True or False? Consuming Too Much Sugar Causes Diabetes

Like all diseases, there is plenty of fact and fiction and sometimes the 2 become intertwined and diabetes is no exception. Most people think that eating too much sugar causes diabetes, this isnt true.

Diabetes is not caused by consuming sugar. Diabetes is caused by a combination of genetic & environmental factors but, consuming a diet high in fat and sugar can cause you to become obese.

Its being overweight that radically increases your risk of developing Type 2 diabetes, so if you have a history of diabetes in your family, I would recommend a healthy diet and regular exercise.

Actually, I recall a story about an ex-patient of mine, let’s call her ‘cindy’.

We spoke for a long time regarding all her risk factors, but she stopped me when I asked her if she had any family with diabetes. I couldn’t hold back the laughter, when she informed me that she wasn’t too worried as she didn’t like her relatives and had no contact with them at all!!

Yo can catch diabetes from someone else – Fact or fiction?

This brings me nicely to an additional frequent fallacy regarding diabetes, that it can be passed from individual to individual by everyday contact (SOURCE: Diabetes mellitus United kindgom). Although we don’t know exactly why many individuals get diabetes, we know that it is not contagious – it can’t be caught like a cold or the flu virus. There appears to be some inherited link involved particularl Type two diabetes. But environmental elements also play a part.

That’s adequate Diabetes Fiction so now for some fact

Diabetes is a metabolic disorder characterised by abnormally large blood sugar levels due either to decreased production of insulin or abnormal resilience to insulin’s effects.

The primary signs and symptoms are excessive thirst, frequent urination, muscle cramps, poor healing of wounds, deteriorated eyesight and irritation.

A heart condition and stroke – as a result of diseased coronary arteries supplying blood to brain- are also common difficulties associated with diabetes.

As people age, insulin manufacture may diminish and/or insulin resistance may increase. If the consumption of food, particularly food that can cause rapid surges in blood glucose levels, remains high, blood glucose levels can become and remain abnormally high, which is the condition referred to as diabetes.

The serious consequences of this are collapse, a diabetic fit accompanied by diabetic coma and if not addressed immediately, death can occur.

Conventional and Complimentary healing.

A problem with conventional cures is that often they are generally cumbersome and, by themselves, not always effective. They sometimes have unwanted side-effects and very occasionally serious side-effects have been reported.

This is not to say that oral medication should not be used. On the contrary, they may be life-enhancing in addition to life-saving and they should certainly never be interrupted or their dose altered without a doctor’s advice.

On the other hand the need for them – and indeed the need eventually for insulin shots – will likely be greatly reduced with a couple of straightforward changes to lifestyle. Considered one of the best things you could do is follow the methods of Medical professional Patrick Quillin in his World wide best-selling paperback The Diabetes Improvement Program.

The writer, Doctor Patrick Quillin, is well-known in this subject and I’ve been impressed with his theses during the past. He uses food and natural supplements to slow and even reverse almost all aspects and signs and symptoms of diabetes.

The program really helps to eliminate ketones and provides you with an abundance of energy. It normalises blood glucose levels, and improves both vision and balance. Scratches and scrapes heal much quicker. It may also renew feeling and sensation in numb limbs.

It reverses neuropathy helping to to heal ulcers. Each one of these wonderful benefits have great knock-on effects as well. They help with high blood pressure, reduced cholesterol and triglyceride levels, reducing your risk of heart attack, heart stroke and kidney damage.

And for those people that are quite handy around the kitchen area, there exists a second amazing book associated with the program called the Diabetics Cookbook, that lists many hundreds remarkable tasty recipes from all around the world.

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