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If you are diagnosed with this and it's getting commoner...
try this - pink sea salt. just switch salt.
Cells in the body need sugar. they also need minerals.
chromium and vanadium are essential in small quantities
for proper uptake of sugars. sea salt has it all.
seasalt has over 80 minerals within it.
cut back sugar and use sea salt.
try this - pink sea salt. just switch salt.
Cells in the body need sugar. they also need minerals.
chromium and vanadium are essential in small quantities
for proper uptake of sugars. sea salt has it all.
seasalt has over 80 minerals within it.
cut back sugar and use sea salt.
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I don't mind you telling us what salt to use but when it comes to pepper don't preach, I've been losing sleep.
From the Times
What I wish I’d told my father about diabetes
Yesterday, the government launched One You, a huge campaign that hopes to encourage middleaged
people to take more
responsibility for their health in later years by adopting a better diet and leading a less sedentary lifestyle.
The news stories reminded me of a documentary I saw recently called Fixing Dad, which told the moving story of Geoff Whitington
and his two sons, Anthony and Ian. Geoff, an overweight security guard, developed type 2 diabetes in his early fifties. Although he
was on medication, his condition got worse. Within a few years he had become depressed, with loss of sensation in his fingers and an
ulcer on his foot that wouldn’t heal. There was talk of amputation.
Then his sons came across research that showed that putting people on a rapidweightloss
diet could reverse type 2 diabetes. They
persuaded their dad to give it a go and to let them film his transformation. In his first two weeks on the diet Geoff lost 18lb (8kg). In
all he lost a staggering 6½st (42kg). His diabetes is a thing of the past. This year he will compete in the RideLondonSurrey
100; a 100mile bike ride through the capital and into the countryside with plenty of lung testing
climbs on the way.
I find Geoff’s story particularly moving because his sons were able to save their dad while I, despite my medical training, was unable
to save my own. Like Geoff, my overweight father developed type 2 diabetes in middle age. At the time I was in medical school, so I
told him what I was being taught (and which is still taught): that diabetes is an irreversible disease that you must learn to live with.
The best way to delay the inevitable progression to heart disease and stroke is to take the medication and try to lose a bit of weight by
going on a low fat diet.
So my dad took the pills and started the recommended diet, but neither helped. He put on weight, went into heart failure (heart
disease is twice as likely if you have diabetes) and started showing signs of dementia (also nearly twice as common in diabetics). He
died early from complications of the disease, 12 years ago.
My father left me money, some baggy suits and warm memories of a cheerful, gregarious man. He also bequeathed me a few dodgy
genes, which predispose me to obesity, heart disease and diabetes. At his funeral his friends commented on how like him I had
become.
I could easily have gone down the same road as my father, but I was saved by television. A few years after my dad’s death I was
making a documentary about weight loss. As part of it I had a scan in an MRI machine. Afterwards, looking concerned, the doctor
who had done the scans showed me the images. They made grim viewing. My internal organs, including my liver and pancreas, were
coated with white fat. It turns out that the reason I didn’t look particularly overweight at the time was because I was a TOFI — “thin
outside, fat inside”.
The expert told me that the buildup
of internal fat meant that I was at high risk of metabolic syndrome, a condition that includes
heart disease, high blood pressure and high blood sugars. Despite his warning I did nothing much about it until two years later,
when I had a blood test that showed I was a type 2 diabetic.
I was finally shocked into action. Rather than start on medication, as my doctor recommended, I began looking for alternative
approaches. I soon came across something called “intermittent fasting”. The idea of intermittent fasting is that by cutting your
calories a few days a week you can shock your body into better health.
There was a lot of good science behind this claim so I decided to make a documentary about it, with myself as the subject. While
making Eat, Fast and Live Longer, I invented a new diet that I called the 5:2 diet. Five days a week I ate normally, but on the other
two I cut down to about 600 calories a day. Within 12 weeks of starting the 5:2 diet I had lost nearly 20lbs (9kg) and 4in off my
stomach. Even better, my blood sugar levels went down to normal, where they have stayed ever since.
A few months afterwards I wrote a book, The Fast Diet, which became an international bestseller. It has been embraced by a
surprising number of doctors and celebrities, ranging from Beyoncé to Benedict Cumberbatch (“You have to, for Sherlock”). Political
opponents the chancellor George Osborne and the former SNP leader Alex Salmond have done well on this diet. Even more
encouraging, dozens of people have contacted me to say that they had not only lost a lot of weight on the 5:2 but they had also
reversed their diabetes.
It was later, when I came across the work of Roy Taylor, the professor of medicine and metabolism at Newcastle University, that I
understood what is going on. Using advanced MRI technology, Taylor and his colleagues have shown that we each have a personal
fat threshold, a point at which the fat we are piling on starts to fill the liver and pancreas. Once these organs become clogged up with
too much fat, your body is no longer able to control your blood sugar levels and you tip over into type 2 diabetes.
For some this fat threshold is high; for others it can be set surprisingly low. A third of type 2 diabetics are what would normally be
considered a “healthy” weight. The good news is that a low calorie
diet will rapidly drain the fat from your liver and pancreas, improving their function.
Over the past five years Taylor and his team have staged a number of successful trials with overweight diabetics. Asked to go on a
diet of 800 calories a day for eight weeks, most have managed to lose at least two stone (13kg), come off all medication and return
their blood sugar levels to the normal range. His approach challenges long held beliefs about diabetes and about weight loss; in
particular that type 2 diabetes is an irreversible condition and that rapid weight loss diets don’t work. Neither seems to be true.
As Carlos Cervantes, whose blood sugar levels were literally off the scale, put it, “This diet cleaned out my liver and pancreas. It’s not
easy for me to gain weight any more. It’s as though my body is working metabolically like a young man’s again, and I like the person
I see in the mirror now.”
Funded by Diabetes UK, teams from Newcastle and Glasgow University are running DiRect (Diabetes Remission Clinical Trial), a
study that involves patients from over 30 GP practices in Scotland and the north of England. The patients who agree to take part are
randomly allocated to either an 800 calorie diet or standard medical care. It will report in 2018.
It’s not just type 2 diabetics, though, who would benefit from significant weight loss. If, like more than a third of adults in the UK,
you have prediabetes
(blood sugar levels that are raised but not yet in the diabetic range), then you can cut your risk of developing
diabetes by 85 per cent if you lose 10 per cent of your current body weight. The problem is that prediabetes
is often symptom-less.
Most people only find out they had it when they cross the threshold into diabetes.
The five things I should have said to my dad
1. I would have urged him to try a rapid weight loss diet, either 800 calories for 8 weeks (if he was suitable and could tolerate it) or a
5:2 approach. To motivate him I would have impressed on him the dangers of diabetes (increased risk of heart disease, impotence,
kidney failure, dementia, going blind, etc) and, if necessary, shown him pictures of someone having a limb amputated.
2. I would have told him to forget the lowfat approach (it rarely works) and instead go for a Mediterranean style
diet, rich in fish, olive oil and nuts but low in pasta and other starchy foods.
3. I would have strongly recommended that he go “cold turkey” on ice cream
and other sugary treats, rather than attempt “moderation”, which is the current, rather meaningless advice.
4. I would have encouraged him to do more exercise, in particular a few sessions a week of HIT (high intensity training) down at his
local gym on an exercise bike. Since I’m certain he wouldn’t have done it on his own, it would have meant clubbing together with my
siblings to hire him a personal trainer (and asking the trainer to let us know if and when he failed to turn up).
5. I would have tried to persuade him to try a course of mindfulness meditation because stress is a major driver of overeating
and diet failure.
I’m sure that If I had known 20 years ago what I know now, I could have prevented his rapid decline and early death. He would have
enjoyed his grandchildren growing up and they would have enjoyed getting to know him. That this didn’t happen makes me both
angry and sad.
What I wish I’d told my father about diabetes
Yesterday, the government launched One You, a huge campaign that hopes to encourage middleaged
people to take more
responsibility for their health in later years by adopting a better diet and leading a less sedentary lifestyle.
The news stories reminded me of a documentary I saw recently called Fixing Dad, which told the moving story of Geoff Whitington
and his two sons, Anthony and Ian. Geoff, an overweight security guard, developed type 2 diabetes in his early fifties. Although he
was on medication, his condition got worse. Within a few years he had become depressed, with loss of sensation in his fingers and an
ulcer on his foot that wouldn’t heal. There was talk of amputation.
Then his sons came across research that showed that putting people on a rapidweightloss
diet could reverse type 2 diabetes. They
persuaded their dad to give it a go and to let them film his transformation. In his first two weeks on the diet Geoff lost 18lb (8kg). In
all he lost a staggering 6½st (42kg). His diabetes is a thing of the past. This year he will compete in the RideLondonSurrey
100; a 100mile bike ride through the capital and into the countryside with plenty of lung testing
climbs on the way.
I find Geoff’s story particularly moving because his sons were able to save their dad while I, despite my medical training, was unable
to save my own. Like Geoff, my overweight father developed type 2 diabetes in middle age. At the time I was in medical school, so I
told him what I was being taught (and which is still taught): that diabetes is an irreversible disease that you must learn to live with.
The best way to delay the inevitable progression to heart disease and stroke is to take the medication and try to lose a bit of weight by
going on a low fat diet.
So my dad took the pills and started the recommended diet, but neither helped. He put on weight, went into heart failure (heart
disease is twice as likely if you have diabetes) and started showing signs of dementia (also nearly twice as common in diabetics). He
died early from complications of the disease, 12 years ago.
My father left me money, some baggy suits and warm memories of a cheerful, gregarious man. He also bequeathed me a few dodgy
genes, which predispose me to obesity, heart disease and diabetes. At his funeral his friends commented on how like him I had
become.
I could easily have gone down the same road as my father, but I was saved by television. A few years after my dad’s death I was
making a documentary about weight loss. As part of it I had a scan in an MRI machine. Afterwards, looking concerned, the doctor
who had done the scans showed me the images. They made grim viewing. My internal organs, including my liver and pancreas, were
coated with white fat. It turns out that the reason I didn’t look particularly overweight at the time was because I was a TOFI — “thin
outside, fat inside”.
The expert told me that the buildup
of internal fat meant that I was at high risk of metabolic syndrome, a condition that includes
heart disease, high blood pressure and high blood sugars. Despite his warning I did nothing much about it until two years later,
when I had a blood test that showed I was a type 2 diabetic.
I was finally shocked into action. Rather than start on medication, as my doctor recommended, I began looking for alternative
approaches. I soon came across something called “intermittent fasting”. The idea of intermittent fasting is that by cutting your
calories a few days a week you can shock your body into better health.
There was a lot of good science behind this claim so I decided to make a documentary about it, with myself as the subject. While
making Eat, Fast and Live Longer, I invented a new diet that I called the 5:2 diet. Five days a week I ate normally, but on the other
two I cut down to about 600 calories a day. Within 12 weeks of starting the 5:2 diet I had lost nearly 20lbs (9kg) and 4in off my
stomach. Even better, my blood sugar levels went down to normal, where they have stayed ever since.
A few months afterwards I wrote a book, The Fast Diet, which became an international bestseller. It has been embraced by a
surprising number of doctors and celebrities, ranging from Beyoncé to Benedict Cumberbatch (“You have to, for Sherlock”). Political
opponents the chancellor George Osborne and the former SNP leader Alex Salmond have done well on this diet. Even more
encouraging, dozens of people have contacted me to say that they had not only lost a lot of weight on the 5:2 but they had also
reversed their diabetes.
It was later, when I came across the work of Roy Taylor, the professor of medicine and metabolism at Newcastle University, that I
understood what is going on. Using advanced MRI technology, Taylor and his colleagues have shown that we each have a personal
fat threshold, a point at which the fat we are piling on starts to fill the liver and pancreas. Once these organs become clogged up with
too much fat, your body is no longer able to control your blood sugar levels and you tip over into type 2 diabetes.
For some this fat threshold is high; for others it can be set surprisingly low. A third of type 2 diabetics are what would normally be
considered a “healthy” weight. The good news is that a low calorie
diet will rapidly drain the fat from your liver and pancreas, improving their function.
Over the past five years Taylor and his team have staged a number of successful trials with overweight diabetics. Asked to go on a
diet of 800 calories a day for eight weeks, most have managed to lose at least two stone (13kg), come off all medication and return
their blood sugar levels to the normal range. His approach challenges long held beliefs about diabetes and about weight loss; in
particular that type 2 diabetes is an irreversible condition and that rapid weight loss diets don’t work. Neither seems to be true.
As Carlos Cervantes, whose blood sugar levels were literally off the scale, put it, “This diet cleaned out my liver and pancreas. It’s not
easy for me to gain weight any more. It’s as though my body is working metabolically like a young man’s again, and I like the person
I see in the mirror now.”
Funded by Diabetes UK, teams from Newcastle and Glasgow University are running DiRect (Diabetes Remission Clinical Trial), a
study that involves patients from over 30 GP practices in Scotland and the north of England. The patients who agree to take part are
randomly allocated to either an 800 calorie diet or standard medical care. It will report in 2018.
It’s not just type 2 diabetics, though, who would benefit from significant weight loss. If, like more than a third of adults in the UK,
you have prediabetes
(blood sugar levels that are raised but not yet in the diabetic range), then you can cut your risk of developing
diabetes by 85 per cent if you lose 10 per cent of your current body weight. The problem is that prediabetes
is often symptom-less.
Most people only find out they had it when they cross the threshold into diabetes.
The five things I should have said to my dad
1. I would have urged him to try a rapid weight loss diet, either 800 calories for 8 weeks (if he was suitable and could tolerate it) or a
5:2 approach. To motivate him I would have impressed on him the dangers of diabetes (increased risk of heart disease, impotence,
kidney failure, dementia, going blind, etc) and, if necessary, shown him pictures of someone having a limb amputated.
2. I would have told him to forget the lowfat approach (it rarely works) and instead go for a Mediterranean style
diet, rich in fish, olive oil and nuts but low in pasta and other starchy foods.
3. I would have strongly recommended that he go “cold turkey” on ice cream
and other sugary treats, rather than attempt “moderation”, which is the current, rather meaningless advice.
4. I would have encouraged him to do more exercise, in particular a few sessions a week of HIT (high intensity training) down at his
local gym on an exercise bike. Since I’m certain he wouldn’t have done it on his own, it would have meant clubbing together with my
siblings to hire him a personal trainer (and asking the trainer to let us know if and when he failed to turn up).
5. I would have tried to persuade him to try a course of mindfulness meditation because stress is a major driver of overeating
and diet failure.
I’m sure that If I had known 20 years ago what I know now, I could have prevented his rapid decline and early death. He would have
enjoyed his grandchildren growing up and they would have enjoyed getting to know him. That this didn’t happen makes me both
angry and sad.
took me a while to read all that? I thought I could go on...
I feel as if i've been training to become a doctor recently. I've lost four stone.
This guy on youtube tells you to drop sugar out of your diet. He states that the sugar cravings is the body asking for potassium. Sugar in nature used to be in high potassium foods
like bananas. But today they distill it into a syrup or powder. It never gets the potassium it wants. You have to eat 4200 mg a day - that's 14 bananas(300mg each). Nobody wants to do that it would make you ill. But Spinach,kale and bitter salads can provide that level in about one big bowlful. Dr Berg gives great advice but I personally believe you should only stick to it for a month. After a month sugar becomes obsolete - it sounds strange but you just stop thinking about sugar. Over exposure to all that greenery starts to go for you eventually - I lasted a year and realized the calcium oxalate can build up.
Eating beans and Brussel sprouts occasionally can remedy that problem(lecithins can keep the bile from condensing) Beetroot drink for the liver.
Carbs - this is sugar by another name - it's worse than sugar.
breads,pasta,pizza, pies etc. The flour is dwarf wheat(circa 1960). It took over
from wheat that mankind has been eating for thousands of years. Coupled with soy flour which is not fermented? Destroys the villi in your intestines.
I've been on my new diet now for three weeks and feel myself recovering from the break I took. I'd lapsed into eating the odd bit of bread and sugary thing.
But I feel now I have the answer... The white man? yep the white man is trying to poison us all with his fake food. Fake vegetables which are heavily sprayed and modified. Meat with steroids and antibiotics. You really have to go far to try and avoid it all. When you get ill the white man gives you a pill (more poison). It's devious.
You need high stomach acid levels. PH 2-3. Adding anti acids is going to turn off your acid producing cells and you'll get H pylori or some other stomach bug creeping into your stomach. So don't take antibiotics, try something else. Apple cider vinegar.
eat seeds, nuts, fish, fruit, veg. Everything that you can recognize in nature. But if
you cannot recognize it coz it's in a wrapper -- deny it entry. stop drinking from plastic bottles. get a water filter - this all sounds crazy - but NOURISHMENT is the answer not slow poisoning.
Get stronger - ask for proper food. Stop buying moldy bread. Bleached warbutton with soy. If you tolerate this... then your children will be next.(MSP)
foods to avoid... refined sugar,wheat, barley, rye, oats, fried food, clear oils, meat(antibiotics),nitrates,carbonated drinks.
I feel as if i've been training to become a doctor recently. I've lost four stone.
This guy on youtube tells you to drop sugar out of your diet. He states that the sugar cravings is the body asking for potassium. Sugar in nature used to be in high potassium foods
like bananas. But today they distill it into a syrup or powder. It never gets the potassium it wants. You have to eat 4200 mg a day - that's 14 bananas(300mg each). Nobody wants to do that it would make you ill. But Spinach,kale and bitter salads can provide that level in about one big bowlful. Dr Berg gives great advice but I personally believe you should only stick to it for a month. After a month sugar becomes obsolete - it sounds strange but you just stop thinking about sugar. Over exposure to all that greenery starts to go for you eventually - I lasted a year and realized the calcium oxalate can build up.
Eating beans and Brussel sprouts occasionally can remedy that problem(lecithins can keep the bile from condensing) Beetroot drink for the liver.
Carbs - this is sugar by another name - it's worse than sugar.
breads,pasta,pizza, pies etc. The flour is dwarf wheat(circa 1960). It took over
from wheat that mankind has been eating for thousands of years. Coupled with soy flour which is not fermented? Destroys the villi in your intestines.
I've been on my new diet now for three weeks and feel myself recovering from the break I took. I'd lapsed into eating the odd bit of bread and sugary thing.
But I feel now I have the answer... The white man? yep the white man is trying to poison us all with his fake food. Fake vegetables which are heavily sprayed and modified. Meat with steroids and antibiotics. You really have to go far to try and avoid it all. When you get ill the white man gives you a pill (more poison). It's devious.
You need high stomach acid levels. PH 2-3. Adding anti acids is going to turn off your acid producing cells and you'll get H pylori or some other stomach bug creeping into your stomach. So don't take antibiotics, try something else. Apple cider vinegar.
eat seeds, nuts, fish, fruit, veg. Everything that you can recognize in nature. But if
you cannot recognize it coz it's in a wrapper -- deny it entry. stop drinking from plastic bottles. get a water filter - this all sounds crazy - but NOURISHMENT is the answer not slow poisoning.
Get stronger - ask for proper food. Stop buying moldy bread. Bleached warbutton with soy. If you tolerate this... then your children will be next.(MSP)
foods to avoid... refined sugar,wheat, barley, rye, oats, fried food, clear oils, meat(antibiotics),nitrates,carbonated drinks.
you have to believe they are poisoning you?
that is a crazy statement but it's fundamentally true.
like the betting maxim - the only advantage you have over the bookie
is you can choose which race to bet on. You don't have to bet every race.
choose your food wisely and carefully.
All Alcohol is in glass bottles. free from estrogen.
If you try to drink spring water it's all in plastic bottles, except for the
ultra expensive waters. Something strange there?
that is a crazy statement but it's fundamentally true.
like the betting maxim - the only advantage you have over the bookie
is you can choose which race to bet on. You don't have to bet every race.
choose your food wisely and carefully.
All Alcohol is in glass bottles. free from estrogen.
If you try to drink spring water it's all in plastic bottles, except for the
ultra expensive waters. Something strange there?
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