Glycemic Food Index List

The Glycemic Food Index List Helps To Beat Diabetes Type 2 !
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Hi, my name is Diabetes Bob and I am a 70 year old diabetic. Subscribe to my Free 10 part Mini-Course that shows you how to beat type 2 diabetes with food and download your free Glycemic Index Listing Of Foods. I have been a diabetic for over 20 years. The first 18 years of diabetes was a real struggle.

With the help of doctors and medication my control of blood sugar was adequate at best.

Then I gave myself permission to love my health better than the food that I was eating. By eating natural foods instead of processed food I got my diabetes under control.

My friend, if a 70 year old diabetic can do it then you can do it; all you need to know is how.

Let me share the Good News with you.

My HbA1 C dropped from 8 to 5.9% reducing my risk for heart disease, kidney disease and liver disease by a whopping 70%.

My Triglycerides fell from 180 to 107 with (optimal being less than 150). My Cholesterol dropped from 220 to 180 with (optimal being 0 to 200).

By changing my eating habits I am healthier today at age 70 then I was at age 50. I want to cut right to the chase and nip this diabetes thing in the bud.

Is Diabetes a Disease or an Eating Disorder?

Pima Indians:

NIDDK research conducted on the Pima Indians for the past 30 years has helped scientists prove that obesity is a major risk factor in the development of diabetes.  These studies, carried out with the help of the Pima Indians, have shown that before gaining weight, overweight people have a slower metabolic rate compared to people of the same weight.

The more that I have read about diabetes, the more that I realize that diabetes is a lifestyle issue. I think the Western diet is the worst diet in the world. Our processed foods are leading us to poor health.

I think the study done on the Pima Indian says it all. There is no doubt that I am a diabetic and I will be all my life. But knowing what I know now I do have choices about lifestyle change. When you read this information, see if you can come to the same conclusion that I did.

Pima Indians are better known around the world for their diabetes than for their culture. The History of Pima Indians tribes in Mexico live in the mountains and have less than 5% diabetes instance.

A group of Pima Indians migrated to Southern Arizona and started a new life. This group of Pima Indian’s had a lifestyle change going from the traditional diet to the Western diet. An amazing thing happened, the instance of diabetes increased to almost 70%.
When these Indians lived on the traditional diet they still had the diabetes gene but it was under control because they ate natural foods. This would indicate to me that going on the Western Diet of processed food activated the gene and caused their diabetes.

Monkeys and Diabetes:

You are probably saying to yourself what does this have to do with diabetes. As more proof to me this information helps support my suspicion on eating disorder. When I found out about pet monkeys and diabetes it confirmed how important lifestyle is.

In the wilds monkeys never get diabetes. When monkeys are adopted as pets and humans start feeding the monkeys the same foods that they eat, an amazing thing happens. By eating the sugars and processed foods yep you guessed it monkeys get type II diabetes.
I don’t know what can be more telling than that.

Let’s face it; there is a real lesson to be learned. I think that our bodies were never meant to digest all the cheap synthetics, growth hormones and antibiotics in our processed foods.

When the body can’t use this add-in the only thing the body knows how to do is to protect itself by storing these toxins in our body as fat. That means that we are carrying around toxins in our system which is causing all kinds of health problems.

The much lower prevalence of type 2 diabetes and obesity in the Pima Indians in Mexico than in the U.S. indicates that even in populations that may be genetically prone to these conditions, their development is determined mostly by  environmental circumstances, thereby suggesting that type 2 diabetes is largely preventable.

Diabetes control

Diabetes control comes with a slew of numbers to remember, but the A1C level is perhaps the most important.
Diabetes is a condition where you have elevated blood sugar.  Diabetes is a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the United States.

The findings of the Diabetes Control and Complications Trial (DCCT) have conclusively shown that people with diabetes who manage their blood sugar well with A1C levels close to 7% can delay the onset or possibly even prevent diabetes-related complications that affect the eyes, kidneys and nerves.

The major underlying problems in type 2 diabetes are insulin resistance in muscle and fat, decreased insulin production by the pancreas and increased sugar production by the liver.

You can control your diabetes by forming new eating habits. This doesn’t require dieting, but eating natural foods.
The Glycemic Food Index List is not a diet but is founded on science for diabetics to use as a guide line.
You can learn to control your diabetes by eating the food from the Glycemic Food Index List.

It is simple.

Just make choices from the list that have a GI number of 55 or less.

These foods are your life saver, because they digest slower and don’t require the pancreas to work so hard in creating insulin.
There is more nourishment in these foods and help curve food cravings in the middle of the day.
Using the Glycemic Food Index List is how I got my blood sugars back to normal.

What Food Processer Don’t Want you to Know

Processed food freed people from the large amount of time involved in preparing and cooking “natural” unprocessed foods.  Processed food can be defined as food that has been altered from its natural state in order to increase shelf-life, for example.

Processed food is nothing more than food where some of the things you’d do to prepare it at home have been done by someone else, somewhere else, before you bring it home.  Processed food often contains man-made additives that are unhealthy – or may not be proven NOT to be healthy.

Let’s face it; everyone has an agenda for their own means. Through my research I realize that every aspect of society revolves around the money (Show Me the Money).

There are certain things that food processors and the medical community don’t want you to know. For example, diabetes is $173 billion dollar industry. In my own mind I feel like this is the reason that there will never be a cure for diabetes.

So the goal of this industry is to find a way to control diabetes so they can have financial gain. Let’s face it, if there was a cure for diabetes, the $173 billion industry would disappear.

The manufacturers can’t afford to have this happen. We as consumers are concerned about the foods that we eat, and their purity. When I was a child, our meat and poultry was what you would call “free range” and was grown without growth hormones and antibiotics.

Animals, like humans, use most of the calories they consume living their lives and producing excrement.  Industrial farmed animals kept stalls live in feces and their own urine for much of the time, or are standing on grates that hurt their feet.

Animals respond to living in factory farms by developing abnormal behavior, such as pigs biting each other’s tails off and hens pecking each other to death.  Animals in very dense confined environments build ideal breeding grounds for lethal viruses and contagious diseases.

Today in the name of the almighty dollar, meats and poultry are given growth hormones, antibiotics and isolated in pens so they can’t move around.

Animals can fatten up and go to market twice as fast. Millions of chickens are caged and can’t move around. They grow so fast that their organs can’t keep up with their growth and they can only walk a step or two then fall down.

The Industrial farmers don’t care because they have a short life span anyway so we as consumers can get our fast food fix.
The Beef that is industrial grown suffers from the same plight as the chicken. Even though they are a grazing animal they are put together in growing pens and can hardly move.

Today’s beef is fed corn because it is cheaper than hay.

The reason they use corn is because they can purchase it below the cost of growing it.

You may ask yourself how this is possible. Well the farmers that raise the corn are subsidized and paid by the government to grow the corn and sell it for less than it costs to grow.

What the farmers are doing is making the beef super fat by using corn and in half the time it would take a cow to grow to that size if it was left to graze. It sounds like money, money, money to me.

Food Labeling:

Are the labels on food misleading?
The next time you go to the grocery store check the pictures on the labels.

They haven’t changed in years. They still show the farmer and his farmhouse with free ranging chickens or grazing beef in the background.

This can’t be any further from the truth. If you really want to see what industrial farming is like, I highly recommend watching the documentary FOOD INC.

You can get this from Netflix and watch it for free on your computer. I have no doubt that after watching this video that the light bulb will come on.

A1C testing

A1C testing is highly specific, compared with a two-hour oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT) or a fasting plasma glucose test.
However, because A1C testing is not sensitive enough to rule out diabetes if levels are normal, the test should not be used for diagnosing diabetes.

A1C is a blood test done in a doctor’s office or in a laboratory.

A1C Now SELFCHECK, which is now available without a prescription and through leading online pharmacies, provides at-home results within five minutes, has an easy-to-use design and delivers lab accuracy.
The A1C measures average blood sugar over the last 3 months.
The goal is to get your number down to below 7% and that alone will reduce the risk of heart disease, liver disease and kidney disease.

Triglycerides.

Triglycerides are produced from the fat that we eat in the intestine.
Triglycerides come from the fats in foods (saturated fat and unsaturated fat).
Triglycerides are the main storage form of fat in the body, and are important for its overall functioning.

Triglycerides change dramatically in response to meals, increasing as much as 5 to 10 times higher than fasting levels just a few hours after eating.

Blood triglyceride levels were higher when subjects drank fructose-sweetened beverages with their meals compared to when they drank glucose-sweetened beverages.

Any time you see Fructose corn syrup in the ingredients of processed food it should be taken off of your shopping list.

You might ask, but fruit has fructose should I stop eating fruit? By nature fruit has the fructose so the fruit is palatable.
The fiber in the fruit by nature neutralizes the fructose when it is digested. When you take the fructose from the fruit as a standalone it becomes an alcohol, in other words a poison. You don’t have to take my word for this just, research it yourself.

Cholesterol

Cholesterol can’t dissolve in the blood.  It has to be transported to and from the cells by carriers called lipoproteins.  Cholesterol and triglycerides are lipids or fat like substances that are found in the human body.

Cholesterol and other fats are transported through the blood stream in the form of round particles called lipoproteins.  Cholesterol is a waxy substance that can be found in all parts of your body.

By keeping your cholesterol low you will reduce the risk of Heart disease. Heart disease, which includes heart attack and stroke, is the number one cause of death for American women as well as men.

Glucose

Glucose is the form of energy you were designed to run on.  Diabetics must keep blood glucose levels under control to prevent the risk of complications of diabetes such as damage to blood vessels, nerves, eyes and kidneys.

Some of these aldehydes are converted to glucose, but a large amount of excess citrate is formed in the process, stimulating “junk chemicals” that result in free fatty acids (FFAs), VLDL and triglycerides.

When you monitor your blood glucose with a meter, you measure your blood glucose at the moment you perform the test.  This number gives you important feedback for making immediate and day to day adjustments in your diabetes management.

This study found Elevated 1hPG [one hour plasma glucose] in NGT [people with normal glucose tolerance] and pre-DM subjects is associated to subclinical inflammation, high lipid ratios and insulin resistance.

Health information

This Health information tailored to the needs of those living with diabetes.  This health information is offered for educational purposes only. This information is not designed to diagnose any symptoms on health related issues.

Conclusion

It is not yet clear whether high triglyceride levels act as a predictor of the risk for heart disease and heart attacks, especially in persons with normal levels of cholesterol.

Blood triglyceride levels were higher when subjects drank fructose-sweetened beverages with their meals compared to when they drank glucose-sweetened beverages.

Elevated cholesterol levels can be caused by several factors, including heredity, poor diet, obesity, sedentary lifestyle, age, smoking, and gender (pre-menopausal women have lower cholesterol levels than men).

Though high levels of triglycerides are associated with an increased risk of heart disease, they are not usually a primary cause.  Many people have high triglyceride levels due to being overweight/obese,  physical inactivity, cigarette smoking, excess alcohol consumption and/or a diet  very high in carbohydrates (60 percent or more of calories).

I hope you find this information helpful.

Here is to good Health.
Bob Pernula