What is type 2 diabetes?
Type 2 diabetes is defined as the body's inability to
control and regulate blood glucose levels. Good effective
insulin is produced, but the mechanisms whereby glucose is
taken into the cells for metabolism fails. This results in
high blood glucose levels. This ineffectiveness concerns
every cell in the body. Thus, the cells are denied vital
energy supplies. Type 2 diabetes could lead to some very
serious illness or death.
The current situation
In the USA the American Diabetes Association reports there
are well over 20 million people with type 2 diabetes. This
represents around 7% of the population. Diabetes UK reports
there are over 2 million in Britain; while three quarters
of a million don't yet know they have it (it takes about 6
or 7 years for the disease to manifest).
-No doubts that this epidemic, mostly confined to the
westernised world, has escalated out of control. It has
increased by about 700% over the last fifty-odd years.
Orthodox medical treatment versus alternative cures
The first thing to get here is because the body cannot
control blood glucose levels due to ineffective insulin, it
doesn't mean that this is the root cause of type 2
diabetes. 'It is only a symptom.
''To a pharmaceutical company, a patient cured is a patient
lost''
Orthodox medicine's treatment by using insulin therefore
only handles the symptom and not the underlying root cause.
Patients with diabetes type 2 could end up being treated
for the rest of their lives with expensive insulin drugs
because they will never be cured. They could also spend the
rest of their lives in much pain, discomfort and suffer
side effects: Patients are overloaded with too much insulin
and are wrongly advised to have a high carbohydrate diet
(junk food included?), which causes weight gain and further
side effects...
-This is a bit like complaining to someone that you are
feeling hot and his or her response is to give you a coat
to put on!
Is there a way towards prevention, reversal and cure of
diabetes with no need for drugs?
The evidence suggests yes.
Looking at the situation in a new light, this what many
alternative practitioners have found and now advise:
Dietary changes
1. Reduce the high levels of carbohydrates!
Do away with those starchy grainy carbohydrates and get
some good quality food like fruit and vegetables instead,
preferably of the organic kind with a low glycemic index
(slower glucose release into the blood during break down).
2. Increase fat intake
However, do away with those nasty trans-fats and cheap
nasty junk oils like sunflower, conola, cotton seed and
corn vegetable seed oils...and take far quality more
omega-3 fat based foods instead. Omega-3 fats foods can be
found in fish oils such as cod liver oil and krill oil,
flax seed and walnuts... Good quality fats and oils have
been shown to vastly improve the uptake of glucose into the
cell.
Keep up regular exercise each day and have a positive
outlook on life with the above dietary changes and you
could well be on the road to reversing diabetes type 2.
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I, Paul Phillips am a health writer researcher. I graduated
in 'Biological Sciences' which includes biochemistry,
physiology and nutrition. I have worked in various related
research and development labs.
I am always willing to give advice and help people in my
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