Diabetes--The Plague of the 21st Century

According to statistics in an article by David Ewing Duncan published in Discover Magazine, 194 million people in the world today have diabetes.

This is only the tip of the iceberg as this figure includes only known diabetics whose blood sugar is above the 110 milligrams which indicates diabetes. The number of diabetics could be far above this because the growth of this condition in Africa, Asia, and Latin America is staggering. Millions of people are unaware they are diabetics and more than 200 millions of pre-diabetics are waiting in the wings to join this group. Eighteen million people are known diabetics in the U.S. with another 41 million pre-diabetics. So one in every five Americans is a diabetic or will shortly be one.

The affect of this rapid development of the condition in the U.S. alone results in 40,000 diabetics with kidney disease, 82,000 with amputations, and 24,000 who are blind. Do you want to be one of these people? Life expectancy is reduced up to 20 years-a result which can cost America 130 billion a year. Millions of people will suffer life threatening conditions before being diagnosed with diabetes.

Diabetes 2 is no longer a disease only for the elderly, because young people are becoming increasingly obese--a common precursor of diabetes. Much of this obesity is due to the intake of sugars in soft drinks which now is estimated at 20 percent of total calories. During the last ten years the number of diabetics in young people has quadrupled and now is continuing at an even faster pace. The first symptoms of diabetes are often frequent urination and increased thirst. Other symptoms could be fatigue and increasing hunger with general fatigue.

Diabetes 2 is caused by a sedentary lifestyle and overeating, particularly of refined carbohydrates and sugar. The most effective prevention of diabetes is in a healthy lifestyle of exercise, proper nutrition, and weight control.

Proper nutrition means to eliminate all refined carbohydrates and glucose, to instead eat fruits, vegetables, lean protein, sardines, coldwater fish, sprouted grain bread, whole grains and fiber.

Because most diabetics are overweight, weight control is of the utmost importance. A reduction in body weight of five to ten percent may be all it takes to bring the blood sugar level within the normal 70 to 110 milligrams per deciliter of blood. An exercise program of thirty minute periods three to six times per week plus a reduction of 25 percent of calories per day will accomplish the weight control.

The best food for fiber and many other benefits is two tablespoons of ground golden brown flax seed each day. Take the flax seed in water or soy milk. Flax seed in soy milk tastes like a milk shake! The best food supplements to take are multivitamins and fish oil.

Also , take one fourth to one half of a teaspoon of cinnamon each day--research has shown this will lower blood sugar up to twenty percent!

Do not begin this program before reviewing this with your doctor.

More importantly, Do not be one of the casualties of the plague of the 21st century.

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