Thursday, January 18, 2007

Diabetes

First read the Chapter on Glands. Then read the following:

In the normal individual, when food is consumed, it is converted into glucose. This glucose is transported in the blood stream to various cells of the body. When it reaches the cells, they need to open their doors to let the glucose in. The key to open these doors is the insulin produced by pancreas, another gland. When the glucose gets into the cells, it gets utilized. Left over glucose if any, is converted into glycogen and stored as fat [obesity]. In the absence of food, this glycogen is reconverted into glucose and used

You have diabetes When there is deficiency or insufficiency of insulin. Your food gets converted into glucose, it goes to the cells. But in the absence of insulin, the cells do not open. So the glucose remains in the blood, i.e. blood sugar is high in your blood. Diabetes means elevated levels of blood sugar because the mechanism of converting the blood sugar into energy has gone out of order.

The unutilized glucose, when reaches to certain level, it gets into your kidney. The kidney can hold up to 170 mg. Once beyond 170 mg, it overflows and comes out in your urine [with more water]. So you have excess urination and depletion of water from your body. So you feel thirsty

At the same time your cells starve of glucose and you feel hungry and tired. Your body looks for getting sugar. It finds it in your stored fat So you start thinning out. .

Become aware of early signs and consult professionals for early commencement of your treatment.

Untreated diabetes can lead to complications which can impair the quality and span of your life.

In diabetes, for deriving the insulin stolen and stored by the fat present in us, the body starts burning the fat to recover the insulin. In the process, the fatty acids spill over into our blood causing hardening and narrowing of blood vessels. Now which blood vessels get narrowed down, determines what problem the diabetic develops. If the vessels leading to the heart are affected, he develops diabetic angiopathy, leading to heart attack. If the vessels leading to the eye are affected, he could become blind. Similarly he could lose his kidney functions, become unable to move his arms and legs. Thus

Those with high blood pressure are prone to kidney failure, blindness due to retinopathy and heart attacks

Those with high blood fat level [cholestrol and triglycerides] are prone to develop kidney diseases, heart attack and stroke.

Those with proteins in urine are likely to develop high blood pressure, kidney failure and even blindness

Obstruction of arteries of leg and foot can lead to amputation

But believe that diabetes is not end of the road for you. If you change your life style and live a healthy life, and also start regularly monitoring your health level, you can still make a U turn and get back to your normal life. Don’t believe if some one says that diabetes is not curable. It is definitely curable and you can get back to normalcy. The above consequences of diabetes are listed not to frighten you, but to make you an aware person and a conscious person. So, forget about the future and take care of your present. Be aware that your future lies in the hands of your present.

Undergo sugar test. Maintain control of blood sugar level. Fasting sugar level 120 mg% and PP levels below 160 mg%. Also undergo Blood Pressure, ECG and eye test. Get your urine tested for proteins at least once a year

Yoga, accupressure, diet and exercise, control diabetes.

Maintain weight. Avoid fatty meals and non-vegetarian. Get up from meal feeling light Switch over to rock salt or sindhav namak. Avoid fasting and feasting. Have regular food timings. Keep away from sweets. Maintain a healthy diet

Do regular exercise. Brisk walk for 40 minutes. Be alert to avoid any skin injury including while shaving or scratching. Keep your feet very clean

Give up smoking, drinking, ghutka, tobacco, paan masala, etc

Remain cool, calm and collected. Emotional outbursts cause havoc with blood sugar levels. Same with frustration, pessimism, etc.

Your remedies could lie in any of the following

1. Remove seeds from fresh amla and grind it into paste. Tie it in a muslin cloth and squeeze out the juice. Take 2 tsp of this juice, mix with 2 tsp each of honey and lime juice. Drink on empty stomach every morning

2. Soak dried amla 1 tbsp in a cup of water overnight. In the morning add 1/8 tsp finely ground black pepper powder. Add 2 tsp lime juice. Dilute with water and drink every morning in empty stomach.

3. Mix ¼ tsp heeng with 2 tsp of bitter gourd juice. Take twice a day

4. Burn banana roots in fire and collect ash. Take ¼ tsp of this ash with honey

5. mix 1 tbsp each amla fruit juice and bitter gourd fruit juice and take in mornings

6. Make powder of cumin seeds and take ½ tsp with water twice daily

7. Take tender leaf buds of mango and neam. Crush and take

8. If diabetes is hereditary, eat 10 fully grown fresh curry leaves every morning for 4 months

9. Take juice of bitter gourd every morning in empty stomach. Use its seeds in powdered form along with food

10. Dry and powder the seeds of Jamun fruit. Take it with water, milk or curd twice daily

11. If diabetes in early stage, soak tender mango leaves in water overnight. Squeeze in morning and take the water in empty stomach. Alternatively, dry mango leaves in shade, powder and preserve. Take ½ tsp of this powder twice daily

12. If diabetes in early stage. Soak fenugreek seeds in water overnight. In the morning consume the water and eat the fenugreek, with honey if needed. Do it for 45 days

13. One glass of juice of arugam pul every morning in empty stomach would also make a difference.

14. Take equal quantities of ajwain, amla without seed, dry sundaikkai, curry leaves, fenugreek seeds, dried ginger, mango kernal and rind of pomegranate. Fry them all in little ghee till become golden brown. Take, cool, powder and bottle. Put half tsp in milk and drink twice daily
15. Powder jamun seeds and bottle. Every morning, take ¼ tsp of this powder with 1 tsp of honey

16. Drink the water in which four lady fingers cut in half an inch cubes have been soaked overnight

17. Dry bittergourds. Powder and one teaspoon of this be taken as the first thing in the morning




Cinnamon may aid battle against diabetes

SAN FRANCISCO, -- Cinnamon may be another weapon in the fight against diabetes, U.S. Department of Agriculture researchers say. Researchers, led by Richard Anderson of the federal agency's Beltsville, Md., Human Nutrition Research Center, presented two papers on cinnamon to the Experimental Biology 2006 meeting in San Francisco. In one lab study, the team said it found that cinnamon con- tains polyphenols, or antioxidants, that boost proteins that are important in activating insulin, transporting glucose and responding to inflammation, Web site WebMD reported. The second study extracted proanthocyanidin, a type of polyphenol in the commonly used spice that re- searchers say may have insulin-like properties. In earlier research, Anderson fed large doses of cinnamon to type 2 diabetics, whose insulin sensitivity improved during the study and diminished once they stopped taking cinnamon, the report said.


Input from Arshhiya Dusezja at arshiya.ad@gmail.com

I have spent several days lecturing at the WORLD ENVIRONMENTAL CONFERENCE on "ASPARTAME," marketed as 'NutraSweet,' 'Equal,' and 'Spoonful.' In the keynote address by the EPA, it was announced that in the United Statesin 2001 there is an epidemic of multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus . It was difficult to determine exactly what toxin was causing this to be rampant. I stood up and said that I was there to lecture on exactly that subject. I will explain why Aspartame is so dangerous: When the temperature of this sweetener exceeds 86 degrees F, the wood alcohol in ASPARTAME converts to formaldehyde and then to formic acid, which in turn causes metabolic acidosis. Formic acid is the poison found in the sting of fire ants. The methanol toxicity mimics, among other conditions, multiple sclerosis and systemic lupus. Many people were being diagnosed in error. Although multiple sclerosis is not a death sentence, Methanol toxicity is! Systemic lupus has become almost as rampant as multiple sclerosis, especially with Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi drinkers. The victim usually does not know that the Aspartame is the culprit. He or she continues its use; irritating the lupus to such a degree that it may become a life-threatening condition. We have seen patients with systemic lupus become asymptotic, once taken off diet sodas. In cases of those diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, most of the symptoms disappear. We've seen many cases where vision loss returned and hearing loss improved markedly. This also applies to cases of tinnitus and fibro myalgia. During a lecture, I said, "If you are using ASPARTAME (NutraSweet, Equal, Spoonful, etc) and you suffer from fibro myalgia symptoms, spasms, shooting, pains, numbness in your legs, cramps, vertigo, dizziness, headaches, tinnitus, joint pain, unexplainable depression, anxiety attacks, slurred speech, blurred vision, or memory loss.you probably have ASPARTAME poisoning!" People were jumping up during the lecture saying, "I have some of these symptoms."Is it reversible?" Yes! Yes! Yes! STOP drinking diet sodas and be alert for Aspartame on food labels! Many products are fortified with it!!! This is a serious problem. Dr. Espart (one of my speakers) remarked that so many people seem to be symptomatic for MS and during his recent visit to a hospice; a nurse stated that six of her friends, who were heavy Diet Coke addicts, had all been diagnosed with MS. This is beyond coincidence! Diet soda is NOT a diet product! It is a chemically altered, multiple SODIUM (salt) and ASPARTAME containing product that actually makes you crave carbohydrates. It is far more likely to make you GAIN weight! These products also contain formaldehyde, which stores in the fat cells, particularly in the hips and thighs. Formaldehyde is an absolute toxin and is used primarily to preserve "tissue specimens." Many products we use every day contain this chemical but we SHOULD NOT store it IN our body!!! Dr. H. J. Roberts stated in his lectures that once free of the "diet products" and with no significant increase in exercise; his patients lost an average of 19 pounds over a trial period. Aspartame is especially dangerous for diabetics. We found that some physicians, who believed that they had a patient with retinopathy, in fact, had symptoms caused by Aspartame. The Aspartame drives the blood sugar out of control. Thus diabetics may suffer acute memory loss due to the fact that aspartic acid and phenylalanine are NEUROTOXIC when taken without the other amino acids necessary for a good balance. Treating diabetes is all about BALANCE. Especially with diabetics, the Aspartame passes the blood/brain barrier and it then deteriorates the neurons of the brain; causing various levels of brain damage, seizures, depression, manic depression, panic attacks, uncontrollable anger and rage. Consumption of Aspartame causes these same symptoms in non-diabetics as well. Documentation and observation also reveal that thousands of children diagnosed with ADD and ADHD have had complete turnarounds in their behavior when these chemicals have been removed from their diet. So called "behavior modification prescription drugs" (Ritalin and others) are no longer needed. Truth be told, they were never NEEDED in the first place! Most of these children were being "poisoned" on a daily basis with the very foods that were "better for them than sugar." It is also suspected that the Aspartame in thousands of pallets of diet Coke and diet Pepsi consumed by men and women fighting in the Gulf War, may be partially to blame for the well-known Gulf War Syndrome. Dr. Roberts warns that it can cause birth defects, i.e. mental retardation, if taken at the time of conception and during early pregnancy. Children are especially at risk for neurological disorders and should NEVER be given artificial sweeteners. There are many different case histories to relate of children suffering grand mal seizures and other neurological disturbances due to the use of NutraSweet. Unfortunately, it is not always easy to convince people that Aspartame is to blame for their child's illness. Stevia, which is a sweet herb, NOT A MANUFACTURED ADDITIVE, helps in the metabolism of sugar, which would be ideal for diabetics. It has now been approved as a dietary supplement by the FDA. It is known that for many years the FDA outlawed this true sweet food," due to their loyalty to MONSANTO Chemical Company." Books on this subject are available: EXCITOTOXINS: THE TASTE THAT KILLS written by Dr. Russell Blayblock (Health Press 1-800-643-2665) AND: DEFENSE AGAINST ALZHEIMER'S DISEASE-w ritten by DR H. J. Roberts, also a diabetic specialist. These two doctors will soon be posting a position paper with case histories on the deadly effects of Aspartame on the Internet. According to the Conference of the AmericanCollegeof Physicians, "We are talking about a plague of neurological diseases directly caused by the use of this deadly poison." Herein lies the problem: There were Congressional Hearings when Aspartame was included 100 different products and strong objection was made concerning it's use. Since this initial hearing, there have been two subsequent hearings and still, nothing has been done. The drug and chemical lobbies have very deep pockets. Sadly, MONSANTO'S patent on Aspartame has EXPIRED!! There are now over 5,000 products on the market that contain this deadly chemical and there will be thousands more introduced. Everybody wants a "piece of the Aspartame pie." I assure you that MONSANTO, the creator of Aspartame, knows how deadly it is. And isn't it ironic that MONSANTO funds, among others, the American Diabetes Association, the American Dietetic Association and the Conference of the American College of Physicians? This has been recently exposed in the New York Times. These cannot critic! ize any additives or convey their link to MONSANTO because they take money from the food industry and are required to endorse their products. Senator Howard Metzenbaum wrote and presented a bill that would require label warnings on products containing Aspartame, especially regarding pregnant women, children and infants. The bill would also institute inde pendent studies on the known dangers and the problems existing in the general population regarding seizures, changes in brain chemistry, neurological changes and behavioral symptoms. The bill was killed. It is known that the powerful drug and chemical lobbies are responsible for this, letting loose the hounds of disease and death on an unsuspecting and uninformed public. Well, you're informed now!!!! YOU HAVE A RIGHT TO KNOW!!!!

2 comments:

Malar Gandhi said...

Wow.....this post is so thoughtful! Language is simple and made it clear for even a layman. Good job...keep up the work.

Shwetha said...

Amazing information. Thanks a zillion :) god bless...