Why is so much of what the medical system believes not based on science?
This article paid for by Big Pharma and the Deep State.
Goal 1 - “diagnose” more and more people with diabetes sooner
Goal 2 - immediately put them on a continually escalating series of new drugs and keep them on them.
I always assumed it was we are taking in more and more high fructose corn syrup which leads to the disease.
Get rid of that and watch the disease nearly go away.
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Yet, the food industry hasn’t found the market. Sugar Free and Keto friendly foods are hard to find. I think Big Pharma would rather we eat like we want and just take more meds to fix the insulin issue.
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Or people can go on a Keto or Atkins diet and skip the Big Pharma shots. I know a number of people who cut carbs and sugar and saw their diabetes clear up within a couple weeks.
Most diabetes in the US is caused by diet—and can be effectively reversed by diet.
But there’s not much of a role for pharma in that.
I did a quick scan through the article. They seem to be saying that low carb diets are proving effective against diabetes but that the health establishment is being slow to adopt them as treatment, neither of which surprises me. IMO the diabetes epidemic is a symptom of the obesity epidemic, which in turn is a consequence of the carb centric diet that’s been pushed by the establishment for half a century now. Maybe one of these decades they’ll admit that the carb heavy food pyramid has been a disaster. The article states that currently 1 in 4 healthcare dollars are spent on treating diabetes — a stunning statistic.
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Intermittent Fasting - only eat in an 8 hour window each day. Every once in a while skip an entire day or two of eating.
And when you do eat, don’t eat a couple dozen donuts - unless you’re a cop.
Great read!
To paraphrase Ronald Reagan:
‘It isn’t so much that doctors are ignorant. It’s just that they know so many things that aren’t so.’
Remember this with all of your doctors. Sanity check them, but that requires some study and/or potentially getting second opinions.
Doctors are only human, just like everyone else.
Diabetes puts all of these individuals at increased risk of heart disease, strokes, cancer, blindness, kidney failure, nerve damage, gangrene, and lower limb amputation. It increases cognitive impairment and dementia risk as patients age. Living with diabetes still comes with a decrease in life expectancy of six years."
A lot of it but certainly not all of it due to increased obesity.
For type 2, cut all sugars and all carbs out of your diet, intermittent fasting at 14-16 hours of no eating (one meal window per day), keep hydrated with no sugar or carbs in what you’re drinking, and keep your calories around 1,000 a day for as long as it takes to get your weight down to where you prefer to be. Takes me little time to drop significant weight.
Once at your desired weight, keep your carbs reasonable, stay away from sugar as much as you can, and do some occasional intermittent fasting and you should be able to keep your weight stable and steady.
Works for me.
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