In the long-term, diabetes causes very serious medical problems such as heart disease, stroke, kidney disease, nerve damage, neuropathy, glaucoma, cataracts and retinopathy, a weakened immune system, and digestive problems.
Though these medical conditions develop slowly, eventually they can be devastating. Persons who let their diabetes get out of control risk going blind, experiencing a variety of infections, having a foot or leg amputated, requiring kidney dialysis or a transplant, or becoming incapacitated or dying from a stroke or heart attack, among a host of other serious outcomes.
Thus taking steps to beat diabetes is critical. It's not that hard - so it can be done.
Diabetes and your genes
There is a persistent myth that diabetes is all about poor diets, unhealthy life-styles and obesity.
While it may be true that most people who are diabetic are overweight, some thin people also get diabetes. And some people who have an unhealthy lifestyle manage to avoid the disease. Why so?
It is because genetics plays a part in the onset of diabetes. This can be seen from the fact that diabetes seems to run in families.
However, unlike other kinds of genes, the diabetes gene does not 'dictate' that you will get diabetes. It only makes it likely that diabetes will develop under particular circumstances.
For example, if the gene that controls the colour of your eyes says that you eyes will be blue, then your eyes will be blue and there is nothing you can do about it. The same goes for the type and colour of your hair. If your genes decree wavy, brown hair for you then that's what you get.
The kinds of genes that govern diabetes are different. They merely state that if certain conditions come about then you will get diabetes, ie they predispose you to getting the disease.
For example, if your parents were diabetic, it is likely that you inherited the genes that predispose you for type 2 diabetes. So, if you eat the same food as your parents, you are likely to develop diabetes. But if you change your diet and lifestyle, you can probably avoid your parents' fate.
The big question is, once your diabetes has developed, can it be cured?
The short answer is NO. There is no cure.
But you can beat your diabetes - ie prevent the horrendous consequences mentioned above from developing - by eating a plant-focused diet and taking up exercise.
This is relatively easy to do. If your diabetes is not too far advanced, you should be able to stop taking your diabetes medications.
You may also be able to reverse your diabetes - ie revert to your state of health before you ever had diabetes at all - by eating a vegan diet and following an extreme exercise regimen.
Beating Diabetes
To beat your diabetes, you must reduce the excess amounts of glucose and insulin swirling around in your bloodstream.
To do so, you need a diet that is: (1) low in sugar, (2) low in fat, (3) low in salt, (4) high in fibre, and (5) digested slowly. Your diet must also exclude all dairy products and eggs.
The easiest way to devise such a diet is to concentrate on natural, unprocessed foods that are mostly plants. You also need to drink plenty of water, to aid the absorption of the fibre you eat.
You should also take a range of supplements in order to cover any possible dietary deficiencies you might encounter by avoiding dairy products.
This is the basis of the diet I am using to beat my diabetes, so I know it works.
And it is easy to put into practice. All you need to do is to learn how to read food labels so that you can buy the most appropriate food products.
Because you have diabetes, you are likely to be quite overweight if not obese. Once you have been following a beating-diabetes diet like this for three or four weeks, you will notice your weight beginning to drop rapidly.
This is due to the reduced fat and sugar in your diet. You weight will drop until it has reached its natural level with a BMI (body mass index) of less than 25.
Exercise
I got my blood glucose under control by following the kind of diet outlined above without doing any extra exercise. So it seems that exercise is not necessary in order to beat your diabetes.
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