Diabetes alternative medicine uses herbal wisdom from Traditional Chinese Medicine
and homeopathy, nutritional wisdom from cutting edge nutritionists, mind-body
exercise and counseling to help balance the body and mind and change lifestyle
habits that led to type 2 diabetes in the first place. Because the Diabetes
alternative medicine solution isn't as easy as popping a pill, it requires a
commitment to a different lifestyle to recover from diabetes.
Obese patients must lose weight and inactive patients must become more physical.
Stress management plays a component in controlling sugar level because of the
effect stress has on insulin production. Often diabetics must get used to eating
a diet that is much healthier than the standard American diet, avoiding excess
carbs and sugar.
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The healing power of diet alone in terms of prevention in prediabetics and
maintenance in diabetics is astounding. The following study provides some interesting
information on the subject. It talks about the power of diet, exercise and using
drugs to manage the risk of developing type 2 diabetes. The following case study
was taken from the National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Disorders
Web site (www.niddk.nih.gov/welcome/releases/8_8_01.htm)
"The prevalence of type 2 diabetes has tripled in the last 30 years, and much of the increase is due to the dramatic upsurge in obesity. People with a BMI of 30 or greater have a five-fold greater risk of diabetes than people with a normal BMI of 25 or less."
"Diabetes afflicts more than 16 million people in the United States. It is the main cause of kidney failure, limb amputations, and new onset blindness in adults and a major cause of heart disease and stroke. It is strongly associated with obesity (more than 80 percent of people with type 2 diabetes are overweight), inactivity, family history of diabetes, and racial or ethnic background. Compared to whites, black adults have a 60 percent higher rate of type 2 diabetes and Hispanic adults have a 90 percent higher rate."
"At least 10 million Americans at high risk for type 2 diabetes can sharply lower their chances of getting the disease with diet and exercise, according to the findings of a major clinical trial announced by HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson at the National Institutes of Health (NIH)."
" 'In view of the rapidly rising rates of obesity and diabetes in America, this good news couldn't come at a better time,' said Secretary Thompson. 'So many of our health problems can be avoided through diet, exercise and making sure we take care of ourselves. By promoting healthy lifestyles, we can improve the quality of life for all Americans, and reduce health care costs dramatically.' "
"The same study found that treatment with the oral diabetes drug metformin (Glucophage®) also reduces diabetes risk, though less dramatically, in people at high risk for type 2 diabetes."
"Participants randomly assigned to intensive lifestyle intervention reduced their risk of getting type 2 diabetes by 58 percent. On average, this group maintained their physical activity at 30 minutes per day, usually with walking or other moderate intensity exercise, and lost 5-7 percent of their body weight. Participants randomized to treatment with metformin reduced their risk of getting type 2 diabetes by 31 percent."
"The findings came from the Diabetes Prevention Program (DPP), a major clinical trial in 3,234 people with impaired glucose tolerance, a condition that often precedes diabetes. The study compared (1) intensive lifestyle changes consisting of diet and exercise; (2) treatment with the oral diabetes drug metformin; and (3) placebo (a control group that took placebo pills in place of metformin)."
The second and third groups also received standard information on diet and exercise. On the advice of the DPP's external data monitoring board, the trial ended a year early because the data had clearly answered the main research questions."
"Smaller studies in China and Finland have shown that diet and exercise can delay type 2 diabetes in at-risk people, but the DPP, conducted at 27 centers nationwide, is the first major trial to show that diet and exercise can effectively delay diabetes in a diverse American population of overweight people with impaired glucose tolerance (IGT). IGT is a condition in which blood glucose levels are higher than normal but not yet diabetic."
"Of the 3,234 participants enrolled in the DPP, 45 percent are from minority groups that suffer disproportionately from type 2 diabetes: African Americans, Hispanic Americans, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, and American Indians. The trial also recruited other groups known to be at higher risk for type 2 diabetes, including individuals age 60 and older, women with a history of gestational diabetes, and people with a first-degree relative with type 2 diabetes."
" 'Lifestyle intervention worked as well in men and women and in all the ethnic groups. It also worked well in people age 60 and older, who have a nearly 20 percent prevalence of diabetes, reducing the development of diabetes by 71 percent. Metformin was also effective in men and women and in all the ethnic groups, but was relatively ineffective in the older volunteers and in those who were less overweight,' said DPP study chair Dr. David Nathan of Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston."
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