The US is headed for a diabetes epidemic that could see as many as 41
million Americans suffering from full-blown diabetes if prevention
measures are not put into place, announced Health and Human Services
Secretary Tommy Thompson. Right now, 18 million Americans have
full-blown diabetes, which already makes the disease an epidemic. But if
nothing is done to reverse the trend, this number will more than double
in the years ahead.
What can be done to stop this diabetic epidemic?
Fundamentally, we have to look at what causes diabetes in the first
place. And there's no mystery about that: people become diabetic due to
natural cause-and-effects laws concerning food choice and physical
exercise. If you eat certain foods while avoiding physical exercise, you
will automatically become diabetic over time. It's certainly not a
medical mystery.
The solution, then is straightforward: avoid eating
the foods that cause obesity and diabetes. That means people should
avoid all refined white flour, refined white sugar, high fructose corn
syrup, milled grains and other processed carbohydrates. Instead, they
should turn to natural herbal sweeteners like stevia and xylitol, and of
course natural forms of sweets like apples, strawberries and carrots.
The second part of the solution involves physical exercise: people need
to walk or engage in cardiovascular exercise for one hour a day, six
days a week. Adding a strength training component would further
accelerate their health progress and prevent them from becoming
diabetic.
The hard part in all this is not declaring what needs to
change, it's getting organized medicine to start supporting that change.
See, the pharmaceutical industry sees the diabetes epidemic as an
opportunity for profit. If twice as many people become diabetic in the
years ahead, the drug industry can look forward to doubling their sales
of insulin, syringes, and all sorts of drugs for treatment of everything
from diabetic neuropathy to problems with the pancreas. To them, the
coming wave of diabetes is a tremendous opportunity for profit.
Simultaneously, there's no profit whatsoever for drug companies when it
comes to prevention. In fact, if prevention is widely taught and
followed, the pharmaceutical industry would lose hundreds of millions of
dollars in profit.
It is for precisely these reasons that there is
no push towards nutrition, exercise and disease prevention. All the
money -- along with the hype, the headlines, the TV commercials and the
medical journals -- are focused primarily on how to treat those diseases
once they become full-blown profit generators. It's sad, but absolutely
true.
With the right advice, the right motivations, and major
changes in the food supply, the U.S. population wouldn't even need
pharmaceutical companies. The drug industry is one that depends on
chronic disease for its own survival, and we'd all be better off if we
were so healthy that chronic disease was a rarity rather than the norm.
The drug industry claims to be helping people, but in fact it is
primarily feeding off peoples' unnecessary suffering. If we took all the
drug money being accumulated by pharmaceutical companies and invested it
in public education about nutrition and fitness, we wouldn't need all
those drugs after all. A healthy nation is one with a very tiny
pharmaceutical industry.
About the author: Mike Adams is an award-winning journalist and holistic nutritionist with a passion for sharing empowering information to help improve personal and planetary health He is a prolific writer and has published thousands of articles, interviews, reports and consumer guides, and he is well known as the creator of popular downloadable preparedness programs on financial collapse, emergency food storage, wilderness survival and home defense skills. Adams is a trusted, independent journalist who receives no money or promotional fees whatsoever to write about other companies' products. In 2010, Adams co-founded NaturalNews.com, a natural health video sharing site that has now grown in popularity. He's also the founder and CEO of a well known email mail merge software developer whose software, 'Email Marketing Director,' currently runs the NaturalNews email subscriptions. Adams volunteers his time to serve as the executive director of the Consumer Wellness Center, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization, and regularly pursues cycling, nature photography, Capoeira and Pilates. He's also author of numerous health books published by Truth Publishing and is the creator of several consumer-oriented grassroots campaigns, including the Spam. Don't Buy It! campaign, and the free downloadable Honest Food Guide. He also created the free reference sites HerbReference.com and HealingFoodReference.com. Adams believes in free speech, free access to nutritional supplements and the ending of corporate control over medicines, genes and seeds.
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