Chapter 1 - Contrasting Type I and Type II Diabetes

The huge amounts of insulin make us fat and, simultaneously, keep us hungry all the time. In order to survive this downward spiraling process, our cells become resistant to insulin. Now what?

If the blood sugar can’t get into the cells, we’ll stay hungry and probably eat a lot (“polyphasia”), but the blood sugar doesn’t go into the cells, it stays in the blood. This high blood sugar concentration dries out our tissues and causes constant thirst (“polydypsia”) and pulls water into the blood stream. The excess water in the blood stream needs to be filtered out and excreted in the urine (“polyuria”) so that the blood doesn’t become too diluted. At this point the kidneys will work like crazy to try to keep the blood at the right consistency. In fact, it will become so proficient at pulling the excess water out of the blood at the slightest signal to do so that it will even learn to identify what’s making it attract so much water – excess blood sugar! Then our well-trained kidneys will even begin to pass the blood sugar out in the urine too. Sugar in the urine is the number one hallmark of diabetes – type I or type II.

Now for a little test. Knowing what you now know about how type II develops, what would you say to a person who tells you that a type II diabetic needs to have five servings of carbohydrates per day (as recommended in the standard Food Pyramid)? Will that help the type II diabetic or contribute to the problem? Answer: IT WILL CAUSE MORE HARM! It can be no other way, regardless of the good intentions or the credentials of people who think you should have a “balanced diet,” using the nationally accepted Food Pyramid as their model. Carbohydrates are poison for the type II diabetic! Again I want to reiterate that eating carbohydrate foods specifically is not necessary because everything we eat is converted to glucose, the most concentrated carbohydrate there is.

What’s the role of fats in the diet for type II diabetics? Let me illustrate with a question. If you were going to fly to another state, would you want a trained pilot that was an experienced flyer or a brand new, student pilot? If you were going to build a new house, would you want an experienced builder to do it or would you prefer

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