Posts Tagged ‘Diabetes’

Agave plant used to make Agave Syrup

Warning!  You’re Being Had!

It never ends. You know how bad High Fructose Corn Syrup is and how we have been blindsided by clever marketing into thinking HFCS is a healthy sweetener.

Well once again we are being blindsided by the clever marketing of a new so called “natural” sweetener implying it is a safe substitute for High Fructose Corn Syrup.

Science has proven conclusively that High Fructose Corn Syrup is a major cause of obesity, diabetes, and heart disease because of its 56% high fructose content.

This new so called “natural” sweetener is from the agave plant.  Ferment it and you have Mexico’s favorite alcoholic beverage — tequila.

Blue agave, agave “syrup”, or agave “nectar”, is nothing more than a laboratory generated super-condensed fructose syrup devoid of all nutrient value and offering metabolic misfortune.

Agave syrup is much worse than the High Fructose Corn Syrup it’s replacing.

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Can you afford the cost of diabetes?

In a new study by researchers based at the University of Chicago, and recently published in the journal “Diabetes Care”, it was determined that the number of diagnosed and undiagnosed diabetics will climb from almost 24 million this year to about 44 million in 2034.

Over the same period, annual diabetes related treatment costs are expected to increase from $113 billion to $336 billion, (based on the value of the dollar in the year 2007), and Medicare spending on diabetes is expected to jump from $45 billion to $171 Billion.

This could exceed current projections for all Medicare costs, the researchers said.

Their advice to slow the growth of diabetes was to exercise more.

Now I do not disagree that exercise is very important and does help.

However, diabetes is not a contagious disease, it is a developed disease, and the lack of exercise if far from the whole story. Read the rest of this entry »

In a recent study conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) the rapid increase of people diagnosed with diabetes “rose by more than 90 percent among adults over the past 10 years” with Florida, Virginia, Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and West Virginia having the highest incidence of new diabetes cases.

Type 2 diabetes mellitus is most commonly caused when your body does not produce enough insulin (a hormone released by the pancreas) which is needed to convert sugar, or glucose, which is your basic fuel energy for your cells.

In addition, the CDC stated that 25 percent of Americans are at risk of “pre-diabetes” due to lack of awareness of the common causes of diabetes, especially type 2 diabetes.

Recognizing some of the signs and symptoms of type 2 diabetes such as… Read the rest of this entry »