Death by Diabetes…NOT!

Diabetes is becoming a national epidemic.

It doesn’t have to affect you or your family. Diabetes is the result of diet and lifestyle habits. Change those habits and diabetes is a thing of the past. Diabetes is the cumulative effect of too much glucose in the bloodstream coupled with too little insulin and not enough vitamin C and chlorophyll in the diet.  Exercise is also lacking in America with our fast-paced but sedentary lifestyle. Exercise is a great means of using up some extra glucose that’s in your bloodstream.

So, what do you do to avoid getting Diabetes?

1. Go walking. You’ve heard it before, get off the bus or subway one stop early, take the stairs instead of the elevator, & walk to work if its under a mile. The best thing for overall health and wellbeing is to take a walk with empty hands, arms swinging, and nothing on your mind. 30 – 45 minutes a day is enough to create immense changes in your body and it doesn’t matter if you walk all at once or split it up into 2 or 3 different sessions. Just go for a walk!
2. Avoid “white” products. If its white, it ain’t right. White potatoes, white flour, & white rice give off too much glucose too quickly and creates an imbalance in your system. After a while your body gets tired of dealing with too much stimulation and starts shutting down. Try red potatoes if you must have potatoes. Potatoes would rarely be eaten at all if it weren't for the toppings. Switch to whole grains and brown rice and try to get as much variety in choices as possible.
3. No “sweets” after 2PM.  At 2 o’clock PM your body starts shifting into evening mode. It’s getting ready for the night shift. When you eat sweets or any high-carbohydrate food after 2PM you are going against your body’s natural bio-rhythm. Your body doesn’t need the energy available from glucose while it’s sleeping so from 2PM till 10PM, it’s trying to use the extra stores of glucose so there won’t be an over abundance in your bloodstream while you’re sleeping. Eating sweets or other high carbohydrates in the afternoon forces your body to deal with that new energy instead of using up the extra stores.
4. Drink Water. This one should be a no-brainer, but for some reason Americans don’t drink enough water. For cleansing purposes the water you drink should be steam distilled water. This is because steam distilled water is a high-energy, hungry water. It’s ready to absorb all sorts of toxins and debris of cellular metabolism. Water drinking should be evenly paced throughout the day from 8AM to 6PM. To figure out how much water you & your family needs to drink, take your body weight, divide it in 1/2, and call it ounces. So a 150 pound person would drink 75 ounces throughout the day. I recommend breaking this up into 20 servings, one every 1/2 hour. So that would be 3.75 ounces every 1/2 hour.

And what if you already have Diabetes-insulin dependent or not?

I am very confident that if you start implementing these 4 tips your body will start responding. It’s amazing what a few simple changes in your diet and lifestyle can do. Children are very quick to bounce back to good health after implementing healthier habits. Grown-ups take a little longer.
Eat more vegetables, have a simple dinner, laugh, love, sing, & just learn to enjoy life. Your body will thank you for it.

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Until next time, have a wonderful healthy day!

To Your Health,

Debbie Rich, HC

High or Low sugar, You NEED to know.

Utilizing a freshly voided urine sample we measure the brix to find out the level of carbohydrates that are being thrown off in your urine.  This tells you a few things about how your body is utilizing sugar.

First, if the number is very low (from 0 - 1.2) you would expect to be experiencing hypoglycemic (low blood sugar) symptoms, as your pancreas is "dumping" too much insulin.

Second, if the number is very high (above 5.5) you may be experiencing diabetic-like (high blood sugar) symptoms, and your pancreas is not able to create enough insulin.

Third, if the reading is between 2 and 5.49 (known as the "Zone of Misery), your blood sugar level could drop at any time into the hypoglycemic range.

Finally, if your urine carbohydrates are reading between 1.2 and 2.0 brix then you are doing good. This is where your sugars reading needs to remain throughout the entire healing process.  Once your body's mineral balance is stabilized and the rest of the numbers remain in the best range long enough, the sugars reading should stabilize at 1.5 brix regardless of what you eat (assuming good eating habits for the most part-common sense again).

In order to help bring your sugars into the best range, look at your diet. 
 
If you have a low reading, you will need to eat a variety of fruit between meals to keep your sugars from plummeting. In some extreme cases a person with extreme low urine brix reading should avoid water and drink only fruit juice until the urine brix reading normalizes above 1.5 Brix. Perhaps even before bed you will need a snack. In some instances, low sugar drops lower at night and may cause insomnia. Eating a piece of fruit or 1/2 cup of yogurt before going to bed could possibly be the best remedy for low sugar insomnia.

If you have a high reading it's time for a change in diet. The best thing you could do for yourself is to do whatever it takes to get your sugar down in a healthy manner.  Eat a wide variety of fruit throughout the month, just don't overdo it and don't eat any fruit or carbohydrates after 2:00 PM.  For some of you with extremely high sugar, you will need to temporarily avoid all fruits and sweets of every conceivable kind for a few weeks allowing your body to normalize its sugars. In every case, more vegetables need to be added to the diet.  With a weak digestion you will cook or steam more of your vegetables. With a strong digestion you are free to have more of the vegetables raw. A couple of salads a day with 3-4 different greens, some grated carrots, cabbage, bell peppers, etc., topped with a bit of your favorite dressing to which a teaspoon of good quality olive oil has been added is just delightfully pleasing to the lowering of most high brix readings. 

Comfrey has a special property that works the best for normalizing insulin production. To use comfrey pour your favorite juice-about 2 oz.- into a blender and start blending in fresh comfrey leaves.  Keep adding the leaves while blending until the juice appears to be "full".  Continue blending for 3 minutes or so.  Strain the blended liquid to remove the pulp and slip slowly-take 30 minutes to drink this. Alternatively you may use comfrey tea.

Over the course of a couple weeks your energy level may surprise you as your brix reading comes down.

To your Health