Diabetes prevention!

Many leading educators in the field of well-being and nutrition quite openly state that they believe that there is little research that leads them to believe that Type 2 diabetes is not (in the early stages) wholly reversible.

Diabetes prevention comes mainly from the field of nutrition and modern biochemistry.  

Most of the developing trend towards lifestyle diseases can be best understood when viewed as symptoms of an underlying chronic systemic inflammation.  This is not the red throbbing of an injury but the sense of feeling bloated after a meal, a sense of abdominal discomfort or digestion or bowel issues.  While these can occasionally be symptoms of an illness or a disease they are most often simply your bodies immune response to high levels of lectins, gliadins, glutens etc from an unbalanced diet.

Our bodies have wonderful mechanisms for dealing with toxins in our diets.  However those mechanisms can be overwhelmed as we eat a westernised diet.  Grains, Seeds, Legumes, Nuts, Nightshades (potato, tomato capsicun and eggplant) and Dairy all contain levels of these chemicals.  When they are eaten on their own this has little meaning to our bodies.  Unfortunately those items now comprise most of the caloric intake for many people.  And a little bit of those chemicals from everything we eat slowly gets us sensitised to these chemicals.

Once we are sensitised our bodies assume a state of low grade inflammation that can last for years.  And modern biochemical research is pointing to this being the underlying cause of many western lifestyle diseases.

This is not medical advice but I would recommend that anyone who has any signs of auto-immune responses consider seeing a dietitian or nutritionist to try an exclusion diet.

Some examples of these western lifestyle diseases/ immune disorders are

  • Type 2 diabetes
  • arthritis
  • osteoporosis
  • depression
  • some types of insomnia
There is also a great plain English introduction to one of these chemicals (lectin) to be found at http://www.krispin.com/lectin.html#Plain English
Good reading and have a wonderful day.
Fran

May 17, 2009 · admin · No Comments
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