Excercise does no good if your diet consists of high salt and sugary foods.
How many children suffer with Diabetes now a days? Eating healthy should be government policy by allowing healthy foods to be affordable to the American family with children.
Good. You recognize that you shouldn't be eating that stuff. If it is going in your mouth, you must be putting it there.
How many children suffer with Diabetes now a days? Eating healthy should be government policy by allowing healthy foods to be affordable to the American family with children.
Diabetes comes in two principal flavors. Type I is generally recognized as being an auto-immune disease provoked by a 'leaky gut' that permits bovine milk proteins to pass into the blood stream. The human immune system mounts an defense against this foreign protein that results in attacking the pancreas. Onset is usually observable around age 5 and requires insulin injections for life to compensate. It is a genetic defect that has little to do with diet.
Type II diabetes is provoked by a continuous intake of too many carbohydrates. The body is constantly secreting insulin to deal with the intake. The observable consequences include lots of fat storage. Internally, the patient becomes insensitive to the natural insulin produced by the body. This leaves blood sugar levels at damaging, high levels. The red blood cell walls become rigid in this environment, thus can no longer pass through fine capillaries. The consequences are diabetic neuropathy (numbness and necrosis in fingers and toes) and insufficient blood flow to the eyes. Damage to the eyes is further impaired by creation of Advanced Glycosolated Endproducts. AGEs are little blobs of protein and sugar that clog the very fine blood vessels in the eyes causing progessive blindness.
All this can be avoided by not shoving tons of carbohydrates in your mouth and getting some exercise. It doesn't require any action at all by the government.
If you have studied anything about the marketplace, the very act of government intervention in the form of price controls results in shortages. The 1973 oil crisis was caused by that very mechanism.
On my last trip to the supermarket in Idaho, I observed all manner of healthy foods bearing labels of "WIC Approved". WIC is a government food subsidy program for low income people. The process is in place, yet ignorant people continue to shove trashy food in their mouths while rotting in front of a TV set. There is a small matter of personal responsibility in this issue.
Actually, you raise in interesting (although off-topic) subject here. My son is a diabetic (12 years old) and I didn't feed him garbage. He's in great shape. From the research I've done over the last two years, type 1 diabetes in on the rise and diet and exercise is NOT linked to the problem. In addition, many of the obese children diagnosed with type 2 diabetes actually turned out to have type one.
Nobody knows why it's going up (along with Autism), but it is only doing this in Western nations. I've heard theories blaming lack of sunlight or too much gluten, diary, chemical exposures, etc.
Just and interesting point.