Chapter 1- Contrasting Type I and Type II DiabetesWant More Diabetes Info? Search HERE
over-responds with inappropriate verve. We can think of AOD as the end result of an evolution process that occurs in one individual over a single lifetime. In ancient days, before the age of commercial processing and easy access to foods, humans ate foods much closer to their natural state. Even in agricultural societies, people ate what came out of the fields with only the barest of preparations. Flour was probably the most processed food they consumed. Even then, until within the past couple of centuries, flour was mostly whole grain rather than refined, bleached, white flour. The way our foods came to us in centuries and millennia past was in a more balanced state. They had the complete compliment of all their natural components. This is an important concept to comprehend if you want to really understand type II Diabetes.The carbohydrate concentrations in these natural foods were very balanced as contrasted to today’s refined and highly altered foods. When we shop for today’s foods from the grocer’s shelf, we find that they have far greater concentrations of carbohydrates than the more balanced foods of the past. In earlier centuries, when people wanted something sweet, they reached for a piece of tree-ripened or vine-ripened fruit. Having refined sugar available to add to foods was something of a luxury until about 150 years ago. Many people had it on hand, for sure, but they used it far more sparingly then and they worked it off quickly and efficiently with the strenuous activities required in those times just for daily living. Vegetables typically came from a nearby garden. People usually picked them ripe as well. Today, our vegetables are picked green and ripened during the shipping and display period. Foods in the past were mainly fresh, unprocessed and rich with all the fully developed enzymes and other nutrients these foods should contain in their naturally ripened state. However, it was difficult for everybody back then to have enough food that way, year round, and in sufficient abundance. At the same time, farmers weren’t always able to sell all of their goods before a certain amount would spoil. So there were people missing out |
