Let's Talk Type 2 Diabetes

Oh my god Palo stop with the garbage that you are spewing. To much fat in your diet is the leading cause of death and disease in America and is 80% of all medical costs in America.
To say the Framingham study is garbage is beyond stupidity and shows you know nothing about what you are talking about.
The reason why people that eat a high fat diet are still alive in America is because they are taking meds, a statin like Liptor. These drugs keep the fat from clogging their arteries but puts that fat right around their hips and belly.
This is why so many Americans have such huge guts today. But the huge guts destroy their knees and hips and is the cause for all those hip and knee surgeries. Gout is now common once again in America. The biggest health risk to the American people is the crap that is on TV..it is all lies to get everyone who believes as fat as possible so they cant move and all they do is sit and watch TV. Then these people do whatever the TV tells them to do...the TV becomes their only source of knowledge. The Atkins diet pushed by the TV caused hundred of thousands of Americans to die from stroke..strokes shot up through the roof when people started eating the Atkins diet.
LISTEN TO YOUR DOCTOR. STOP BELIEVING THE TV.

Type I, sometimes known as "Childhood" diabetes, and Type II, known as "Adult Onset Diabetes" are both on the rise. Additionally, we are seeing the lines blurred, where adults are finding they've always had a problem with sugar and insulin, and kids WITH type I are moving into Type II. There's also a Type III being studied right now.

Too much sugar is the key, but it only tells part of the problem. The question to ask your doctor is "why"?

Its not enough to know that your blood sugar levels are at 120 for example, which is on the boarder of diabetes. The question is why?

Is it because the sugar is not getting into the cells because you are not producing Insulin?
Is it because Insulin is doing its job, but the insulin receptors are not functioning properly, and not accepting the insulin?
Is in insulin fatigue?
Is it stress jacking up the whole process?
Is it your thyroid in actually, which is causing you to have trouble with sugar regulation?
Is it the actual mitochondria in the cell, which is not "burning" the sugar for energy?

There are at least 6 other questions I could ask, but you get the point.

The doctor's range for diabetes is (125-150) usually. (100-125) is usually pre-diabetic. But that's all the sick people. Because NORMAL blood sugar should be 80-90. So, even is your average blood sugar is a 96 for example, you are on your way developing diabetes unless you find the root cause of the problem.

I saw a post about fat also being the cause. That's not true actually. Start re-training yourself to understand that fat is good, not bad. We were hoodwinked with that one. The fat we eat does not cause fat around the mid section, nor does it clog the arteries. Those studies were performed improperly, administered improperly, and many doctors are writing books like "Eat Fat to Get Thin". (just an example, I have no affiliation to the book or author)

Type two diabetes is caused by a high sugar diet. High fat diet also is part of the risk. Stop eating a high fat, high sugar diet. Exercise and lose your excess body fat.
Its really that simple to cure type 2 diabetes.
Stop drinking coffee that is more a milkshake then coffee. Stop frying food..stop drinking sugar in soda or those energy drinks. Start eating lots of salads with nothing added to it that has fat in it. Grill meat only a couples of times a week with all the fat trimmed off of it. You get the idea.
90% of all health issues in America is what we put in our mouths.

I agree with nynjgirl-- my wife and I began using lose it two months ago for weight loss (friend dropped 66 lbs in year) and the big benefit has been our sugars are down 30% or more-- my am reading avg is down from 125-135 to 78-83-- and that started within a week.
My wife has dropped from am readings in 200's to 100-110 is high.
I am type 2 on metformin, she is insulin dependent

@LRHot: Thanks a lot. I am going to look into that app.

Food journals rock! So many things we consume daily seem "invisible." A journal keeps us accountable. I'm mildly amused by the occasional female who asks me to help her because she can't lose "no matter what." I've yet to receive a single food journal I've asked for. My Fitness Pal is my favorite app. I can track food (including fat, protein, carbs, etc.) and excercise, and monitor progress. The food library contains every food imaginable, including specific brands and restaurant foods. It even reprimands me for not eating enough some days.

We are truly kindred spirits. I am following your same approach vis-a-vis the food journal. I used to do it and just got away. I've also decided to buy another food scale as the one my daughter-in-law gave me years ago has decided enough is enough. I am using the scale for the protein because the eye can be misleading.

As most of us may know, Type 2 diabetes has become a pandemic. Countries who used to never have people afflicted with this insidious disease have begun to see the numbers growing. Personally, my family has been afflicted with it for years and once I retired from competing in amateur bodybuilding, I developed it. I blame it on the additives and hormones in the foods that we now consume.

Supposedly, the formula to lower your risk and/or control and possibly get rid of it all together is exercise, diet and medication where appropriate. I struggle on a daily basis to monitor my food intake and have basically stopped drinking alcohol compared to how I used to kick it back.

If you have Type 2 diabetes and have any suggestions on how you control yours and would like to share them, I would be interested in hearing from you.