Diabetes - Think Health and Treat the Cause Not the Symptoms
Diabetes, particularly Type II diabetes has been described as a modern, Western epidemic.
For those suffering from diabetes, it is time to think "health" in the holistic sense and to treat the cause not the symptoms.
Traditionally, diabetes has been viewed as a disease that has to be treated by taking insulin shots.
Some scientists and writers now assert that diabetes is not a disease but a symptom - a symptom of a pancreas that is so damaged it cannot produce the insulin the body needs.
More than that, the root cause of diabetes in the Western World, particularly Type II diabetes, is our poor diet and modern lifestyle.
The good news is that something can be done about it by making some simple dietary and lifestyle changes.
Diet has been recognised for over three thousand years as being vital to the overall management of diabetes.
Our modern Western diet is often deficient in essential vitamins and minerals and contains significant amounts of salt, saturated fats and highly processed foods but insufficient amounts of whole foods, fruit and fresh vegetables.
We are more likely to try to make up any dietary deficiencies by taking vitamin supplements than by eating the correct foods.
We are literally digging our graves with our teeth! Today, dietary and lifestyle advice for the person with diabetes plays an important role, not just as regards the day to day control but also in respect of the prevention of complications.
Many nutritionists recommend adopting a healthy diet that is high in whole foods, fruit and fresh vegetables and low in salt, saturated fats and highly processed foods -- the antithesis of our Western diet.
Our modern sedentary life means we are not getting enough oxygen into our blood through aerobic exercise and correct breathing.
Incorporating simple aerobic exercise such as just 20 minutes brisk walking into our daily routine has been showed to have significant beneficial effects.
Our mental attitude can affect our health either for good or for bad.
We become what we think.
That may seem a bit metaphysical, but such ideas have been in the mainstream for more than half a century.
It is a salutary statistic that one in three Americans will get cancer, but because of their healthy diet, exercise regime and positive mental attitude only one in seven of American athletes will succumb to the disease.
If diabetes is an epidemic, it is caused by our poor diet and modern lifestyle.
For those suffering from diabetes, it is time to think "health" in the holistic sense and to treat the causes of diabetes, not the symptoms.
For those suffering from diabetes, it is time to think "health" in the holistic sense and to treat the cause not the symptoms.
Traditionally, diabetes has been viewed as a disease that has to be treated by taking insulin shots.
Some scientists and writers now assert that diabetes is not a disease but a symptom - a symptom of a pancreas that is so damaged it cannot produce the insulin the body needs.
More than that, the root cause of diabetes in the Western World, particularly Type II diabetes, is our poor diet and modern lifestyle.
The good news is that something can be done about it by making some simple dietary and lifestyle changes.
Diet has been recognised for over three thousand years as being vital to the overall management of diabetes.
Our modern Western diet is often deficient in essential vitamins and minerals and contains significant amounts of salt, saturated fats and highly processed foods but insufficient amounts of whole foods, fruit and fresh vegetables.
We are more likely to try to make up any dietary deficiencies by taking vitamin supplements than by eating the correct foods.
We are literally digging our graves with our teeth! Today, dietary and lifestyle advice for the person with diabetes plays an important role, not just as regards the day to day control but also in respect of the prevention of complications.
Many nutritionists recommend adopting a healthy diet that is high in whole foods, fruit and fresh vegetables and low in salt, saturated fats and highly processed foods -- the antithesis of our Western diet.
Our modern sedentary life means we are not getting enough oxygen into our blood through aerobic exercise and correct breathing.
Incorporating simple aerobic exercise such as just 20 minutes brisk walking into our daily routine has been showed to have significant beneficial effects.
Our mental attitude can affect our health either for good or for bad.
We become what we think.
That may seem a bit metaphysical, but such ideas have been in the mainstream for more than half a century.
It is a salutary statistic that one in three Americans will get cancer, but because of their healthy diet, exercise regime and positive mental attitude only one in seven of American athletes will succumb to the disease.
If diabetes is an epidemic, it is caused by our poor diet and modern lifestyle.
For those suffering from diabetes, it is time to think "health" in the holistic sense and to treat the causes of diabetes, not the symptoms.
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