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Inspired by principles of holistic wellness, Diabetes Bootcamp emphasizes making broad lifestyle changes aimed at not only tackling diabetes but restoring health and achieving optimum wellbeing too. Diabetes is a serious symptom of poor lifestyle and key indicator that the body as a whole is highly dysfunctional. Therefore, regaining good health entails placing the body in its natural habitat where exercise, proper diet, sound sleep, and other healthy habits are typical.For sustainable results, the health of the whole person must be taken into consideration. As such, diabetes ought to be treated in a way that is helpful, not harmful to health. If, for instance, you end up with serious health complications caused by the same drugs or low carbohydrate diets intended to treat diabetes, how then are you healthier? Sound treatment does not lead from one disease to another, it provides the kind of healing that supports the rest of a person's health and helps reestablish overall wellbeing. Diabetes Bootcamp uses the healing power of natural medicine to guide you towards optimum health.

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Publié par	Asunta Simoloka
Date de parution	21 septembre 2015
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781783017300
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	6 Mo

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Diabetes Bootcamp

Defeating diabetes through a holistic lifestyle

By Asunta Simoloka

Copyright © 2015 Asunta Simoloka
Introduction

CONSULT WITH YOUR DOCTOR BEFORE BEGINNING THIS OR ANY WELLNESS PLAN.

Diabetes Bootcamp is a 100% lifestyle-based anti-diabetes action plan that outlines nine steps to successfully conquering diabetes.

What this plan can achieve

Prevention
Helps prevents type 2 and gestational diabetes
May prevent type 1 diabetes

Treatment
Manages type 1, type 2, and gestational diabetes
May reverse type 2 and gestational diabetes, especially during early stages
Chapter 1

Understanding diabetes
What is diabetes?

Diabetes occurs when blood sugar is abnormally high due to the body’s failure to keep blood sugar under control. Insulin is the hormone that regulates blood sugar level by moving sugar from blood into body cells. When there is more sugar than the body needs, insulin helps store surplus sugar in the liver for later use as needed.

Basically, in a diabetic environment sugar is stuck in the blood stream and cannot find its way into cells where it is needed for various vital purposes. As a result, body cells starve in the midst of plenty while sugar rises too high in the blood stream.

Types of diabetes

Type 1 diabetes
The body cannot produce insulin, making it impossible to control the level of blood sugar.

Type 2 diabetes
The body produces insulin but insulin does not work well enough to control blood sugar.
Sometimes, type 2 diabetes happens because the body cannot make enough insulin.

Gestational diabetes
Diabetes occurs only during pregnancy

According to the American Diabetes Association:
Type 2 diabetes makes up 90 to 95% of diabetes cases Type1 diabetes accounts for 5 to 10% of diabetes cases 1 to 14% of pregnant women develop gestational diabetes.
Pre-diabetes

Pre-diabetes or borderline diabetes is when blood sugar is constantly higher than normal but not high enough to be classified as diabetes. If not addressed, pre-diabetes may develop into diabetes. In other words, pre-diabetes may very well be a clear sign of impending diabetes. Pre-diabetes endangers your health and may lead to the same health complications caused by diabetes. So if you have pre-diabetes, it is important to take this condition seriously and make necessary lifestyle adjustments.

Is diabetes preventable, treatable, or reversible?
Type 2 and gestational diabetes are highly preventable and sometimes even reversible through a healthy lifestyle, especially during early stages of the disease. The key is getting insulin to function properly. Insulin injections may be needed by type 2 diabetes patients who do not produce enough insulin.

Type 1 diabetes is not reversible, but it is very manageable. New research also suggests that a vast majority of type 1 diabetes cases are highly preventable, especially when onset of the disease happens after early childhood. Type 1 diabetes is an autoimmune disease and chronic inflammation –which is caused by poor habits especially diets high in meat and processed foods and lack of exercise –is thought to be an underlying contributor to autoimmune diseases. By managing inflammation through healthy habits, there is a fairly good chance of avoiding type1 diabetes. People with type 1 diabetes require insulin injections

Are bad genes to blame for diabetes?
Even though Diabetes is often associated with bad genes, the truth of the matter is that an overwhelming majority of Diabetes cases, including type 1, are primarily a result of bad habits, not bad genes. Healthy habits have the power to deactivate bad genes while keeping good genes active. Similarly, bad habits activate bad genes and deactivate the good genes. Moreover, with or without bad genes, bad habits alone can cause diabetes and other chronic diseases.

Symptoms of diabetes
Here are some major symptoms of Diabetes:
Feeling very thirsty even after drinking enough water Urinating too often Slow healing cuts and wounds Too much appetite Always feeling tired Continuous itchiness in genital area Numbness and tingling in toes, hands, feet, and arms Persistent bad breath Getting irritated too easily Sometimes diabetes displays no obvious symptoms and the only way to know if you have the disease is to get tested.

Diabetes complications
Diabetes has devastating health complications that include:
Heart disease: this is the leading cause of death among people with diabetes. As such, it is imperative for people with diabetes to take extra care of the heart. Stroke Blindness Kidney failure Amputation of legs, feet, toes Erectile dysfunction Organ failure High blood pressure

Importance of insulin sensitivity
When insulin is highly sensitive, only a small amount of insulin is needed to control blood sugar, as a result, the body produces normal amounts of insulin. If insulin is highly insensitive or resistant, a large amount of insulin is required to process blood sugar. Insulin resistance, therefore, triggers overproduction of insulin. Abnormally high insulin levels and insulin resistance have been linked to metabolic syndrome, a term that refers to the occurrence of three or more of the following abnormalities at the same time: elevated blood sugar, high blood pressure, abnormal cholesterol, high triglyceride levels, and a wide waistline. When three or more of these conditions occur together, there is an increased risk for diabetes, high blood pressure, stroke, and mostly heart related diseases.
Chapter 2

Nine steps to controlling blood sugar

Step one: Eat unprocessed and unrefined foods, avoid processed and refined foods

a) Unprocessed foods
What are unprocessed foods?
A food is unprocessed if it contains all its edible parts.

Unprocessed plant foods
Since unprocessed plant foods retain all edible parts, they offer wholesome nutrition, a fundamental requirement for regulating blood sugar. Apart from fiber, unprocessed plant foods happen to be rich in phytonutrients, anti oxidants, vitamins, minerals, and other micronutrients that improve insulin function, promote heart health, and encourage good health in general.

Processed plant foods
Processed plant foods, on the other hand, have had some of their edible parts, especially fiber, removed for several reasons that include improving taste and adding shelf life to food. A diet high in heavily processed plant foods causes insulin resistance because of lack of fiber and unnaturally high concentration of starch and sugar.

b) Unrefined foods
Unrefined foods are those that have not been broken into a fine texture. Fiber and other nutrients function more effectively when unprocessed foods are eaten in their most unrefined, intact, or chewy state. When food is finely ground to a powdery consistency, nutrients get severely degraded and cannot function optimally even if they are present. So this means that chewy whole-grains such as wholegrain rice, wholegrain oat groats, and cracked wholegrain wheat are far better than finely ground whole grains like wholegrain rice flour, wholegrain oat flour, and wholegrain wheat flour. Likewise, solid fruits and vegetables are healthier than fruit and vegetable smoothies. In order to improve insulin sensitivity, eating foods in their most unprocessed and unrefined state or naturally existing, unaltered form is vital.