A Controversial Way To Heal Type 2 Diabetes With A High-Carbohydrate Diet

If you’re looking for alternative methods to naturally heal your type 2 diabetes for life, then there’s a highly effective method for you to try.

The actual statistics for type 2 diabetes are shocking.

Worldwide there are now 347 million people who now have diabetes. (1)

Of these same people 90% of them suffer with type 2 diabetes. (1) The World Health Organisation projects that diabetes deaths will increase by two thirds between 2008 and 2030 (1).

In the United States, diabetes affects 25.8 million people of all ages which is 8.3% of the U.S. population (2).

Shocking as these figures are, it is also the other diseases and health issues that can affect many diabetics that is also a great cause for concern.

Did you know that diabetes is the leading cause of kidney failure, non-traumatic lower-limb amputations, and new cases of blindness among adults in the United States, as well as a major cause of heart disease and strokes. (2)

So what exactly is type 2 diabetes?

Type 2 diabetes or ‘adult diabetes’ as it used to be call (not so now as more and more children are now suffering from it) is a metabolic disorder where the body becomes insulin resistant and is characterized by a high level of glucose in the blood.

Put simply the hormone insulin, which is produced by the pancreas, is required to transport the sugars in our blood (that we get from what we eat) into your body’s cells where they can then be utilised.

The problem with type 2 diabetes happens when the body’s cells begin to literally ‘resist’ the insulin hormone which is transporting the sugars.

This means the sugar continues to circulate around the blood instead of going straight into the body’s cells and so the pancreas produces even more insulin in an effort to transport the sugar (glucose) out of the blood and into the cells of the body, thus stressing the pancreas.

Over a long period of time this will have a debilitating effect on the pancreas due to it being stressed by the over-production of insulin.

This will often result in less and less insulin being produced by the pancreas and so the need for more drugs/medical intervention.

The other type of diabetes (type 1) differs from type 2 in that the insulin producing cells of the pancreas are destroy by the body’s own immune system (known as autoimmune disease).

As yet, there is no known cure for the Type 1 diabetes, where patients need to take insulin via medication, though a healthy lifestyle, including diet, can certainly help you improve Type 1 diabetes.

Why do people get type 2 diabetes?

Within the mainstream medical profession, it is understood that there is no one single cause of type 2 diabetes and it is thought that a person’s chance of developing this disease is linked to several factors, which include:

• An individual’s genetic predisposition


• Environmental factors, such as exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals


• Lifestyle factors, such as being overweight/obese, lack of exercise and poor diet

No doubt factors, such as genetics and the others listed do play a part in ‘deciding’ what diseases may affect you personally.

Yet people with type 2 diabetes have completely healed their condition with the help of a high-carbohydrate, plant-based diet.

So what exactly has a standard diet got to do with type 2 diabetes?

Processed food, FAT and large amounts of it!

Many health professionals outside of the mainstream now advocate around 10% fat or less to be truly healthy such as Dr John McDougall, Dr Neal Barnard, and Dr Michael Klaper to name just a few.

And the reason is because they recognize that the modern western diet as it is now has way too much fat, including saturated animal fat, which is well known for its many negative health effects.

Insulin and high fat intake do not go together well!

Consuming too much fat (both animal and plant-based fat) and over loading the body with it can lead to also sorts of health issues.

One of these is when fat begins to interfere with the process of sugar metabolism and brings on the disease we know as type 2 diabetes.

With a sustained high fat intake the cells of the body begin to struggle with the delivery of the sugars via the transport medium we know as the hormone (insulin).

With the excess fat coating the cells and thus impairing this hugely important process the disease we know as type 2 diabetes begins.

Many studies have been conducted over the years that show a high carbohydrate, low fat, plant-based diet can make a huge positive impact on the health of people who are suffering with Type 2 diabetes.

For instance, studies carried out by the University of Kentucky Medical School reported that as many as two-thirds of diabetics were able to discontinue with the use of insulin and almost all of them stopped oral medication (3).

Another study found how a low fat vegan diet improves glycemic control in individuals with Type 2 diabetes. (4)

Studies tend to use low fat vegetarian diets to carry out their testing, but you can do even better than this diet and that is switching to a low fat vegan plan with lots of raw foods on the menu.

For example, several of our clients and followers have actually reversed their type 2 diabetes completely by switching to a fruit based raw or mostly raw food lifestyle.

Bibi Zambrano came off her diabetes medication within 2 weeks after switching to a high fruit mostly raw food diet and has been off it since. She’s also lost excess weight that she was carrying and healed many other health issues that she had.

She shares her story in this video:

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What can you do if you already have type 2 diabetes?

With the understanding that diet plays a crucial role in whether or not you get Type 2 diabetes, the need for a high carbohydrate, low fat and plant-based diet becomes self-evident.

As well as helping you balance Type 2 diabetes, it will also help you shed excess weight naturally, maintain a slim figure for life, have more energy and a much greater inner connection.

Making a transition to this way of eating doesn’t have to be hard either — you can simply begin to replace your old food with new and healthy alternatives.

Once you’ve started experiencing all these amazing changes, you’ll wonder how you ever lived without them!

About the author: Yulia Tarbath is a Certified Holistic Nutritionist at Rawsomehealthy, author, parent and international speaker with nearly 8 years of experience on a raw foods, vegan lifestyle. She’s passionate about supporting you in cleansing and healing your body the sweet way, as well as achieving the shape and health of your dreams.

Get started on a high-carbohydrate plant-based diet today by signing up to this FREE 5-day raw food menu plan! 

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1. http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs312/en/


2. http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/dm/pubs/statistics/


3. Kiehm TG, Anderson JW, Ward K.  Beneficial effects of a high carbohydrate, high fiber diet on hyperglycemic diabetic men.  Am J Clin Nutr. 1976 Aug;29(8):895-9.


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A Controversial Way To Heal Type 2 Diabetes With A High-Carbohydrate Diet

"Fat but fit" won"t prevent type 2 diabetes risk, study finds

Maintaining a healthy weight is the single most effective way to reduce your risk of type 2 diabetes, no matter how much you hit the gym, new research has found.

An Australian study of more than 30,000 people has found being physically active won’t protect you from developing the disease if you are already overweight or obese.

According to the research, those who were obese – even if they were physically active and spent little time sitting – had five times the risk of developing type 2 diabetes compared with people of normal weight, even those who had lower levels of physical activity and who sat more.

People who were overweight had twice the risk as people who were of normal weight and less active.

The Sax Institute said the 45 and Up Study, presented in Sydney on Tuesday, debunked the myth that being “fat and fit” would reduce your risk of type 2 diabetes.

Lead researcher Thanh-Binh Nguyen from the University of Sydney said their research suggested being physically active is not as important as maintaining a healthy weight when it came to preventing diabetes and highlighted the importance of a healthy diet.

“Once you are overweight being physical active doesn’t help you that much in terms of preventing type 2 diabetes. It helps you if you can manage to reduce your weight, so it’s important to continue to be physically active and to adopt a healthy diet,” the researcher said.

Diabetes Australia says one of the most important aspects of diabetes management is to maintain a healthy body weight.

Being overweight not only increases your risk of heart disease, stroke and some cancers, but it also makes your diabetes harder to manage.

Previous research has found that if you have prediabetes (impaired fasting glucose or impaired glucose tolerance), losing 5 to 10% of your current body weight can prevent type 2 diabetes in up to nearly 6 out of 10 people.

This equates to losing five to 10kg for a person who weighs 100kg.

Diabetes Australia says small changes in diet, such as reducing portion sizes and swapping to low-fat dairy products, can help people to achieve a healthy body weight and manage diabetes.

"Fat but fit" won"t prevent type 2 diabetes risk, study finds

Is Type 2 Diabetes Actually Reversible? (Here’s What You Need to Know)

More of us are suffering from the signs and symptoms of type 2 diabetes than ever before.

In fact, type 2 diabetes is now one of the most common metabolic disorders in America – in 2014, experts estimated that 29.1 million Americans suffered from this blood sugar condition, and the number has only continued to grow (1).

What is Type 2 Diabetes?

Type 2 diabetes is a blood sugar imbalance that occurs when your body stops responding to the hormone insulin.

Normally, your body releases insulin to remove sugar from your bloodstream and transport it to your cells, where the sugar is either used for immediate energy or stored to be converted back to energy later on (2).

Imagine insulin as a delivery driver, sugar as a package and your cells as the house that receives the packages.

When sugar enters your bloodstream, your body tells insulin to “pick up” sugar from your bloodstream, and deliver it to the house it’s going to (which is your liver, muscle, or fat cells) (3).

Now, type 2 diabetes occurs when your cells become resistant, or stop responding, to insulin. It’s like the delivery man trying to drop off the packages, but no one’s home to to sign for them and bring them inside.

Why Do Your Cells Stop Responding to Sugar?

Your cells stop responding to insulin when your body is unable to keep up with the amount of sugar that enters your bloodstream. This happens when you over consume foods that are high in sugar, especially processed carbohydrates such as white bread, white pasta, soda, and baked goods.

Since processed sugar contains no fiber to slow down the release of sugar into your bloodstream, it rapidly floods your body with an unnatural amount of sugar all at once. That forces your body to work overtime to produce enough insulin  to keep up with the sugar that’s entering your body.

To continue with the delivery driver analogy, when your body becomes resistant to insulin, it’s the equivalent of being delivered hundreds of the same package every single day.

Only, your house becomes so crowded with packages that you can’t possibly receive anymore. So, you stop answering the door for the delivery men (insulin), and the packages (sugar) accumulate outside your front door (your bloodstream).

Now, when sugar begins to accumulate in your bloodstream, you begin to experience serious symptoms of type 2 diabetes. Let’s take a look at what these unmistakable signs and symptoms of type 2 diabetes are.

7 Unmistakable Signs and Symptoms of Type 2 Diabetes

1. Frequent Urination

When your blood sugar levels rise and your cells aren’t responding, your body knows the sugar must be dealt with somehow.

So your body turns to plan B, which is to pull fluid from your cells into your bloodstream and deliver the sugar to your kidneys. And when your kidneys receive more fluid, your body produces more urine. 

2. Unquenchable Thirst

Unquenchable thirst goes hand-in-hand with frequent urination.

Additionally, your body can’t properly reabsorb water when you have an excessive amount of sugar in your blood. This results in symptoms of dehydration, such as cotton mouth and dry lips.

3. Excessive Hunger

In addition to excessive thirst, excessive hunger is another sign of type 2 diabetes. This is because your body thinks you’re starving when sugar stops entering your cells.

Now, glucose (sugar) is the fuel your brain needs to function. And since glucose must enter your cells before it can be used by your brain, your brain doesn’t receive the message that there’s already plenty of sugar in your body. Therefore, your body will send hunger signals which results in an insatiable appetite.

4. Tingling and Numbness in Your Legs and Feet

Consistently high blood sugar levels can damage the nerves throughout your body.

Nerve damage results in tingling and numbness, or a condition called diabetic neuropathy. Diabetic neuropathy specifically damages the nerves in the legs and feet.

5. Bruising and Slow Wound Healing

High blood sugar levels can cause your arteries and blood vessels to stiffen.

This makes it difficult for your body to deliver oxygen and nutrients through your bloodstream that help wounds heal. Therefore, your body takes much longer to repair skin damage from wounds and bruises.

6. Blurred Vision

High blood sugar levels can cause the lense of your eye to swell, which impairs vision.

Over time, blurred vision may result in diabetic retinopathy, which is the leading cause of blindness in North America (4).

7. Sugar in Your Blood After Fasting

The most common way to test blood sugar levels is the oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT), which measures the amount of sugar in your blood after fasting for 8 hours.

If the OGTT test measures between 140-200 milligrams per deciliter of sugar in your blood, you’re considered pre-diabetic. Levels of 200 milligrams or higher is diagnosed as diabetic (5).

Don’t Ignore the Signs

As you can see, the signs and symptoms of type 2 diabetes can cause serious damage to your health and greatly reduce your overall quality of life. Luckily, there’s good news when it comes to type 2 diabetes: it’s a completely reversible condition.

Since diabetes is a blood sugar problem, it’s possible to balance blood sugar, increase insulin sensitivity and reverse the signs and symptoms of type 2 diabetes through diet and exercise.

If you have type 2 diabetes, prediabetes or suspect your blood sugar levels are imbalanced, I encourage you to speak with a qualified holistic healthcare practitioner who can educate you further on how to reverse diabetes naturally.

Is Type 2 Diabetes Actually Reversible? (Here’s What You Need to Know)

Astragalus- Herb That Stops Aging, Decomposes Cancer, Repairs DNA & Fights Type 2 Diabetes

Astragalus root extract is commonly used as an adaptogen for thousands of years in Chinese herbal remedies, means it helps the body fight off stress, upper respiratory infections and regulate the immune system. It also increases the white blood cell count, and stimulate the growth of antibodies and create a resistance to both virus’s and bacteria. Modern research has much evidence that points to some health benefits for astragalus.

How Astragalus Work Upon this Disease

Type 2 Diabetes

Astragalus seems to be a decent food for diabetics. According to a study a sugar extracted from Astragalus known as polysaccharides decreased blood glucose and improved insulin sensitivity, this herb also contain saponins, flavonoids and polysaccharides all are effective in treating and regulating type 1 and 2 diabetes. Due to these anti-diabetic effects, it may show promise as a potential treatment for Type 2 diabetes.

Decompose Cancer

It is widely used by Chinese to treat liver cancer. In one study, astragalus root was able to restore immune function in 90% of the cancer patients! Used it in the form of tea. Just prepare a mixture by boiling 4oz. of astragalus root in a quart of water. Drinking this mixture twice a day helps to reduce the size of a umor in liver.

Boost Immune System

Astragalus root prolong the life of cancer patients by boosting the immune system and inhibiting cancer growth. It found to increases the number of stem cells in bone marrow and lymph tissue and encourages their development into active immune cells. It activate immune cells from a “resting” state into heightened activity.

Repair DNA Damage

Astragalus has gained popularity recently because it can protect our DNA by protecting telomeres from degradation and increase longevity. During the DNA replication process, telomeres keep the DNA together. Every time DNA replicates, the telomeres shorten a wee bit and eventually when they get small enough, the process of cell death begins and a process called “apoptosis.”. Research has linked this process of cell death to aging and cancer.

Anti-Aging

Astragalus is well-known for its anti-aging effect. Astragaluscan significantly help to reduce signs of aging and promote regrowth of tissue, eliminate free radicals. It works on the aging process by protecting the DNA cells called telomeres, from the degradation that occurs with the passing of time.

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Astragalus- Herb That Stops Aging, Decomposes Cancer, Repairs DNA & Fights Type 2 Diabetes

Using Splenda Linked to Type 2 Diabetes, IBS, and Cancer

More and more Americans are dieting each year, resulting in a steady increase in revenue for the diet industry.  As of 2012, Americans spent 65 billion dollars attempting to lose weight.  One of the largest markets were diet soda, with Americans spending 21.15 billion dollars. (1)

American’s spent 21.15 billion dollars on diet soda in 2012

Many people understand that high sugar intake is directly connected to weight gain and other health concerns.  Many people turn to diet soda and artificial sweeteners believing that these items will benefit their health and weight loss goals.  However, the research shows that artificial sweeteners will not help you lose weight and can increase your chance to developing diabetes, cancer, and irritable bowel disease. (2,3)

Artificial sweetened beverages linked to increase risk of developing Type 2 Diabetes

A 2013 study showed that both sugar-sweetened beverages and artificial sweetened beverages were linked to an increase risk of developing Type 2 Diabetes.  Another study examined the long-term relationship between 3,682 individuals and artificial sweetener.  The study showed that those who drink artificially sweetened beverages had a 47% higher increase in BMI than those who did not. (2)

Ground-breaking research found that artificial sweetener, Splenda, may cause diabetes, irritable bowel syndrome and increase your risk of cancer.  Many people in the diabetes community were told by Splenda that it would not affect their blood sugar or metabolism.  The ingredients that make up splenda is chlorine, dextrose, and maltodextrin (a GMO corn derivative).  Splenda is made by replacing hydrogen atoms with chlorine atoms.  As a result, it is possible to get chlorine poisoning and cellular toxicity related to continual use of this product. (3)

Regular use of Splenda can result in chlorine poisoning and cellular toxicity leading to Type 2 Diabetes, Irritable Bowel Syndrome, and Cancer

A study published in the Diabetes Care journal found that daily consumption of diet soda is associated with 36 percent increased risk of metabolic syndrome and 67 percent greater risk of type 2 diabetes.  It was also found that artificial sweeteners or sucralose destroys the probiotics within the body and can result in digestive disorders such as IBS or leaky gut. (3)

A study completed by Xin Qin Md, PhD from New Jersey Medical School found that utilizing Splenda causes IBS, ulcerative colitis, and Crohn’s disease.  Dr. Qin made this discovery while studying the rapid increase of IBS among residents of Alberta, Canada.  It was discovered that over a 20 year time period, the rate of IBS increased by 643 percent!  It was found that sucralose is more determinate on gut bacteria than other artificial sweeteners.  It was also discovered that the body is unable to digest sucralose, having it pass through the body unaltered leaving behind damages in the intestinal walls that can result in leaky gut. (3)

Studies from Duke University confirmed this research finding that Splenda not only reduces the beneficial bacteria in the gut but also increases the bodies fecal pH.  Not only does Splenda result in digestive distress it is also linked to increase risk of cancer due to its ingredient profile. (3)

The Merk Manual and OSHA Hazardous Waste Handbook reports that chlorine is a carcinogenic meaning that regular consumption, inhalation or absorption through the skin can result in cancer.  If you are exposed to a small amount of chlorine occasionally, the body is able to eliminate the chlorine through the bowels, kidney’s and liver, but consuming it daily could increase your cancer risk. (3)

Another study published in Toxicology and Environmental Health found that with Splenda is brought to high temperatures it generates chloropropanols, which is a toxin linked to cancer.  Cooking with Splenda will increase the risk of harm to the body. (3)

If your seeking an alternative sweetener, consider natural forms of stevia.  Stevia has shown in studies to reduce feelings of hunger and calorie intake.  Researchers have also found that stevia reduces post-meal glucose levels and helps to normalize blood sugar and reduce your risk for diabetes. (3)

Sources included:

(1)  http://www.fitnessforweightloss.com/diet-and-weight-loss-statistics/

(2) https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/healthy-drinks/artificial-sweeteners/

(3) https://draxe.com/splenda-linked-diabetes-ibs-cancer/

Using Splenda Linked to Type 2 Diabetes, IBS, and Cancer

Increased type 2 diabetes risk linked to early or late menopause

An early or late menopause increases the risk of women developing type 2 diabetes, a study has found.

Researchers who analysed data on 124,000 women found that those whose fertility came to an end in their mid-40s or earlier were 25% more likely to become diabetic than women who reached the menopause between 46 and 55.

A menopause after the age of 55 increased the risk of diabetes by 12%.

In the UK, the average age at which a woman has her final menstrual period is 51.

Related: Everything you wanted to know about diabetes

Dr Erin LeBlanc, from the Kaiser Permanente Center for Health Research in the US, said: “Our study suggests the optimal window for menopause and diabetes risk is between the ages of 45 and 55.

“Women who start menopause before or after that window should be aware that they are at higher risk and should be especially vigilant about reducing obesity, eating a healthy diet and exercising. These lifestyle changes will help to reduce their risk for type 2 diabetes.”

After menopause, levels of the hormone oestrogen decline and this has been linked to increased body fat and appetite, slower metabolism and higher blood sugar.

While previous research has associated early menopause with an increased risk of diabetes, the new findings are the first to show that the condition is also linked to later menopause.

The new study, reported in the journal Menopause, also found an association between the risk of developing type 2 diabetes and the length of a woman’s “lifetime reproductive cycle” – the time span between her first and last period.

Women with a lifetime reproductive cycle of less than 30 years were 37% more likely to develop diabetes than those with “medium length” cycles of 36 to 40 years, the study found.

Long reproductive cycles of more than 45 years were associated with a 23% increased risk of diabetes.

The study formed part of the Women’s Health Initiative, a large US investigation of postmenopausal women focusing on the prevention of heart disease, bone fractures, and breast and bowel cancer.

Increased type 2 diabetes risk linked to early or late menopause

Plant-based diet prevents and fights chronic diseases such as cancer, type 2 diabetes, and coronary heart disease

In 2016, an estimated 1,685,21o new cases of cancer will be diagnosed in the U.S. and 595,690 people will die from this devastating diagnosis. (1)  On February 13, 2015, the American Cancer Society recommended that cancer survivors should follow “prudent diets.”  Specifically, they recommend a plant-based diet that is high in fruits, vegetables, unrefined grains and low in red and processed meats, refined grains and sugars.  (2)

American Cancer Society recommends that cancer survivors follow a plant-based diet

Harvard Medical School has furthered these recommendations with their Harvard Healthy Eating plan.  They report that the latest scientific evidence shows that a plant-based diet lowers the risk of weight gain and chronic diseases.  Experts believe that these diets increase the nutrient intake for both children and adult and limit “empty calorie” intake.  Studies show that a plant-based diet offers protection against coronary heart disease, metabolic syndrome risk factors, cancer, obesity, hypertension, type 2 diabetes, and cardiovascular mortality. (3)

Not all plant-based diet require complete elimination of animal products

Plant-based diets are high in complex carbohydrates, omega-6 fatty acids, dietary fiber, vitamin C, vitamin E, magnesium, and antioxidants such as carotenoids and folic acid.  Diets such as the Ornish Diet, The 80-10-10 Diet, vegan diet, vegetarian diet, the DASH Diet and Mediterranean Diet are all considered to be plant-based diets.  While some of these diets allow some meat, fish and animal products, these can also be eliminated for a completely plant-based diet.  (3)

When considering a plant-based diet, consider the following health benefits associated with a diet low in meat, animal products, refined grains and sugars.  (3)

Five benefits of adopting a plant-based diet

1. Anti-Inflammatory:  Inflammation is connected to most chronic diseases from leaky gut syndrome to arthritis, cancer, and heart disease.  Eating foods that fight oxidative stress and reduce free radical damage can help stop the progress of the inflammation.  Anti-inflammatory foods promote longevity, regulate immune systems, help foster improved gut health, boost immune functioning, and reduce autoimmune reactions. (3)


2. High Fiber:  Plants, seeds, grains, and legumes are high in fiber and capable of reducing the risk of constipation, digestive problems, high cholesterol, heart disease and diabetes.  A high fiber diet can reduce cravings and overeating and help reduce plaque buildup in arteries. (3)


3. Healthy Weight:  Plant-based diets are cost effect and have low-risk interventions that help reverse obesity.  A 2013 study found that an 18-week dietary intervention of a low-fat plant-based diet resulted in improved body weight, plasma lipids, and glycemic control. (3)


4. Reduce Risk of Chronic Disease:  Populations around that world that enjoy a plant-based diet have far less chronic diseases than those who consume the Western diet.  The Lyon Diet Heart Study found that the Mediterranean diet could cut the risk of heart attacks and death rates by 70 percent when compared with the American Heart Association Diet. (3)


5. Environment:  The plant-based diet not only helps our bodies but also helps the planet.  Eating more sustainable foods can lower the carbon footprint, spare the lives of animals and reduce global food scarcity.  (3)

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(1) http://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/understanding/statistics

(2) http://www.forksoverknives.com/science-says-about-diet-and-cancer/

(3) https://draxe.com/plant-based-diet/

Plant-based diet prevents and fights chronic diseases such as cancer, type 2 diabetes, and coronary heart disease

Mediterranean diet plan improves cognition, protects brain and heart, and decreases threat of type two diabetes by 52%!

Heart condition is the variety a single lead to of death in the United States. (one) There are quite few circumstances of heart illness in countries of the Mediterranean.  Researchers feel that their healthful diet program is the principal purpose for their lower costs of heart condition.(two)

The Mediterranean diet program is higher in plants including fruits, greens, whole grains, legumes, potatoes, nuts and seeds.  They also use massive quantities of olive oil and red wine along with reasonable servings of fish, poultry, dairy and eggs.  Red meat is seldom consumed in this region.(two)

Though this diet plan has been about for centuries, it is at the moment gaining mainstream acceptance due analysis.  Numerous research have proven that the Mediterranean diet is a very good way to improve your overall health and avert condition. (two)

Mediterranean diet regime benefits in younger brains, reduction of fewer brain cells and enhanced cognition!

One review discovered that those who eat the Mediterranean diet program have much less brain atrophy, resulting in the loss of fewer brain cells and improved cognition.  The examine found that eating less meat resulted in a bigger brain volume.  Eating much more fish was linked with improved cortical thickness.  The research divided participants into two groups, people who ate Mediterranean diet regime and people who did not. The group that did not eat the Mediterranean diet’s brains had aged five many years compared to the group who consumed the Mediterranean diet plan.  In the group who consumed the Mediterranean diet, their brain volume was 13 percent larger.(3)

A 2010 study supports this data rerouted that individuals who adhere to the Mediterranean diet regime had been 36 percent significantly less probably to have damage to the brain. (three)

The diet regime is not only very good for the brain, but is also useful in preventing diabetes, metabolic syndrome and heart disease.  (2)

Mediterranean diet decreases threat of stroke by 39 %!

A 2013 examine had a complete of seven,447 participants with higher threat of cardiovascular condition.  They were divided into 3 various diet plans, a Mediterranean diet regime with extra olive oil, a Mediterranean diet regime with extra nuts and a minimal-body fat management group.  The examine concluded that the threat of stroke went down by 39 percent in the Mediterranean diet regime groups.  Those with high blood strain, lipid problems or obesity responded ideal to the Mediterranean diet plan.(2)

A 2007 examine examined the influence of the Mediterranean diet regime on 372 folks who had been at high cardiovascular risk.  After 3 months, researchers assessed changes oxidative pressure.  Researchers identified that the diet plan result in reductions in LDL cholesterol along with enhancements in other threat factors. (2)

Mediterranean diet decreases threat of creating kind two diabetes by 52 %!

A 2011 review, related to the 2013 study above, integrated 418 non-diabetic participants had been followed for 4 years.  Researchers examined their danger of building variety 2 diabetes.  The research identified that 10 and 11 percent of the men and women in the Mediterranean diet program groups became diabetic in contrast with 17.9 percent in the reduced-fat management group.  The Mediterranean diet reduced danger of establishing type two diabetes by 52 %!(2)

If you are not interested in providing up meat and dairy totally, the Mediterranean diet regime might be a excellent option that has quite a few well being positive aspects.

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(1) http://www.theheartfoundation.org/heart-condition-details/heart-illness-statistics/

(two) http://authoritynutrition.com/five-research-on-the-mediterranean-diet/

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Mediterranean diet plan improves cognition, protects brain and heart, and decreases threat of type two diabetes by 52%!

I in no way thought I was the type who would build diabetes

After the shock was above, I bought self-assist books from Amazon, uninteresting my family rigid with my discoveries. I’ve learnt that if a single of your mothers and fathers has variety 2 diabetes, you have a forty per cent possibility of developing the disease. If each have it, the threat rises to around 90 per cent. My mom had type two diabetes from the age of 45, but none of the medical doctors I met more than the years had ever spelled out the odds I was facing.

I read all about the glycaemic index (GI), of which I’d been only vaguely conscious prior to. This measures the volume of glucose in foods, with sugar rated at a hundred and veggies and fish, for example, at the zero finish of the scale. It offered hope of improvement without far more medicine, by prescribing meals that release glucose gradually, with no a sudden spike in insulin manufacturing.

I had always thought my diet regime was fairly healthier, but in reality I learnt it was the opposite. I ate mounds of toast, sandwiches and pasta. Baked potatoes – so practical and nutritious – turned out to be a hazard: a handsized baked potato is made up of the equivalent of sixteen sugar cubes.

Fruit is not all it’s cracked up to be, both, since it contains lots of fructose, which is basically sugar. The ripe bananas that I ate each and every day, pondering they were good for me, contained about 6 teaspoons of sugar. And fruit juice is far worse.

Offered all that, plus my passion for beer, adore of ice cream and inability to turn down a jam doughnut, is it any wonder I went from pre-diabetes to the real thing? I bet if the a single in 3 British grownups on the verge took a difficult look at their diets, they’d come to the exact same conclusion.

As the penny dropped, I cut out sugar and curbed the carbs – even though I preserved the buttered toast in the morning – and ate a lot of far more vegetables, beans and pulses. And I stepped up my swimming and fitness center sessions. The fat fell away my waist shrank to a size it’s not been considering that my mid-twenties.

And the true beauty of my wholesome diet, which has assisted get my blood sugar degree below seven per cent, is that I’ve not felt hungry once. I’m even 9 kilos trimmer. The only downside to downsizing is that I’m obtaining to replace all my outfits.

When I was diagnosed, I had felt a horrible sense of reduction, anxious that my favourite treats would be permanently out of spoon-attain. The 1st handful of occasions the dessert menu came round were heart-breaking.

Diabetes United kingdom urges sufferers to be relaxed about eating the occasional bit of sugar, though, and it is real that one pudding is not going to destroy me. However, the danger is that you really do not know how a lot of you can get away with with no prolonged-phrase harm and, as an ex-smoker, I know it is much safer not to have the first 1.

Fortunately, as the months have passed, it has received less difficult to stick to my diabetic diet program. My daughter has even stopped sending me Snapchats of her scoffing doughnuts. What’s a lot more, I attempted a spoonful of treacle pudding in a restaurant last week. To my shock, I did not get pleasure from it – it tasted far as well sweet.

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Sixth type cancels all morning lessons to assist sleepy college students

The end of falling asleep throughout courses? A private sixth type in Surrey hopes so. Photograph: Corbis

A personal school is to start lessons for sixth formers at one.30pm simply because teenagers “have a biological disposition to going to bed late and struggling to get up early”.

Hampton Court House in East Molesey, Surrey, believes that the adjust from the typical time of 9am, with courses ending at 7pm, will be far more productive and much less nerve-racking for its students. The staggered begin will also indicate that the pupils can keep away from rush-hour targeted traffic.

Headmaster Man Holloway explained: “There is now a lot more and a lot more scientific evidence to assistance what many parents and teachers have acknowledged for many years.

“The truth is that numerous youngsters do not rest sufficiently for the duration of the week and this can, and usually does, have a considerable effect on teenage cognition and mental and bodily health typically.”

Gabriel Purcell-Davis, 15, at the moment in yr 10 and who will be one particular of the initial to undertake the new regimen, said: “I want to wake up in my bed, not in my maths lesson.”

A school spokesman said: “Dad and mom know it can be a difficult job to preserve regimen in a teenager’s daily life. The independent school, Hampton Court Property, believes that there is a much more productive and anxiety-totally free way to encourage A-level students to concentrate on their educational wants.

“It really is a daring step forward, but a pioneering decision has now been produced by Hampton Court Home to begin lessons for sixth formers at one.30pm rather of the standard time of 9 am.

“The purpose? Current and persuasive research has more reinforced the truth that youngsters have a biological disposition to going to bed late and struggling to get up early.”

Sixth type cancels all morning lessons to assist sleepy college students

Blood type influences prostate cancer relapse, research demonstrates

“As however, we do not know why the dangers differ with blood group, but this work may guide us in direction of new avenues of molecular research on prostate cancer progression.

“Need to we be counselling folks with specified blood groups that they have a greater or lesser opportunity of recurrence, and must these chance factors be built into selections on remedy?”

The new analysis, presented at the European Association of Urology’s (EAU) annual congress in Stockholm this week, tracked 555 individuals with prostate cancer among 2004 and 2010.

An individual’s blood group is established by the presence of different antigens and antibodies. Antigens and antibodies serve as the blood’s defences against foreign substances.

Group O blood is the most typical in the United kingdom with 44% of the population estimated to have the kind. Approximately 42% of Britons have group A blood.

Previously, different blood groups have been related with various threat ranges for building certain cancers, this kind of as gastric and pancreatic cancers.

EAU common secretary Professor Per-Anders Abrahamsson mentioned: “This is an intriguing 1st obtaining. There is fantastic geographical variation in the incidence of prostate cancer, so there are obviously powerful genetic aspects at perform.

“Blood groups have already been proven to be linked with prostate cancer incidence, now it seems like they might be linked with treatment outcomes as effectively.”

Blood type influences prostate cancer relapse, research demonstrates

Channel 4"s Big Ballet demonstrates that this is an art type that must be open to all | Deborah Orr

‘Big Ballet is fairly radical, a challenge to ballet as a grand, brittle repository of ambivalence about women’, writes Deborah Orr. Photograph: Rory Mulvey

There is, I think, a really critical level at the heart of Channel 4′s new 3-element reality present, Massive Ballet. That stage is not about becoming unwanted fat or becoming thin. It is about variations in gender attitudes to perform and leisure that go back centuries. Not that any of this is intentional or explicit in the show, which, if last Thursday’s opening episode is something to go by, follows the formula of an established contemporary genre. The contention of the show’s presenter, the former Royal Ballet principal dancer Wayne Rest, is just that anybody and everybody should have accessibility to classical ballet as a implies of enjoyment and physical exercise, even so they search. He is right. Why not?

The explanation why not is complex. It’s that such an mindset is alien to the culture of ballet. From the crown of its bun to the suggestions of its blocks, ballet is a substantial art, with its goal the achievement of aesthetic perfection. It is decidedly not just for exciting, mere entertainment or simple workout. Every single ballet teacher is a talent spotter, surveying her crew of tiny women in pink tutus in the hope of spotting one more Darcey Bussell. If she spots a boy, then that, of program, is an even greater deal …

Accurate, every single amateur football coach is also a talent spotter, surveying his crew of minor boys in Manchester United strips in the hope of spotting another George Very best. The variation is that no a single would ever dream of putting together a actuality demonstrate in which a bunch of tubby guys and a couple of tubby females struggled valiantly in direction of their socially unacceptable ambition of taking element in an amateur five-a-side match. That occurs all the time.

In some respects, the causes for this are obvious. Visual perfection is an integral aim of top-degree ballet, whilst it is just one particular of the glorious by-goods of top-degree football. Only those with the potential for perfection can go to ballet school. If you’re also unwanted fat, also tall or too brief (however Sleep himself defied the latter rule), then you’re out. The high incidence of eating disorders among dancers suggests, counter-intuitively, that you can in no way be too thin.

What’s not evident, even so, is why ballet should be so single-mindedly in thrall to professionalism, while football comes in all shapes and sizes, available to all. Offered that so numerous little ladies want to go to ballet courses, and that it’s great exercising, why is it that dance remains so peripheral to physical exercising at college, for illustration? There is certainly a huge gender element here, but possibly it really is even greater than we very realise.

Ballet originated in Renaissance Italy, solely the protect of aristocratic amateurs, and spread quickly to other European courts. It was France that professionalised ballet, and founded the first ballet school in the 17th century. Crucially, all this occurred at a time when it was not acceptable for educated females – aristocratic women – to operate. We all know that throughout this time period younger men took the parts of females in plays and that as women did start going into theatre, it conferred on them the excellent status described so nicely in Mrs Jordan’s Occupation, Claire Tomalin’s biography of Dorothea Jordan, the 18th-century actor. Actors had been offered a cultural dispensation to be much more socially totally free than other ladies – they could have lovers, be single mothers, and so on, when usually females just couldn’t.

For a ballerina, although, a racy enjoy life and the typical pregnancies this tended to generate definitely would not be very the factor. Perhaps here lie the origins of that extremely circumscribed variety method, whereby ladies are picked or rejected at a youthful age for careers in ballet – whisked away to strive for perfection nearly in the manner of nuns, residing a cloistered existence devoted to art, but denied the freedoms of other female theatrical artists. It’s notable that neither of Britain’s prima ballerinas assolutas, Alicia Markova and Margot Fonteyn, had young children.

It really is surely a concept that fits with that wonderful melodrama of ballet, Powell and Pressburger’s 1948 movie, The Red Footwear, in which Victoria finds it impossible to decide on among ballet and marriage. More not too long ago, Darren Aronofsky’s 2010 film The Black Swan explored the concept of a dancer becoming haunted by a a lot more assured and liberated double, which could be read as being the woman the ballerina had been obliged not to be.

These psychological melodramas are disliked by ballet professionals perhaps exactly due to the fact they contain unpleasant truths about the origins of the occupation and the restrictions it sought to spot on ladies. Ballet professionals tend to be quite touchy when it is suggested that the prevalence of anorexia in ballet dancers is an aspect of the febrile strain placed on them. But given that eating ailments are frequently interpreted as currently being indicative of a refusal to embrace womanhood, this too helps make sense.

Seeking at the display in this light, Large Ballet gets very radical, a challenge to ballet as a grand, brittle repository of ambivalence about ladies, in which perfect females express archetypal femininity by rejecting such definite facets of womanhood as the ability to procreate, itself related ridiculously closely with “obtaining fat”.

The close scrutiny of female bodies is considerably debated, with limitless discussion of the detrimental results on youthful ladies that such publicity has. The media’s obsession with “shedding that child fat” is specifically irksome. It’s as if 17th-century suggestions about girls and ballet have been writ massive, with girls who wish to wear figure-hugging clothes or place on a bikini for the beach getting warned that reproduction will place it all in jeopardy. Mothers with younger children carry on to find it a challenge, getting accommodated at work during those years, to the lifetime detriment of their careers. But what females are “allowed” to seem like is only the superficial element of a significantly a lot more deep-seated impulse to control how girls are “permitted” to behave.

So excellent on the women who want to do ballet for enjoyable, even though they are not the form that is deemed ideal for it. Like all fat men and women, they lay themselves open to ridicule by the shallow, unhappy and suggest. If they’d been encouraged to exercise by way of dance at school, rather than forced to do the sport that so many schoolgirls loathe, then there’s each likelihood that they would not have piled on the lbs in the very first place. It’s weird that the enthusiasm of tiny girls for dance is not utilized at school as a conduit to a lifetime of fitness and physical exercise. This, as well, could date back to the days when an training at a college was the preserve of males.

The pursuit of skilled ballet as a high-artwork form need to usually have a pre-eminent area in human culture. But ballet should be far more universal, too, embracing amateurs with gusto. Ballet, in short, could and need to be a lot, a lot larger.

Channel 4"s Big Ballet demonstrates that this is an art type that must be open to all | Deborah Orr

Scientists move closer to stem cell cure for type 1 diabetes

Type 1 diabetes usually leads to a lifetime of insulin injections. Photograph: Reed Saxon/AP

Scientists believe they may have moved a step closer to a cure for the type of diabetes that develops in childhood and usually leads to a lifetime of insulin injections.

Researchers in California report that they have reversed the equivalent of type 1 diabetes in mice through transplants of stem cells. Their experiments have replaced cells in the pancreas damaged by the disease that are unable to make insulin.

Without insulin, the body has difficulty absorbing sugars such as glucose from the blood. The disease usually first shows in childhood or early adulthood and used to be a killer, but glucose levels can now be monitored and regulated with insulin injections.

Scientists have long wanted to try to replace the damaged ß-cells that normally produce insulin. This has been one of the prime targets of stem cell experiments. But until now, it has proved difficult, partly because mature ß-cells do not readily regenerate.

Writing in the journal Cell Stem Cell, scientists at the Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco describe how they took a step back and collected skin cells, called fibroblasts, from laboratory mice. Then, by treating the fibroblasts with a unique “cocktail” of molecules and reprogramming factors, they transformed the cells into endoderm-like cells. Endoderm cells are a type of cell found in the early embryo, and which eventually mature into the body’s major organs – including the pancreas. “Using another chemical cocktail, we then transformed these endoderm-like cells into cells that mimicked early pancreas-like cells, which we called PPLCs,” said the Gladstone postdoctoral scholar Ke Li, the paper’s lead author. “Our initial goal was to see whether we could coax these PPLCs to mature into cells that, like ß-cells, respond to the correct chemical signals and – most importantly – secrete insulin. And our initial experiments, performed in a petri dish, revealed that they did.”

The team then injected these cells into mice that had been genetically modified to have high glucose levels, mimicking the type 1 diabetes condition in humans.

“Importantly, just one week post-transplant, the animals’ glucose levels started to decrease, gradually approaching normal levels,” said Li. “And when we removed the transplanted cells, we saw an immediate glucose spike, revealing a direct link between the transplantation of the PPLCs and reduced hyperglycemia [high glucose level].”

Eight weeks after the transplantation, the scientists found that the pancreas-like cells had turned into the real thing – fully functional insulin-secreting ß-cells had developed in the mice.

The team says this is proof of principle, which one day might be used to cure type 1 diabetes in humans. “I am particularly excited about the prospect of translating these findings to the human system,” said Matthias Hebrok, one of the study’s authors and director of the UCSF Diabetes Center. “Most immediately, this technology in human cells could significantly advance our understanding of how inherent defects in ß-cells result in diabetes, bringing us notably closer to a much-needed cure.”

Scientists move closer to stem cell cure for type 1 diabetes

New gastric fat loss balloon comes in pill type

Sufferers acquire a 2nd balloon 30 days after the initial method and have the alternative of a third balloon soon after about 60 days, based mostly on their excess weight loss and emotions of fullness.

At the finish of the treatment plan, which can take a number of months, the balloons are deflated and eliminated for the duration of an outpatient endoscopy which sees a extended, flexible tube inserted into the throat, without having the need to have for basic anaesthetic.

Obalon costs at least £2,995 for a two-balloon remedy and is available privately at some Spire Hospitals and a quantity of clinics in London.

The therapy is a much more brief-term than other gastric procedures and is suggested for folks whose body mass index is 27 or above.

Clinical trials right here and in the US have shown that individuals can shed an average of 1st, 3lbs (seven.7kg) in twelve weeks.

One particular patient, Helene Fleckney, 43, from Shenley, Herts, stated: “Background of heart condition and diabetes runs in my loved ones, so I knew I had to take action with my bodyweight obtain to lower my risk of susceptibility, as effectively as bettering my self-assurance.

“Obalon has proved an effortless and swift treatment method to help me lose weight. I am not even totally by means of the treatment method procedure but and I have presently misplaced a stone.

“I’m hunting forward to consuming much more healthily, undertaking more exercising and ensuring my weight loss struggles are a thing of the past.”

Spire consultant Sally Norton mentioned: “I have been monitoring Obalon’s progress more than the final handful of many years as I was quite enthusiastic about the potential it could offer those patients who do not qualify for weight loss surgical treatment but are struggling to get rid of bodyweight and increase their well being on their very own.

“It has minimal side effects, is swift and straightforward to location and is genuinely nicely-tolerated.

“It provides sufferers an first excess weight-loss boost but also aids to modify their consuming behaviour, which is necessary for long-term, fat-loss.”

Clinical trial final results showed about seven per cent of individuals had some side-effects which includes vomiting, cramps and reflux, most of which subsided in a day or so.

New gastric fat loss balloon comes in pill type