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Reversing Diabetes and Coronary Heart Disease
By admin | November 11, 2011
Reversing Diabetes 2 is easier than you think. Drug companies do not want you to know this. Mainstream medicine, the government and health authorities in general, say that diabetes is not curable. Mainstream medicine tries to control it with only drugs.
There are a number of alternative medical doctors who successfully treat and eliminate the disease by diet control, supplements and exercise. Here are some of the most prominent ones: Frank Schallenberger,M.D., Stephen Sinatra, M.D., Julian Whitaker, M.D., Michael Cutler, M.D., Jonathan Wright, M.D., Stefan Ripich, N.D. These doctors generally do not advocate drugs to control diabetes 2.
The American Diabetes Association says 65% of diabetics will die of cardiovascular disease, specifically coronary heart disease. Reversing diabetes 2 is accomplished by controlling diet and getting some exercise and providing a few supplements. With diabetes 2 the chief culprits are excess sugar and insulin resistance. They produce rapid and heavy atherosclerosis. This results in a thick plaque lining your arteries…and this creates a whole host of problems.
Excess glucose and insulin accumulate and causes multiple health problems. It is a leading cause of eyesight damage, amputations, kidney destruction, cardiovascular disease, increased cancer and shorter life spans. It produces a chronic inflammation that propels most degenerative diseases. There are ways to combat the host of problems created. Excess blood glucose and insulin must be reduced for success. Reversing diabetes can only be accomplished in this way.
An overview of diabetes 2 finds it is mostly a lifestyle and dietary problem. The U.S. statistics, in various studies, on sugar consumption, are 139 pounds to 159 pounds per person per year. Sugar, or high glycemic carbohydrates, is the driver and ultimate cause of diabetes. High levels of glucose in the blood cause insulin resistance and further compound the problem of excess glucose. The scary statistic is one person in five has diabetes 2 and many do not even know they have it.
The sugar consumption includes fructose (fruit sugar) and sucrose (table sugar), soda pop as well as other sources such as molasses and honey. These all contain large amounts of glucose. Glucose is both a blessing and a curse. As a blessing it is essential for energy and fuel in each cell of your body. Unfortunately it becomes a curse when it is excessive; it is what we see in the over consumption found in prosperous countries like the U.S.A.
A common perception is “fat consumption makes you fat”. The real driver of fat accumulation is usually sugar. Why?
Sugar contains glucose which is immediate fuel for your body. The problem is glucose cannot be readily stored. Only a small amount can be stored as readily available energy. It must otherwise be immediately used or converted. The vast majority of glucose, when sugar intake is excessive, is turned into long chain fatty acids, known as triglycerides. (These also propel atherosclerosis and heart disease.)
Triglycerides can be converted into energy with proper fat hormones, oxygen and fat enzymes. There is a limit to how much immediate energy can be stored, so the fatty acid triglycerides left over convert into fat. These fats are stored in the fat beds of your body.
People suffering from diabetes 2 have very high levels of glucose and resultant triglycerides. As a result of this these diabetics will usually gain substantial belly fat in spite of sometimes being skinny. (unless exercise burns the fat, it accumulates) Excess abdominal fat becomes a marker for the diabetic profile. If you are interested in a comprehensive understanding of reversing diabetes you can get my book which is published on Amazon Kindle store at this link: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005LDMQ58
P.S. You can also get my Amazon Kindle book entitled Coronary Heart Disease at the Amazon Kindle book store. Just enter the title as the keyword. It should be one of the first ones visible in the search…Denis Van Loan D.D.S.
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