In the past half-century diabetes rates have soared to record highs.
If current trends continue, the number of people suffering from this disease will double within the next 25 years, affecting an estimated 300 million people worldwide. For many years, there was no known cure—but not anymore!
Today many people are disarming diabetes by making healthy lifestyle changes.
Diabetes is a serious disease with metabolic disorder that occurs when the body becomes unable to handle glucose (or sugar), which builds up to dangerous levels in the bloodstream. Over time, these high blood sugar levels are extremely taxing on the body, resulting in a dramatic increasedrisk of death and disability.
There are two kinds of diabetes.
The most common form of the disease is known as Type II, accounting 90%-95% of all cases. This type of diabetes is not so much a problem with a shortage of insulin; in fact, when diagnosed most of these diabetics have plenty of insulin in their bodies, even 10 times more than needed, but the tissues and cells of the diabetic person have become resistant to insulin so that insulin cannot bring sugar into the cells. The cause of Type II diabetes is fat or obesity. And, many, with lifestyle change, have disarmed this type of diabetes.
The other kind of diabetes is called Type I, insulin-dependent juvenile diabetes, which is a different disease altogether affecting approximately 5% to 10% of all diabetics. It is referred toas an autoimmune disease, because in this condition the body’s immune system attacks and destroys the beta cells that produce insulin. This autoimmune beta cell destruction is triggered bycow’s milk protein, viruses, toxins, vaccines, and low levels of vitamin D. The Cow’s milk contains A1 beta-casein proteins which our immune system recognizes them as invaders. Here, the immune system becomes slightly confused and attacks not only the foreign cow-milk proteins, but also the insulin-producing beta cells of the pancreas.
Knowing this the American Academy of Pediatrics has issued this warning: “Early exposure of infants to cow’s milk protein may be an important factor in the initiation of the beta cell destructive process in some individuals.” “The avoidance of cow’s milk protein for the first several months of life may reduce the later development of IDDM (Insulin Dependent Diabetes Mellitus – Diabetes Type I) or delay its onset in susceptible people.” (The American Academy of Pediatrics Work Group on Cow’s Milk Protein and Diabetes Mellitus – 1994). Similarly, it is told that antibodies produced against some viruses, end up attacking our beta cells. This leads to an autoimmune disease called diabetes type I. These individuals have lost their ability to make adequate amounts of insulin, and must take insulin by injection. Because of this, Type I is known as insulin-dependent diabetes. These diabetics typically develop the disease as children or young adults and they are usually thin.
Since 9 out of 10 diabetics have Type II diabetes, non-insulin-dependent diabetes, we’ll focus on this.
How does this disease work?
The main fuel for our body cells is a simple sugar called glucose. What gasoline is to your car, glucose is to the cells of your body. However, glucose can only be converted to useable energy in the presence of insulin. Insulin is a hormone produced by the pancreas that allows your body to use glucose for energy or to store glucose for future use. It helps to keep your blood sugar level from getting too high. It works like a key that opens the “doors” of the body’s cells allowing the glucose to enter. Without insulin, cells would starve.
However, if there is not enough insulin (as in Type 1 diabetes), or if the locks on the doors are “gummed up” with fat so that the insulin keys have trouble opening them (as often occurs in Type II diabetes), then the blood sugar levels can rise to dangerous levels.
What are the warning signs?
The classical symptoms are: excessive thirst, excessive urination, excessive appetite, and fatigue.
These warning signs are often very subtle. In fact, it’s estimated in Israel more than 450,000 people live with diagnosed diabetes, and 200,000 people with undiagnosed and untreated diabetes! Many become aware of their disease only when they begin to experience complications or potentially irreversible problems.
As this disease progresses, its effects are devastating, affecting all organs of the body and gradually destroying them.
Here are some of the typical complications:
Eight out of ten diabetics develop eye problems, including blindness.
Diabetics are 18 times more likely to experience serious kidney damage. Many of them eventually experience kidney failure.
Diabetes is a potent promoter of atherosclerosis—the plugging of the arteries. For this reason, diabetics are 2 to 4 times more likely to suffer from heart attacks and strokes. In fact, 80% of diabetics die of heart disease.
In addition, diabetes increases one’s chances of:
- Sexual impotence,
- Ulcerative sores,
- Infections,
- Amputations,
- and for women, breast and uterine cancers.
Cancer cells feed on sugar. Keeping your blood sugar levels near the normal range is the bestpossible defense against the complications of diabetes.
What causes non-insulin-dependent (Type II) diabetes?
Is it a matter of genetics? It’s true that certain population groups are especially prone to diabetes. For example, among the Pima Indians of the Southwestern United States, half of all adults suffer from Type II diabetes.
But genes are not the primary culprits. It took the western diet and lifestyle to turn their genetic tendency into “an epidemic of diabetes.”
More and more, researchers are concluding that heredity is not destiny—especially if you eat well and do exercise. A closely related tribe of Pima Indians living in Mexico has an active farming lifestyle, eat a traditional diet, and experience far less diabetes.
So, what is the real problem in Type II diabetes?
In most cases the problem is high levels of fat causing a lack of sensitivity to insulin, rather than a shortage of it. The cells simply fail to respond to the insulin. As a result, glucose builds up in the bloodstream, thwarting vital processes and damaging vessel walls. This resistance to insulin appears to be directly related to certain lifestyle factors.
Many studies have demonstrated a strong relationship between fat and diabetes—both fat in the diet and fat on the body.
The more fat there is in the diet, the more difficult it is for insulin to get glucose into the cells.Diabetes is rare in areas of the world where fat intake is low and obesity is uncommon.
What about inactivity?
A sedentary lifestyle is one of the primary contributors to obesity and insulin resistance. Too many calories and too little exercise are recognized as the key risk factors for Type-II diabetes.
So, what can we do to disarm diabetes?
Numerous studies suggest that a comprehensive lifestyle approach is the best defense to protect us from the ravages of diabetes.
Many diabetics can normalize their blood sugar levels, often within a matter of days to weeks, by adopting an optimal lifestyle program.
Here are the key points:
Lowering the amount of fat and oil in the diet plays a crucial role in the prevention and reversal of Type II diabetes. When less fat is eaten, the sensitivity to insulin is gradually restored. The best way to achieve this is to eat an unrefined plant-based diet with the exclusion of all animal products and refined foods.
- In addition, eating more natural, fiber-rich foods plays an important role by helping stabilize blood sugar levels. Foods high in fiber include: whole grain cereals and breads,cooked beans and peas, fruits, and vegetables.
- nd what about exercise?
Through regular exercise, the need for insulin injections can often be reduced, and oral medications frequently become unnecessary. Exercising muscles need fuel. Regular physical activity enables the sugar to enter the body’s cells, even without insulin. Itenhances the sensitivity of the tissues to insulin, increasing the number of insulin receptors. This in turn helps in glucose metabolism and controlling blood glucose level.
- Achieving a healthy weight is of vital importance in disarming diabetes. The best approach to achieving and maintaining a healthy weight is not dieting, but a permanent change in the way we live. Making the switch to a low-fat, plant-based diet, and eating most of our calories at breakfast and lunch, are excellent choices.
Coupled with active daily exercise these things can help you experience lasting success.
As you can see, diabetes is largely preventable. The good news is that those who already have the disease can control it and many can even reverse it without drugs by following a healthy lifestyle.
It is tragic that it often takes irreversible complications before people really get serious about their diabetes. Don’t wait until a heart attack, blindness, or amputation serves as a wake-up call.
In the Bible we read, “A prudent person foresees the danger ahead and takes precautions. The simpleton goes blindly on and suffers the consequences.” Proverbs 27:12 (New Living Translation)
As serious a disease as diabetes is, the old adage certainly applies, “An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.” Start now. Disarm diabetes before it happens.
Migdalia Lifestyle Center offers a natural way to start a reversal of your diabetes Type II condition. By applying a healthy NEWSTART- lifestyle and natural remedies many people have already experienced continuing good blood sugar levels and a drastic reduction of their diabetes medication!
What you can expect during your 10-Days program.
- Accommodation in a comfortable guest house with a view of the Sea of Galilee.
- Delicious healthy meals everyday
- Practical cooking classes
- Seminars on various topics
- Applying trustworthy natural remedies and therapies to reverse diabetes such as:
- Hydrotherapy
- Massages (e.g. classic massage, lymphatic drainage)
- Phytotherapy (herbal preparations, not to be confused with homeopathy)
- Exercises
- Outdoor Exercise in nature: Walking, Nordic Walking
- Sauna, steam bath
In addition to the diabetes, we will take care on your secondary disorders, such as:
- High blood pressure
- Heart problems
- Overweight
- Gout
- Osteoarthritis
- Allergies
- Elevated blood fat levels
- Back pain
If you suffer from stress and the constant overload of everyday life, you, too, will find this NEWSTART-lifestyle session an excellent opportunity of much needed rest and relaxation, time in which you can refocus your life. Take time for a new start to a healthier and happier life.
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