1. The Shocking Truth About Our Food
2. Why "Low Fat" Diets are Incorrect and Dangerous to Your Health
3. Damaged Cell Receptors and Diabetes
4. Chemists Shed Light on the Health Benefits of Garlic

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The Shocking Truth About Our Food 

Okay this might not be something you don't know, but Dr. Berg explains the label on your food and what the problem actually is. 

Truth About Our Food

Why "Low Fat" Diets are Incorrect and Dangerous to Your Health!

Many individuals when first diagnosed with may illnesses are directed by their physician onto a "low fat" diet and warned about the dangers of eating foods that contain fat or cholesterol.

The overwhelming evidence now shows that this is totally opposite of what they should be doing. Low fat diets result in the diabetic condition getting worse along with declining health levels. Below is what Dr. Diana Schwarzbein, M.D. states regarding cholesterol and fat in the diet:

"The medical profession and the media has so frightened the public about cholesterol and fat that people firmly believe they must be avoided at all costs. For many people today, eggs, butter and red meat represent the fear of cholesterol, and meats, nuts and oils represent the fear of fat. But this fear of cholesterol and fat is not grounded in scientific fact. On the contrary, cholesterol and fat are essential to life."

"Cholesterol and fat are used by the body as building materials for constant replenishment and are supposed to come from dietary sources. Eating cholesterol and fat do not cause heart disease and accelerated death. In fact, you must eat them to avoid heart disease."

"Cholesterol is a type of fat that has many functions in the body. Cholesterol is an important structure in cell membranes [cell membrane: the thin layer of tissue that forms the outer surface of the cell and regulates the passage of materials in and out of the cell], keeping the cell membrane permeable [permeable: allowing liquids to pass through] so that material can pass easily through the cell. The inside of the cell is also filled with various cholesterol-containing membranes that must be maintained so that the cell can function well."

"When your body is comprised of cells that are cholesterol depleted, and thereby less efficient, all the biochemical processes of your metabolism are affected, which means your metabolism cannot function as it should."

"When you deprive your body of cholesterol, an essential building material, membrane structure is altered. When membrane structure is altered, cell growth is disrupted. As a result, there is a potential increase in cancer because cancer arises from abnormal cell division."

"In addition, cholesterol is important to maintain normal functioning of various hormone systems and the immune system. Cholesterol is also the structural material from which many important hormones are made."

"Cholesterol is essential for brain function and the stabilization of neurotransmitters [neurotransmitters: a substance that transmits impulses between nerve cells]. Mood problems such as depression, agitation and irritability can occur when your body does not get sufficient cholesterol."

"Cholesterol also forms insulation around the nerves to keep electrical impulses moving. Without this insulation there is an increase in the potential for diseases of the nervous system, such as multiple sclerosis."

"Cholesterol can be obtained directly from cholesterol-laden foods, such as butter, meat, eggs and shellfish. You should eat these foods and other types of fats every day."

excerpted from The Schwarzbein Principle
by Dr. Diana Schwarzbein, M.D.

Not only is it possible that the "low fat" diet will damage your body, studies have shown that it will occur, as can be seen in the following excerpt:

"Low-fat high-carbohydrate diets eaten by patients with diabetes [non-insulin dependant] have been shown to lead to higher day-long plasma glucose [higher blood sugar levels], insulin, triglycerides, and very low density lipoproteins [bad cholesterol], among other negative effects. In general, study has demonstrated that multiple risk factors for coronary heart disease are worsened for diabetics who consume the low-fat high-carbohydrate diet so often recommended to reduce these risks."

excerpted from Diabetes Care, January 1995 Issue
by Dr. Y. D. Chen

Again, if you have not yet done so, you can turn your diabetic condition around and improve your overall health by getting onto a high protein/low carbohydrate diet, taking the correct nutritional supplements, and putting a little exercise into your life!

More information abut Low Fat Food, the Hidden Risks

Damaged Cell Receptors and Diabetes

How does Diabetic medication work?

Insulin's job is to push sugar out of the bloodstream into the cells where it is used for energy.

Certain medications increases insulin secretion while others try to get the body to use it's own insulin more effectively and insulin injections are just that, more insulin.  Medical doctors usually try the oral medications first and when those are no longer effective or “maxed out” they then proceed onto insulin injections.

There can be a lot of insulin in the body, either being made by the body, or introduced through injections, but the problem is that body is insulin resistant because of damaged cell receptors that don’t allow the insulin to do the job it needs to.

What are cell receptors?

Your body breaks down carbohydrates into sugar (glucose) which then enters your blood stream. The more carbohydrates you eat, the higher your blood sugar goes. In response, your body produces insulin. Again Insulin's job is to push the blood sugar into the cells.

On the surface of the cells in your body are insulin receptors, which act like little doors that open and close to regulate the inflow of blood sugar.

After many years of consuming a high-carbohydrate diet, your cells have been bombarded with so much insulin that these doors begin to malfunction and shut down.

Insulin resistance

The medications introduce more insulin to force the sugar out of the body into the now damaged cell receptors. Your body just ends up building up more and more insulin resistance/tolerance so that the level of oral medications. or injections only goes up and up.

Thus, the high sugar levels are only a symptom of the diabetic condition, they are not the diabetic condition itself!

Using drugs to keep the blood sugar down is like having a fire burning in the living room and having the house full of smoke and then turning on the exhaust fan in the kitchen to pull the smoke out of the house. The fan pulls out the smoke (a symptom of the fire) but the fire is still burning, and will consume the house unless it is put out.  The fire is the cause of the problem and what really needs to be addressed.  

 
The diabetic condition – the resistance to the insulin - will just get worse when you just try and force the sugar into the cells. 

What needs to be done?

What needs to happen is the body needs to resensitize the cells to the insulin your body is making and as a result will lower your blood sugar levels.

Diet:

Diet needs to be used to give you body a rest so that it isn’t dealing with a high amounts of sugar coming in. which requires your body to continuously produce high levels of insulin to keep that blood sugar level down

A person with high blood sugars needs to eliminate ALL the starchy carbohydrates from your diet and stop loading up your body with sugar.  Even small amounts of these starchy carbohydrates will prevent your sugar levels from coming down.  This action will give the body a "breather" and the body’s insulin will be able to do it's job of pushing the sugar out of your bloodstream and into the cells, your blood sugar level will drop naturally and the high level of insulin in your body will drop along with it.

Exercise:

Another activity that will increase your body's sensitivity to insulin is doing resistance exercises. These are exercises such as lifting weights or pulling or pushing against muscles, by using various muscle exercise equipment.  If you are not physically up to this type of exercise, begin a walking program, even if it is only walking for 20 minutes, 3 times a week  

Chemists Shed Light on the Health Benefits of Garlic

Researchers have widely believed that the organic compound, allicin -- which gives the pungent vegetable its aroma and flavor -- acts as an antioxidant. But until now it hasn't been clear how allicin works, or how it stacks up compared to more common antioxidants such as Vitamin E and coenzyme Q10, which stop the damaging effects of radicals. Researchers now trace benefits to acid produced in the decomposing organic compound.

Read:  Why garlic is so good for us.

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