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The Book of Diabetes 2 Introduction by Stephen Gislason MD |
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There are two kinds of books; the first has a happy ending; the second has a sad ending. We would like this to be a happy-ending book. The problem is that this book is about diabetes 2, and this disease can be a bad disease. Often the endings of diabetes 2 stories are not happy. People with diabetes 2 who refuse to change or cannot change the way they et and live are heading for the unhappy ending. In order to work toward a happy ending, the reader will have be realistic and confront some unpleasant facts. The reader will also have to be open to discover some new ideas and a whole new approach to living. The good news is that a happy outcome is the reward for those who with diligence and intelligence pursue changes in the way they live, eat, work and play. I do not regard diabetes as a primary disease. Diabetes 2 is a result of more fundamental disease processes that involve abnormal responses to food and a sedentary life style. For example, you could argue that diabetes 2 is “bad food disease;” or that diabetes 2 is “sitting disease;” or that diabetes 2 is ”lack of exercise disease.” You should accept that diabetes 2 is a name for an evolving complex of metabolic derangement's that contribute to an unpleasant list of chronic and disabling illnesses. monster truck games The good news is that the impending disasters are optional if living conditions are changed completely. Newly diagnosed diabetics should act immediately and design a new life style with a new diet and increased physical activity. Most will need to lose weight. Conventional ideas of the “wrong food” usually point to too much fat or sugar in the diet. We have a hunch that diabetes 2 is related to more pervasive and less obvious problems in the food supply and modern sedentary lifestyle. The hunch implicates "normal" foods that most people eat such as dairy products, bread, milk and eggs. We know that most overweight people who develop diabetes have symptoms of other disease processes. These warning symptoms usually precede the onset of diabetes by many years. Excess sugar consumption does not cause diabetes. However, once you are diabetic, excess sugar consumption becomes poisonous. The early symptoms can be resolved by diet revision, but diabetics, like most people, ignore or attempt to treat their symptoms with drugs and never change the problem diet so that the underlying disease progresses slowly but surely. There are genetic predispositions to becoming overweight and developing diabetes, but you have still have to eat the wrong food for many years to get the disease. Genetic predisposition does not mean that the disease is inevitable. You do have a choice before and after the diagnosis is made. Genetic disposition means that if you eat too much of the wrong food, gain weight and exercise too little you will definitely get sick and suffer. Digestive symptoms, for example, suggest that foods that being eaten are a problem long before the blood sugar rises. We suspect that the proteins in cereal grains that cause chronic and severe illness in some people may contribute to the creation of diabetes2. Because of this hunch, gluten is excluded from the Alpha Nutrition Program. Similarly we have a hunch that cow’s milk proteins contributes to this and other diseases. While elevated levels of sugar in the body seem to be the leading edge of the emerging body damage in diabetics, changes in fat metabolism, liver and kidney function, and circulation impairment add to a cascade of dysfunction; 75% of the early deaths in diabetics are caused by coronary artery disease and heart attacks. Some of the mechanisms and consequences of diabetes 2 are understood, but no-one really knows exactly what causes this problem or why it is increasing in frequency, even in young people. We argue that diabetes is a food-related disease and can be provoked by staple foods in the diet. Diabetes could be milk and wheat disease or eggs and meat disease. We are convinced that diabetes 2 is a collection of effects and not a cause of the prolific and chronic illness that diabetics often endure. We advocate complete diet revision and a permanent change in food choices. If you are diagnosed with glucose intolerance and/or diabetes, you can be sure that your current food choices are wrong and must be changed.
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