How to escape type 2 diabetes....

Today's post: Tuesday, 3-24-2009

My wife was eating better than many people do. And, although she got less exercise than I thought she should, she was doing some.

Then her doctor asked her to get a routine blood screening test of the few most useful risk factors. Her direct heart risk measures such as LDL cholesterol were OK to excellent; but the very accurate HBA1C test for blood sugar levels over the past 60 to 90 days came in at 6.1 or 6.2.

Since they begin to consider you to have low level type 2 diabetes at 6.0 on your HBA1C, that has triggered a lot of expense on our part in extra check ups and for one prescription and for ongoing blood sugar tests at home. (Aim for 5.8 or less to stay safe.)

The bad news is that it did that & got her classified as diabetic -- which can complicate your life in many ways since the average risk of being diabetic is so high because most people who are classified as diabetic have so much higher readings. So you are then considered high risk by association.

The extremely good news is that by catching this early, my wife has been able to eat enough better, primarily by no longer eating ANY refined grain foods made with wheat flour and by doing a bit more exercise, she has been able to avoid the multiple drugs she would had to take otherwise, some of which have significant bad side effects.

Today, I learned, is a National Diabetes Day. And, the CDC released a story that many people fear getting diabetes; but still do the things that make them very likely to get it.

YOU can escape that by doing a small list of things that take a bit of getting used to if you haven’t been doing them; but which are doable and not that hard to keep doing once you get used to them.

Even better, we now know that adding just one more extra effort to doing the 3 basics, may multiply your chances of avoiding and escaping type 2 diabetes by as much as 38 times !!

Better yet, doing the 3 basics and this one extra thing also will also dramatically reduce your risks of heart disease, senility, and cancer in addition to helping you escape type 2 diabetes.

Here are the basics that we’ve been posting here on how to eat right and exercise.

1. Eat real foods such as a variety of vegetables, whole fruit, wild caught fish, nuts, beef fed only grass, and the other foods that support your health such as extra virgin olive oil.

2. Virtually stop completely drinking any kind of soft drink except club soda; stop eating refined grain and foods made from it, high fructose corn syrup, artificial sweeteners, and meat from grain fed animals and farmed fish; and eat foods with sugar rarely instead of many times a day.

3. At least do two sessions of strength training and 3 sessions of interval cardio each week even if your sessions are as little 10 to 15 minutes long and done at home. And do that virtually every week.

It’s pretty simple. If you do those 3 things, you’ll avoid or turn off the insulin resistance that causes type 2 diabetes and now also looks to cause both vascular dementia and Alzheimer’s disease too.

But by just tweaking the basics a bit, you can apparently multiply your chances of getting type 2 diabetes by as much as 38 times. Wow !!

I just read that yesterday in the Early to Rise health article for yesterday, 3-23-2009.

Here it is with the details in it describing this discovery.:

“This article appears courtesy of Early To Rise, a free newsletter dedicated to making money, improving health and secrets to success. For a complimentary subscription, visit http://www.earlytorise.com .”

"Concerned About Diabetes? Go Organic

By Kelley Herring

Eating conventionally grown produce and meats and farm-raised fish? If so, you may be 38 times more likely to develop diabetes. A recent study published in Diabetes Care found a strong relationship between Type II diabetes and the body burden of six pollutants:

a PCB: hexachlorobiphenyl

2 dioxins: heptadioxin and OCDdioxin

2 pesticides: oxychlordane and trans-nonachlor, and

a pesticide metabolite: DDE, a metabolite of DDT

These contaminants were detectable in more than 80 percent of the study participants. And compared to participants in the lowest-exposure category, those in the highest-exposure category were almost 38 times more likely to have diabetes.

Don't think you're at risk? Think again. The average American takes in nearly a gallon of pesticides per year by eating conventionally grown fruits and vegetables.

Reduce your risk of diabetes (and many other chronic illnesses) by choosing only organic produce and meats and wild fish.

[Ed. Note: One of the best ways to stay healthy and live longer is to eat good foods. ....]"


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She doesn’t mention that most of the risk of being too high in these things comes from eating the fat of animals that have bioconcentrated them in their fat or that organic produce is dramatically higher in the most important nutrients that protect your health than conventional or pesticide treated produce.

So, that means to make a special effort to buy organic produce when you possibly can.

But you avoid the most pesticide exposure by eating meat from animals eating only what they evolved to eat. Beef fed only grass, poultry that has been only pasture fed and wild caught fish avoid that problem since it’s the grain fed animals and farmed fish that eat the grain that has been sprayed with these chemicals and so the fat from them has the most such chemicals in it.

So, if you can’t get such protein foods, at least eat less of the grain fed kind; and try to eat lowfat versions as much as you can. That way of eating right that has less meat and more raw nuts and beans, contains nonfat or very lowfat dairy, only lean cuts of meat & poultry, and some wild caught fish has been named the DASH diet and also prevents or lowers high blood pressure.