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FAT AND DIABETES

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Instead of saying, “I’ve got diabetes,” some of my patients say, “I’ve got the sugar.” Diabetes in children is caused by the failure of the pancreas to produce sufficient insulin, while adult-onset diabetes is associated with overweight or obesity.

Normally, the carbohydrates we take in from our food are corralled, controlled, and stored by the insulin produced in the pancreas. But sometimes the pancreas is simply unable to produce enough insulin, and the blood sugar runs wild. This condition is known as Type I or insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. (It used to be called juvenile diabetes.) In other cases, the body produces but has become resistant to its insulin, usually due to obesity, pregnancy, certain drugs, or age. This is known as Type II or noninsulin-dependent diabetes mellitus. (It used to be called adult-onset diabetes.) Diabetes can be a mild annoyance or a major problem. Symptoms include extreme thirst and urination, weight loss despite eating a lot, ulcers, gangrene, and an increased risk of infections, heart disease, kidney failure, stroke, and blindness.

A high-fat diet is one of the most common contributing factors to the development of Type II diabetes. The National Institutes of Health Consensus Development Conference¹² reported that the risk of Type II diabetes rises as body weight increases-and the longer one is obese, the greater the risk. Nearly 80 percent of all those who develop this disease were obese when it struck.

I’ve been using a low-fat, high-complex carbohydrate, Fat Blocker type of diet for my Type II diabetic patients for well over 20 years, with great success. My clinical experience has been

backed up by studies conducted at the University of Kentucky Medical School. There, Dr. James Anderson showed that a tremendous number of diabetics could be helped by switching to the type of diet in my Fat Blocker Program.¹³ Not only does my program help those who already have diabetes, it’s an excellent preventive measure, as well.

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