DIABETES

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DIABETES - SILENT KILLER

 

Diabetes is a life-long disease marked by high levels of sugar in the blood. It

can be caused by too little insulin (a hormone produced by the pancreas to

regulate blood sugar), resistance to insulin, or both.

 

There are many risk factors for diabetes, including:

 

A parent, brother, or sister with diabetes

Obesity

Age greater than 45 years

Some ethnic groups (particularly African-Americans ,Hispanic Americans &

Indians)

Gestational diabetes or delivering a baby weighing more than 9 pounds

High blood pressure

High blood levels of triglycerides (a type of fat molecule)

High blood cholesterol level

 

The Doctors recommends that all adults be screened for diabetes at least every

three years. A person at high risk should be screened more often.

 

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adult-onset diabetes is no big mystery

 

ayurveda clearly describes the causes and treatment for prameha

(diabetes) and medo roga (obesity), which are caused by dietary and

lifestyle factors including excessive eating (sweets and fatty foods

particularly) and not getting enough exercise

 

the cause of diabetes and obesity in Ayurveda are entirely supported by

recent advances in medical research, but unfortunately it takes a while

for this information to become widely disseminated

 

case in point is the current obsession that "fat" is bad

little attempt is made to distinguish between high fat junk food diets

like McDonald's and Kentucy Fried Chicken and their east Indian

equivalents such as deep-fried carbohydrate-rich snacks (e.g. dosa,

vadai, pakora, samosa etc.) and sweets, with healthy fats that include

unheated cold-pressed seed oils or cholesterol-rich fats such as ghee

and other animal fats

 

i have already mentioned before that the trend in India of using

processed vegetable-based oils in cookery such as gingelly oil and

vegetable ("cooking") ghee is particularly worrisome

 

apart from obvious dietary factors I suspect that one underlying factor

for an increasing prevalence of diabetes in India is an emerging middle

class where very little physical labor is performed; like in the West,

diabetes and obesity used to only be found among people that lead a

life of leisure

 

India is traditionally a rural, agriculture culture, and this kind of

lifestyle is dominant in heavy physical labor, which trains muscle mass

and therefore naturally reduces the level of insulin needed to

facilitate the entry of glucose into muscle cells

 

as more and more people in India with college degrees get desk jobs,

probably more and more people will get diabetes unless some kind of

societal measure is taken

 

the treatment of diabetes is simple:

1. kaphahara diet: no more than two meals a day of lean proteins, high

quality fats, leafy green vegetables, little starch or sweets, and esp.

no fried food

2. kaphara herbs: such as garlic, ginger and pippali, which improve

the blood chemistry and support circulation; additional remedies that

specifically help to improve insulin secretion include katuka, guduchi,

gurmar, haridra and shilajitu

3. exercise: hiking, walking, biking, swimming etc., to the point at

which you are sweating and panting every day; calisthenics or more

active forms of hatha yoga (e.g. 108 surya namaskars) are also helpful

- those of religious faith might might like to go on a pilgrimage,

walking long distances from temple to temple (or mosque, church, shrine

etc.), eating a subsistence, pilgrims diet

 

following such a regimen one can can expect fairly dramatic

improvements in as little as one month

 

advanced cases will require more work, and probably more specific

therapies

 

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as for juvenile (type 1) diabetes this is much, much more difficult to

cure, but all the above strategies will be helpful

it may not be possible to reduce insulin administration completely, but

it can be brought down to only a couple units a day

 

the people that have the highest per capita incidence of type 1

diabetes are people of scandinavian descent

one notion is that this can be explained by the consumption of cows

milk at an early age - a food not traditionally consumed by these

peoples (whose diet consisted mostly of wild foods including fish,

plants etc.)

 

in infants cows milk has been established in causing damage to the gut

wall (even more so with pasteurized milk that destroys enzymes that

would assist in its digestion)- this damage facilitates the entry of

cow insulin into the blood and the development of antibodies against

it, which subsequently attack the insulin-secreting beta cells in the

pancreas - a classic autoimmune mechanism

 

the first food of all babies should be human milk - i suspect that if

cows milk were never introduced until much later in the child's life,

say by the 3-4th year, the incidence of type 1 diabetes would decline

as a result

 

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> According to ancient knowledge, half the types of diabetes

> (Madhuprameha) can be cured. Unfortunately, a large proportion of

> patients found now-a-days belong to incurable (asadhya, type 1) or

> controllable (kashtsadhya) type of diabetes. And since they get

> attracted to diabetes industry referred to the article quoted in the

> reference message, word "cure" has entirely disappeared from diabetes

> world. In what follows, discussion pertains mainly to Type 2 diabetes.

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>> Dear Vaidyas,

>>

>> It is often reported in News Papers that South Asians are likely to

>> become 1/3rd - 1/2 population of world diabetic patients. In this

>> connection, while researching the net, I came across following well

>> researched monograph, which can be read only if you have sufficient

>> time and interest.

>>

>> http://health.Secrets_Revealed/message/411

>>

>> I wish to ask: Can ayurveda or herbal medicine cure Diabetis as set

>> out in this article? Article exposes commercial interests of

>> conventional treatments.

>>

>> Bhanu

>> Caldecott

todd

www.toddcaldecott.com

 

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