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New Diabetes Rate Up 90 Percent in Last Decade

diabetes, blood sugarThe rate of new cases of diabetes has increased by about 90 percent in the United States over the past decade. The incidence of the disease has been fueled by growing obesity rates and increasingly sedentary lifestyles.

Diabetes experts said the findings show there is no end in sight to the diabetes epidemic.

From 1995 to 1997, newly diagnosed cases of diabetes were at 4.8 per 1,000 annually. Between 2005 and 2007, that number rose to 9.1 per 1,000 people.

The most common form of diabetes, type 2 diabetes, is closely linked to obesity and has become increasingly common as more people become obese. An estimated 90 percent to 95 percent of the new cases are type 2 diabetes.

The American Diabetes Association said 24 million U.S. children and adults -- about 8 percent of the population -- have diabetes.

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Nearly 8 percent of the U.S. population, or 24 million people, has diabetes, and another 57 million have pre-diabetes, which puts them at an increased risk of the disease.

Meanwhile, these latest statistics show that new cases of diabetes have increased by 90 percent in the last 10 years!

This sad finding reveals just how miserably conventional medicine is failing at addressing type 2 diabetes, which is virtually 100 percent reversible and avoidable. They are failing because their standard recommendations, both in terms of medication and nutrition, are incorrect.

When any disease skyrockets by 90 percent in just one decade, it would seem an urgent overhaul of the current treatment guidelines would be a no-brainer. Yet, most physicians, and certainly most public health officials, will not even consider that their advice is leading people astray.

The Glaring Diabetes Error That Even Most Doctors Don’t Recognize

The concept that is being overlooked by conventional medicine is that diabetes is not a disease of blood sugar. Yes, blood sugar becomes elevated in people with diabetes, but this is a symptom of the real problem, and it is an attempt by your body to keep things in balance.

The REAL problem in diabetes is insulin, and more specifically insulin resistance, along with faulty leptin signaling.

When blood sugar becomes elevated it is a signal for insulin to be released to direct the extra energy into storage. A small amount is stored as a starch called glycogen in your body, but the majority is stored as your main energy supply -- fat. Thus, in this regard insulin's major role is not to lower sugar, but to take the extra energy and store it for future times of need.

Insulin lowers your blood sugar as a side effect of directing the extra energy into storage.

This is why treatments that concentrate merely on lowering blood sugar for diabetes while raising insulin levels can actually worsen rather than remedy the actual problem of metabolic miscommunication. And most treatments for type 2 diabetes involve drugs that either raise insulin or lower blood sugar (which they do by multiplying your fat cells at a faster rate), ultimately contributing to the side effects and the shortened lifespan that diabetics experience.

To put it simply, the treatments just don’t work because they are not addressing insulin resistance and leptin resistance, which are the result of metabolic miscommunications.

If Your Diabetes Doctor Doesn’t Know About Leptin, Find a New Doctor Fast

Recent compelling research reveals that the two most important organs that will determine whether you develop type 2 diabetes or not are your liver and your brain -- and it is their ability to listen to leptin that will determine this.

Leptin is produced by fat and largely influences, if not controls, the manifest functions of the hypothalamus in your brain, including:

• Reproduction
• Thyroid function
• Adrenal function
• Sympathetic nervous system

Leptin also tells your body:

• How much energy it has, and whether it needs more (signaling you to "be hungry")

• Whether it should get rid of some energy (saying “stop being hungry”)

• Most importantly, what to do with the energy already there (reproduce cells or focus on cellular repair)

Your brain and liver need to be able to hear these signals coming from leptin, and hear them correctly, in order to keep things in your body functioning smoothly. However, if you become leptin resistant, the part of leptin's message that would normally reduce hunger and fat stores, and increase fat burning, does not get through to your brain -- so you stay hungry and store more fat, rather than burning it.

Meanwhile, leptin’s message to increase sympathetic nervous system activity gets through all too loudly and clearly, so you stay hungry, continue to get fat, and get not only elevated sugar, insulin resistance and diabetes, but also high blood pressure, heart disease and accelerated aging.

If You Want to Prevent or Reverse Diabetes, IGNORE the Following “Health” Agencies

1. American Dietetic Association
2. American Heart Association
3. American Diabetes Association

For the last 50 years, many people have been following the nutritional recommendations from these agencies, which advise a high complex carbohydrate, low saturated fat diet. Well, by some estimates diabetes has increased more than 700 percent over this same time span, and you would have to have blinders on to not notice the connection.

The problem is that they are continuing to spread the damaging myth that saturated fats must be avoided, while grains and vegetable oils should be emphasized. This is a whole topic in and of itself, but at the most basic level eating a high "complex" carbohydrate, low saturated fat diet for health and longevity has been shown to be wrong. And if you have diabetes, you need to avoid grains, even whole grains and things like rice, potatoes and cereal, to get healthy.

Getting Over Diabetes Once and For All

There are two things that everyone should be doing to avoid becoming a diabetes statistic:

1. Exercising frequently
2. Adopting an eating plan that emphasizes good fats, protein and non-grain carbohydrates (vegetables)

Folks, diabetes is expanding at alarming rates. Now is the time for you to Take Control of Your Health and start a new lifestyle that will make you virtually immune to not only diabetes, but also heart disease, hypertension, and many other chronic diseases -- and all without the use of potentially dangerous drugs.


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Posted On Nov 03, 2008
The rise in diabetes is a result of a nation that no longer knows how to feed itself.  We fill our stomachs with nutritonally deprived fast food and processsed convenience foods.  Few of us even get a minimun of 5 servings of fruits and vegetables that were formally recommended for a healthy diet (the new recommendation is 9)  Whem we are hungry we snack on junk instead of using  this opportunity to incorporate more fruits and vegetables into our diets.  We also chose to drink sweentened beverages over pure water (both the sugared and diet versions wreck havoc with our health)

We are lured by the option of convenience over nutrition.  The adults do not set healthy examples for the children of today and our schools are falling short in teaching healthy habits.  In our town middle schoolers take 2 trimesters of gym in three years.  Cooking skills are taught in a 6 week life skills course in which students are taught to microwave convenience foods.

Our health care crisis is not about people not having health (disease) insurance.  Our real crisis is a nation of people that do  not know how t be healthy.

 
Cheryl Rounds
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curious7
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Posted On Nov 18, 2008

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.



Reverend Alan
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Posted On Nov 18, 2008

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.  



KelleyEidem
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Posted On Nov 18, 2008

"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!



Dr.jeffrey dach
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Posted On Dec 02, 2008

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


 
 
 
Posted On Nov 18, 2008

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??


 
Keith Lurie
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Posted On Nov 04, 2008
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  

 
Hospitals amp Asylums
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Posted On Nov 18, 2008

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?



Heather Marsh
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Posted On Nov 19, 2008

what is Zyprexa?

Does it go by other names?

I am curious.


 
 
 
Posted On Nov 18, 2008

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


 
GRAYWOLF
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Posted On Nov 18, 2008

Graywolf:

It was about 1979, but really took off in the 1980s.  It started with sodas, then baked goods, etc.



Food Doctor
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Posted On Nov 19, 2008

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.


 
 
 
Posted On Nov 18, 2008

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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Posted On Nov 19, 2008

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!


 
 
 
 
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