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    User's Guide to Preventing & Reversing Diabetes Naturally
    User's Guide to Preventing & Reversing Diabetes Naturally
    User's Guide to Preventing & Reversing Diabetes Naturally
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    User's Guide to Preventing & Reversing Diabetes Naturally

    By Melissa Diane Smith

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    This is an easy-to-follow diet for losing weight, stabilizing blood sugar and insulin and reducing the risk of diabetes.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTurner Publishing Company
    Release dateJan 1, 2003
    ISBN9781591206675
    User's Guide to Preventing & Reversing Diabetes Naturally
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    Melissa Diane Smith

    Melissa combines the investigative research skills she honed in journalism school with her nutrition training and more than 20 years of clinical nutrition experience to stay up to date on nutrition research and provide clients with personalized timely nutrition advice. She is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate from the University of Arizona, earned a diploma in nutrition and Graduate of the Year honors from the American Academy of Nutrition, and received advanced nutrition training from the Designs for Health Institute.

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      User's Guide to Preventing & Reversing Diabetes Naturally - Melissa Diane Smith

      I NTRODUCTION

      Most of us are concerned about heart disease and cancer, the two leading causes of death in our society, and we give little thought to diabetes. But we should. Diabetes is the fastest-growing deadly disease, and it increases the risk of these other major killers.

      In diabetes (specifically type 2 diabetes), the body is not able to properly use the food we eat to supply energy to our cells. It was long thought to develop only in older adults, but the incidence of diabetes has skyrocketed in all age groups in the past decade or so. Today, children as young as ten years old are developing this silent killer, and the biggest jump in numbers has occurred in people in their thirties.

      What’s more, diabetes usually takes years to develop. Millions of people already have some type of prediabetes, such as Syndrome X, which includes abdominal obesity, high blood pressure, and unhealthy cholesterol and triglyceride levels. Millions more—almost two-thirds of the United States population—are overweight, which is the major risk factor for developing diabetes. It’s apparent that all of us should be thinking about what we can do to prevent diabetes and all the serious complications that accompany it—or how we can control or reverse the condition if we’ve already been diagnosed with it.

      And there’s plenty we can do. The twin epidemics of diabetes and excess weight have become public health problems because of a combination of poor diet, excessive stress, and lack of physical activity—all factors that are well within our ability to control and change. At the top of the list is diet. Diabetes and prediabetes are first and foremost nutritional diseases: they respond amazingly well to a lower-carbohydrate diet and thoughtful use of nutritional supplements.

      It turns out that the key to controlling the serious complications that usually occur with diabetes—maintaining healthy blood sugar levels—is also the key to promoting good health and a long life. So, whether you have diabetes, are at risk for developing it, or simply want to know the latest on how to maintain or improve your health, sit back, read through this guide, and give yourself a healthy edge.

      CHAPTER 1

      W HY E VERYONE

      SHOULD BE

      CONCERNED

      ABOUT DIABETES

      Diabetes and the disease process that leads to it are so common—and the consequences so serious—that all of us should be concerned about protecting ourselves against it. Diabetes is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States (by some estimates, the third leading cause), and its prevalence continues to increase at alarming rates in both sexes, all ages, all races, and all education levels.

      An estimated 16 to 17 million Americans have diabetes, and perhaps one-third to one-half of these people don’t know it. Millions more have some type of prediabetes, usually without knowing it, including many of the 65 percent of Americans who are overweight.

      The increased prevalence of diabetes has paralleled the steady expansion of Americans’ waistlines over the past decade. However, even if you are of normal weight and have no special risk for diabetes, you should know that the standard American diet (appropriately abbreviated SAD) sets us up for excess weight, diabetes, and prediabetes, if not in the short term then in the long term. It’s important to take steps now to avoid becoming one of these statistics.

      The Most Common and Fastest-Growing Type of Diabetes

      There are two main types of diabetes. This book is all about type 2 diabetes, the most common and the fastest-growing type. Type 2 affects 90 to 95 percent of people who have been diagnosed with diabetes and most of the millions more who are at risk for developing it.

      Insulin is the hormone the body produces to lower blood sugar levels (and move sugar into cells where it becomes energy). In type 1 diabetes, the pancreas stops producing adequate insulin because of a malfunction in the immune system. Insulin shots, therefore, are needed for the rest of the person’s life.

      Type 2 diabetes starts out very differently. Usually, the body makes plenty of insulin but doesn’t use it properly: the cells aren’t receptive to insulin’s blood-sugar-lowering actions. (In later, more advanced stages of type 2 diabetes, though, the pancreas eventually tires of pumping out so much insulin and stops producing adequate amounts.)

      Type 2 Diabetes The most common and fastest-growing type of diabetes. Develops from blood-sugar-lowering insulin’s not working properly.

      Type 2 diabetes was long called adult-onset diabetes be cause the condition was usually only diagnosed in people who were middle-aged or older. But that term is now passé because type 2 diabetes is quickly becoming a disease of the young as well as the old. A more detailed explanation of how diabetes and prediabetes develop follows in Chapter 2, but it’s best to think of type 2 diabetes as insulin-resistant diabetes.

      Are You at Risk?

      Type 2 diabetes is often called the silent killer because it develops gradually and can cause serious health complications. However, many people do not even know they have diabetes or that they are at risk for developing it. Research shows that by the time a person is diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, he or she has probably been developing the condition for at least eight to twelve years. Furthermore, in 50 percent of cases the patient has serious health complications by the time of diagnosis.

      It’s important to know if you’re one of the growing number of people who is at risk of developing diabetes. Read over the following risk factors and check all that apply:

      I am 10–15 pounds or more overweight.

      I have high blood pressure.

      I have increased blood triglycerides.

      I have low high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol.

      I have cardiovascular disease.

      I have slightly high blood sugar levels or have tested positive for impaired glucose tolerance.

      I lead an inactive lifestyle.

      I am an African American, Hispanic, Pacific Islander, or Native American.

      I have a family history of diabetes.

      For women only:

      I have, or have had, gestational diabetes (a temporary type of diabetes that develops during pregnancy).

      I have given birth to a baby weighing more than 9 pounds.

      I have polycystic ovary syndrome (or PCOS, which is characterized by symptoms such as irregular menstrual

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