Another important sign, that a person is more likely to develop higher blood sugar levels or diabetes are the intense spikes and crushes in energy levels after eating heavy carbohydrate meal. To prevent and cure type 2 diabetes, you have to avoid these dangerous blood sugar spikes.
I think, I am one of those people. I still clearly remember feeling incredibly sleepy in the middle of the day and hardly keeping my eyes open. I would fall asleep over my desk when studying for my anatomy or physiology exam.
There I was, studying anatomy, exercise physiology and generally human performance and hoping to become an expert in the field and not realizing, that those pancakes I had for lunch are having debilitating effect on my own mental and physical performance and energy levels.
I would only change my diet about 7 years later.
I don’t blame my university for flawed diet knowledge it gave me mainly because carbs and sugar were in that time. Carbs and sugar were highly recommended for peak physical performance. But times change. And they did. I hope that, what students learn these days in school, I attended is something entirely different what we learned.
Only later, while studying on my own and applying on myself, I would realize how wrong this belief was. Carbohydrate and sugar overload is not only performance killer, but also dangerous for human health.
My carbohydrate intake, beside getting enough protein and having plenty of fat in my diet consists from only fruits and vegetables. That’s it. Fruits and vegetables, nothing else. When I have my 5 eggs for breakfast in the morning, I won’t have them with a toast, I have them with few tomatoes or spinach and apple.
My grilled chicken doesn’t come with rice, it comes with some greens and lots of olive oil.
And I feel fantastic. I feel better, than anytime before. My memory is amazing. I am never tired. I feel generally healthy and I don’t need that much sleep to feel this way. My blood pressure is perfect 120/70 and my creativity and positive attitude is at my all time high.
Seriously look at your diet and cut the all crap from it. And than look at it again and again and cut some more crap. You will be left with pure natural low in sugar and processed flour diet that will totally transform your life. Add some regular exercise to it and some sun exposure and you will become totally invincible.
Here is more from my notes about type 2 diabetes and how to prevent it and cure it:
Even now, diabetes is often diagnosed only after someone survives a heart attack.
We feast on carb-dense foods that send our blood sugars soaring and crashing all day long, and the harder we crash, the stronger the pick-me-ups.
It’s well documented, that blood sugar spikes and crashes damage the inner walls of our arteries.
Blood sugar swings among non diabetics leads to high blood pressure and heart disease.
The blood sugar fluctuations, even among those who are not diabetic, are toxic.
Many of the folks who suddenly slump at their desks or never wake up from a night’s sleep in their forties or fifties were probably well on their way to type 2 diabetes. They just suffered a fatal heart attack first. It was, in most cases, preventable.
By syncing my diet with my workouts, I have found, that I can control blood glucose to a degree that neither tool could alone.
– Dr. Workman
Even those with high risk DNA for type 2 diabetes, through no fault of their own, can avoid the disease.
The Amish, that have very low occurrence of type 2 diabetes, teach us that regular physical activity, independent of it’s effect on body weight, can protect against type 2 diabetes. So if you do nothing else aside from cutting back on sugar, don’t sit still. You don’t need to plow the fields like an Amish farmer. But whether you work behind a computer or drive for living, strive to match that level of caloric expenditure in the gym or elsewhere. It might end up saving your life.
Abnormalities in cholesterol and blood sugar tend to go hand in hand.
Lifestyle change is a better alternative than drugs for both the prevention and the treatment side of type 2 diabetes. Every person in the country can put down a can of soda and run around the block a few times.
When people are diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, they are ready to make a lot of changes, but if you give them a tablet, you’re saying it is not their lifestyle that is the problem.
More money can be made treating diabetes with a pill, than curing it with a lifestyle change.
Metformin, the most commonly prescribed drug for type 2 diabetes is less effective than lifestyle change. That’s been proven.
Metformin has nasty side effects on humans body.
Diet and exercise don’t need pairing with prescription drugs against type 2 diabetes. They work fine without them.
The chubby kid who turns diabetic before his senior prom? He may be getting his chest cracked open in the ER in his early thirties, not his late fifties.
Many doctors don’t say diet and exercise work. They look primarily to prescribe drugs.
Per capita sugar consumption in US has risen from 5 pounds in the later part of the 19th century, 25 pounds in the later part of 20th century to 160 pounds.
So how do you prevent or cure type 2 diabetes?
There are actually highly intelligent people out there, that don’t recognize protein from carbohydrate. Learn everything about your diet. And than apply that knowledge.
When I meet you on the street and you tell me that cereal you bought in your favorite grocery store is better for your health than egg is, you’ve got a long way to go. Keep learning. It get’s better. Stop learning and you’re dead.
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