Diabesity Epidemic Part I: Diabetes and Obesity Are Ravaging America
Diabesity, in its various forms, affects over 1 billion people worldwide. It is a massive global problem, and our current approach to prevention and treatment is obviously not working because millions more are affected every year in a dramatic increase of a condition that was once very rare.Later in this blog series, I will tell you how you can do that. Today, I want to explain what I mean by the term "diabesity". If you have diabetes you have it. But you don't have to have diabetes or even have symptoms to be suffering from diabesity. In fact most people who have it don't know they are suffering from a deadly condition that is 100% reversible. Many Names, One Disease--Defining Diabesity You may be one among millions of people who are suffering from a health problem that is now epidemic in our country. Your doctor might have diagnosed you with one of many seemingly different diseases. He may have said you have:
- Insulin resistance
- Pre-diabetes
- Metabolic syndrome
- Obesity
- Syndrome X
- Adult onset diabetes
- Type 2 diabetes
- Lower blood sugar (diabetes drugs and insulin)
- Lower high blood pressure (anti-hypertensive drugs)
- Lower cholesterol (statins)
- Thin the blood (aspirin)
The real solution for diabesity is a comprehensive diet and lifestyle program.Answering that question must be the focus of our diagnosis and treatment of this disease if we are going to solve this global epidemic. In truth, diabetes, elevated blood sugar, blood pressure, and cholesterol are simply downstream symptoms that result from problems with our diet, lifestyle, and environmental toxins interacting with our unique genetic susceptibilities. These are the real causes of diabesity. Unfortunately, few are taking the time to treat them. Using medication or surgery to treat symptoms like imbalanced blood sugar, high cholesterol, high blood pressure, and the other complications of diabetes is like mopping up the floor while the sink overflows. In medicine today we have a choice. We can continue to mop up this overflow, or we can deal with the source of the problem and turn off the faucet--that is, treat the root problems that are causing your illness. In this three-part blog series, I am going to show you how to turn off the faucet so you can heal from your diabesity and achieve optimal health. The real solution for diabesity is a comprehensive diet and lifestyle program. And in this series of three blogs I am going to teach you how you can integrate such an approach into your life to heal from your symptoms. I will show you why conventional treatments typically fail, what you can really do to treat diabesity, and explain how healing the 7 key underlying systems in your body is the real solution to the problem. By following this system you may see many of your lifelong health symptoms evaporate in a matter of weeks or even days in some cases, and you may--for the first time--achieve vibrant health. Continue to the second blog in this series: Diabesity Epidemic Part II: Why Conventional Medicine Makes It Worse. Now I'd like to hear from you ... Do you believe you can be healed from diabesity? Have you tried conventional medical treatments? How have they worked for you? Are you ready to try a radically new approach that may help you heal once and for all? Let me know your thoughts by posting a comment below. To your good health, Mark Hyman, MD References (i) This term was first coined by Shape Up America, former Surgeon General C. Everett Coop's foundation. (ii) http://apps.nccd.cdc.gov/DDTSTRS/FactSheet.aspx (National Diabetes Fact Sheet 2007) (iii) http://www.cdc.gov/diabetes/statistics/cvd/fig5.htm (iv) Lakka HM, Laaksonen DE, Lakka TA, Niskanen LK, Kumpusalo E, Tuomilehto J, Salonen JT. The metabolic syndrome and total and cardiovascular disease mortality in middle-aged men. JAMA. 2002 Dec 4;288(21):2709-16. (v) Ott A, Stolk RP, van Harskamp F, Pols HA, Hofman A, Breteler MM. Diabetes mellitus and the risk of dementia: The Rotterdam Study. Neurology. 1999 Dec 10;53(9):1937-42. (vi) Key TJ, Spencer EA, Reeves GK. Symposium 1: Overnutrition: consequences and solutions Obesity and cancer risk. Proc Nutr Soc. 2009 Dec 3:1-5.
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