A Different Look at Diabetes Treatment Options
Such stories are inspiring, and none more so than the one I read recently about a woman whose husband collapsed on their wedding day. He had Diabetes, and of course, he was told there was no cure. the woman then spent years trying to find a cure, and She did. Diabetes is nothing new for human beings, but it was relatively rare before the 20th century. It is commonly called a disease of modern living, I call it a disease of over eating. In most cases this epidemic can be traced to a person's lifestyle.
The start of production line factories, spilling out prepared foods that were cheap and lifeless as far as nutrition was concerned, was just the start of our diet problems. When we just had some meat and mostly root vegetables with maybe some beans, we didn't get all the fat and sugar that makes up our diet today. And soda, I can not say enough bad things about it. Fruit drinks are not much better, they over load your system and your poor pancreas can not keep up with this onslaught for ever.
With our modern lifestyle, a wife is not able to spend most of the day in the kitchen, so prepared and partly prepared food is the common fare at most tables. Prepared food is not as filling as meat and potatoes, so we naturally eat more and wash it down with a sugar filled drink. It is a wonder we even survive. Think of how it was in the old days, when there were usually three generations at the table. There must have been much more talk and good solid food to give our system both nourishment and comfort.
It is believed that one of the leading causes of illness and death at present is diabetes. High blood sugar levels trigger one type of this disease to slowly kill the body. So how can you protect yourself against this dreaded ailment? Is there any way we can prevent it from attacking us? The answer is yes. The best way is to know the Glycemic Index or GI of a particular food you eat, just like the GI of Splendid, a popular sweetener. Sugar substitutes like Splendid are labeled as empty-calorie foods, which are those kinds of food that have calories but do not provide nutrients to the body. As it is a form of carbohydrate sugar, the GI of Splendid is very high, which means that it can cause a rapid increase in the blood sugar levels of the body.
The start of production line factories, spilling out prepared foods that were cheap and lifeless as far as nutrition was concerned, was just the start of our diet problems. When we just had some meat and mostly root vegetables with maybe some beans, we didn't get all the fat and sugar that makes up our diet today. And soda, I can not say enough bad things about it. Fruit drinks are not much better, they over load your system and your poor pancreas can not keep up with this onslaught for ever.
With our modern lifestyle, a wife is not able to spend most of the day in the kitchen, so prepared and partly prepared food is the common fare at most tables. Prepared food is not as filling as meat and potatoes, so we naturally eat more and wash it down with a sugar filled drink. It is a wonder we even survive. Think of how it was in the old days, when there were usually three generations at the table. There must have been much more talk and good solid food to give our system both nourishment and comfort.
It is believed that one of the leading causes of illness and death at present is diabetes. High blood sugar levels trigger one type of this disease to slowly kill the body. So how can you protect yourself against this dreaded ailment? Is there any way we can prevent it from attacking us? The answer is yes. The best way is to know the Glycemic Index or GI of a particular food you eat, just like the GI of Splendid, a popular sweetener. Sugar substitutes like Splendid are labeled as empty-calorie foods, which are those kinds of food that have calories but do not provide nutrients to the body. As it is a form of carbohydrate sugar, the GI of Splendid is very high, which means that it can cause a rapid increase in the blood sugar levels of the body.
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