Diabetes – Diabetes Nature Cure
This week someone very dear to me ended up in the hospital where she was told that she has Type II diabetes. I know that this disease is on the rise, but somehow when it happens to someone close to you, it goes from being an abstract statistic to a personal reality. One of my first thoughts after I heard the diagnosis was that her life has changed forever. She will need to take medication in some form and she will need to monitor her blood sugar carefully to maintain the right balance of insulin and blood sugar. And, it isn’t just about not eating sweets. She will need to eat at regular intervals and be aware of the fats, carbs and proteins of all of the foods she eats. She will need to get regular exercise and maintain a healthy weight. She will need to sleep regularly and manage the stress in her life. In other words, her health and well-being will be based on how successfully she balances all these components in her life.
As all these thoughts were racing through my mind, I had a sudden epiphany!
All of the recommendations that I was thinking about for her apply to me too-to all of us! The big difference between her and me is that she will need to balance her insulin levels manually, herself, with the help of her doctor, while those of us without diabetes can rely on our bodies to manage that important job for us. We take it for granted that our bodies will keep working in the way we expect, but the truth is, we all need to eat at regular intervals, be aware of the fats, carbs and proteins of all of the foods we eat, get regular exercise, maintain a healthy weight, sleep regularly and manage the stress in our lives.
Because our bodies are miraculous machines, we do have some margin in our lives for neglect, especially when we are young. We can overeat, under sleep, overstress, etc. and our bodies forgive us, make the adjustments, and go on. But only up to a point. Of course, as we age that point gets closer and closer. Eventually, there is little or no margin left, and we have to toe the line or else our bodies will fail. For a person with diabetes, whether due to heredity or lifestyle or a little of both, this moment may arrive sooner.
Having said that, I should point out that one of the grave concerns we have as a culture is that Type II diabetes is no longer a disease of old age. It is happening to people at a younger and younger age. This is partly due to the increased incidence of childhood obesity, and partly due to our food supply and sedentary lifestyles. It was probably easier to maintain balance in our lives when meals were mostly eaten at home, fast food and empty-calorie snacks were not commonplace, and television and video games did not play a large part in our children’s lives.
Just in case you don’t know what Type II diabetes is, here is a simple little primer. When you eat food and it digests, much of it is broken down into glucose, commonly called blood sugar. As the glucose enters your blood and is traveling to the various cells in your body to give you energy, etc., your pancreas releases a hormone called insulin that (among other things) signals your cells to receive the glucose, it goes into your cells, and all is well.
However, if your cells become resistant to the call from the insulin, such as in the case of obesity or family history or both, the glucose cannot get into the cells, and your pancreas will try harder to produce more insulin. Eventually, the pancreas may become exhausted and will not be able to meet even your minimal need for insulin. So now you have cells that are resisting the insulin and, at the same time, not enough insulin to trigger the cells to accept the sugar-a double whammy!
This is where the people’s diets get in. The common belief that consuming a lot of sweets or sugary food causes diabetes may be considered as a taboo. Sweet foods are like fatty foods, they contribute to the development of other health conditions such as those mentioned above which in turn triggers diabetes. High cholesterol levels are also not exempted from being a culprit in the development of this health condition. Having a very sedentary lifestyle also does not help. Development of diabetes during pregnancy also increases the risk. Similarly, history of vascular disease and polycystic syndrome renders people very much susceptible to diabetes.
With the foregoing, it clearly nullifies the common beliefs mentioned above. A lot of people and virtually any people are really susceptible to diabetes. It’s just a matter of adapting a very healthy lifestyle that can steer people away from this doom. We all love to eat and relax, but as the saying goes we become what we eat (and in this case maybe what we do also!). Diabetes like every other disease is common, deadly and can be very limiting once we develop it so prevention is always important!
Resource Author Francisco Rodriguez H.
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