Well, it looks like I can relate to a lot of the comments. My doctor told me about 8 mos ago I was prediabetic, blood sugar over 100, over weight by 50 lbs, yep, mostly around the waist & belly area. Add to that my dads side of family nearly all had it and both my older brothers diagnosed at age 65, and I have Native American blood. Here I was age 65 & doc tells me your prediabetic. Scary...you bet! But I am here to say the advise of Miss Info and Janet Foster are absolutely correct. I went home with prescriptions in hand to lower "bad" cholesterol and put in the draw and never touched it. I changed my eating habits, joined a Yoga class, got myself moving, cut out the white potatoes,white rice, white-bleached out breads...I went whole grain, add Cinnamon to almost everything, my coffee,oatmeal, tuna salads..ect..ect, along with taking cinnamon capsules twice daily. Increased my water intake, (I didn't have to watch my salt, as due to mom's family all having elevated blood pressure and heart problems), I abandoned the salt almost completely at a young age. I quit drinking cola type drinks completely, and very seldom ever touch sugar. Went basically all natural. Three months later at my next doctor visit, the doc was elated, I had lost 25 lbs, sugar levels and cholesterol levels had dropped drastically. She said, " don't know what you are doing, but keep it up, it's working great!"
I am walking proof, that the advice you have just given is correct!

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great article.

i am pre-diabetic, and am doing everything i can think of to NOT be diabetic.

thank you for all these wonderful articles.

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Thanks Miss Info. Very well stated.
Most illnesses are related to responsibility, or lack of it. Genetics can be the 'get out of jail free card', except for rare cases. Eating totally raw foods can be very beneficial.
A report somewhere had found that the ones who end up with gangrene, are those who fail to dramatically change diet and lifestyle. They then rely heavily on Diabetic drugs, which in turn are said to possibly cause the gangrene. The body apparently pushes the toxins, and heavy metals found in the drugs, to the extremities to keep them away from the vital organs. (if only we were as smart as the human body!)
Anyway, I am not a professional(which helps sometimes) so please investigate this yourself if you wish to find out more. Sorry that I haven't a link to that report. I will post it later if I find it.

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Statins and drugs? I wish I could remember who I'm quoting, but it's from one of my textbooks and I can't remember which one. "Diabetes is not a disease. It is your body's natural response to an abusive life-style." Meaning adult-onset, not juvenile diabetes. Repeatedly eating foods that spike your blood sugar teaches your body to resist insulin. Except for some fairly rare conditions, most diabeties is caused by diet. It almost never happens in cultures that don't eat sugar and processed foods - and when people from those cultures come to America, they get diabetes at the same rate as the rest of Americans. Meaning in general, it's not genetic. (Yes, there are some who deal with it genetically, but not most.) Learn about the glycemic index. Get enough fiber and protein. Don't eat processed foods. Stay away from artificial sugars (which mess with blood sugar AND brain chemistry). Stay away from sugar, processed flour, white rice, pasta ...

Another of my textbooks (still don't remember which one) said, "If you can eat your way into it, you can eat your way out of it" without drugs.

Please, everyone who inherited a condition, don't jump on me for being insensitive. I'm allowing for inherited conditions, I just don't believe that 30% of America has them, which I think is the going rate of diabetes last I heard. In cultures that don't eat the American diet, the rate is closer to 1%.

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The way I have reduced my "pre-diabetes", which was showing up as hypoglycemia, was to read and follow the book on glycemic index (by Dr. Jennie Miller and others). That would be the original book, showing the results of the scientific studies on glycemic reactions to specific carbohydrates, not the secondary and confused versions of this physical reaction of people to the food they eat.
This means that I tend to avoid eating white potatoes, fig newtons, mangos and other tropical fruit, and I enjoy apples and oats (not instant oatmeal!). If I eat a high-glycemic-index food, such as carrots or white potatoes, I have some cinnamon or some vinegar soon afterwards. My hypoglycemia doesn't happen anymore.

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Today it is the time that we all stand together and combat this disease which is spreading in the world very fast and more importantly taking lives of millions of people. Nice informative post. thank you for sharing.


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Read Gabriel Cousens' book on reversing diabetes in 30 days.

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