Chapter 1- Contrasting Type I and Type II DiabetesWant More Diabetes Info? Search HERE
into their bodies, the type II diabetic or pre-diabetic can always be hungry. And even in the presence of this insatiable hunger, the body is storing food, in the form of fat, to be used at a future date when and if the need should arise. I believe that this is the number one cause of obesity in both humans and our pets today. If we want to fatten beef or pork, do we feed them protein or fat? No! We feed them corn – a very high-carbohydrate food! Understand that there is a known relationship between excess weight and type II diabetes. BUT! I’m convinced that it’s not a causative relationship! In other words, people with AOD are typically overweight, but the excess weight is a symptom of the diabetes rather than the cause of the diabetes! Conversely, experts tell us that if an AOD patient loses weight, the diabetes will improve. The improvement of the diabetes isn’t because they lost weight, however. It’s because the most effective way that a type II diabetic can actually lose weight is to change what’s happening in the hunger, blood-sugar, insulin loop by limiting their intake of carbohydrates, either purposely or incidentally. The excess weight of type II diabetics is just as much of a symptom of the process we’re describing as is the diabetes itself. Clearly stated – the weight does not cause the diabetes. The process that becomes AOD causes the excess weight! Our bodies are innately very wise. They recognize the problems of always being hungry, feeding ourselves and storing all of this extra fat that can kill us! So our bodies do something very smart to control all of that excess, unused fat being stored in our cells. The cells start to develop a resistance to the insulin! What does this accomplish? It prevents the blood sugar from being carried out of the blood and into the cells, especially since the cells are already full, or even over-full. This insulin resistance is a survival technique meant to prevent us from getting so massively fat that we choke to death! Let’s recap everything up to here. Excess carbohydrates and sugars are everywhere in our modern, American diets. Constant, habitual consumption of these high concentrations of carbohydrates train the pancreas to pump out huge amounts of insulin in response.
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