Diabetes is a growing epidemic not just in this country but worldwide. Learning to control it with the foods we eat is an approach the well-informed Diabetic must explore
When you’re a Diabetic you get bombarded from all sides with tons of information about what’s the best way to treat your disease. But what may work for someone else may not be right for you. Medical professionals only have so much information on hand and in the end, it’s up to YOU to find the best solution.
Traditional medical approaches for controlling Diabetes should not be in competition with the Holistic Medicine way of proper supplemental nutrition to treat a disease. Instead, they should be mutually supportive.
If Diabetes is preventable and reversible, what will help?
Changing your diet. This alone is hard enough for a Diabetic, but when most of today’s processed foods are failing the nutrition test, which can worsen you disease, it’s even harder. Both lifestyle and aging in older Diabetics make the situation even more difficult. If you’re over fifty years old, your body loses its ability to fully absorb nutrients, particularly chromium which is an essential mineral. It helps maintain healthy blood sugar levels and minimize the onset of Diabetes. This is why you will probably need supplements to help get your blood sugar and weight under control.
If you’re honest about the way you are eating now, you’re probably not eating the way you should. According to established health standards, 80% of the population is not getting all the required nutrients needed to maintain a healthy body. You can add to that loss of nutrients if you drink Coke or Pepsi or other sodas (yes, even the diet kind) as according to studies these sodas just “suck” the chromium right out of your system.
Most of the foods you purchase at your Supermarket are made up of refined fat, sugar or fructose corn syrup, refined white flour, artificial flavors, colors, dough conditioners, stabilizers, preservatives or a combination there of. While some are harmless and may even increase the value of the food, the majority are toxic and can deplete the body of major needed nutrients that contributes to Diabetic and other health problems.
As an example, take a health-giving item like wheat. Once raw wheat is made into white flour the processing has removed over 80% of its magnesium, 70-80% of its zinc, 87% of its chromium, 88% of its manganese and 50% of its cobalt. What’s left is something that is NOT giving your body what it needs to stay healthy!
Another example is food additives. Thousands of artificial flavors, colors, preservatives, conditioners, and stabilizers are added to our foods. You can’t escape eating them. They’re in almost everything we put in our mouths. Food additives deplete nutrients. Because we eat so much refined, low-quality foods that are loaded with these additives, our digestion has become impaired. This then further impairs the absorption of required nutrients and increases our body’s nutritional needs.
And yet another example is antibiotics in our foods. Residues of antibiotics have been detected in livestock, farm-grown fish and commercial eggs. Antibiotics kill the friendly bacteria in our intestines that we need to help our bodies absorb nutrients, especially B-vitamins. Deficiencies in this vitamin can cause a variety of nervous and digestive conditions.
In the final analysis a Diabetic must change his diet to control his sugar levels but also to eat healthy. This means adding supplements focused on blood sugar, weight loss and replacing the lost nutrients our body needs to stay healthy.
Ruth Walby
