I recently made this remark to a friend who said I couldn’t make such a claim – I was only repeating what several authors have already written – but it is something that I firmly believe.

With all the fast foods, easy-to-prepare meals, off-the-shelf pre-packs and convenient deli’s at service stations, the challenge of eating correctly becomes more and more difficult. These meals, high in sugars and starches, provide energy but very little nutrition and send the body on a glycemic roller coaster ride causing an almost constant demand for insulin secretion. This puts strain on the pancreas, which could lead to damage and the inability to produce insulin.

Uncontrolled blood sugar and improper functioning of insulin brings on most health problems and chronic diseases. The incidence of obesity and diabetes is showing an alarming increase in children and adolescents, and the doctor’s solution is a lifetime of drugs. Unfortunately medication simple delays the devastating effects of this disease. Complications include blindness, kidney disease, cancer, heart disease, erectile dysfunction, nerve damage, limb amputations and even death. Drugs are “foreign” substances for the body while vitamins, minerals and nutritional substances in herbs are substances normally found in the body and promote normal biological processes.

Type 2 diabetes is quite definitely a “lifestyle” disease, which means that a change of “lifestyle” could easily reverse the condition.

Diet and nutrition are not synonymous – diet is what we eat while nutrition is what our cells actually receive. Cells abused by years of bad diet will have developed hardened cell walls that make it difficult for nutrients to enter the cells. Therefore, the first step in correcting health is to provide the essential oils (lipids and sterols) necessary to keep the cell walls soft and pliable. The next step is to provide the correct balance of all proteins, vitamins and minerals.

Complete protein is necessary to build and repair the body’s cells and ensures the correct functioning of the immune, hormone and enzyme systems. By consuming a healthier ratio of proteins, carbohydrates and fats the macronutrient intake can be re-balanced to help control the glycemic response. Insulin response can also be minimised by ensuring an adequate supply of fibre, which plays an important role in carbohydrate metabolism.

High protein and high-calorie diets increase the need for Vitamin B6, as does a magnesium deficiency. A Vitamin B6 deficiency can cause damage to the pancreas. Glucose generates large numbers of free radicals so a diabetic’s requirements of antioxidant Vitamins C and E are greatly increased. B Complex vitamins, calcium, potassium, chromium all play a vital roll in controlling blood sugar levels.

A diabetic’s nutritional needs are greater than those of a healthy person so whole food supplementation is essential because nutrients in food sources are depleted as a result of poor soils, pollution, use of pesticides and hormones, cold storage and preservatives.

A change in eating habits using the right kind of low-glycemic-response foods will help to “teach” the body to take in optimum ratios of nutrients and utilise them efficiently.

Take control – provide your body with excellent nutrition and enjoy a lifetime of proper weight and good health.

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