Comments on: Diabetes is Now a Disorder of the Small Intestine? http://www.marksdailyapple.com/diabetes-bypass-surgery/ Serving up health and fitness insights (daily, of course) with a side of irreverence. Wed, 20 Aug 2008 17:27:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.1 By: Rebecca http://www.marksdailyapple.com/diabetes-bypass-surgery/#comment-53665 Rebecca Tue, 22 Apr 2008 17:27:59 +0000 http://www.marksdailyapple.com/diabetes-bypass-surgery/#comment-53665 If you get cancer people have some compassion. If you get diabetes you have failed and are doing something wrong! You are treated that way by your entire environment that all have miracle cures... In spite of the Diabetes ass. and my Dr's advice I used a high protein/low carb diet..it helps, it does not cure. And what about the Government that filled our food supply with chemicals and margarine/trans fats that probably some people are more sensitive to than others. What about the wheat and corn steeped in roundup/poison so that the field weeds are controlled? Or the cows,fish and chicken that are raised on antibiotics and hormones..The Dr's aren't overprescribing antibiotics the farm stores and providers of farm feeds are filling the food supply to the farms to poison you.. I have been eating organic, high protein and small quantities plus working out and walking a long time. I know it is much more complicated than you make it out to be. I say we all quit giving the diabetes research people money. I don't see any real progress..I am giving money to the people who can't afford to test. Years ago there was a company in Bellevue WA. who sold and distributed low cost test strips. When I could not find them my pharmacist told me that they had been purchased by a major pharm company and all the low cost strips had been destroyed... I think that diabetes is a money making business ...The confusion over diet, medication and the lack of progress are just the camouflage...Fight to save yourself..and look to countries that have a single payer health care system to cure this...they have incentive. Good Health to you, Have compassion! If you get cancer people have some compassion. If you get diabetes you have failed and are doing something wrong! You are treated that way by your entire environment that all have miracle cures…
In spite of the Diabetes ass. and my Dr’s advice I used a high protein/low carb diet..it helps, it does not cure. And what about the Government that filled our food supply with chemicals and margarine/trans fats that probably some people are more sensitive to than others. What about the wheat and corn steeped in roundup/poison so that the field weeds are controlled? Or the cows,fish and chicken that are raised on antibiotics and hormones..The Dr’s aren’t overprescribing antibiotics the farm stores and providers of farm feeds are filling the food supply to the farms to poison you.. I have been eating organic, high protein and small quantities plus working out and walking a long time. I know it is much more complicated than you make it out to be.
I say we all quit giving the diabetes research people money. I don’t see any real progress..I am giving money to the people who can’t afford to test. Years ago there was a company in Bellevue WA. who sold and distributed low cost test strips. When I could not find them my pharmacist told me that they had been purchased by a major pharm company and all the low cost strips had been destroyed… I think that diabetes is a money making business …The confusion over diet, medication and the lack of progress are just the camouflage…Fight to save yourself..and look to countries that have a single payer health care system to cure this…they have incentive. Good Health to you, Have compassion!

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]]> By: Deb http://www.marksdailyapple.com/diabetes-bypass-surgery/#comment-36617 Deb Sat, 22 Mar 2008 20:24:46 +0000 http://www.marksdailyapple.com/diabetes-bypass-surgery/#comment-36617 90 days won't do it for me, but I do find that when I hit a certain weight my numbers climb. My magic number seems to be under 220 pounds..221+ and higher, and my sugars are nuts. I eat clean (cut out preservatives/chemicals) and work out with a trainer 2-3x a week...exercising regularly more than 6 months, eating clean 4 months now...but my A1C is still high...My problem is as I'm losing fat, i'm gaining muscle. I can almost guarantee like clockwork, once I hit below 220, bam, my numbers drop. I have a lot to undo 90 days won’t do it for me, but I do find that when I hit a certain weight my numbers climb. My magic number seems to be under 220 pounds..221+ and higher, and my sugars are nuts.

I eat clean (cut out preservatives/chemicals) and work out with a trainer 2-3x a week…exercising regularly more than 6 months, eating clean 4 months now…but my A1C is still high…My problem is as I’m losing fat, i’m gaining muscle. I can almost guarantee like clockwork, once I hit below 220, bam, my numbers drop.

I have a lot to undo

]]> By: Sue http://www.marksdailyapple.com/diabetes-bypass-surgery/#comment-34516 Sue Wed, 12 Mar 2008 21:03:34 +0000 http://www.marksdailyapple.com/diabetes-bypass-surgery/#comment-34516 "Just looking at how challenging it is for many of us to maintain good habits in the basics of life, how can we just expect people who are already in the “bad end” of the scale with regard to obesity/overweight/inactivity to do a complete life change at will?" How about if their life depends on it or if they want to avoid going blind or if they end up having a few fingers and toes sliced off - they're pretty good reasons to do a complete life change at will! Hopefully, if they do make this life change they do it with low carb to see real results. It angers me that a lot of diabetics do try but following the wrong advice and so that gets them nowhere fast. “Just looking at how challenging it is for many of us to maintain good habits in the basics of life, how can we just expect people who are already in the “bad end” of the scale with regard to obesity/overweight/inactivity to do a complete life change at will?”

How about if their life depends on it or if they want to avoid going blind or if they end up having a few fingers and toes sliced off - they’re pretty good reasons to do a complete life change at will!

Hopefully, if they do make this life change they do it with low carb to see real results. It angers me that a lot of diabetics do try but following the wrong advice and so that gets them nowhere fast.

]]> By: Regina Wilshire http://www.marksdailyapple.com/diabetes-bypass-surgery/#comment-33725 Regina Wilshire Sun, 09 Mar 2008 14:38:36 +0000 http://www.marksdailyapple.com/diabetes-bypass-surgery/#comment-33725 <i>People unable/unwilling to make the necessary commitment to lifestyle changes should not be left untreated. Yes, most everyone would agree that diet and exercise are the ideal way to combat type 2 diabetes. But that doesn’t mean you leave people to develop debilitating side-effects or to die if they don’t make perfect lifestyle choices. </i> That is due in part to repeated and continuous warning to patients that A) it's impossible to do a carbohydrate restricted diet for any longer period of time and B) it's an unhealthy diet to follow. Both are UNTRUE, yet repeated like gospel....repeat something enough and it's considered truth, no matter how inaccurate it is. Like Mark, I say, give me a type II and within 3-months I'll have their blood sugar normalized, their A1c down, their triglycerides down, their HDL up with high odds their mediation is reduced or eliminated AND they'll like how they eat too! People unable/unwilling to make the necessary commitment to lifestyle changes should not be left untreated. Yes, most everyone would agree that diet and exercise are the ideal way to combat type 2 diabetes. But that doesn’t mean you leave people to develop debilitating side-effects or to die if they don’t make perfect lifestyle choices.

That is due in part to repeated and continuous warning to patients that A) it’s impossible to do a carbohydrate restricted diet for any longer period of time and B) it’s an unhealthy diet to follow. Both are UNTRUE, yet repeated like gospel….repeat something enough and it’s considered truth, no matter how inaccurate it is.

Like Mark, I say, give me a type II and within 3-months I’ll have their blood sugar normalized, their A1c down, their triglycerides down, their HDL up with high odds their mediation is reduced or eliminated AND they’ll like how they eat too!

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