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Tuesday, March 30, 2010

The Cure for Age-Related Diabetes

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You should know the disasters related to type-2 diabetes.

This is a condition that results when your body stops responding normally to insulin, a hormone that pulls sugar from the bloodstream and into cells, where it is used for energy. You may end up having to inject yourself with the glucose-lowering hormone to control the advanced stages of the disease. But the good news is that you can still reverse it with the right kind of diet. The vegan route may help you gain your old life back. In fact, people now believe that this is a unique and groundbreaking solution to the problem.

Many doctors no longer recommend the traditional diabetes diet advocated by the American Diabetes Association. The list that they have limits sugary, starchy, glucose-spiking carbohydrates. Well, several studies have revealed that the recommended diet isn’t particularly effective in controlling type-2 diabetes, and most people who follow it eventually need medication to manage the disease. People eating the low-fat, vegan diet reduced their medication significantly.

It comes as no surprise that type-2 diabetes isn’t common in countries in which carbohydrates are dietary staples.

Hence, a low carb diet may not be the best way to manage your condition. And, there’s a diet that also plays a significant role in causing the disease. Some western countries eat meals high in fat and loaded with meat. When you eat a lot of fat, blood sugar levels are controlled by locks in the muscle cells that are turned by insulin, which is the hormonal key that allows blood sugar into those cells. Diabetes develops when these locks are clogged with fat and the key can’t do its job properly. This is a condition called insulin resistance.

If you can lower dietary fat, unclog the locks, and reverse insulin resistance, you can actually reverse your problem.

There is actual proof that the vegan route can do just that. Excluded from the list are animal products such as meat, poultry, fish, dairy, or eggs. It contains a smidgen of fat such as avocados, nuts, and seeds. And it has no carbohydrates that fall high on the glycemic index. And the best news still is that there’s no calorie counting or specifically timed meals, which are actually very common for patients. You are allowed unlimited portions of the following food groups:

- Whole-grains
- Legumes
- Vegetables
- Fruits

It may seem like a vegan diet is just too difficult to start and sustain, but diabetes is even more difficult. Ending up on dialysis or going blind is the worst thing you can ever go through with irresponsible eating habits. To make things easier for you, you need to identify healthy breakfasts, lunches, and dinners if you really like. All you need to do is come up with around ten on your list so that you can get creative and have meals that suit your taste.

Even supermarkets have started carrying healthier alternatives. All you need to do is be open-minded and give this lifestyle a try.