Posted on 06/12/2021 9:43:01 AM PDT by ConservativeMind
Blood sugar control among adults with diabetes in the United States declined significantly in the past decade, according to a nationwide study. The findings highlight the ongoing challenges of controlling one of the nation's most prevalent chronic health conditions.
The researchers…used data from an annual government-sponsored health study to analyze trends in blood sugar (or "glycemic") control, as well as blood pressure and cholesterol control among adults with diabetes.
They found that the proportion of adults with diabetes achieving glycemic control improved from 1999 through the next 10 years, but then declined significantly—dropping from 57.4 percent during 2007-2010 to 50.5 percent during 2015-2018. There was also drop in the proportion achieving blood pressure control, while the proportion achieving cholesterol control essentially leveled off.
"These are concerning findings. There has been a real decline in glycemic control from a decade ago, and overall, only a small proportion of people with diabetes are simultaneously meeting the key goals of glycemic control, blood pressure control, and control of high cholesterol," says study senior author Elizabeth Selvin, Ph.D., MPH.
Diabetes mostly occurs in the form of type 2 diabetes which is strongly related to diet and lifestyle factors. The disease affects more than 34 million, or 13 percent, of the U.S. adult population, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, and represents an ongoing public health crisis. By causing chronic high blood sugar and associated high blood pressure and high cholesterol, diabetes increases the risks of other serious diseases, especially cardiovascular disease and complications, including amputation and kidney disease. The traditional "ABCs" of diabetes care are to reduce chronic high blood sugar—usually measured with the hemoglobin A1C test—to keep blood pressure below hypertensive levels, and to control cholesterol levels.
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Pop tarts for breakfast, pizza for lunch, and Burgers, beer and chips for supper. Where am I going wrong?
It’s all the prepared foods.
Whether canned chili or ice cream.
Diet and exercise are the best way.
Big Food gets you fat, so Big Pharma can cash in.
Millions have died and continue to die from complications surrounding chronic lifestyle disease in western countries, yet we’re ‘this close’ to being mandated to take a wholly-experimental shot to reduce the risk of infection/disease from SARS-CoV-2 below that of vehicular crashes.
(follow the money)
You forgot your sarc tag: I know far too many people who engage both and are continuously chasing their tails, one of whom died of CVD just before the virus and another who now wears a bag out his belly as of 2 weeks ago.
Global Warming or Trump’s Fault
Genetically modified High-Fructose Corn Syrup? Seems like they put it in everything these days.
Hello. Americans are not eating food. They are eating stuff processed by companies who do not know nor care. No one is cooking. No one is home
Bone broth. Not from a box but from slow boiling chicken or beef bones 20 hours, vegetables and fruit- from the produce dept. and good bread properly processed grains.
Water
My A1C was 5.7 last check.
It’s all the prepared foods.
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So true. Think like a hunter-gatherer. If you could have obtained a food 10,000 years ago (ex. vegetables, fruit, meat) your body is designed to process it. If not (ex. Hostess Twinkies, pizza, Ring Ding Juniors), then it’s probably going to have too much refined sugar in it.
T2D can be REVERSED/put into REMISSION merely by not putting certain things into your mouth ... the big 3 are sugar, processed foods, vegetable seed oils. If people eat REAL food, not processed, use natural fats, & eat low carb veggies, this will go a long way to getting blood sugars down. Intermittent fasting is also very helpful. Most folks who follow a low carb program can get off off insulin, BP meds, etc. There are docs out there who have ‘seen the light’ and can help with this.
If people believe the majority of the medical community, which tells them T2D is a chronic progressive disease (taught this in med school) & their only option is ever increasing amounts of insulin, then down the road they can look forward to amputations, heart disease, diabetic retinopathy, kidney failure, & neuropathy.
The resources for reversing T2D are growing by leaps and bounds. This is not a ‘fad’ and there are plenty of studies showing the science behind keeping insulin & blood sugars low. Most docs don’t check fasting insulin (just blood sugar) & you can have sky high insulin/low blood sugar. At some point, the pancreas cannot keep up & T2D is the result. Potential for T2D can be determined years in advance, if fasting insulin would be checked. Insulin is the “fat storage hormone” ... have high insulin or go on insulin, weight gain/obesity can be the result.
Diet Doctor
https://www.dietdoctor.com/
Low Carb MD podcast
https://www.lowcarbmd.com/
Dr. Ken Berry
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIma2WOQs1Mz2AuOt6wRSUw
Book: The Obesity Code by Dr. Jason Fung (any book by Dr. Fung is a good book)
Lots of other folks out there in the low carb community, trying to improve health, treat root causes. It’s a wonderful community - been a big help to me.
I endorse your post wholeheartedly. The crappy western diet is behind most chronic diseases. There is a reason why once rare ailments such as cancer, CVD and diabetes are now epidemic. Yes, even most cancer is a metabolic disease brought on by long-term bad diet. My wife and I have been low-carb for over ten years now. No sickness and excellent metabolic markers.
Thanks. I’ve been low carb 3 years (carnivore mostly the last year due to food allergies). Lots of “issues” have gone away including being pre-diabetic and also 65 lbs as icing on the cake. I’ve never felt better.
A new book you might be interested in (heard the author interviewed on latest Low Carb MD podcast) is “Ravenous: Otto Warburg, the Nazis, and the Search for the Cancer-Diet Connection” by Sam Apple.
Excerpt from review:
Remarkably, Warburg’s theory has undergone a resurgence in our own time, as scientists have begun to investigate the dangers of sugar and the link between obesity and cancer, finding that the way we eat can influence how cancer cells take up nutrients and grow. Rooting his revelations in extensive archival research as well as dozens of interviews with today’s leading cancer authorities, Apple demonstrates how Warburg’s midcentury work may well hold the secret to why cancer became so common in the modern world and how we can reverse the trend. A tale of scientific discovery, personal peril, and the race to end a disastrous disease, Ravenous would be the stuff of the most inventive fiction were it not, in fact, true.
https://www.amazon.com/Ravenous-Warburg-Search-Cancer-Diet-Connection/dp/1631493159
It’s all the prepared foods.
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So true. Think like a hunter-gatherer. If you could have obtained a food 10,000 years ago (ex. vegetables, fruit, meat) your body is designed to process it. If not (ex. Hostess Twinkies, pizza, Ring Ding Juniors), then it’s probably going to have too much refined sugar in it.”
I told him my DNA role models parents and grandparents lived to their late 70’s or into their 80’s and didn’t starve themselves.
I asked him if he was the same weight as a starting forward on a major university. He said yes.
So I asked about his parents, and they lived until their 70’s and 80’s and had normal American diets.
He admitted that I was past the age of 70 where diet and statins might help.
The next question, “If I was a relative or good friend what would he tell me to do.”!
His reply was to never eat processed food or anything with long non occurring everyday names. Shop around the edges of the grocery store and never buy anything that is processed. Buy fresh seafood and beef/pork from the butcher shop in a couple of super markets.
His advice was to buy our produce from a local farmer family and never buy processed food. To discontinue my high carb diet and basically go on the paleo diet with fresh fruit and veggies at anytime of the day, when I was hungry.
My wife keeps a counter top loaded with fresh veggies and fruit. When we are hungry, we snack on what is on that counter. We never feel like we are dieting.
I lost my extra 10 #’s in about 4-5 weeks, and I have maintained that weight for years now.
My wife is the same weight, as she was when we got married 60 years ago this fall.
My favorite snacking food is a mix of roasted almonds and walnuts, my wife makes from what we buy at Costco.
True. Not one tissue in the human body is made up of a drug.
Thank you so much for the link. I am quite familiar with the Warburg hypothesis, but was unaware of this book. Thomas Seyfried builds upon Warburg in his book whose link I posted above. It all makes complete sense.
I gather you mean that this doctor was fanatic against the use of statins and a high carb diet.
“They found that the proportion of adults with diabetes achieving glycemic control improved from 1999 through the next 10 years...”
It depends on your determination of improved. The theory of control for both types of diabetes has in many cases been re-thought to just achieving a consistent level, not a cure. For some, reaching the level of a 6 a1c is not going to happen. And they are finding that the contraction of the illness is very inconsistent as there may, or may not be a history, and that insulin resistance is relatively new in how the body handles it.
Reaching that 80 to 120 reading off the glucometer is not always possible. A lot of people think it’s because of weight. Not really. Many like me realized the illness while in lower weights and in outstanding shape. But the way it effects the body can create its own results.
A topic I checked on was that type 2 diabetes didn’t exist until after the companies started using the hydrolizing of food to give them a greater shelf life. There is evidence that it changes protein ions when the copper ions are fired through the food.
So the “cure” for diabetes is a crap shoot if there even is one. Just because you can replace the need for medication with additional dietary considerations doesn’t make it go away. And those dietary changes are not a consistent answer as it won’t help some but can control the illness in others, until the body adjusts. Been on about all of it and about all I’ve been able to accomplish is I still have all my toes, and I’m still alive with a number of contributory illnesses to diabetes which I’ve had for over 35 years. Many are not as lucky.
wy69
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