Life Sciences Institute/ University of Michigan
Study Fat tissue from a mouse that was fed a high-fat diet.
Posted on 10/17/2007 12:31:00 AM PDT by neverdem
An explosion of new research is vastly changing scientists’ understanding of diabetes and giving new clues about how to attack it.
The fifth leading killer of Americans, with 73,000 deaths a year, diabetes is a disease in which the body’s failure to regulate glucose, or blood sugar, can lead to serious and even fatal complications. Until very recently, the regulation of glucose — how much sugar is present in a person’s blood, how much is taken up by cells for fuel, and how much is released from energy stores — was regarded as a conversation between a few key players: the pancreas, the liver, muscle and fat.
Now, however, the party is proving to be much louder and more complex than anyone had shown before.
New research suggests that a hormone from the skeleton, of all places, may influence how the body handles sugar. Mounting evidence also demonstrates that signals from the immune system, the brain and the gut play critical roles in controlling glucose and lipid metabolism. (The findings are mainly relevant to Type 2 diabetes, the more common kind, which comes on in adulthood.)
Focusing on the cross-talk between more different organs, cells and molecules represents a “very important change in our paradigm” for understanding how the body handles glucose, said Dr. C. Ronald Kahn, a diabetes researcher and professor at Harvard Medical School.
The defining feature of diabetes is elevated blood sugar. But the reasons for abnormal sugar seem to “differ tremendously from person to person,” said Dr. Robert A. Rizza, a professor at the Mayo Clinic College of Medicine. Understanding exactly what signals are involved, he said, raises the hope of “providing the right care for each person each day, rather than giving everyone the same drug.”
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For type 2 diabetes, if we would cut out refined sugar and flours, and add more fiber to our diets, our chances of getting it would be greatly reduced.
As well as add a lot of good old-fashioned red meat, butter, eggs & bacon. In fact, if that was our usual diet (with a daily mixed green salad thrown in), we might eradicate Type-2 diabetes. But everyone is so anti-meat, you won't hear this from many quarters.
LOL! So...you trade diabetes 2 for high levels of chorlesterol...and die of a heart attack or stroke instead.
Despite the massive hype on this, there is no link between high cholesterol and heart disease. Cholesterol is merely a proxy indicator of health, not an actual indicator, which has been hyped up so that you will buy Statin drugs.
So yeah, go and eat red meat and eggs. They're good for you.
add to that, if you already have it ( as I do ) lose weight and get active again.....this is far more important than anything else you do..mine gets more under control with every pound I lose. My goal is to be off the drugs in another 2 years..
Glad to see more and more people stating these facts. Maybe there’s hope for the health of the American people after all.
Exactly! Cholesterol is a hyped up industry and a lot of people have been put through hell and expense to meet relatively meaningless numbers. Also cholesterol is necessary for an efficient immune system. If you force cholesterol down, you run the risk if having cancer rates go up. It’s all been a big lie.
If you’re going to eat all that, and more, also make sure that you get an equally generous, if not greater, share of a primary component of the good, old-fashioned lifestyle: Hard, physical work.
There is a surgical procedure that has a 98% cure rate for Type 2 diabetes - it’s being tested in Europe.
The procedure is currently done for weight loss (Duodenal Switch - NOT Gastric Bypass) and has had wonderful results. The surgery is comprised of 2 parts - reduction of stomach size and duodenal switch. They are performing just the switch part in Europe as a possible cure for this horrible disease. I hope they will begin to do it in the states soon. Everyone that I know that has had it has come off of all meds within a few months of surgery.
“For type 2 diabetes, if we would cut out refined sugar and flours, and add more fiber to our diets, our chances of getting it would be greatly reduced.”
Robert Atkins was mostly right.
Western man’s genetics are not made to thrive on large amounts of grains and sugars. The result is excess pounds, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease.
.....Hard, physical work.....
Last spring I broke my leg. During the period of forced inactivity my carefully controlled numbers went to hell.
For me, exercise and work are the primary factor. I take Advicor and aspirin, but neither are completely effective without daily exercise.
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Not true. Cholesterol is largely a result of liver function. The people on the Atkins diet did NOT exhibit higher levels of heart attack or stroke. IIRC, their incidence of those ills was less than average.
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My grandfather tended a 2-acre yard for their ma and pa motel up until the age of 90. What did he do? He used a push mower - no self-propelled anything and was picking weeds by hand. He was in better shape at age 90 than a lot of 30 yr. olds are, simply by doing basic human movement every day - walking, bending/stretching, pushing around small machinery - and lots of it.
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