Alarming UCLA Study on Pre-Diabetes

[bluedevilz]

Originally Posted by jaminhealth

So what you are saying in today's world, it's all by lab numbers on whether one is diabetic.

I'm sure for my parents' lives there were never labs done for "sugar"...and they ate lots of sugar/carbs and were never really sick people. So one has to have diabetes in their gene line?

Diabetes has always been and always will be "all about the lab numbers"....the diagnosis of diabetes is made solely on the basis of a fasting blood glucose level above 126 mg/dl

Also insulin has been around since the 1920's and labs have been done to test blood sugar since the early 1900's...

Eli Lilly has been making insulin since 1923....there goes Big Pharma....saving millions of lives, the nerve...

[lunetunelover]

Originally Posted by bluedevilz

Eli Lilly has been making insulin since 1923....there goes Big Pharma....saving millions of lives, the nerve...

[grampaTom]

Originally Posted by jaminhealth

Just listening to my favorite weekend program on PRP regenerative work. The MD who spends an hour on the radio is very into healthy living, cutting out sugarS and keeping weight under control. Extra weight on the body does us no good.

Thinking about my father who lived to almost 96, he drank alcohol and beer all his life, even had a couple beers a few weeks before he died. Ate TONS of sugars (sweets) and major loads of pasta and breads...

Diabetes was NEVER mentioned in those days...sugar was talked about like "he/she has sugar condition"...

Can someone live a long life with diabetes and not know it? This man was hardly sick in his life and then stuff happened in his late 60's...diverticulitis but he made it back to life with my mom's care. Mom ate tons of carbs and sugars too, but never drank alcohol but didn't consume like my father..

The PRP MD asks everyone who calls in what is your age and your Weight. The MD says it's Veggies, Protein and Water....and eliminating sugars majorally.

My paternal grandfather also lived well into his 90's despite having 2 different meats at breakfast, butter at every meal, gravy on everything, whole milk at every meal and putting cream (skimmed off of the milk) on all his desserts. AND he ate dessert with each meal including breakfast.
A couple of differences though -- he walked and worked hard ALL day long on his dairy farm and generally worked daylight to dark and had no extra fat. Also no alcohol or tobacco.
Exercise and body fat composition make a big difference. (not that I am advocating an unhealthy diet)
Also, the use of high fructose corn syrup as a sweetener instead of sugar (because we wanted to teach Cuba a lesson by not importing their sugar) has had a huge negative impact on our health contributing to diabetes.
We really do need to eat smarter and exercise more. (I'm preaching a little bit to myself here )

[Ruth4Truth]

Originally Posted by gguerra

Have you tried to cut out all grains? You did not mention the grains. My trigs went from around 400 to around 120 with a no grain low carb diet. Also, have you considered changing doctors? He is/was not apparently taking good care of you.

Changing doctors and finding one that's pro-active and "takes good care of" his/her patients is very hard to do. The ones who are on the ball and aren't impossibly passive and detrimental to the patient are needles in the haystack of useless doctors. I call them "fake' doctors: they wear the white coat to create the illusion of doctorhood, but they don't actually practice the profession. They don't do any doctoring.