Reversing diabetes means making tough choices in foods,

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Reversing diabetes means making tough choices in foods,

nutrition and exercise

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In parts 1 and 2 of this article series, we talked about how dietary

sugars (white flour, corn syrup, table sugar, etc.) alter blood

sugar

levels and how the body tries to regulate blood sugar through

glycogen

storage, insulin secretion and body fat creation.

 

In this third and final part, we're exploring the causes of adult-

onset

diabetes and how people can both prevent and even reverse diabetes

by

applying fundamental knowledge of how

the human body deals with dietary sugars and refined carbohydrates.

 

 

 

This process of storing sugar as glycogen or converting it to body

fat

is initiated by a hormone produced by the pancreas. This hormone, of

course, is called insulin.

 

If you consume refined carbohydrates on a

regular basis, your pancreas will become overstressed. It's just

like if

you run your car 24 hours a day and keep revving the engine --

eventually something's going to wear out and break.

 

This is what happens

with the pancreas, and people who have adult onset diabetes often

have

an " overstressed " pancreas. You could call it a worn-out pancreas,

although technically that's not an accurate metaphor.

 

The other problem is that type 2 diabetics have decreased insulin

sensitivity in the cells of their body. That means that even though

insulin is being produced and circulating through the bloodstream,

the

cells in the body aren't responding to it.

 

That's why reduced insulin

sensitivity is a physiological marker that indicates a person is

about

to become diabetic. If your insulin sensitivity is reduced, you are

on

the track to diabetes. In the medical community this is called

pre-diabetes.

 

And once again, it is *not* a " genetic disorder " -- it is

something that is directly caused by the foods you choose to consume

and

the level of physical activity you choose to pursue.

 

If you are pre-diabetic, that means you have reduced insulin

sensitivity

but haven't yet been diagnosed with full-blown adult onset type 2

diabetes.

 

In most cases, you can directly reverse this condition and

return to a healthy metabolic state by making new choices in your

foods

and physical exercise.

 

Remember, diabetes is a disease that is quite

easy to reverse if you catch it early enough. And if you're

pre-diabetic, you have an opportunity to reverse the situation right

now.

 

Reversing it means making some tough choices in your life. It means,

first of all, getting out and engaging in physical exercise on a

regular

basis. That's 45 minutes a day of walking, or something more

strenuous

if you can handle it. If you can't walk 45 minutes a day, walk 30

minutes a day. If you can't walk 30 minutes a day, walk 5 minutes a

day.

 

 

If you can't walk 5 minutes a day, just get up out of your chair 3

times

-- do something to increase your exercise stamina, and work towards

walking 45 minutes a day. Everybody can do something.

 

Sitting around

doing nothing is no excuse, and it will directly lead you to full-

blown

diabetes. (Diabetics are really good at making excuses. I know, I

used

to be pre-diabetic. I would find every reason in the world to avoid

physical exercise.)

 

The second thing people can do is give up all foods that promote

diabetes. This means foods that contain ingredients like refined

white

sugar, sucrose, corn syrup, high-fructose corn syrup, dextrose,

white

flour, enriched flours, and so on.

 

So that means getting rid of all ice

cream, cakes, cookies, sweets, desserts, candy bars, etc. These

foods

are causing your diabetes.

 

Now, you won't hear this from the American

Diabetes Association, because that organization is, to put it

bluntly,

actually thriving on the skyrocketing trend of diabetes in the

United

States.

 

I've never found the ADA to actually give beneficial nutritional

advice that would help people reverse diabetes.

 

Remember, they are

funded in large part by pharmaceutical companies who would actually

lose

customers if people reversed their diabetic conditions.

 

It's not a conspiracy: it's just plain old corporate greed.

 

If you want to reverse diabetes, and you want to know the truth

about

it, keep reading articles like this one, because I'm going to give

it to

you straight.

 

I'm telling you that you've got a make a list of all the

foods and food ingredients to avoid for the rest of your life. And

then

you must commit to avoiding those foods. No exceptions.

 

By the way, another side effect of all of this sugar consumption is,

of

course, rampant weight gain. If you're suffering from obesity (or a

very

high level of body fat), chances are you got that way by consuming

" refined carbohydrates " .

 

This is why the Atkins diet has been so

successful for people who are willing to stick with it.

 

I'm not a huge

supporter of the low carb lifestyle as practiced by most Americans,

although I do support the avoidance of all processed carbohydrates

as

recommended by the Atkins program and other low carb dieting systems

such as the Hamptons Diet.

 

Consuming refined carbs and added sugars will put weight on your

body

faster than any other nutritional strategy. The way to take it off

is to

avoid these foods for the rest of your life.

 

By the way, if you're going

to eat low carb foods, be sure to check out my book called Low-Carb

Diet

Warning, at TruthPublishing.com, because there's a safe way to eat

low

carb, and then there's a very unhealthy way to eat low carb, and

sadly,

most Americans who are pursuing low carb diets are eating

the " unhealthy way " .

 

Here's another interesting point in all of this -- when your body

adds

fat during this process of converting blood sugar to body fat, it

has a

blueprint of where to put that fat.

 

For most women, the fat goes on the

buttocks and the hips, potentially on the breasts, and eventually

under

the arms. For men, most of the that weight goes right to the belly,

the

gut, and only later will it move up to the chest area, the bottom of

the

neck, and maybe the buttocks and legs as well. The point is, your

body

has a blueprint of where it is going to store fat, and that

blueprint is

unique to you. You cannot change this blueprint.

 

Some people foolishly believe that if they do a bunch of sit-ups,

they

are going to somehow remove body fat from their abdomen. That's not

true

at all. Your body decides where to put it on and where to take it

off.

 

 

Other people, who are just as foolish, think that if they go get

liposuction, they're going to remove all the body fat from their

thighs

or their stomach or some other area where it's not cosmetically

appealing.

 

But what happens is now they're missing those fat cells that have

been

ripped out of their torso through liposuction, but they keep on

eating

the way they've been eating that made them fat in the first place.

 

They

keep on eating all those sweets and ice creams and sugars and other

refined carbohydrates. So what happens? Well, the body has to put

the

fat somewhere, so now all of a sudden, the body is putting this fat

in

strange places where the fat cells still exist.

 

A woman might end up

with massive deposits of fat hanging off of her arms, or the back of

her

legs and thighs might balloon in size even though her midsection is

now

apparently much thinner because she doesn't have fat cells there.

 

Liposuction is one of those surgeries that looks good at first, but

if

you don't change your lifestyle, you're going to look like some sort

of

Frankenstein monster in the long run.

 

You're going to have to change

your diet sooner or later if you want to look normal again, and if

you'd

just make the decision to change your diet earlier, you wouldn't

need

the liposuction surgery in the first place.

 

So, in my book, liposuction

is absolutely useless.

 

In fact, it's worse than useless -- it's a

dangerous procedure that scars your body and that disrupts the

normal

fat storage system your body was designed for.