excess insulin starts to stress the pancreas and wear it out.
The fructose is stored a glycogen ion the liver. Normally the glycogen is converted to glucose by the enzyme lipase. However, the presence of any caffiene
blocks the lipase from working. Thus the fructose sugar is deposited as fat becuase it cannot be converted to glucose. Two cans of soda per day will cause a gain of about 15 pounds in a year.
The net result is accumulation of fat. There are serious health problems associated with HFCS. Life Extension Foundation has just published a review of the health problems caused by HFCS. See December 2008 article of Life Extension on pages 69-77. Food Scientist.
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.
Amen,
I agree 100%!!!!
My New Years resolution this year was to stop taking Prescription drugs for diabetes, cholesterol and high blood pressure and take control of my health with diet and exercise. It has worked wonderfully. I am in better health than I have been in for many years and have the numbers to prove it. I also credit and thank your list of people with Dr Robert Atkins on the top!