Prevent Type 2 Diabetes and Increase Your ...

Lifespan by 30%!!

People with type 2 diabetes have a lifespan 30% shorter than non diabetics of the same age.

It sounds almost like a snake oil salesman's ad doesn't it?

Can you imagine a disease that's preventable in most cases and yet is growing by leaps and bounds?

Sadly type 2 also known as "adult onset diabetes" is showing up in younger and younger patients, they may have to change the name to "teenage onset..." if the trend continues:-?

The basic idea is that if you overwork your body's natural sugar control mechanism it'll wear out or stop working right.

Each time you eat something the sugar in that food is absorbed raising your blood sugar. It gives your body and muscles energy to stay alive, move, exercise, think and just about everything else.

If the level of sugar gets too high your body reacts by having the pancreas release insulin, which lowers your blood sugar to safe levels and stores the excess sugar as fat.

Every time you eat excess sugar the same thing happens. If you are doing vigorous activity like running, swimming, dancing or bodybuilding the sugar is used up to supply energy to your working muscles.

When you eat excess sugar, or high glycemic index (G.I.) foods your blood sugar can rise faster than you use that energy. The extra sugar gets stored as fat after insulin drives it out of your blood.

If you eat excessively, eat lots of sugars (including starches, any high G.I. foods, and / or get little or no exercise your body goes through a repeated cycle of high blood sugar, insulin release, and fat deposition.

It was a small issue in the past when people ate whole foods and refined sugars and grains were the exception in our diet.

Nowadays you can easily eat WAY more calories and sugars than anybody needs, especially if you eat a few large meals rather than many small meals. The total calories are the same, but small meals spread those calories out more evenly through the day.

After years of severe changes in blood sugar, your body becomes resistant to the insulin (from it's excessive and frequent release to regulate high blood sugar). Eventually you can get what's called "insulin resistance", where insulin no longer lowers your blood sugar as well. When this happens you're either "pre-diabetic" or become a type 2 diabetic.

Prevention is better than cure my friend, MOST people diagnosed with type 2 diabetes could have avoided it. How?

Easy,

Eat moderate amounts of, or no refined grains or sugars. (Check the G.I. and Carb Numbers G.I. and Carb Numbers of foods will be posted on the Glycemic Index page by the end of January 2010 to help you make the best food choices.)

Eat often, like a diabetic, 6 small meals spread evenly through the day (every 2 to 3 hours).

Exercise regularly.

Maintain a healthy weight.

Make treats, TREATS, not your everyday food.

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