Why Destroy Healthy Organs

In January 2008 the Journal of the American Medical Association argued the case for surgery as the newest breakthrough in treating Type 2 diabetes. This makes no sense at all and merely encourages the quick-fix practice people have come to expect in medicine, without eradicating the cause of the problem. One shudders to think what might happen if this principle were applied when someone got a headache.

So why do surgeons recommend gastric surgery? No doubt its because dieting doesn’t work and people are desperate. Gastric surgery results in a 20% weight loss while ‘dieting’ produced only a 2% weight loss.

Gastric bypass surgery characterizes the first time in medical history that doctors are removing healthy tissue, with 200,000 surgeries performed in 2006, and rising. This is a 1,500% increase in the previous 8 years.

Meantime, there is considerable risk of dying during this type of surgery, a great shock is experienced by the body in these circumstances and increased neurological problems arise after five years. This treatment poses a huge health risk on all counts and cannot be recommended as a ‘breakthrough’ in treating an easily reversed condition such as Type 2 diabetes.

What is not well known, because doctors are not nutritionists, is the report in 1998 on findings that insulin resistance (the real cause of the problem) could be reversed in four days with the right diet. Surely this has to be the route to take; for the immediate benefit of reversing diabetes and the health of the patient in the long-term

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Chromium and Diabetes

In the metabolism of glucose (or GTF – glucose tolerance factor), chromium is required for energy. Chromium is also vital in the synthesis of cholesterol, fats and proteins – further important factors concerning diabetes

Chromium is an essential mineral that maintains stable blood sugar levels through proper insulin utilization and is helpful for diabetics as well as hypoglycemics. In fact, both diabetics and hypoglycemics are deficient in chromium and only 10% of Americans have an adequate amount of chromium in their diets, for the following reasons:

• Not enough foods containing chromium are consumed
• Chromium is lost during food processing
• People don’t like foods containing chromium
• High quantities of sugar in the diet cause chromium loss
• Chromium in many foods is not easily absorbed
• Chromium levels start to decrease in the early 40’s

Supplemental chromium as chromium picolinate enables chromium to enter the cells of the body and so help insulin do its job more effectively. If you are a diabetic, be sure to advise your health care professional should you begin to supplement with chromium, as it will have a positive effect on your blood sugar levels and you may then need to decrease your medication

Find chromium in these foods:

Beer (hooray!), brewer’s yeast, brown rice, cheese, meat, whole grains, dried beans, calf liver, chicken, corn, dairy products, dried liver, eggs, mushrooms and potatoes

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'Heart risk posed' by diabetes drugs

Two drugs commonly prescribed to treat Type 2 diabetes double the risk of heart failure, a study on more than 78,000 patients suggests.

Rosiglitazone and pioglitazone are well known to diabetics, and it’s been stated the manufacturers, GlaxoSmithKline and the FDA knew about the dangers of these drugs prescribed to at least 1.5 million people in Britain last year.

“There doesn't seem to be a group of patients who are safe from these side-effects” reports Dr Yoon Loke University of East Anglia.

An internet search for ‘worst drugs’ reveals:

‘We list these drugs as Do Not Use drugs because they may be less effective than other drugs for diabetes and cause liver damage, weight gain, anemia and heart failure.’

Furthermore, Rosiglitazone was linked earlier this year to heart attacks.
The researchers, led by the University of East Anglia, suggest fluid retention caused by the drugs may be to blame.

Even more astonishing, a spokesman from the manufacturing drug company GlaxoSmithKline, has said: "The risk of heart failure in diabetes patients and with use of these medicines is well recognised and is clearly identified in prescribing information to doctors in the UK."

To repeat – 1.5 million people took the drug in Britain last year.

Something is clearly obvious – every diabetic patient taking this drug is at risk for heart disease. BUT, diabetes is a preventable condition, and even if both your parents and entire family suffered from it is no reason to fall into the trap of believing you have to suffer from it too.

Diabetes is a disease of lifestyle and poor eating habits – change them, with the approval of your doctor and guidance from a nutritionally trained health professional and you will reverse the condition. As long as you are not insulin dependant (Type 1 diabetic), there is plenty of hope for a full reversal of the condition.

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Pineapples fed high-dose cadmium poisoned fertiliser from China

First it was poisoned chicken feed and contaminated dog food from China, now its fertilizer stacked with high doses of cadmium. When are complacent customers going to check their food sources, be they struggling farmers looking for a cheap way out, or Regular Joe’s and Jane’s scanning supermarket shelves?

Better still, when are more people going to wake up to the dangers of cheap chemical fertilisers enough to rush helter skelter into organic food production before we all have to grow our own food in case store bought stuff kills us on the spot?

Scientists keep telling us commercial fertilisers are made up of chemicals and ‘chemicals are not dangerous, plants can’t survive without them’. Well, sure enough, but it’s the extra bits in the containers we should be worried about – in the end, our immune systems have to fight off the accumulated and unwanted high levels of chemicals which our bodies cannot assimilate and cannot get rid of either

Who wants to end up with bodies rich as a Swiss Bank in chemicals packed away in dark corners of our tissues like some nebulous demon, waiting to pounce as cancer, heart disease, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis or more?

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Stem Cell ‘Cure’ for Diabetes Type 1

The TimesOnline article sounds like a miracle cure, and for Type 1 sufferers will come as a possible life line.

Far be it for any of us to debate the pros and cons of stem cell research at the expense of people suffering with this disease, be it from childhood or as a result of diabetes Type 2 which has developed out of control.

However, from a nutritional standpoint, there is much that can be done to support the immune system of Type 1 diabetes sufferers, and even more for Type 2 diabetics, who can reverse the condition before it develops into Type 1 if they diligently follow the guidelines of nutritionally aware health professionals.

Many diets developed from a dietetic aspect through a medical approach are destined to turn Type 2 diabetics into Type 1 within 5 – 10 years, but this is not necessary and there are many cases of completely reversed Type 2 diabetics to prove the point.

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