Diabetics To Be Tracked Down By Government Agents?

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Diabetics To Be Tracked Down By Government Agents?

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8/4/05 Author: Carolyn Dean, MD, ND and Elissa

Meininger ,Source: NewsWithViews.com

 

The New York Health Department is hatching a plan to " require

medical labs to report to the city the results of a certain type of

test that indicates how well individual patients are controlling

their diabetes. " That's how New York's Newsday reported the NY

Diabetes-Tracking Plan on July 25, 2005.

 

What happens with those results is anybody's guess. Will

investigators from the health department hunt down diabetics and

administer treatment on the spot? Will there be diabetes court -like

traffic court where patients will be expected to sit through a

lecture about the dangers of diabetes? Or will it be like methadone

clinics where ex-addicts are forced to line up but instead of

methadone Nurse Ratchet will force them to take their diabetes pills

or insulin.

 

New York City was the first American city to track down people with

infectious diseases and the idea to track diabetics through medical

labs is being prompted by a sharp rise in diabetes deaths over the

last 20 years. Diabetes happens to be the fourth leading cause of

death in New York City, alone, killing 1,891 in 2003. The cost of

treating New Yorkers for diabetes runs into an estimated billion a

year.

 

Tracking diabetics like criminals or carriers of some dreaded social

disease is an invasion of privacy of the worst sort. In my opinion

it would force people into the allopathic medical model of treating

diabetes with drugs instead of educating them about the real cause

of the disease -diets loaded with sugar. It would also open the door

for other agencies to tamper with your private medical records

and/or set the stage to enforce use of dangerous allopathic drugs

even though you would prefer to use dietary supplements or other

natural healing arts approaches for all manner of maladies.

 

Unchecked diabetes can cause blindness, kidney failure, amputations

and heart problems among other maladies. But, for the most part,

adult onset diabetes is a disease of lifestyle -too much sugar and

white flour products and not enough exercise.

 

Diabetes occurs in developing countries when white flour and white

sugar products replace the local diet. It takes about 10 years but

it's invariable. Just as invariable is the epidemic of adult-onset

diabetes in children after about 10 years of a junk food diet. Also

inevitable is the occurrence of diabetes in people who are 20 to 30

pounds overweight.

 

And why aren't we told any of this?

 

It's because decay of our sweet tooth is the only side effect that

the sugar industry will admit occurs with the over consumption of

sugar. They don't talk about sugar as a cause heart disease,

diabetes, cancer, and dozens of other diseases. Neither do they talk

about their policy of instituting action against doctors or

organizations that raise their voices about the dangers of sugar.

 

The sugar lobby in Washington has been long known for its hardball

tactics and being the largest agricultural industry donor of cash to

political campaigns. Considering that sugar represents only one

percent of American agricultural receipts and employs only 61,000

people, it gets quite a bang for its buck. It is the one commodity

that keeps its foreign competition at bay via a longstanding quota

system, which, by the way, also raises prices for consumers by

about .9 billion a year, according to the Government Accounting

Office.

 

For the record, Americans with a sweet tooth pay 27-28 cents a pound

for the sticky stuff while their neighbors in Canada and Mexico pay

only 15 cents, such is the power of lobbying to protect the profits

of the industry.

 

In 2003, the sugar industry objected to a scientific report that

linked high sugar intake to obesity. This report, a joint effort of

the UN's World Health Organization and the Food And Agricultural

Organization, recommended limiting sugar to no more than 10 percent

of each day's calorie intake. Thanks to industry pressure (backed by

that all-important political " donation " ) the administration as well

as Congress threatened the World Health Organization in an attempt

to make changes in the report. With the help of lobbyists from the

grocery industry and the soft drink industry, the final report came

out without referring to the 10 percent recommendation but with a

much-watered down statement recommending limiting sugar intake to

prevent obesity. In addition, when the new American food pyramid

recommendations came out in 2005, sugar was noticeably absent.

 

The sugar industry never leaves a stone unturned in its battle to

retain its prominent place in the food chain. In Death by Modern

Medicine I talk about my experience with a Canadian sugar lobby

group that complained to my medical licensing body because I said

things about sugar on national TV that they didn't want the public

to hear. People who didn't know the story were shocked to learn that

our medical system is nuttier than an upside down fruit cake that it

is punishing doctors who are telling the truth about the dangerous

effects of sugar. And you can see why so few doctors speak out about

sugar when they get whacked for doing so.

 

In Death by Modern Medicine I also spoke about Dr. Abram Hoffer, the

father of orthomolecular medicine and vitamin therapy for

schizophrenia. Dr. Hoffer is convinced that " Sugar is an addiction

far stronger than what we see with heroin. " He goes on to say

that " It is the basic addictive substance from which all other

addictions flow. Refined sugar and all refined foods such as

polished rice, white flour, and the like, are nothing more than

legalized poisons. "

 

Who's minding the cookie jar? If doctors aren't doing their job, who

is protecting our health from the harmful effects of sugar? You

would think it should be the Canadian and American Diabetic

Associations, which are tremendously busy dealing with the epidemic

of diabetes -and collecting big bucks to " find the cure " . However,

both organizations insist that diabetes has no known cause. In a

paper published by the Journal of the American Dietetic Association

the authors claim that researchers do not know why diabetes occurs,

but they know sugar doesn't cause it. And according to the same

group, most people with diabetes can enjoy sugar in limited amounts.

 

Some researchers blame diabetes on genetics. To say diabetes is

genetic is a corrupt evasion of the truth. The incredible rise in

the incidence of diabetes does not indicate a sudden change in genes

but points to an environmental cause. What is in the environment?

Sugar! Epidemiologists report that when refined sugar finds its way

into developing nations it takes about ten to fifteen years for all

the diseases of modern civilization to come swooping down.

 

Diabetic associations also claim that diabetes is incurable but can

be treated with drugs that stimulate insulin production. However,

the most common type of diabetes, adult onset diabetes, is not

caused by a deficiency of insulin -just the opposite -there is too

much insulin produced to deal with high sugar diets that eventually

ends up making cells " insulin resistant " which is the first stage of

diabetes.

 

We must be aware that both Canadian and American Diabetic

Associations obtain their funding from food and drug companies.

Follow the money and you will understand what is driving modern

medicine and health foundations to turn a blind eye to sugar. Don't

bite the hand that feeds you is the message from the food and drug

industry when they give grants and donations to universities,

hospitals, and disease foundations.

 

Rather than monitoring people and urging them to see their doctor to

obtain a drug, a much better plan would be to stop the drug ads on

TV and force drug companies to spend that money on public clinics

that teach the benefits of a healthy lifestyle. A fresh foods diet,

exercise, and relaxation techniques are the real way to treat

diabetes and most other chronic diseases in our overfed and

undernourished population.

 

While the sugar lobby has done a spectacular job promoting its

poison, the bare knuckles fight in the world of sugar substitutes is

equally appalling. It will be the subject of next week's column.

 

ACT FOR HEALTH FREEDOM NOW:

 

 

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and purchase the new movie on Codex and Free Trade called " We Become

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© 2005 Carolyn Dean -

 

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