The Looming Worldwide Diabetes Epidemic
http://thedianerehmshow.org/shows/2011-11-15/looming-worldwide-diabetes-epidemic
A new report predicts one in 10 adults worldwide could have diabetes by 2030. More than 350 million people already have the disease. For years, global resources have been aimed at fighting infectious diseases like malaria and swine flu. Now, developing countries are ill-equipped to provide the long-term care needed for diabetes patients. In the United States, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) projects one in three Americans will have diabetes by 2050. While diabetes awareness has increased in the U.S., more than 25 percent of Americans don't even know they have it. Diane and her guests examine the causes and costs of the diabetes epidemic and efforts to reverse the trend.
Guests
Leonor Guariguata
epidemiologist, International Diabetes Federation
Maya Rockeymoore
director, Leadership for Healthy Communities, a national program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
Dr. Rita Kalyani
assistant professor of medicine, Johns Hopkins University; and editor, Johns Hopkins Diabetes Guide
Dr. Judith Fradkin
director, Division of Diabetes, Endocrinology, & Metabolic Diseases at the National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Ann Albright
director, division of diabetes translation, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)
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Thank you for talking about this issue. It is obviously a very serious problem, so much so, that the U.N. had a special assembly in Sept. to talk about the prevention of preventable disease across the world, including Type 2 Diabetes: http://michaelmaczesty.blogspot.com/2011/09/dracula-in-charge-of-blood-b...
For those interested in the new and growing scientific research about environmental chemical exposures that may contribute to the development of diabetes and obesity, The Collaborative on Health and the Environment has a working group on this topic, as well as information online. Please visit:
http://www.healthandenvironment.org/initiatives/diabetes
If the U.S. government subsidized broccoli, kale, peas, green beans, spinach, and other green vegetables instead of genetically modified soybeans and corn, our citizens would be healthier. Let's all ask the USDA to do this! I'm reading "Seeds of Deception" and am appalled at the corruption and greed surrounding genetically modified crops. We can do better for our kids' health!
There are no "bad" foods--only bad diets. Labeling foods "bad" does no service to eating problems.
My brother, 36 years of age, physically fit all his life and still very active, has just been diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes. I wonder if there is a link between the development of type 1 or 2 diabetes and an continual stress on the body. He is a financial trader on the London Stock Exchange and over the last 2 years has been under extreme and persistent stress. Has there been any study examining the role of stress in the development of diabetes?
It took years to convince FDA to agree that hydrogenated oils were the major health problems. Now the FDA needs to accept the fact that High Fructose Corn Syrup is the cause of type 2 diabetes. It is in almost all commercial process foods. Such as drinks, cereals, salad dressings, chips, canned vegetables and beans. As a 73 year old person I never saw this problem. We used sugar.
For the average consumer who shops in readily available grocery chains, it has become increasingly more difficult to find food products without unnecessary added corn syrup, modified corn syrup, high fructose corn syrup, glucose syrup, fructose, sugar, artificial sweeteners. These and other fillers are unnecessarily in everything, from yogurt to condiments. It's no wonder diabetes is becoming epidemic.
What role does the FDA play in protecting consumer? The FDA has allowed many food corporations to put a lot of bad foods on the market that are killing us. What changes are the FDA making to curb diabetes? What regulations are they considering (if any)?
ITA!
This is a lot of the current and conventional thinking. According to some recent statistical studies there is no absolute relationship between Diabetes 2 and obesity without the additional finding of toxicity in the body. Information coming from the conceptual framework of Nutrigenomics has identified the genetic polymprphisms existing within 30 to 40% of the population that effect our ability to detoxify from persistent organic pollutants. This indicates that the Diabetes 2 epidemic is associated with living in a toxic environment. Corollary to that is the observation that a raw, vegan diet can normalize the clinical markers of Diabetes 2 within about a month. There is also great promise in the nutritional supplementation approaches founded on mending the metabolic pathways broken by genetic factors. Why is it taking so long for this information to penetrate the institutional structures and become the approach?
If it remains unproven because of the lack of the classic double blind studies, why aren't these being done?
too bad there's no like button for the GMO comment and the health and environmental group above !!!
I am dismayed that the program has been on for 35 minutes and none of the speakers have spoken specifically about how to PREVENT type 2 diabetes - a pretty simple matter with a whole foods, plant based diet and simply walking a couple of miles each day. The speakers and Diane are focusing on treating a disease which, in most cases never need occur.
I watched a documentary called Simply Raw: Reversing Diabetes. For 30 days people ate an organic raw vegan diet and saw changes in their health. A lot of them either reduced their insulin dosages or were free from diabetes, along with other health issues that they have. I HIGHLY recommend watching this documentary.
We should all contact our representatives and senators and tell them to stop fighting the school food guidelines the Obama administration wants to adopt. The suggestions are meant to help fight obesity and diabetes by limiting french fries, pizza and other processed, high fat/calorie foods
I have been diabetic for 10 years. recently I was put on Victoza and this has dramatically changed my sugar control and weight. I have dropped 15 pounds and feel better and my blood sugar is in good control. Insulin had made me put on weight and did not help with sugar control. Also changing to wholegrain, brown rice and salads as well as exercise has improved my diabetes immensly.
My brother and I have been living with Type 1 for 38 years. That is TOO LONG! Insulin was discovered in the 1920's, and it is now nearly 2012. We need a cure.
Type 1 is a nasty, time and money consuming, scary monster of a disease. I have no complications, due partly to luck and partly because I see it as a full time job just to keep up. Controlling blood sugars feels like trying to control a runaway horse, sometimes.
Kids are still dying from diabetes. Get that new artificial pancreas up and running so we can at least live our lives uninterrupted.
As one who flies every week, I generally can find reasonably healthy food in airports, either salads, sandwichies on whole grain bread, or bags of nuts and dried fruit. Better yet is to carry a small bag of raw almonds - satisfying, nutritious and loaded with fiber. For exercise, I take the stairs and avoid the moving sidewalks unless I am late for a flight.
Both my father and my maternal grandmother developed diabetes as adults. I developed severe hypoglycemia as a teenager which I "grew" out of by my mid-thirties, probably due to being on a diabetic-type diet and exercising most of my life. I also am allergic to highly-processed corn products like corn sugar and have been diagnosed with celiac sprue. Almost everything I eat must be made from scratch, which has become a life-style for me and my husband. We have become quite adept at cooking excellent meals that I can eat. If we eat out, which is rare, the restaurant must be able to serve gluten-free food. I believe that by removing wheat and corn sugar products, as well as all other processed food, and exercising regularly, has kept me from developing diabetes -- at least for now.
This is a great subject and thank you for bringing this up.
What research or information do you have about the finding that gastric bypass is a "cure" for type II diabetes?
What about Insurance companies? They are often ready to cover medications rather than obiesity or overweight prevention programs.
What research or information do you have about the finding that gastric bypass is a "cure" for type ii diabetes?
What research or information do you have about the finding that gastric bypass is a "cure" for type ii diabetes?
What about Insurance companies? They are often ready to cover medications rather than obiesity or overweight prevention programs.
Hello,
I wanted to fllow up on a caller's comment about sugary dirnks.
Can you please ask your guests to see if there is a study that diferentiates between simple sugars and more complex high fructose corn syrup often used a substitute for sugars in drinks.
All these guests skirt the real issue written about in books about reversing and curing diabetes. The single factor that has changed and added to huge spikes in diet related diseases is our addiction to cow milk , a perfect combination of lactose, carbohydrates, fat, and hormones to fatten a calf. Obesity is CAUSED by eating what makes people fat.
The media is very careful , as we hear on the program, as are so called experts who make their livings off every disease known to western cultures, to speak around causes with words like life style. Really, eating animals and their by-products has paved the way for huge increases in every organ failure our bodies succumb to when it is acidic, toxic, over fed, and undernourished.
The marketing of dairy alone is a $30 million a year machine to get people to consume it in every way .
Ms. Rehm should interview Robert Cohen notmilk.com
Dr. Neal Barnard, pcrm.org
and Dr. John McDougall, drmcdougall.com for some real diabetes prevention expertise.
They are not invested in profiting from the disease but know how to eliminate it, and others...all the SAME recipe.
Lifestyle changes are a core means of preventing and managing diabetes. But people don't naturally take to eating healthy foods and exercizing because they find them unpleasant and hard to obtain or hard to fit into their schedule. So it seems to me that the most important thing is to help people psychologically to transition to a better lifestyle despite the difficulties. Nobody seems to be talking about the psychological problem of changing ones habits against the odds.
Dog and cat food also contain High Fructose Corn Syrup. First of all sweetener is not needed in animal food.
NO Diane! Diet has NOTHING to do with development of Type 1 diabetes (in either humans or dogs!). I think there is a common misperception that T1 can be controlled or prevented with lifestyle changes (ie, diet and exercise) just like T2, but that is not true.
great topic, and while i agree with the pemise of educating the public in healthier food choices it is also important to teach how we possess the power to change things through our buying power. If fast food restaurants are concentrated in certain areas and neighborhoods it is because their marketing specialist have determined that people in these areas will buy the food. If you don't buy it the menus will have to change or the business will have to close doors. Healthy choices may not be as fat flavorful but cost about the same or a little more than unhealthy foods. We make the choice
Yes, there are studies on stress and diabetes.
see www.diabetesandenvironment.org, there's a page on stress.