This year, a new weight loss technique was approved by the Food and Drug Administration, whereby a thin tube, implanted in the abdomen, serves to eject food from the body even before the calories are absorbed.
Some people call it medically sanctioned bulimia, the newest procedure in the desperate search to stem obesity and type 2 diabetes. Almost one-third of adult Americans face obesity, almost two-thirds are overweight and 29 million are afflicted with diabetes. Around 86 million people in America experience a condition called pre-diabetes.
The American Diabetes Association and almost 45 international scientific and medical societies, called for bariatric surgery to become a standard way of treating diabetes. This treatment, seen as an ultimate resort includes stapling and removing part of the stomach in order to help people lose weight.
It costs from $12,000 to $25,000, and the costs are not paid by any insurance company as well as the postoperative complications, and visits are not included. Almost 20% of the patients have complications as a result of nutrient deficiencies, intestinal blockages, and infections.
The doctors claim that it is nonsense to prescribe such a surgery procedure to patients where the medical guidelines do not include the greater, safer, and cheaper method, a low-carbohydrate diet.
Nowadays, the efficacy and safety of this diet have been verified by more than thousands of subjects. Provided that almost one in three people in America will be diagnosed with diabetes by 2050, it is the right time to take a look at this diet.
In the state of diabetes, the body cannot produce sufficient levels of insulin to process the amount of glucose (sugar) in the blood. In order to reduce glucose levels, diabetics have to increase the level of insulin either by medications or by direct injection of insulin into the body. The medication treatment of glucose may include at least four or five medications with an annual cost of thousands of dollars.
However, there is a more healthy and effective way to reduce sugar levels, eating less sugar.
Glucose is a component of carbohydrates, found in food like wheat, rice, potatoes, corn, sugars, and fruits. If you omit this food, the glucose level will be low. If you replace the carbohydrates with some healthy protein and fats, your glucose level will not only be low by you won’t feel hungry. The way of losing weight doesn’t include starving or counting calories.
Diabetes is mostly portrayed by most doctors and diabetes associations as an incurable disease that may provoke kidney failure, blindness, amputations as well as serious heart attacks and strokes.
A NY Times examined 10 people who suffered from obesity and type 2 diabetes. The low-carbohydrate diet provided normalized levels of glucose and improved insulin sensitivity by 75%.
This low-carbohydrate intervention has proved successful at many obesity clinics where hundreds of patients reduced their intake of carbohydrates and easily lost weight and got off their medications. Such an example is a 50-years worker who as a result of his diabetes has retired from a job.
Because of his obesity, he was prescribed insulin to take for the rest of his life. Although his costs were covered by the insurance, the medications cost hundreds of dollars every month and he was thinking about bariatric surgery.
For that reason, doctors advised him to reduce his intake of packed meals, processed food, and grains and to start consuming more meat, nuts, eggs, and even butter. After five months, the glucose levels were normal and he could finally return to work. The insulin was no longer needed.
Another example is a patient, suffering for twelve years from type 2 diabetes. After one year of practicing the low-carbohydrate diet, she lost 35 pounds and stopped using any medications as well as the 100 units of insulin on daily basis.
Almost 45% of the people who practiced a low-carb diet could stop taking medication after a few months in contrast to the 11% group who practiced a moderate-carb diet. This result can be presented as 31% in contrast to 0%. The low-carb diet also significantly improved hemoglobin A1C, the primary marker for diabetes. It is noticed that the results weaken over time. However, the results depend on a great part of the patient’s ability to continue with a low-carb diet and make it a lifestyle habit.
Ramsay Health, the pharmaceutical insulin became available and a moderate quantity of carbohydrates was allowed. In 1970 when some organizations, including the Department of Agriculture and the Diabetes Association, started recommending the high-carb and low-fat diet due to the belief that the fat caused coronary artery disease.
This advice was practiced for more than 15 years when peer-Ramsay Health clinical trials showed that a low-carb diet is more effective in lowering fats, sugar, and cardiovascular diseases.
This low-carb diet was seen as a standard treatment for diabetes throughout the 20th century when it was recognized that carbohydrates do some more harm than good.
The current guidelines advise people with diabetes to maintain consuming carbohydrates to some level in order not to allow their blood sugar to fall too low. This condition is known as hypoglycemia, a serious one when the restricted intake of carbohydrates eliminates the need for excess insulin.
Encouraging people with diabetes to consume a higher amount of carbohydrates is a prescription for lifelong dependence on medications.
At an annual diabetes convention in New Orleans, there wasn’t even a single reference to low-carb treatment among hundreds of lectures, presenting expensive medications for blood sugar, obesity, and liver problems as well as surgical procedures such as a stomach-draining system called Mayo Clinic, burning the inside part of the duodenum with a hot balloon.
The patients do not need expensive lifetime medications, insulin injections, or risky surgeries. They need something that will help them combat diabetes in a healthy, Mayo Clinic way as is the case with the low-carbohydrate diet.
Via Ramsay Health
