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 Cause And Consequence: Type 2 Diabetes Explained

There are two main reasons for type 2 diabetes.

Reason#1: The body does not produce enough insulin.
Reason #2: The body’s cells are resistant to insulin.

Insulin has important jobs inside the body. One of them is to help carry sugar (the broken-down foods you eat) into muscle and liver cells to be used for energy. Another is to push fat into fat cells to be stored for later use.

The pancreas is the organ where insulin is produced. Beta Cells reside in the pancreas and are responsible for creating the insulin. If your doctor says you do not produce enough insulin, this is likely due to Beta Cell damage or destruction.

Beta Cells are damaged and destroyed in many ways including; excess weight, diets rich in fats, sugars and starches, stress, steroid use, prescription medications and lack of exercise. If they are destroyed, the body does not replace them. Beta Cells simply get more exhausted and produce less and less insulin, usually to the point where insulin injections are needed to stay alive.

Insulin resistance is when the body’s cells don’t accept the insulin that is made by the body. This means that when a person eats, insulin is injected into the bloodstream by the pancreas to carry the sugar and fats away into the proper cells. The cells resist the insulin and the sugar and fats remain in the bloodstream, resulting in high blood sugar and high blood fats. Hence, this is why most type 2 diabetics are overweight or obese.

Type 2 diabetes, like heart disease and stroke, is a silent killer. It doesn’t come on overnight, it isn’t painful (at first). In fact, most people who are diagnosed with type 2 diabetes are done so while being treated for something else. Millions of people have this disease right now and are not even aware they have it. For many thousands this year, it will be too late to reverse the damage already done by this quiet but deadly disease.

At first, some of the signs include; constant thirst, weight loss or weight gain, tingling in the hands and feet, increased hunger, blurry vision, ect.

Untreated, type 2 diabetes moves on to more severe complications such as increased urination, retinal damage, wounds that don’t heal, gangrene, amputations, blindness, heart disease, stroke, kidney failure, dialysis and death…to name a few.

It is vital that everyone with type 2 diabetes learn all they can about this disease and what they can do to reverse the causes instead of medicating the symptoms. Type 2 diabetes can be reversed…the damage already done by this disease cannot.

So what is a healthy blood sugar level? This number varies greatly from doctor to doctor. In the past, a person was not considered to be diabetic unless their fasting blood sugar was over 150. Today those numbers have changed from 80-130, depending on the doctor. Why? We can only explain this constant changing as a way for the healthcare industry to be able to diagnose more people with type 2 diabetes and prescribe money-making drugs to control the symptoms.

Recent studies done with more than 100 diabetic heart disease patients proved that 100% of them had diets that included fast food at least 2-3 times a week. Interesting fact. We are a society of fast everything… fast cars, fast lifestyles, credit cards that allow us instant gratification, microwaves for faster cooking, fast food for faster suppers…

Changing our way of life can be difficult, but it can be done. It is our way of life that is killing hundreds of thousands every year. Our environment, our stressors and our diets all play out in the big game of life. Strive to make small and meaninful changes every week. Walk for 15 minutes a day, add more raw vegetables to your diet, drink more pure water and less soda, ect.

By making small changes every week, you’ll become accustomed to them slowly and won’t feel like you are doing an abrupt 360. Learn all you can. Read books, get online and talk to others with type 2 diabetes. Find what works best for you and if you find something that works…by all means share it with others. You never know whose life you’ll save.

Emily Saar is a recovered type 2 diabetic as a result of using Eleotin and the owner of www.BetaTherapy.com. Visit to learn more about Eleotin and the truth about diabetes.

Author: Emily Saar
Author’s Email Address: eleotin@betatherapy.com

Article Title:         How To Delay Or Avoid Type 2 Diabetes

Diabetes is a disease caused by the inability of the body to properly produce insulin, a hormone that helps the body convert food to energy. In type 1 diabetes the body does not produce insulin at all. This type of diabetes is usually diagnosed during childhood. In type 2 diabetes the body does not produce enough insulin or it produces insulin which is ineffective in regulating the body’s blood sugar levels. This type of diabetes is usually diagnosed later in life and is commonly called adult onset diabetes.

Diabetes is an important health concern because incidence of the disease worldwide is increasing. It is also associated with other health risks and is expensive to treat and control. Also, diabetes is a major cause of death worldwide.

The number of cases of diabetes is increasing around the world. The incidence of diabetes in 1995 numbered about 135 million worldwide, about 4.0% of the population. Diabetes affected 170 million people in 2000 and is projected to affect about 300 million people by 2025, about 5.4% of the population. India, China, and the United States have the largest number of cases.

In a recent year direct medical expenses in the United States for diabetes totaled $92 billion, up from $44 billion five years earlier, according to the American Diabetes Association. Another $40 billion was spent on permanent disability expenses. Care for diabetes represents about 11% of the total health care expenditures in the United States. In 1997 annual health care costs for a person with diabetes averaged $10,071 and increased to $13,243 by 2002. That annual rate is more than 5 times greater than the average annual health care costs for a person without diabetes. Also diabetes accounted for an annual loss of about 88 million disability days.

The mortality rate for people with diabetes runs about 5.2% of all deaths according to the World Health Organization. In 2000 about 2.9 million deaths worldwide were caused by diabetes. In another 4.5 million deaths diabetes was a contributing factor.

The good news is that type 2 diabetes can be delayed or prevented from ever developing. Before people develop type 2 diabetes, they nearly always develop the condition known as “pre-diabetes.” This condition occurs when blood glucose levels are higher than normal but not high enough to be diagnosed as diabetes. Studies have shown that people with a pre-diabetic condition can control the condition with lifestyle changes or with medicine. With reasonable treatment they can greatly increase their chances that they will never develop diabetes.

The American Diabetes Association created a publication called, “The Prevention or Delay of Type 2 Diabetes.” The following are some of the findings and recommendations from the ADA.

About 41 million Americans have the pre-diabetic condition. There are two tests commonly used by physicians to determine whether a person has pre-diabetes. One test is called the fasting plasma glucose test, or FPG, and the other is called the oral glucose tolerance test, or OGTT. Both tests have a normal range and a diabetic range. The range in between indicates the pre-diabetic condition.

The FPG test is more convenient to patients, less expensive, and easier to administer than the OGTT test. On the other hand the OGTT will detect more cases of glucose intolerance and undiagnosed diabetes than the FTP test. Either test should be repeated in 3 year intervals.

Once a diabetic or pre-diabetic condition has been diagnosed, a person has two choices of treatment. One strategy is to use lifestyle modifications such as a change in diet and an increase in physical activity, and the other strategy is to use glucose-lowering drugs that have been approved for treating diabetes. Studies indicate that the drug therapy is about half as effective as the diet and exercise therapy in delaying the onset of diabetes. Lifestyle changes have been proven effective as a way to prevent type 2 diabetes from developing from the pre-diabetic condition. Diet and exercise, in many cases, are able to return the blood glucose levels to the normal range.

Lifestyle changes include a combination of losing 5% to 10% of body weight, reducing total fat calorie intake, reducing saturated fat calorie intake, i-carehaven.com/?cat=3″ title=”Vegeterian diet”>increasing fiber intake, and exercising at least 150 minutes per week. One study, called the Diabetes Prevention Program study, showed that a treatment using the combination of 30 minutes per day of moderate physical activity and a 5% to 10% reduction in body weight resulted in a 58% reduction in the incidence of diabetes.

The type of physical activity recommended by the ADA includes aerobic exercise, strength training, and flexibility exercises. The goal of the aerobic exercise is to increase heart rate, raise the breathing rate, and exercise the muscles. The goal is to exercise for 30 minutes a day, 5 days per week. The 30 minutes can be split into 10 minute intervals. This type of activity includes brisk walking or running, dancing, swimming or water aerobics, skating, tennis, bike riding, gardening, and house cleaning. Strength training, performed several times a week, helps to build more muscle, making everyday chores easier, and helps to burn more calories, even at rest. Flexibility exercise, simple stretching, helps to keep joints flexible and helps to reduce chances for injury during other activities.

Dietary changes are an important part of a pre-diabetes treatment. A body mass index test (BMI) can be administered and calculated easily. A BMI test result that is greater than 25 means that a person is above their ideal weight and a person with a BMI result greater than 30 is considered obese. The goal in the first instance is to decrease body weight by 5% and in the second instance by up to 10%. It is recommended that a person consult a physician who can help to develop a dietary plan that will achieve the desired weight loss.

The effects of type 2 diabetes are expensive and dangerous to one’s health. Fortunately, diabetes can be delayed or prevented by adopting a reasonable program of diet, weight control, and exercise.

Kevin Sinclair is the publisher and editor of My-Personal-Growth.com, a site that provides information and articles for self improvement and personal growth and development. kevin@ksinclair.com

Article Title:          Cure Type 2 Diabetes by Correcting the Cause

Diabetes is one of the biggest money-making diseases on the planet. More than 17 million people in the U.S are currently diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. 2,200 more are diagnosed every day. Twenty years ago, type 2 diabetes was a disease that was often called “Maturity Onset” because it was commonly seen in patients over 50. Today, our children are being diagnosed.

There are two main causes for type 2 diabetes. There is either an inadequate supply of insulin being secreted by beta cells in the pancreas or cells in the body are unable to utilize the insulin that is made (insulin resistance).

With type 2 diabetes comes complications. Blindness, amputations, kidney failure, and heart disease are just a few. Pharmaceutical companies make millions daily from the diabetic population. Doctors make money by prescribing drugs to diabetic patients of which many have side-effects that are worse than the disease itself. Thousands die every year from the complications of diabetes.

Millions of dollars are raised every year for a cure for diabetes. Not for type 2. Type 2 diabetes counts for nearly 95% of all cases. Although type 1 is considered more serious, only about 5% of the diabetes population has type 1 diabetes. Yet there is no cure made available for either one. The public is told that a cure is near, that tests on rats suggest a cure could be available in the next decade or so…but what about now?

What would really happen if a man-made cure was made available to the public? Dialysis clinics and entire wings of hospitals would shut down. Pharmaceutical companies would lose billions. Doctors that “specialize” in the treatment of diabetes would be out of a career. Not to mention the money lost in treating the complications of blindness, heart disease and amputations. There is just too much at stake to offer a cure for something that creates so much revenue through so many avenues.

Kevin Trudeau helped expose our crooked healthcare system and in the face of deadly chemical drugs, reignited our faith in natural cures. Herbs, plants, and seeds that have been a staple for many diets all over the world are now sought out for their healing qualities. Times are changing as people from every nation are turning to alternative medicine and gentle herbal remedies, especially for chronic diseases such as diabetes.

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Manufactured in Canada and available to the public since 1998, Eleotin is the natural diabetes cure mentioned in Kevin Trudeau’s ‘Natural Cures’ series, scientifically studied in the book ‘Bitter-Sweet Profits’, and seen in many others such as ‘The Natural Cures for Diabetes’.

Eleotin stimulates and restores the basic health of the pancreas. It increases healthy regeneration of beta cells in the pancreas and increases normal insulin secretion. It corrects the causes of type 2 diabetes.

In the book ‘Bitter-Sweet Profits’, a study was performed using Eleotin on 80 severe type 2 diabetics during an 8-month test. Results of that study proved that 70% of those test patients had reversed their type 2 diabetes to normal or near-normal levels within that time frame. The Nanjing Diabetes Association in China calls Eleotin “an ideal cure”.

Prescription drug control vs. gentle herbal cure.

So, can a natural herbal supplement be the answer for type 2 diabetes? For many Eleotin users that answer is a definite “Yes!”

Emily Saar is a recovered type 2 diabetic as a result of using Eleotin and the owner of www.BetaTherapy.com. Visit to learn more about Eleotin and the truth about diabetes.

Author: Emily Saar
Author’s Email Address: eleotin@betatherapy.com

Article Title:   Should Diabetes Risk Keep Older Women From Giving Birth?

In the controversy that erupted when the world found out that a 63 year old woman was on her seventh month pregnancy after using IVF to conceive. Although giving birth by women over 50 has increased 24 times over in the last few years, many doctors and laypersons protest, claiming that it is not safe for mother or baby.

The National Health Service currently refuses free IVF treatment to women over 39, forcing would-be mothers over that age to pay for private treatment. However, the HFEA figures reveal that doctors are not adhering to an “unofficial” guideline to refuse treatment to women over the age of 49. The guideline is intended to limit the potential health risks to mother and child.

Amid mounting concern that IVF is being used to extend fertility beyond the limits of what is ethically acceptable, a leading expert yesterday called on the HFEA, which currently allows clinicians to decide on eligibility for IVF, to set an age limit for those who want the treatment.

Also, there is an increased risk of deadly complications such as heart attacks and diabetes, but is this a reason for a woman to give up the dream of motherhood, even if it is ‘late’ in life? Don’t potential complications exist for every birth, regardless of age? (Childbirth is still one of the leading worldwide causes of women’s deaths.) What do you think? Does potential reward outweigh the potential risk?

The effect of diabetes on the severity of illness and risk of death for patients with heart failure is much worse in women than men, the effect being more pronounced in older women (over age 65). Diabetes was associated with a significant increase in the risk of death and hospitalization in patients with heart failure. Women over age 65 had worse outcomes than men or younger women.

That’s what the new research at University of Alabama at Birmingham (led by Ali Ahmed, M.D., MPH, associate professor in the division of gerontology, geriatrics and palliative care and director of UAB’s Geriatric Heart Failure Clinic and Geriatric Heart Failure Research) is telling us: “Our results suggest that heart failure patients should be thoroughly evaluated for the presence of diabetes and if it is present, should be intensively managed based on published guidelines. Further studies should test current interventions and develop new ones to reduce the adverse effects of diabetes in heart failure patients in general, and among older adults in particular.”

Another one is that the death rate of men with diabetes has dropped significantly (in line with the overall decline of the death rate for all Americans), while the death rate for women with diabetes did not decline at all.

The author writes about berberine and blogs at fayebautista@yahoo.com

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Diabetics Should Exercise Regularly To Avoid Cardiovascular Diseases

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in people with diabetes. In those with type 1 diabetes as young as 20-39 years old, the risk of dying from a cardiovascular or cerebrovascular event is five times higher than those without diabetes. This population group benefits more from exercise than an average person does.

Type 1 diabetics who exercise regularly reduces his/her risk for cardiovascular disease -according to a new study published in the August edition of Diabetes Care.
Researchers in Austria and Germany studied more than 23,000 youngsters between the ages of 3 and 18, and found that the more physically active youngsters were less at risk for high diastolic blood pressure and lipid profiles, and had lower blood glucose levels.

They specifically found that the more the youngsters physically exercised, their triglycerides and high cholesterol decreased from 41.2 percent for youngsters who did not exercise, to 36 percent to those who exercised once or twice a week. Additionally, it was found that their high cholesterol and triglycerides fell to 34.4 percent for those who have physically exercised three or more times weekly.

Physical exercise did not include school sports; it included regularly exercising for a period of 30 minutes per day.

30 minutes of daily exercise. Keep that in mind.

Also, there is a Canadian study that included the findings from death records of more than nine million adults offers somewhat grim news: a Type 2 diabetic may experience cardiovascular problems 15 years sooner than a non-diabetic.

The results were broken down into expected risks for different genders and age groups. For instance, women with Type 2 diabetes are considered to be a moderate risk for cardiovascular disease by the age of 46, compared to the age of 62 for non-diabetic women. Complete results are here.

While the study is interesting and improving your cardiovascular health is always recommended, panic is not recommended. After all, these results are from death records, not living diabetics. Perhaps those people did not treat their diabetes properly, or did not follow healthy eating and exercise patterns. With the determination to be healthy, there is no reason to believe you can’t live a long, healthy, happy life.

Another is that of the connection of obesity to diabetes. There is cross-treatment of drugs for obesity and diabetes, which is nothing new, and researchers are excited about another find. The new drug is designed to help reduce obesity in patients, which in turn may now seem to help stave off heart problems in Type 2 diabetics.

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