News, Diabetes? Some beat it, but are they cured? (diet, eat, sugar)
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JoAnne Zoller Wagner's diagnosis as prediabetic wasn't enough to compel her to change her habits and lose 30 pounds. Not even with the knowledge her sister had died because of diabetes.
"I didn't have that sense of urgency," said the Pasadena, Md., woman.
News from The Associated Press (http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/M/MED_BEATING_DIABETES?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE =DEFAULT&CTIME=2009-04-19-14-13-39 - broken link)
As a type 2, losing about 40lbs and altering lifestyle and diet, seems to have worked, at least for me. It worked to the point that for over 3 yrs, have had no issues with glucose levels or further symptoms. It took about 6 months to be able to get off the meds. Am I "cured"? In my mind, it doesn't matter as long as I can continue not having the level of concern I had following the surgery for Gangrene. That scared me enough to do something about it.
Diabetes fortunately is a disease that often can be completely controlled. The type also makes a difference (I or II). With diet, exercise most ppl can rely very little if at all on drugs! With more and more diabetics emerging thanks to the excess consumption of carbs/sugar it will become paramount for ppl to learn how to eat right.
Diabetes fortunately is a disease that often can be completely controlled. The type also makes a difference (I or II). With diet, exercise most ppl can rely very little if at all on drugs! With more and more diabetics emerging thanks to the excess consumption of carbs/sugar it will become paramount for ppl to learn how to eat right.
Yes, you are correct! It is a disease that is controlled but never is cured.
It is all in our genes!
Diabetes fortunately is a disease that often can be completely controlled. The type also makes a difference (I or II). With diet, exercise most ppl can rely very little if at all on drugs! With more and more diabetics emerging thanks to the excess consumption of carbs/sugar it will become paramount for ppl to learn how to eat right.
The diet recommended for diabetics is probably the diet all of us should be eating. There would be less diabetes if that were the case.
I don't believe that diabetes is all genetic. In societies where processed food doesn't exist and meat/poultry are eaten sparingly, there is very little diabetes, even if that population is genetically prone to it.
[quote=mysticaltyger;11766756]It's not all in the genes. Those who don't eat processed sugar and eat minimal meat/poultry are much less prone to diabetes.
Childhood diabetes has skyrocketed within a generation. That isn't genetics. It's unhealthy eating habits. Genetics don't change that quickly.[/quote
Some people can have an extremely poor diet and nothing ever happens to them. However, if you have a genetic predisposition to high glucose levels you will develop diabetes. You don't automatically get diabetes if you have a bad diet.
A similar action is happening with heart disease. Eating poorly contributes to heart disease but you still had to have that "genetic push".
And, I am not saying genes have changed. We have what we are born with.
Why do some families clearly have certain diseases run in the family? It isn't a poor diet. Diet is a contributing factor.
I believe much of Type II diabetes is brought on by the typical American supermarket diet.
If you eat the typical American packaged foods, and order up at the fast food chains, you stand a good chance of developing diabetes as you age. But if you return to the way we ate 75 years ago, it is much less likely you will become obese, or develop Type II diabetes.
One of the most important changes in American health care could come by educating people as to what food is good for you, and stopping the manipulation of facts by the industrial food corporations and their lobbyists who depend on public ignorance for their profits.
One controversial book is Good Calories, Bad Calories by Gary Taubes which contends that most everything we all believe about food and diets is just plain wrong.
A less controversial but equally enlightening book is Eat. Drink and Be Healthy by Harvard nutritionist Walter C. Willett, MD. Then there is What to Eat by Marion Nestle.
They all point to the same culprits in our diet as causing the epidemic of diabetes. An excess of highly processed and chemically manipulated fat, salt and carbohydrates in modern over-processed convenience foods.
It's not all in the genes. Those who don't eat processed sugar and eat minimal meat/poultry are much less prone to diabetes.
Childhood diabetes has skyrocketed within a generation. That isn't genetics. It's unhealthy eating habits. Genetics don't change that quickly.[/quote
Why do some families clearly have certain diseases run in the family? It isn't a poor diet. Diet is a contributing factor.
Some people that have certain diseases seeming to run in the family, may be experiencing that because, lifestyle and eating habits run in the family. In my mind, that is a more logical explaination for the generational explosion of the disease. Finding a convenient excuse, the genes, does not do anyone any good. I fully accept MY own responsibility for getting, and nearly dying, from Type 2 Diabetes. I also accept MY own responsibility to continue taking the steps to "control" or, as I am more and more convinced, CURE the disease. The steps are suprisingly simple, once the comitment is made.
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