Chapter 13 - When The Experts SpeakWant More Info? Search HERE
The major intention of this book was to give you the most basic, most important cornerstones of understanding type II diabetes and suggesting what you might do when the “experts” speak, in the news, in newspaper and magazine articles, on tapes and in lectures, even face-to-face in doctors’ offices and in other professionals’ offices, you won’t have to just take what they’re saying at face value as if it were absolute, unquestionable, “gospel” truth. For instance, as I was proof-reading this manuscript and doing my final re-writes, my wife showed me an article in our local newspaper on the harmful effects of alloxan, a substance used in processing white flour. The article stated that the presence of the alloxan causes physical harm to the beta cells of the pancreas causing them to lose their ability to produce sufficient amounts of insulin. The next thing they said was that this in turn causes adult onset, type II diabetes. WRONG! Hopefully, by now you’ve read enough information throughout this book to know beyond any shadow of a doubt that if something causes a DECREASE in insulin output from the pancreas it absolutely would NOT cause type II diabetes! It would cause type I diabetes! Not maybe. Not probably. But absolutely. No question! By definition, type I is an insulin deficiency. Type II is an overabundance of insulin that results in cells that are resistant to insulin!
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