6 million Americans suffer from Diabetes and it is the fastest growing disease in America. It appears to be most prevalent in the African American community, and claims 100 lives per day. The United States spends 174 billion dollars per year treating this disease which happens to be more then AIDS and cancer combined. In fact 25% of the patients Dr. Oz works on have diabetes. Diabetes is preventable and reversible.
First of all for a little recap:
There are two types of diabetes: type 1 and type 2.
Type 1 Diabetes – Affects 10 percent of Americans are diagnosed with type 1 diabetes. Type 1 diabetes means you are not making enough insulin. That’s generally for genetic reasons “because your pancreas just doesn’t work correctly,” says Dr. Oz. He continues, “type 1 has nothing to do to prevent it from happening. There’s a lot we can do to treat you once it happens.”
Type 2 Diabetes – Develops from lifestyle issues. “[Patients] have a lot of belly fat and the like, and they have enough insulin,” says Dr. Oz. “But it’s not listening anymore because the belly fat has poisoned the ability of insulin to work, so the sugar is still floating around because it can’t find a partner to get into your tissues.”
Though type 2 affects most of the population, Dr. Oz assures us on Oprah that it is the most treatable. If patients start making better lifestyle choices like With exercising and choosing to eat better nutrition, we can reverse and prevent Type 2. ”Ninety percent of type 2 diabetics can actually reverse their problem,” he says.
Diabetes is the fastest-growing disease in history because of the amount of sugar we consume on a daily basis. The average person eats 150 pounds of sugar a year. “That’s 40 pounds of extra sugar that we’re eating every single year as opposed to just a generation ago,” says Dr. Oz “It is impossible for our body to keep up with that. There is no way we can adapt this quickly.”
Sugar can often become an addiction because it actually affects the same receptors that crack cocaine does.
Unfortunately, even if you try to control your intake sugar can be hidden in products you wouldn’t expect it. It’s hidden in our condiments such as ketchup and in our salad dressings.
