Their Big Risk Is Of Heart Attack Etc
Harlan Jacobsen. Copyright © 2008 |
Controlling your blood sugar is the traditional, so called proven way to
reduce your risk of heart attack.
A recent study were a
large number of Individuals with type 2 diabetes were intensively
treated (with drugs) to lower and control their blood sugar levels to
affect heart attacks, strokes etc. wound up with a higher death rate,
then a control group with tradition actions.
That study
was stopped, because of the additional deaths, now a recent similar
study in Australia, this one easing in over a longer period of time to
lowering blood sugar essentially wound up as about the same as those not
trying to make tight control of blood sugar levels the target.
Both of these set the industry tongues wagging since this was not the expected result.
Diabetics have a 20.2 percent chance of a heart attack over a seven-year
period, according to the American Diabetes Association.
This does not mean that Diabetes is the cause, it means
what ever is causing the diabetic problems is also likely the same thing
causing other problems.
The big consideration in these studies was the medication being used
itself had a reputation of increasing heart problems so apparently the
intensive use of it lowered the blood sugar that supposedly helped with
heart damage but the drug itself apparently induced additional heart
incidents, in the US study actually increasing the total.
In
Australia, winding up a wash, instead of the lowering of the heart
attacks etc that lowering of the blood sugar levels more completely was
supposed to do.
Our research and reading over 250 books on the subject makes it
fairly clear that the high blood sugar spikes cause high insulin and the high insulin levels set off or worsen the odds of these other problems.
The thing to be avoided is high insulin levels and in order
to do that you need to cut out what ever causes high blood sugar
spikes.
Our idea and observation is that the man made chemicals
(prescriptions)likely cause more problems (and earlier death) then not
using them. Therefore your author and others control their blood sugar
with diet change, exercise and supplements, completely weaning off of
medications in a short period of time, usually one month,
Conventional medical practice and the Diabetes and other associations
is to suggest continued eating of carbs and taking medications etc to
compensate for it.
We and many others consider this to be continuing the
problem that started it all in the first place, preferring to eliminate
all input that causes sugar spikes and thereby correct the problem
without side medication that must constantly be incased etc and bringing
on whole new sets of problems.
As a diabetic, there are several steps that you need to take to lower
your chance of having diabetes-related problems such as heart attack and
stroke and that is to lower it naturally.
To keep score of how you
are doing:
- You need every three months an A1c test, known as
hemoglobin A1c (Acrobat). It measures the average blood glucose over the
last three months.
You want to get eventually down in the 5 range and if you get over 7 you
need to take drastic steps, including going on Metformin medication or
something similar until you learn how and get adjusted to get a lower
level without.
- We believe you need to know the Insulin level you are running. Is
your body making several times the normal insulin level trying to
control you blood sugar (high insulin resistance build up) and
potentially doing all sorts of damage,
The other thing it will clear up, has your pancreas shut down or is it
starting to be shutting down.
We are amazed most doctors are not interested in the insulin level and
do not even test to find which of the former is the problem. We
think it VERY IMPORTANT you know what your insulin level is doing
and which way it is trending.
- We hear that likely a better determiner of longevity for a diabetic
is how good he is controlling his blood pressure.
Keeping your blood pressure below 120/80 decreases the amount of work on
and strain on your heart and also reduces kidney problems.
- You need to ride close watch also on your triglycerides, which is
amount of fats circulating in your blood stream
- One more test is AB reactive protein test.
You will need to make some drastic lifestyle choices to help keep
your diabetes under control by drastically modifying your diet.
What causes your diabetes, (high sugar spikes for years) also
causes you to gain weight.
When you learn to eliminate foods that cause sugar spikes you also eliminate fat making. Your fat will automatically go down and in
doing so helps your body handle the diabetes part better.
You will automatically stay at a healthy weight by eating this new
diet high in fat, no sugar or flour, and low or no carbohydrates. All
this with high fat high protein and high in fiber.
Exercise for 30 minutes a day, minimum shooting for 10,000 steps a
day.
We suggest strength training to develop new muscle
which really solves the blood sugar problem effectively.
Most have lowered muscle mass and even that remaining muscle has become
strongly insulin resistant. Refuses to allow high levels of insulin to
force these muscles to absorb the excess blood sugar levels you are
running.
If you are still smoking you know by now you have to stop smoking to
help improve your blood vessels and heart health.
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