A Quick Course in Diabetes
If you have diabetes or are you at risk? Are you worried about your blood sugar? Then you’ve come to the right place.
Here you can learn how best normalize your blood sugar levels and become healthier and slimmer – theoretical knowledge that has proven to be efficient in practice by thousands of your fellow-sufferers.
The disease of diabetes (any type) means that you have too much sugar in the blood. It is easy to control and easy to influence lifestyle choices. The problem is that the advice that are often given in healthcare are counterintuitive.
An epidemic out of control
What is wrong? Why do more and more people get diagnosed with diabetes?
In the past, before our modern Western diet took over, diabetes was extremely rare. Now, the disease is more common. More and more people get diabetes around the world each year:
The number of people with diabetes is increasing very rapidly and is heading towards 500 million. It is a world epidemic. Will there be someone in your family who suffer next? Your mother, father, cousin, your child? Or you? Maybe your blood is already too sweet?
Those who suffer the most common form of diabetes (type 2) can come out healthy again pretty soon. Instead, we see them to be a little sicker every year. Over time, they need more and more medications. Nevertheless, complications arise sooner or later. Blindness. Dialysis because of broken kidneys. Dementia. Amputations. Death.
Diabetes epidemic leads to suffering that can hardly be imagined. Fortunately, there is something that can be done about it. We just need to see through the mistakes that led to the explosion of the disease – and correct them.
If you already know you have diabetes, you can skip down to the section where the sugar in the blood is coming from.
Let us otherwise see if you are at risk.
Is your blood sugar normal?
Common symptoms of diabetes are: abnormal thirst and urination. This is because the blood sugar at times are so high (above 15mmol / L) that it is leaking into the urine and pulls the fluid out of the body, increasing thirst.
Poor vision is also common. Sugar gets lens of the eye to swell, and it will then become more nearsighted
Fatigue
When juvenile diabetes can lose unexplained weight and breath may smell of acetone (nail polish remover)
However, note that for milder forms of diabetes you often feel nothing. But all the sugar in the blood can still gradually damage the body.
Taking the Test
Do you have diabetes? If you do not already know, it is easy to test, in seconds. Either your GP or inexpensive blood glucose meter can do it for you. A scarificator and a drop of blood is all that is needed:
Normal blood sugar is up to 6 mmol / L, fasting, or up to 8.7 after meal
Slightly higher values cause a precursor to diabetes
Over 7.0 fasted or above 12.2 after a meal means you have diabetes
More on blood sugar levels and diabetes
You can also test your urine using a dipstick urinalysis; sugar in the urine usually means that you have diabetes.
Two types of diabetes
What causes diabetes? There are two common forms:
Type 2
Type 2 diabetes is by far the most common form (about 90 percent of all cases) and the fastest growing. It affects mostly obese people in middle age or later in life. Not infrequently, also hit high blood pressure and bad cholesterol levels. Gestational diabetes is a transient special cases of type 2 diabetes.
In type 2 diabetes, the body increasingly difficult to manage all the sugar in the blood. Lots of blood sugar lowering hormone insulin is produced but it is still not enough, because the sensitivity to the hormone decreases. People diagnosed with type 2 diabetes often have ten times more insulin in the body than normal. As a side effect it stores fat and insulin cause weight gain, which often lasts for many years before the disease is diagnosed.
Type 1
Type 1 diabetes (juvenile diabetes) occurs in children and young adults. Those who develop type 1 diabetes often have normal weight. Months before the disease is diagnosed, they usually see their weight go down inexplicably.
Type 1 diabetes is due to the fact that most of the body’s insulin-producing cells have died (of unknown cause). Severe deficiency of the hormone insulin produces high blood sugar and rapid weight loss.
Treatment is primarily to supply the insulin it lacks in spray form. In addition, a non-hyperglycaemic diet is dramatically easier to get a stable and normal blood sugar.
Where the sugar in the blood is coming from
The problem with diabetes is that the body has difficulty keeping down blood sugar. The blood becomes too sweet. So where does the sugar in the blood come from? 
The sugar in the blood comes from the food we eat. The food gets to the different types of sugar already in the stomach are called carbohydrates. This means sugar (as in soft drinks, juice, candy), and starch (as in bread, pasta, rice and potatoes).
The starch in bread, for example, are broken down to glucose in the stomach. When glucose is taken up in the blood is called blood sugar.
The more carbohydrates we eat at a meal, the more sugar gets absorbed into the bloodstream. The more sugar absorbed into the blood, the higher the blood sugar.
The food above raises the blood sugar dramatically. People with diabetes who are trying to eat this way will not normally be healthier and slimmer. On the contrary, they tend to need more and more medications and become more obese every year.
The advice above is not only illogical, they also function poorly. They lack scientific support according to a recent canadianhealthcaremalll.com expert investigation. Similar carbohydrate dietary advice has in recent years on the contrary been shown to increase the risk of getting diabetes and long-term impair of blood sugar levels in those who already have diabetes. The advice does not improve diabetic health otherwise.
The only reason to even give patients bad advice is the lingering fear of natural fat. You should avoid fat, you need eating more carbohydrates to be fit. But the old theory of grease dangerousness has recently been proven to be incorrect.
Is there an alternative that provides better health and better weight? Food that does not raise blood sugar? What happens if you take away the hyperglycaemic food? What’s left?
What they tend to notice is that the blood sugar gets better from the first meal. The need for medications, especially insulin, decreases dramatically. Obesity usually decreases significantly. Finally they are feeling much better, more alert and many health values get improved.
Here is the list of the recommended nutritional diabetes food: Butter, olive oil, cheese, meat, fish, and eggs. It sounds familiar. If we just add plenty of vegetables, it’s a healthy diet.
This is the advice that diabetics had a hundred years ago – a diet which included pork, butter and cabbage. And when diabetics begin eating so today the same thing happens as before. Their blood sugar levels improved dramatically from day 1. Logically, since they avoid eating things that raise blood sugar.
Gradually, most overweight then down considerably in weight and can manage with less medication.
Even the American Diabetes Association (ADA) approves since 2008 advice on low carbohydrate diets in diabetes.
Do not know what to believe? It’s ok. There is an easy way to see what the effect of low carbohydrate diet is for you.
Try it for a few weeks and follow up on what the effect will be. Here are some examples of what you can expect:
- Better blood sugar from first meal
- Increased satiety and weight loss that usually becomes noticeable within a week
- Reduced cravings for sweets
- A calmer and gasless abdomen
- Take control of your own health and listen to your body.
