Are You a Diabetes Statistic or About to Become One? New Study Shows Frightening Growth

The University of Chicago reports that “In the next 25 years, the number of Americans living with diabetes will nearly double, increasing from 23.7 million in 2009 to 44.1 million in 2034.” The article really highlights the tragedy of the Standard American Diet and the Standard American Lifestyle for that matter. The article goes on to state:

"If we don't change our diet and exercise habits or find new, more effective and less expensive ways to prevent and treat diabetes, we will find ourselves in a lot of trouble as a population," said the study's lead author Elbert Huang, MD, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Chicago.

"Without significant changes in public or private strategies," the authors wrote, "this population and cost growth are expected to add a significant strain to an overburdened health care system."

You can learn more about the study here: Diabetes cases to double and costs to triple by 2034 | The ...

If you are on your way to becoming another diabetes statistic, or you already have diabetes, what can you do to reverse it and become healthier?

• Start by getting rid of all of the processed food in your diet.

• Take the polyunsaturated vegetable oils out of your diet. They promote heart disease, diabetes, and so many other problems. And they are processed.

• Use Coconut Oil. It helps prevent diabetes and heal those who suffer from it. Here is a September 2009 Diabetes journal article regarding this: How Coconut Oil Could Help Reduce The Symptoms Of Type 2 Diabetes. Here is the link to the study: Diabetes.

• Make some broth and drink it. See Remember to Save Those Turkey Bones! for recipes and videos.

• Remove grains, sugar (small amounts of raw honey are ok), most beans (except navy, lima and green) and most dairy from your diet until you are healed.

• Read this blog.

• Read and follow Gut and Psychology Syndrome by Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride (GAPS Diet) and use Sally Fallon’s Nourishing Traditions for healing ways to prepare food and supplement Dr. McBride’s work.

• Get moving. How long is a 30 minute walk a day? There are 1440 minutes in a day, so a 30 minute walk is only 2 percent of your day. It takes only 2 percent of your day to begin to change your life! How many years will that add?

Our culture has brainwashed us to expect illness, to treat illness with illness causing drugs, and to live our lives in a stupor. It is what we are supposed to do. If you want to stop it, turn off your tv, stop eating in restaurants, and take responsibility for your health. Cook and walk. Life will become so much better!

Comments

[Maria Droujkova]

I went to look at population number figures, because absolute numbers are just half of the story. Found a neat site, too - it tells you future news by year. Cute! http://www.newsoffuture.com/year_2035/ It also uses population projection of 378 million for that year, which makes for 11.7% diabetics according to the article you supplied.

The current population is 308 million, with 7.6% diabetic. That means that the relative growth of the diabetes (its incidence), if corrected for the population growth, is projected roughly by the factor of 1.5 or 50% more.

I love your "holistic math exercises" as usual, Laura!

An a personal anecdote about diabetes. My blood sugar was borderline high during pregnancy, so the doctor wanted to run some tests. The first test was a "sugar stress" - I was supposed to drink some syrup, with artificial coloring and flavor yet, after fasting for a while. Being on a low-carb diet, and that being more sugar than I had in a long while, I reacted rather violently (shakes, etc.) and the blood test came borderline again.

So the doctor wanted to run a more extensive test, involving fasting for many hours while drinking much more sugary syrup. The doctor explained that if the test comes back positive, I will be recommended to go on a sugar-free diet, because any sugar I take can damage the baby! I explained that the test in unnecessary, because I am on such a diet already AND the test itself can damage the baby. The doctor said, "But we want to know..." I told them to take a hike (good for the health, right?) and that was one of my last visits to that practice.