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Diabetes is on the increase. And it is largely due to obesity and a sedentary lifestyle. Diabetes is related to inheritance, poor diet and lifestyle choices and being a couch potato. The end result is cardiovascular disease, stroke, loss of eyesight, damaged kidneys and amputations. The current buzz word concerning the cause of Type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease is metabolic syndrome, previously called Syndrome X.

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Publié par	Turner Publishing Company
Date de parution	01 avril 2006
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EAN13	9781591205623
Langue	English
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AMPALAYA
N ATURE’S R EMEDY FOR T YPE 1 & T YPE 2 D IABETES
AMPALAYA
N ATURE’S R EMEDY FOR T YPE 1 &T YPE 2 D IABETES
FRANK MURRAY
The information contained in this book is based upon the research and personal and professional experiences of the author. It is not intended as a substitute for consulting with your physician or other healthcare provider. Any attempt to diagnose and treat an illness should be done under the direction of a healthcare professional.
The publisher does not advocate the use of any particular healthcare protocol but believes the information in this book should be available to the public. The publisher and author are not responsible for any adverse effects or consequences resulting from the use of the suggestions, preparations, or procedures discussed in this book. Should the reader have any questions concerning the appropriateness of any procedures or preparation mentioned, the author and the publisher strongly suggest consulting a professional healthcare advisor.
Basic Health Publications, Inc.
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Murray, Frank
Ampalaya : nature’s remedy for type 1 & type 2 diabetes / Frank Murray.
p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN-13: 978-1-59120-562-3
ISBN-10: 1-59120-178-0
1. Diabetes—Alternative treatment. 2. Momordica charantia—Therapeutic use. 3. Blood sugar monitoring. I. Title.
RC661.A47M869 2006
616.4′6206—dc22
2006002363
Copyright © 2006 by Frank Murray
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, or otherwise, without the prior written consent of the copyright owner.
Editor: Roberta W. Waddell
Typesetting/Book design: Gary A. Rosenberg
Cover design: Mike Stromberg
Printed in the United States of America
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
CONTENTS
1. The Diabetes Epidemic
2. The History and Scope of Diabetes
3. Ampalaya—Nature’s Answer for Diabetes
4. Complications of Diabetes
5. Hypoglycemia
6. Hyperglycemia
7. Taking Care of Your Eyes
8. Taking Care of Your Feet
9. Taking Care of Your Kidneys
10. Ampalaya Successes—A Selection of Case Histories
11. The Role of Diet and Nutrition in Diabetes
12. The Danger of Overweight
13. The Importance of Exercise
14. The Importance of Support Groups
Glossary
Appendix: How to Buy and Use Ampalaya
Resources
References
About the Author
• 1 •
THE DIABETES EPIDEMIC
A round the world, the prevalence of type 2 diabetes is very high and increasing, say a number of researchers, including a team at the University Hospital in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The World Health Organization, in fact, predicts that between 1995 and 2025 the worldwide prevalence of diabetes among those twenty years of age and older will increase from 4 to 5.4 percent. And, according to the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), the high-risk factors for developing diabetes are related to premature death.
The Dutch researchers believe, therefore, that it is necessary to identify those at high risk and take precautionary measures. Among those identified as having a higher risk for developing diabetes are people with impaired glucose tolerance (IGT) and impaired fasting glucose. In six studies among people with IGT, cumulative evidence ranging from 23 to 62 percent was reported for periods between two and twenty-seven years of follow-up. And, compared to white populations, there was a higher incidence among Hispanics, Mexican-Americans, Nauruans (Nauru is a republic about 2,800 miles southwest of Hawaii) and Pima Indians, who live, for the most part, on reservations in Arizona. 1
Since type 2 diabetes is increasingly prevalent worldwide, it puts added burdens on health and healthcare costs, reports James B. Meigs, M.D., and colleagues at the Harvard Medical School in Boston, Massachusetts, so even though this type of diabetes may be largely preventable, a comprehensive understanding of its cause is still needed. One of the suspected causes is atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease because, although it is the principal complication once a person has type 2 diabetes, it can also precede the development of the disease.
Another precursor could be a dysfunction of the endothelial cells that line the internal body cavities. The Harvard researchers believe that therapies to improve endothelial dysfunction may be important in the treatment of insulin resistance, and in strategies to slow the accelerating worldwide epidemic of type 2 diabetes and its costly, morbid complications. 2
Diabetes in the United States increased alarmingly in 1999, causing the government to call the disease an unfolding epidemic. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in Atlanta, Georgia, the number of people with diabetes went up across almost every demographic category, an increase they attributed largely to obesity, which rose an astounding 57 percent from 1991. While cases of type 2 diabetes rose from about 6.5 percent in 1998 to 6.9 percent in 1999, the obesity rate went up to almost one in five Americans, and this was up from 12 percent in 1991.
The CDC found that diabetes increased 33 percent nationally in 2000, and this rise crossed all races and age groups, with the sharpest increase—about 70 percent—among those who were between thirty and thirty-nine.
“The dramatic new evidence signals the unfolding of an epidemic in the United States,” says Jeffrey P. Koplan, director of the CDC.
While statistics vary, the CDC estimated that the number of Americans with diabetes was expected to rise to 22 million by 2005, up from 16 million in 2001. They also said that diabetes is the fifth leading cause of death in the United States, with almost 800,000 new cases diagnosed annually. 3
While there are conflicting theories among scientists, the life expectancy of Americans, which has been increasing for more than two centuries, could soon level off or even decline, reports Rosie Mestel in the Los Angeles Times. In a more detailed account in the New England Journal of Medicine, a research team states that, if there were no adult obesity, the current average lifespan of about seventy-seven and a half years would be increased by four to nine months. Since obesity in childhood has at least doubled in recent decades, however, the extra body weight could reduce life expectancy by two to five years sometime in the first half of this century.
Some experts have insisted that the greatest impact of obesity does not lie in death, but rather in the quality of life—through arthritis, disability, low back pain, and the damaging complications of diabetes. 4
In the 2000 census, 35.1 million people in the United States, and 3.8 million in the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico identified themselves as Hispanic, Latino, or Spanish. In 2001 in America, Hispanics of all races experienced more age-adjusted years of potential life lost before age seventy-five per 100,000 population than non-Hispanic whites. The leading causes of death were chronic liver disease and cirrhosis (62 percent), diabetes (41 percent), human immunodeficiency (HIV) disease (168 percent), homicide (128 percent), and strokes (up 18 percent). 5
New York City is facing an epidemic of diabetes, according to The New York Times. It was found that 8 percent of adults in the city have the disease, which is double the rate eight years ago—12.2 percent of them are Hispanics and 10.8 percent are non-Hispanic blacks. Whites who are not Hispanic have the lowest rate—5 percent—and Asians are second to last with 6.8 percent.
“We don’t use the word epidemic lightly,” said Thomas R. Frieden, M.D., the city’s health commissioner. “This data gives us a remarkable sense of the diversity and disparity between rich and poor in the city. Of all diseases New Yorkers suffer, diabetes and HIV have the greatest disparities of race and class.” 6
The double-column lead article in The New York Times on January 9, 2006 screamed out, “Diabetes and Its Awful Toll Quietly Emerge as a Crisis.” Subtitled “The Stealth Epidemic,” this was the first in a series of four articles outlining the devastating growth of this disease in the city. It is estimated that 800,000 adult New Yorkers, more than one in eight, now have diabetes, and the number for the Latino population is forecast to become one in every two people. (The article says that one-third of the people believed to have diabetes do not even know they have the disease.) City officials are quoted as saying it is the only disease that is growing, and growing quickly, and they worry that it could completely overwhelm the public health system in the future. 7
METABOLIC SYNDROME
Regardless what the causes of diabetes are in various countries, the current buzz phrase regarding type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease is metabolic syndrome, previously called syndrome X ( see Chapter 4 for additional information). Researchers report that an epidemic of metabolic syndrome is sweeping the United States, and that about one-third of the United States population has the syndrome and faces increased risk for developing diabetes and heart problems.
Again, the researchers blame obesity for the growing epidemic. As abdominal obesity becomes more common, so does metabolic syndrome and its companion conditions—glucose intolerance, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol and triglyceride levels. Also contributing to the statistics are aging, genetic predisposition, and lack of exercise, according to JAMA .
In the same article, Mike Mitka says, “Some researchers say the United States is in the midst of an epidemic of metabolic syndrome, but is the syndrome really new? Or is it a repackaging of familiar risk factors into a more sober-sounding entity that hopefully spur