Last week, I wrote about the hysteria in all the major N.Y. papers about the $500 million Diabetes epidemic in New York City.
I mentioned an article I wrote for www.infinitehealthresources.com Resource Center in 2005. which respected weekly investment paper, Barron’s. Barron’s noted how an investor can and has capitalized on the diabetes epidemic in the U.S.
When billions are to be made from a disease, that is 95% preventable, something is seriously wrong with our society.
Please, read on.
Diabetes
October 28, 2005 by Thomas Affatato
Diabetes Summer 2005 sent home for me, the plight of America’s health and many parts of the Industrialized world. Barrons, the respected financial weekly, which influences Monday morning stock market openings, ran an investment opportunity headline. Diabetes Blues along side the picture of B.B. king, Blues' great. Who appears in diabetes test kit commercials? The article begins with a frightening fact; “Twenty five years from now, as many as 360 million people are likely to be afflicted with diabetes”, a huge increase from current levels, which currently in the United States, average about 18-20 million with type 2 diabetes. The front page ends with this line; “as healthcare companies scramble to help, here’s what investors need to know.” The article then began its lengthy discussion on investment opportunities. Barrons’ has no interest in a diabetes epidemic other than making money. I am in no way criticizing Barron’s. My point here, if Barrons is writing on such a colossal investment opportunity, then you better believe diabetes will attack 360 million people. According to the Harvard School of Public health, worldwide, the number of adults with type 2 diabetes will increase from 135 million in 1995 to 300 million in the year 2005. Barron’s is on the money, excuse the pun.
In the United States, the number of people with diabetes will go from about 14 million in 1995 to 25-30 million in 2005. The numbers mask the real horrors of this disease. Diabetes is the leading cause of blindness and kidney failure among adults. Diabetes causes, mild to severe nerve damage that coupled with diabetes-related circulation problems, often lead to the loss of a leg or foot. Diabetes significantly increases the risk of heart disease. It is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States, directly causing over 60,000 deaths each year.
What is truly incredible, diabetes is largely preventable. That’s right. Probably 90% of all type 2 diabetes is preventable. Nine out of ten cases could be avoided by taking several simple steps: exercise more, eat a HEALTHY DIET, which you can learn more about here at Infinite Health Resources and lastly, don’t smoke.
As the country gets fat and ages, diabetes threatens medical and economic disaster. This epidemic is in the making today, right now, and will cost $200 billion. The peripheral suffering, that which family members go through caring and watching this disease consume their loved ones cannot be calculated. One can be sure, the cost is huge, both emotionally and monetarily.
Forty one million Americans today, are pre diabetes according to the Harvard School of Public Health. More than three of all new cases appear in children and teens for the type 2 diabetes. Ninety percent of all diabetes cases are from obesity, lack of exercise, and poor diet. People, we must get control of our lives and our children’s lives. This information provided here at Infinite Health Resources is not meant just to inform, it is meant to frighten you into action.
We must take control. We must be responsible. It is a change of lifestyle. Start gradually. I guarantee, in a few months you will look and feel better. Infinite Health Resources will help everyone adjust and adopt this lifestyle. There are no diets that will help you, other than a diet prescribed by a licensed medical professional.
Diets do not work they never did and they never will. Diets fail because they are such a dramatic and immediate shift in what you are accustomed to that they become impossible to deal with. Forget Atkins, South Beach, and Weight Watchers.
Visit our menus and get started on the lifestyle that will bring you and your family gradually back to health. The main cause of type 2 diabetes epidemic is fat. The Nurse’s Study over a 25-year period showed obesity caused a 40% increase in the development of type 2 diabetes. Because diabetes increases due to obesity, doctors call it a lifestyle disease.
We at Infinite Health Resources implore you to change that lifestyle. Eliminate saturated fats, trans fats and start exercising. A diet rich in plant food, legumes, whole grains and fruits is the only answer. Nothing else will work.
Type 2 Diabetes
Our cells depend on a single simple sugar, glucose, for most of their energy needs. That's why the body has intricate mechanisms in place to make sure glucose levels in the bloodstream don't go too low or soar too high.
When you eat, most digestible carbohydrates are converted into glucose and rapidly absorbed into the bloodstream. Any rise in blood sugar signals the pancreas to make and release insulin. This hormone instructs cells to sponge up glucose. Without it, glucose floats around the bloodstream, unable to slip inside the cells that need it.
Diabetes occurs when the body can't make enough insulin or can't properly use the insulin it makes. One form of diabetes occurs when the immune system attacks and permanently disables the insulin-making cells in the pancreas. This is type 1 diabetes, once called juvenile-onset or insulin-dependent diabetes. It affects about one million Americans.
The other form (type 2) tends to creep up on people. It takes years to develop into full-blown diabetes. It begins when muscle and other cells stop responding to insulin's open-up-for-glucose signal. The body responds by making more and more insulin, essentially trying to ram blood sugar into cells. Eventually, the insulin-making cells get exhausted and begin to fail. This is type 2 diabetes.
Simple Prevention
Making a few changes can dramatically lower the chances of developing type 2 diabetes. The same changes can also lower the chances of developing heart disease and some cancers.
Control your weight. Excess weight is the single most important cause of type 2 diabetes. Being overweight increases the chances of developing type 2 diabetes seven-fold. Being obese makes you 20 to 40 times more likely to develop diabetes than someone with a healthy weight. Check you weight in our BMI Tool.
Losing weight can help if your weight is above the healthy-weight range. Losing 7-10% of your current weight can cut in half your chances of developing type 2 diabetes.
Get moving. Inactivity promotes type 2 diabetes. Every two hours you spend watching TV instead of pursuing something more active increases the changes of developing diabetes by 14%. Working your muscles more often and making them work harder improves their ability to use insulin and absorb glucose. This puts less stress on your insulin-making cells.
Long bouts of hot, sweaty exercise aren't necessary to reap this benefit. Findings from the Nurses' Health Study and Health Professionals Follow-up Study suggest that walking briskly for a half hour every day reduces the risk of developing type 2 diabetes by 30%.
This amount of exercise has a variety of other benefits as well. And even greater
cardiovascular and other benefits can be attained by more, and more intense, exercise.
Mandatory Lifestyle Change
Tune-up your diet. Two dietary changes can have a big impact on the risk of type 2 diabetes.
Choose whole grains and whole-grain products over highly processed carbohydrates. White bread, white rice, mashed potatoes, donuts, bagels, and many breakfast cereals have what's called a high glycemic index. That means they cause sustained spikes in blood sugar and insulin levels. Carbohydrates that aren't as easily digested cause lower, slower increases in blood sugar and insulin. As a result, they stress the body's insulin-making machinery less, and so help prevent type 2 diabetes. Such foods have a low glycemic index. Examples include whole wheat, brown rice, other whole grains, most beans and nuts, and whole grain breakfast cereals.
Choose good fats instead of bad fats. The types of fats in your diet can also affect the development of diabetes. Good fats, such as the polyunsaturated fats found in tuna, salmon, liquid oils, such as olive and canola, and many nuts, can help ward off type 2 diabetes. Trans fats do just the opposite. These bad fats are found in many margarines, packaged baked goods, fried foods in most fast-food restaurants, and any product that lists "partially hydrogenated vegetable oil" on the label. If you already have diabetes, eating fish can help protect you against a heart attack or dying from heart disease.
If you smoke, try to quit. Add type 2 diabetes to the long list of health problems linked with smoking. Smokers are 50% to 90% more likely to develop diabetes than nonsmokers.
Alcohol now and then may help. A growing body of evidence links moderate alcohol consumption with reduced risks of heart disease. The same may be true for type 2 diabetes. Moderate amounts of alcohol - a drink a day for men, a drink every other day for women-increases the efficiency of insulin at getting glucose inside cells. And some studies indicate that moderate alcohol consumption decreases the risk of type 2 diabetes. If you already drink alcohol, the key is to keep your consumption in the moderate range. If you don't drink alcohol, there's no need to start you can get the same benefits by losing weight, exercising more, and changing your eating patterns.
In Summary
The most efficient way to prevent type 2 diabetes, and it is preventable, is this: STAY SLIM AND LEAN AND GET ACTIVE. Your life depends on it.
Please view our articles on “Obesity and Healthy Weight” and check out our Health Tools.
End
For more information on this preventable epidemic, diabetes, go to: http://www.infinitehealthresources.com/Store/Resource/Cat/1-4-8/3.html
I mentioned an article I wrote for www.infinitehealthresources.com Resource Center in 2005. which respected weekly investment paper, Barron’s. Barron’s noted how an investor can and has capitalized on the diabetes epidemic in the U.S.
When billions are to be made from a disease, that is 95% preventable, something is seriously wrong with our society.
Please, read on.
Diabetes
October 28, 2005 by Thomas Affatato
Diabetes Summer 2005 sent home for me, the plight of America’s health and many parts of the Industrialized world. Barrons, the respected financial weekly, which influences Monday morning stock market openings, ran an investment opportunity headline. Diabetes Blues along side the picture of B.B. king, Blues' great. Who appears in diabetes test kit commercials? The article begins with a frightening fact; “Twenty five years from now, as many as 360 million people are likely to be afflicted with diabetes”, a huge increase from current levels, which currently in the United States, average about 18-20 million with type 2 diabetes. The front page ends with this line; “as healthcare companies scramble to help, here’s what investors need to know.” The article then began its lengthy discussion on investment opportunities. Barrons’ has no interest in a diabetes epidemic other than making money. I am in no way criticizing Barron’s. My point here, if Barrons is writing on such a colossal investment opportunity, then you better believe diabetes will attack 360 million people. According to the Harvard School of Public health, worldwide, the number of adults with type 2 diabetes will increase from 135 million in 1995 to 300 million in the year 2005. Barron’s is on the money, excuse the pun.
In the United States, the number of people with diabetes will go from about 14 million in 1995 to 25-30 million in 2005. The numbers mask the real horrors of this disease. Diabetes is the leading cause of blindness and kidney failure among adults. Diabetes causes, mild to severe nerve damage that coupled with diabetes-related circulation problems, often lead to the loss of a leg or foot. Diabetes significantly increases the risk of heart disease. It is the sixth leading cause of death in the United States, directly causing over 60,000 deaths each year.
What is truly incredible, diabetes is largely preventable. That’s right. Probably 90% of all type 2 diabetes is preventable. Nine out of ten cases could be avoided by taking several simple steps: exercise more, eat a HEALTHY DIET, which you can learn more about here at Infinite Health Resources and lastly, don’t smoke.
As the country gets fat and ages, diabetes threatens medical and economic disaster. This epidemic is in the making today, right now, and will cost $200 billion. The peripheral suffering, that which family members go through caring and watching this disease consume their loved ones cannot be calculated. One can be sure, the cost is huge, both emotionally and monetarily.
Forty one million Americans today, are pre diabetes according to the Harvard School of Public Health. More than three of all new cases appear in children and teens for the type 2 diabetes. Ninety percent of all diabetes cases are from obesity, lack of exercise, and poor diet. People, we must get control of our lives and our children’s lives. This information provided here at Infinite Health Resources is not meant just to inform, it is meant to frighten you into action.
We must take control. We must be responsible. It is a change of lifestyle. Start gradually. I guarantee, in a few months you will look and feel better. Infinite Health Resources will help everyone adjust and adopt this lifestyle. There are no diets that will help you, other than a diet prescribed by a licensed medical professional.
Diets do not work they never did and they never will. Diets fail because they are such a dramatic and immediate shift in what you are accustomed to that they become impossible to deal with. Forget Atkins, South Beach, and Weight Watchers.
Visit our menus and get started on the lifestyle that will bring you and your family gradually back to health. The main cause of type 2 diabetes epidemic is fat. The Nurse’s Study over a 25-year period showed obesity caused a 40% increase in the development of type 2 diabetes. Because diabetes increases due to obesity, doctors call it a lifestyle disease.
We at Infinite Health Resources implore you to change that lifestyle. Eliminate saturated fats, trans fats and start exercising. A diet rich in plant food, legumes, whole grains and fruits is the only answer. Nothing else will work.
Type 2 Diabetes
Our cells depend on a single simple sugar, glucose, for most of their energy needs. That's why the body has intricate mechanisms in place to make sure glucose levels in the bloodstream don't go too low or soar too high.
When you eat, most digestible carbohydrates are converted into glucose and rapidly absorbed into the bloodstream. Any rise in blood sugar signals the pancreas to make and release insulin. This hormone instructs cells to sponge up glucose. Without it, glucose floats around the bloodstream, unable to slip inside the cells that need it.
Diabetes occurs when the body can't make enough insulin or can't properly use the insulin it makes. One form of diabetes occurs when the immune system attacks and permanently disables the insulin-making cells in the pancreas. This is type 1 diabetes, once called juvenile-onset or insulin-dependent diabetes. It affects about one million Americans.
The other form (type 2) tends to creep up on people. It takes years to develop into full-blown diabetes. It begins when muscle and other cells stop responding to insulin's open-up-for-glucose signal. The body responds by making more and more insulin, essentially trying to ram blood sugar into cells. Eventually, the insulin-making cells get exhausted and begin to fail. This is type 2 diabetes.
Simple Prevention
Making a few changes can dramatically lower the chances of developing type 2 diabetes. The same changes can also lower the chances of developing heart disease and some cancers.
Control your weight. Excess weight is the single most important cause of type 2 diabetes. Being overweight increases the chances of developing type 2 diabetes seven-fold. Being obese makes you 20 to 40 times more likely to develop diabetes than someone with a healthy weight. Check you weight in our BMI Tool.
Losing weight can help if your weight is above the healthy-weight range. Losing 7-10% of your current weight can cut in half your chances of developing type 2 diabetes.
Get moving. Inactivity promotes type 2 diabetes. Every two hours you spend watching TV instead of pursuing something more active increases the changes of developing diabetes by 14%. Working your muscles more often and making them work harder improves their ability to use insulin and absorb glucose. This puts less stress on your insulin-making cells.
Long bouts of hot, sweaty exercise aren't necessary to reap this benefit. Findings from the Nurses' Health Study and Health Professionals Follow-up Study suggest that walking briskly for a half hour every day reduces the risk of developing type 2 diabetes by 30%.
This amount of exercise has a variety of other benefits as well. And even greater
cardiovascular and other benefits can be attained by more, and more intense, exercise.
Mandatory Lifestyle Change
Tune-up your diet. Two dietary changes can have a big impact on the risk of type 2 diabetes.
Choose whole grains and whole-grain products over highly processed carbohydrates. White bread, white rice, mashed potatoes, donuts, bagels, and many breakfast cereals have what's called a high glycemic index. That means they cause sustained spikes in blood sugar and insulin levels. Carbohydrates that aren't as easily digested cause lower, slower increases in blood sugar and insulin. As a result, they stress the body's insulin-making machinery less, and so help prevent type 2 diabetes. Such foods have a low glycemic index. Examples include whole wheat, brown rice, other whole grains, most beans and nuts, and whole grain breakfast cereals.
Choose good fats instead of bad fats. The types of fats in your diet can also affect the development of diabetes. Good fats, such as the polyunsaturated fats found in tuna, salmon, liquid oils, such as olive and canola, and many nuts, can help ward off type 2 diabetes. Trans fats do just the opposite. These bad fats are found in many margarines, packaged baked goods, fried foods in most fast-food restaurants, and any product that lists "partially hydrogenated vegetable oil" on the label. If you already have diabetes, eating fish can help protect you against a heart attack or dying from heart disease.
If you smoke, try to quit. Add type 2 diabetes to the long list of health problems linked with smoking. Smokers are 50% to 90% more likely to develop diabetes than nonsmokers.
Alcohol now and then may help. A growing body of evidence links moderate alcohol consumption with reduced risks of heart disease. The same may be true for type 2 diabetes. Moderate amounts of alcohol - a drink a day for men, a drink every other day for women-increases the efficiency of insulin at getting glucose inside cells. And some studies indicate that moderate alcohol consumption decreases the risk of type 2 diabetes. If you already drink alcohol, the key is to keep your consumption in the moderate range. If you don't drink alcohol, there's no need to start you can get the same benefits by losing weight, exercising more, and changing your eating patterns.
In Summary
The most efficient way to prevent type 2 diabetes, and it is preventable, is this: STAY SLIM AND LEAN AND GET ACTIVE. Your life depends on it.
Please view our articles on “Obesity and Healthy Weight” and check out our Health Tools.
End
For more information on this preventable epidemic, diabetes, go to: http://www.infinitehealthresources.com/Store/Resource/Cat/1-4-8/3.html
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