Diabetes: The $132 Billion Dollar Pandemic

by: Dr Robert Gamble

You know, it’s not everyday a fellow like me gets to announce a major paradigm shift, much less concerning diabetes …or any other medical condition.

You don’t know what a paradigm shift is? Well, if I mentioned events and names like: Gutenberg, Copernicus, Isaac Newton, Albert Einstein, Louis Pasteur, and Werner von Braun …you would probably guess a paradigm shift is major shift in thinking…and you would be right.

Back in the 1960’s, Thomas Kuhn wrote a famous book, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. In it, he destroyed the common misconception so many of us have about science.

We tend to think scientific progress is ushered in by a slow, line upon line, piece by piece development of thought over time. More

According to an article by Ellen Mitchell in Newsday cinnamon may be helpful to those with Type 2 diabetes.


Bob Wagner has Type 2 diabetes and is under the care of an internest at his new home in South Carolina. His internist Dr. Frank Heart has prescribed cinnamon to approximately 150 of his diabetic patiences over the last year and a half and ound that in a lot of his patients who have elevated blood sugar it has “worked wonders.”

Other physicians are also discovering that cinnamon appears to help patients who have Type 2 diabetes.

Richard Anderson, from the Human Nutrition Research Center in Maryland, provided the first research that cinnamon might be of more value than just a spice in your morning muffin. “Test tube studies revealed the most active ingredient in cinnamon to be methylhydroxy chalcone polymer, which the researchers said helps convert glucose (sugar) to energy.”

Hart, meanwhile, says to his patients are startled when he recommends cinnamon.

“They think I’m a nut case,” he said. “But I tell them, don’t laugh. Try it.”

According to the article below posted at PakTribune “people who eat too much fast food gain more weight and are more likely to develop early signs of diabetes.”

That’s the conclusion of a study of more than 3,000 white and black American adults. Participants reported their fast-food dining habits for 15 years, starting when they were 18-30 years old.

“Appropriate action would be to reduce portions to normal sizes, and to sell burgers of lean meat, whole-grain bread or buns, fat-reduced mayonnaise, more vegetables, lower-fat fried potatoes, and reduced-sugar soft drinks,” writes Arne Astrup, in an accompanying editorial in The Lancet.

In the study, those who ate fast food more than twice a week gained 10 more pounds during the study than participants who ate fast food less than once a week. They also doubled their insulin resistance, a sign of early diabetes. More

According to an article at irishhealth.com, “a person with diabetes is at risk of developing cardiovascular disease 15 years earlier than those without the condition, the results of a new study indicate.”

As an adult diabetic since 1991 that would make my heart about seventy-seven years old. Gives one pause to stop and think about how that works. The article goes on to say. “Adults with diabetes have long been known to be at an increased risk of heart disease. A team of researchers at the Canadian Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences set out to examine the age at which people with diabetes develop a high risk of cardiovascular disease.”

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