NATURAL TREATMENTS INSTEAD OF DRUGS FOR DIABETES

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Changing Your Lifestyle Now That You're Diabetic

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What does a lifestyle change mean to a Diabetic?

Well, usually the first response is, "You want me to do what!" Which is closely followed by, "What's that?" Next usually comes, "Well, if I can't have everything I like to eat anymore, have to start exercising everyday and begin taking medication all the time, what's the point of living?"

Well, guess what! It's a sure bet that if you don't start making all those changes in your life NOW, you won't be living a quality life for much longer plus you'll be taking a chance on letting a whole lot of other really bad things go wrong with your body!

Ask any Diabetes specialist whether people can begin to control their Diabetes through diet and exercise and the answer will be a resounding YES! It has been proven in studies all over the world time and time again.

The key to making this change is having the patient make a conscious committed decision to change all their old habits. They must then begin implementing the new changes in small steps into their daily lives until they have replaced the bad habits with the new habits, which in turn equals a new lifestyle.

A new lifestyle just means changing habits-natural eating habits, a habit of getting up and moving for at least 30 minutes each day, stopping a smoking habit, reducing an alcohol consumption habit. All of this has to be done not for just a few months but for a lifetime in order to get this silent killer under control.

 



I DECIDED TO TAKE AN AEROBICS CLASS.

I BENT, TWISTED, GYRATED AND JUMPED

UP AND DOWN FOR AN HOUR.

BUT, BY THE TIME I GOT MY LEOTARD ON,

CLASS WAS OVER!

 

Another added benefit of implementing the new changes is lowering your blood pressure and the risk of a stroke or heart attack, less sleep apnea and more vim and vigor for a better life overall. This change must become a way of life for you, for your whole life, not just for a few months or a year.

Your life literally depends on it.

Sure, there will be slip-ups now and then but you just have to shake it off and get started again. Don't beat yourself up over it. It will be easier to begin again the next time because you've been there before and know what went wrong and how you can regain control. Just think about feeling and looking better and avoiding all the possible Diabetic complications in store for you if you don't change.

But the best outcome of your new lifestyle will be the plus of being with your loved ones as a healthy person years longer.

If you need more help making those changes in your life a reality, check out the help available on these pages.

SOMETIMES CHANGE HURTS! 

Replace The Old With The New!

Changing your diet to a new, healthy one is hard. Don't let anyone tell you any different. The best way to do it is in babysteps.

It takes 21 days to change an old habit into a new one. Make one change at a time so you don't feel like you're being punished for something. It will be easier on you and much more likely to stick.

Take for example, breakfast. Eat a balanced, nutrious, variety of foods but never skip this meal. It really is the most important meal of the day. Studies have shown that people who eat breakfast can think smarter, work harder and (big bonus!) are able to lose weight better than those who skip it.

So once you have this change down pat go on to the next one and then the next. Babysteps and you'll get to where you want to be before you know it.

TODAYS PROCESSED FOODS ARE FAILING THE NUTRITION TEST 

You may be eating enough food but does it have less nutrition than it should?

Diabetes is a growing epidemic, not just in this country but worldwide. Learning to control it with the foods we eat is an approach the well-informed Diabetic must explore.

When you're a Diabetic you get bombarded from all sides with tons of information about what's the best way to treat your disease. But what may work for someone else may not be right for you. Medical professionals only have so much information on hand and in the end, it's up to YOU to find the best solution.

Traditional medical approaches for controlling Diabetes should not be in competition with the Holistic Medicine way of proper supplemental nutrition to treat a disease. Instead, they should be mutually supportive.
If Diabetes is preventable and reversible, what will help?

Changing your diet. This alone is hard enough for a Diabetic, but when most of today's processed foods are failing the nutrition test, which can worsen you disease, it's even harder. Both lifestyle and aging in older Diabetics make the situation even more difficult. If you're over fifty years old, your body loses its ability to fully absorb nutrients, particularly chromium which is an essential mineral. It helps maintain healthy blood sugar levels and minimize the onset of Diabetes. This is why you will probably need supplements to help get your blood sugar and weight under control.

 

Eating empty calories loaded with preservatives and chemicals has become the norm today. Big food manufacturers, drug companies and the diet/diet food industry have given us foods that are almost worthless when it comes to the ability of running our bodies properly. All today's foods do is begin the bodily decay processes toward Diabetes, high blood pressure, kidney problems, cancer and heart problems.

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If you're honest about the way you are eating now, you're probably not eating the way you should. According to established health standards, 80% of the population is not getting all the required nutrients needed to maintain a healthy body. You can add to that loss of nutrients if you drink Coke or Pepsi or other sodas (yes, even the diet kind) as according to studies these sodas just "suck" the chromium right out of your system.

Most of the foods you purchase at your Supermarket are made up of refined fat, sugar or fructose corn syrup, refined white flour, artificial flavors, colors, dough conditioners, stabilizers, preservatives or a combination there of. While some are harmless and may even increase the value of the food, the majority are toxic and can deplete the body of major needed nutrients that contributes to Diabetic and other health problems.

As an example, take a health-giving item like wheat. Once raw wheat is made into white flour the processing has removed over 80% of its magnesium, 70-80% of its zinc, 87% of its chromium, 88% of its manganese and 50% of its cobalt. What's left is something that is NOT giving your body what it needs to stay healthy!

Another example is food additives. Thousands of artificial flavors, colors, preservatives, conditioners, and stabilizers are added to our foods. You can't escape eating them. They're in almost everything we put in our mouths. Food additives deplete nutrients. Because we eat so much refined, low-quality foods that are loaded with these additives, our digestion has become impaired. This then further impairs the absorption of required nutrients and increases our body's nutritional needs.

And yet another example is antibiotics in our foods. Residues of antibiotics have been detected in livestock, farm-grown fish and commercial eggs. Antibiotics kill the friendly bacteria in our intestines that we need to help our bodies absorb nutrients, especially B-vitamins. Deficiencies in this vitamin can cause a variety of nervous and digestive conditions.

In the final analysis, a Diabetic must change his diet to control his sugar levels but also to eat healthy. This means adding supplements focused on blood sugar , weight loss and replacing the lost nutrients our body needs to stay healthy.

IS YOUR NEW DIET GIVING YOUR BODY ALL IT NEEDS DAILY? 

Nutrition is a must no matter wheither you're healthy or not!

Most of today's processed foods are failing the nutrition test, which can make your disease, like Diabetes, much worse.

If you're not getting enough nutrients from the refined and additive laden foods in your diet you will need some help.

I've found OPTIMUM DIABETICS to give me that help. It's a scientifically formulated supplement that includes a complete, full-potency formulation of vitamins, minerals and standardized herbal extracts.

What this means is that this supplement will replenish your body with essential missing ingredients that supply the resources needed to help get your Diabetes under control.

OPTIMUM DIABETICS is manufactured under strict quality controls for product analysis, raw materials and packaging. Further quality is maintained by both regular and surprise inspections by the Quality Assurance staff.

All products are manufactured using the Good Manufacturing Practices set forth by the US Federal Drug Administration.

OPTIMUM DIABETICS SUPPLEMENT REPLACES WHAT MANUFACTURING TAKES OUT!

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT THE "RAW DIET"? 

BALANCED vs RAW

What are we talking about?

Going "RAW"--eating only uncooked, unprocessed, and often organic foods as a large percentage of the diet. The higher the percentage, the better the health benefits.

On the other hand, there's the standard balanced diet of fruit, veggies, dairy, grains and meat & fish. Cooked and raw, organic, frozen or canned--any way you want to prepare them as per the nutritional gulidelines.

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THIS IS WHERE SHE GETS IT FROM,

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