DIABETES AND DIET

DIABETES AND DIET

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Although millions of people undergo problems with diabetes, they are not generally aware that their problems could greatly be relieved by adjusting their diet. Diabetes is the 8th leading cause of death in the United States, because diabetics are extremely vulnerable to arteriosclerosis and are highly prone to heart attacks and stroke. Most diabetics eat the standard diet that most other people eat. As a result most of them, during a seventeen year period which follows discovery of their diabetic condition, undergo major health problems, including heart attack, kidney failure, strokes, and blindness.

In Lancet, the British medical publication, Dr.Inder Singh reported a study in which 80 diabetic patients were restricted to very low fat diets - 20 to 30 grams per day - and forbidden any sugar. By the time six weeks had elapsed, more than 60% of the patients no longer required insulin. The figure eventually rose to 70%, and those who were left only required a small fraction of the insulin formerly needed. All 80 cases were monitored for periods ranging from six months to over five years, and the success of the dietary change was confirmed over time. [1]

This knowledge has been known for 38 years, yet diabetics are not generally informed about this dietary matter, and this results in much needless suffering, tremendous profits for the medical and pharmaceutical industry, and needless early death for many people. Willfull criminal negligence? Yes. There is a rare and very serious form of diabetes called childhood onset diabetes which in many ways is a different disease. It is a situation in which the pancreas has been injured and cannot make enough insulin, or in some cases any insulin at all. Despite this kind of problem, maintaining a meat/egg/dairy fee diet and having fiber in the diet reduces the need for external insulin by as much as 30%.

DIABETES AND THE PRESENCE OF TRACE MINERALS IN THE DIET

In 1972, Dr.Walter Metz informed the Council for Advancement of Science that he was willing to bet that a majority of diabetes-prone patients at two VA hospitals, if given supplementary amounts of chromium in their diets, would be able to better handle their body glucose. The point was to test a theory that chromium deficiency contributed to the condition. The work of Dr. Metz has never been contested. Chromium is apparently one of the trace minerals, along with zinc, that is essential to the proper functioning of insulin in the body. According to Kühnau and Von Holt, zinc is necessary for the binding of insulin to the islets of Langrahans in the pancreas - binding which is necessary for the functional and morphological intergrity of B-cells. In the advanced treatise on Mineral Metabolism, C.L. Comar and Felix Bronner also call attention to the zinc-insulin relationship. Cobalt and selenium may also be involved, since they vary in concentration with both glucose and insulin administration, according to Dr.D.Behne, of Berlin's Hahn- Meitner Institute. The clinical importance of such findings was underscored in an article on juvenile diabetes appearing in the April 1971 issue of Nutrition Today, which suggested that the metabolism of trace elements such as chromium and zinc may be altered in those who have this condition. Since the dubious practice of refining wheat flour leads to a marked loss of such trace elements, this is an area which needs to be addressed. Both trace elements are available in a plant based diet.

Other Degenerative Conditions Impacted by Alteration in Diet Elimination of sugar, meats, eggs, dairy products and fats in the diet, plus the inclusion of fiber and adoption of more of vegetarian diet, can improve at least the following conditions: Hypoglycemia, Multiple Sclerosis, Ulcers, Constipation and Intestinal Problems, Obesity, Arthritis, Gallstones, Hypertension, Anemia, Asthma and Salmonellosis.[2]

REFERENCES

[1] Singh, I.,"Low Fat Diet and Therapeutic Doses of Insulin in Diabetes Mellitus," Lancet, 263:422, 1955.

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