Diabetes Epedimic
I recently read a newsletter that gave some shocking statistics regarding diabetes, and juvenile diabetes. Here are just a few of those statistics. What's most shocking is that this chronic degenerative disease can most of the time be reversed and even prevented with simple healthy lifestyle changes.
Many have been lead to believe that central obesity is the cause of diabetes; however it is only one of the signs of underlying insulin resistance. It is not the cause of insulin resistance or diabetes.
Once you develop pre-diabetes, or insulin resistance you become less sensitive to your own insulin and you tip into an abnormal metabolic state. Your body tries to fix this state by producing more and more insulin causing your blood pressure to raise, your triglyceride levels to go up, and your HDL cholesterol goes down while your LDL cholesterol goes up and you begin to put on unusual amounts of weight around your middle. (central obesity) You may have heard this called syndrome X or metabolic syndrome and is now called pre-diabetes. Once you develop pre-diabetes your arteries begin aging much faster than they should. What's also very alarming is that you can be pre-diabetic 10 to 15 years before you actually develop diabetes. What this means is that if you are diagnosed with diabetes at age 30 you were already a diabetic at age 18. That is why 60% of diabetics already have major cardiovascular disease. There is already too much damage to their arteries.
When you become insulin resistance and tip over into that abnormal metabolic state a calorie is no longer a calorie. Many of the calories that your muscles previously used for energy are now diverted to the fat cells of the abdomen. The high insulin level (insulin is your storage hormone) now converts the glucose or calories to fat and blocks the release of that fat. This is why a pre-diabetic or diabetic holds on to fat like a sponge holds onto water. You can't effectively lose this fat unless you reverse the underlying insulin resistance. Not by the use of drugs but by applying Healthy lifestyle changes. Learn the cause of over 70 degenerative diseases that can be avoided and sometimes reversed. Such as Chronic Fatigue, Fibromyalgia, Heart Disease, Stroke, Multiple Sclerosis, Lupus and many more.
This is the heart of my Healthy For Life RESET event starting August 17th 2011 at www.hflreset.eventbrite.com We teach a triad of healthy lifestyle changes teaching you what a healthy diet is including good low glycemic eating, good fats and good proteins along with a modest exercise program and nutritional supplementation.
When you truly establish a healthy diet, modest-exercise, and consume high quality nutritional supplements - you will improve your sensitivity to your own insulin. This gives you the best chance of avoiding becoming a diabetic or even reversing your diabetes. This is the message that our adults and youth need to hear and understand. YOU CAN TAKE BACK CONTROL OF YOUR HEALTH and become Healthy For Life!
For more information please visit my site at www.livewellintl.com/jackiebennett and click on the online nutrition seminar. Then visit my event at www.hflreset.eventbrite.com and get registered today.
God bless,
Jackie Bennett
LIVEWELL Certified Coach
- Diabetes mellitus has increased by over 500% during the past three decades.
- In 2010 there were approximately 465,000 new cases among individuals between the ages of 20 and 44.
- Diabetes will shorten the lives of men diagnosed by age 30 by 14.5 years.
- A man diagnosed with diabetes at age 20 can expect to die 17 years earlier than a man who does not develop diabetes.
- A woman diagnosed with diabetes at age 30 will shorten her life by 16.5 years.
- A woman diagnosed at age 20 can expect to die 18 years earlier.
- Today adult diabetes is the main cause for blindness in the western world.
- Diabetes is also the main cause for kidney failure and the need for lifetime dialysis and kidney transplants.
- Diabetes is the most common cause of non-traumatic amputations and nerve damage.
- Amongst most physicians it is well known that 80% of diabetic patients will die prematurely because of a cardiovascular event such as stroke or heart attack.
Many have been lead to believe that central obesity is the cause of diabetes; however it is only one of the signs of underlying insulin resistance. It is not the cause of insulin resistance or diabetes.
Once you develop pre-diabetes, or insulin resistance you become less sensitive to your own insulin and you tip into an abnormal metabolic state. Your body tries to fix this state by producing more and more insulin causing your blood pressure to raise, your triglyceride levels to go up, and your HDL cholesterol goes down while your LDL cholesterol goes up and you begin to put on unusual amounts of weight around your middle. (central obesity) You may have heard this called syndrome X or metabolic syndrome and is now called pre-diabetes. Once you develop pre-diabetes your arteries begin aging much faster than they should. What's also very alarming is that you can be pre-diabetic 10 to 15 years before you actually develop diabetes. What this means is that if you are diagnosed with diabetes at age 30 you were already a diabetic at age 18. That is why 60% of diabetics already have major cardiovascular disease. There is already too much damage to their arteries.
When you become insulin resistance and tip over into that abnormal metabolic state a calorie is no longer a calorie. Many of the calories that your muscles previously used for energy are now diverted to the fat cells of the abdomen. The high insulin level (insulin is your storage hormone) now converts the glucose or calories to fat and blocks the release of that fat. This is why a pre-diabetic or diabetic holds on to fat like a sponge holds onto water. You can't effectively lose this fat unless you reverse the underlying insulin resistance. Not by the use of drugs but by applying Healthy lifestyle changes. Learn the cause of over 70 degenerative diseases that can be avoided and sometimes reversed. Such as Chronic Fatigue, Fibromyalgia, Heart Disease, Stroke, Multiple Sclerosis, Lupus and many more.
This is the heart of my Healthy For Life RESET event starting August 17th 2011 at www.hflreset.eventbrite.com We teach a triad of healthy lifestyle changes teaching you what a healthy diet is including good low glycemic eating, good fats and good proteins along with a modest exercise program and nutritional supplementation.
When you truly establish a healthy diet, modest-exercise, and consume high quality nutritional supplements - you will improve your sensitivity to your own insulin. This gives you the best chance of avoiding becoming a diabetic or even reversing your diabetes. This is the message that our adults and youth need to hear and understand. YOU CAN TAKE BACK CONTROL OF YOUR HEALTH and become Healthy For Life!
For more information please visit my site at www.livewellintl.com/jackiebennett and click on the online nutrition seminar. Then visit my event at www.hflreset.eventbrite.com and get registered today.
God bless,
Jackie Bennett
LIVEWELL Certified Coach
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