Diabetes has become one of today's silent killers. Diabetes is slow and steady. It takes it's time and affects almost every part of your body. It will affect your nervous system; it will affect your venous system not to mention almost all of your organs including your eyes, kidneys and heart. The most common diabetes is Type 2. This is usually diagnosed when you are in your late forties and fifties. It starts with a simple blood test and depending on your doctors familiarity of the disease will determine your course of treatment.
People who have a family history of the disease or those who are overweight or obese can expect this disease to attack. People with Type 1 diabetes are usually diagnosed in their teens and usually have to take insulin as their bodies cannot produce it. You can almost guarantee that you will get diabetes if you are overweight. Your body has large amounts of fat which produce toxins that your body is unable to clear away. These toxins along with the high concentrations of blood sugar become a deadly combination. Go to the mall one Saturday and count the amount overweight old people you see, Not many!
The disease affects every phase of your life from your vision to your nervous system and everything in between. It destroys the tissue of the heart, the kidneys and the pancreas. It is silent and does not become noticeable till the end. Yes everyone will die, but you do not need to be the first in line. This disease is a killer and is relentless. As you get older you realize that your systems are in trouble. You will start to lose feeling in your legs as the blood flow from the high sugar has damaged the arteries and veins restricting the amount of blood and then killing the nerves from lack of nourishment.
Something as simple as a cut on the leg or bump or bruise can start a chain of events that may cost you a leg or both. The disease does not quit their, it continues to destroy vision, heart, kidney, and other organs and also damages the effectiveness of the lymphatic system, the frontline defense against infection and disease. The death certificate may say kidney failure or heart attack but the true killer is diabetes. This disease affects every part of your body because your blood goes everywhere and high blood sugar kills.
Is there a cure for this disease? Yes and no. The truth is that the best cure is diet and it controls the diet not cures it. The drugs that are available with the exception of glucaphag or Metformin are almost as dangerous as the disease itself. The disease is complex and hard to control through drugs but diet is the easiest and safest way to overcome the dangerous consequences of this disease. By controlling your food intake you control the amount of food changed into sugar. The amount of sugar in the blood is what has a damaging effect on the body. Every cell needs sugar to live but the excess is what damages the organs and body. Blood sugar in large amounts also triggers the pancreas to produce insulin which controls many phases of your bodies function. Insulin controls the storage of fat in your body, it acts as a catalyst to allow your cells to use sugar in the blood and one of the side effects of insulin is to make you hungry. Yes you need to control your insulin and this will control your hunger.
If you are overweight you know the feeling of eating a large filling meal and in a short time after you are hungry again. This is the excess insulin at work. By controlling your diet with low carbohydrates this controls the amount of insulin produced. If left unchecked the beta cells in the pancreas will burnout and your next step will be insulin to control which is the most effective drug available.
Choosing a diabetic diet is critical. Most diets allow more carbohydrates and foods that get changed to sugar than a true diabetic diet. It is the controlling of carbohydrates that allows the body to control the sugar. The best thing about a low or no carbohydrate diet is its side effect. You lose weight and quickly. I know I have lost over 100 pounds in nine months on this type of diet and all is not lost for those pies and occasional pizza's we all love because as your body sheds fat your body can handle the occasional piece of pie or two pieces of pizza, but you need to lose weight and begin to control your sugar now so you can enjoy life to its fullest.
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