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"Severe forms of diabetic nerve disease are a major contributing cause of lower-extremity amputations. þAmputations: More than 60 percent of lower-limb amputations in the United States occur among people with diabetes. þPeriodontal disease: Almost one third of people with diabetes have severe periodontal (gum) disease. þPain: Many diabetics fall victim to chronic pain due to conditions such as arthritis, neuropathy, circulatory insufficiency, or fibromyalgia. þDepression is a common accompaniment of diabetes." - Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon, Hunger Free Forever: The New Science of Appetite Control (Get the book.)

"And because diabetes itself can lead to heart disease, stroke, and decreased circulation in the legs and feet, having both PAD and diabetes raises the risk of these complications as well as foot and leg amputations. Numbness and tingling in the arms or legs can also be early warning signs of peripheral neuropathy (PN)—damage to the peripheral nervous system, the nerves that transmit sensory signals to and from the brain and spinal cord." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.) "As PN progresses, feeling in the arms, fingers, legs, and toes diminishes, increasing the risk of infections, wounds that don't heal, and consequent amputations. Uncontrolled diabetes is a leading cause of peripheral neuropathy in the United States. A physical injury, an autoimmune disorder, or a bacterial or viral infection—such as shingles, Lyme SIGNIFICANT FACT About 75% of people with peripheral artery disease don't have any signs, so the condition goes undiagnosed. And women are less likely than men to have PAD signs." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"As with peripheral vascular disease going to amputations, there may be a vascular dementia that is triggered by low blood flow to the brain. New research linking diabetes and Alzheimer's suggests that the high blood sugar of diabetes can lead to the formation of advanced glyca-tion end products, or AGEs.141 AGEs are sugar-derived substances that form in the body through an interaction between carbohydrates and proteins, lipids, or nucleic acids such as DNA. AGEs adversely affect the structure and function of proteins and the tissues that contain proteins." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) "In East Harlem diabetes-related amputations are also higher than in any other part of the city. And of course that is also the location of the highest percentage of people who are overweight—people who have bad food habits, exercise very little, and have significant poverty. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control, one in three children born in the U.S. are expected to become diabetic in their lifetimes. New York is not the only place where diabetes is epidemic. As quoted in The Daily Texan in 2005: "In President George W." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) "Remember, diabetic foot complications are the most common cause of nontrauma-based lower extremity amputations in the industrialized world. Neuropathy, a major etiologic component of most diabetic ulcerations, is present in more than 82 percent of diabetic patients with foot wounds.129 The incidence of gangrene is twenty times higher as compared to nondiabetics, and the risk of lower extremity amputation is fifteen to forty-six times higher in diabetics than in people who do not have diabetes mellitus.130'131 STAGE 6: INDURATION Induration means a hardening or scarring of tissues." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) "Each year, more than 82,000 amputations are performed among people with diabetes. Furthermore, foot complications are the most frequent reason for hospitalization in patients with diabetes, accounting for up to 25 percent of all diabetic admissions in the United States and Great Britain. With ulcers one must stop all smoking, because nicotine causes arterial constriction, and this further decreases peripheral circulation. DIABETIC RETINOPATHY Diabetic retinopathy is another serious complication and is the leading cause of blindness." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Both type 1 and type 2 diabetes share the unfortunate ability to cause devastating long-term complications that can affect nearly every organ system in the body, including the eyes, kidneys, heart, and nerves, and can ultimately result in kidney failure, blindness, amputations, heart disease, and stroke. This is a critical point to understand, as many people have the misconception that only people who have type 1 diabetes are at risk for these complications as they grow older. Nothing could be further from the truth. Everyone who has diabetes, whether type 1 or type 2, is at risk." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"Thiamine and a fat-soluble form of this nutrient, benfotiamine, help prevent the many complications of diabetes due to problems in circulation: blindness, kidney failure, and gangrene (leading to amputations). Currently, 20,000 diabetics go blind each year because of diabetic retinopathy, and amputations are common in those with the disease. For greatest benefit, thiamine must be taken in supplement form and as benfotiamine, which is lipid (or fat) soluble—a form that is better at getting into the cells than the water-soluble form." - Hyla Cass, Supplement Your Prescription: What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutrition (Get the book.)

"The medical establishment likes to think that great steps have been taken in diabetes management42 but in the area of the diabetic foot, little impact has been made in the depressing statistics for rates of amputations and foot ulcers. Foot ulcers develop in approximately 15% of patients with diabetes, and foot disorders are a leading cause of hospitalization among such patients. 85% of lower-limb amputations in patients with diabetes are preceded by foot ulceration, suggesting that prevention and appropriate management of foot lesions are of paramount importance.43 Diabetic foot ulcer." - Mark Sircus, Transdermal Magnesium Therapy (Get the book.)

"Surgery is the prototype, and its dramatic progress— light-years removed from the cathartics, bloodletting, and amputations that dominated medicine in previous centuries—is nothing short of breathtaking. But surgery has serious flaws. It is expensive, painful, and frightening, often disabling and disfiguring, and too often merely a temporary stopgap against the disease it is intended to treat. It is a mechanical approach to a biological problem. Perhaps no area of medicine better illustrates the mechanical approach to disease than cardiology and cardiac surgery." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.)

"If you are concerned about heart disease and Fast Facts about Diabetes / Diabetes afflicts more than 20 million people in the United States and is the main cause of kidney failure, limb amputations, and new-onset blindness in adults and a major cause of heart disease and stroke. diet changes will help reduce the risk of both diseases." - Elaine Magee, Food Synergy: Unleash Hundreds of Powerful Healing Food Combinations to Fight Disease and Live Well (Get the book.)

"Traumatic amputations, fractures, and crush injuries can "arise out of and in the course of working." The "common cold" can also arise in the course of working and, in all likelihood, out of the course of working, since so much of our exposure to droplet infections occurs in the workplace. But we don't consider the "common cold" an injury or even an occupational disease, although it may well be a transiently disabling illness. Certainly regional backache can occur in the course of working. But can backache also "arise out of the course of working," as an injury?" - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"In her seventh year of residency, she realized that she spent most of her time delivering a laundry list of bad news to patients about the progress of their disease: bodily systems that were breaking down, amputations that needed to be performed, and other grim tidings that it was her personal daily duty, as resident, to deliver. She wanted to be able to tell those suffering something good and was disturbed by the uneasy feeling that she wasn't "making a dent" in anyone's disease." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"Amputations—More than 60 percent of lower-limb amputations in the United States occur among people with diabetes. þPeriodontal disease—Almost one-third of people with diabetes have severe periodontal (gum) disease. þPain—Many diabetics have chronic pain due to conditions such as arthritis, neuropathy, circulatory insufficiency, or muscle pain (fibromyalgia). þDepression—Depression is a common accompaniment to diabetes. Clinical depression can often begin to occur even years before diabetes is fully evident. As well, depression is difficult to treat in poorly controlled diabetics." - Michael T. Murray, Beat Diabetes Naturally: The Best Foods, Herbs, Supplements, and Lifestyle Strategies to Optimize Your Diabetes Care (Get the book.)

"The major health consequences of diabetes include heart disease, stroke, blindness, kidney failure, pregnancy complications, lower-extremity amputations, and death. What really gets me is the number of people projected to have diabetes in the future: One in three Americans born in the year 2000 will develop adult-onset diabetes. As the United States population gains weight, including record numbers of children, the tremendously increased incidence of this debilitating disease is causing many doctors and leaders to worry that the word disaster rather than just epidemic is looming ahead." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

"Thiamine and a fat-soluble form of this nutrient, benfotiamine, help prevent the many complications of diabetes due to problems in circulation: blindness, kidney failure, and gangrene (leading to amputations). Currently, 20,000 diabetics go blind each year because of diabetic retinopathy, and amputations are common in those with the disease. For greatest benefit, thiamine must be taken in supplement form and as benfotiamine, which is lipid (or fat) soluble—a form that is better at getting into the cells than the water-soluble form." - Hyla Cass, M.D., Supplement Your Prescription: What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutrition (Get the book.)

"In atherosclerosis, damage to the endothelium triggers a cascade of inflammation resulting in an accumulation of plaque (fats, cholesterol, and other substances) in the arteries that supply the heart (which leads to coronary artery disease), the brain (responsible for stroke), or the legs (responsible for the poor circulation that can lead to diabetic foot infections and, ultimately, amputations of the lower extremities). Atherosclerosis can also affect the arteries that supply the kidneys." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.) "In 2002, for example, about 82,000 such amputations were required for people with diabetes. Macrovascular Complications ?Adults with diabetes have heart disease death rates that are two to four times greater than adults who don't have diabetes. ?The risk for stroke is two- to fourfold higher among people with diabetes. ?Among newly diagnosed type 2 diabetics, the risk of stroke within five years of diagnosis is 100 percent greater than that of the general population, according to a study published in Stroke in 2007. ?" - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"It is also abundantly clear that there was no advantage from intensive therapies in terms of macrovascular complications, that is, no decrease in heart attacks, strokes, or important peripheral vascular disease, including amputations. And there was no decrease in all-cause or in diabetes-specific mortality! Ten years of intensive therapy offered no real advantage for 1,000 middle-aged, hyperglycemic people. So why in the name of science would anyone declare the ukpds supportive of intensive therapy, including intensive therapy with oral hypoglycemics?" - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"Diabetes can lead to kidney failure, heart disease, blindness, strokes, and limb amputations, as well as high-risk pregnancies and babies born with birth defects. The Children's Diabetes Foundation puts the cost of treating diabetes and its complications at more than $100 billion per year. And the crisis keeps getting worse. Type 1 diabetes, a genetic disease caused by a malfunctioning pancreas, used to be referred to as "juvenile diabetes." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"It is the seventh leading cause of death in the country, and is one of the most frequent causes of limb amputations, blindness, and kidney disease. This rate of death and disablement seems certain to climb, as America's diabetic children reach adulthood. Obesity The obesity epidemic tracks the 4-A epidemics, as well as the diabetes epidemic, and is closely related to them. One link among all of these disorders is the presence of inflammation, which is now regarded as a significant trigger of obesity. Obesity has doubled among children and adolescents during the past twenty years." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"I've been able to help many diabetic patients with eye and kidney problems, as well as postpone the need for amputations." Moreover, Holsworth reports, nattokinase works effectively as a natural option for patients who cannot use Coumadin or heparin, and preventively for people with thrombophilia, a largely genetic predisposition to form clots. Abnormal clot formation contributes significantly to deaths in the United States—more than six hundred thousand Americans each year." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"All of these impairment-based disability schemes are efficient when the impairment is readily quantifiable. amputations, terminal disease, psychosis and dementia, and the like are seldom contentious in disability determination. Overtly traumatic injuries that lead to major damage can be contentious if the particular insurance system is designed to consider more than the biomechani- cal consequences, aspects such as self-image, pain, or suffering. There is no way to objectively quantify any such consequence; trying to do so is nothing more than a challenge to the veracity of the claimant." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"About half of the more than 82,000 lower limb amputations performed in the United States each year are for people with diabetic neuropathy. The tragedy of amputation can be prevented in many cases if more attention is paid to the first signs of infection in the feet (see "Caring for Your Feet," page 58). Sensory neuropathy can also result in muscle weakening or wasting (amyotrophy). If the nerve cells responsible for stimulating certain muscles are destroyed, the muscles decrease in strength and size." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"From 1993 to 1995, about 67,000 amputations were performed each year among people with diabetes. In 2002, about 82,000 non-traumatic lower-limb amputations were performed in people with diabetes.40 The direct cost of an amputation associated with diabetes is estimated to be between US$30,000 and US$60,000. The estimated cost for three years of subsequent care ranges from US$43,000 to US$63,000 ?mainly due to the increased need for home care and social services. It has been forced upon me that diabetic gangrene is not heaven sent, but earth born. E.P." - Mark Sircus, Transdermal Magnesium Therapy (Get the book.)

"Astonishingly, honey was even shown to remove dead tissue from persistent wounds, helping some patients avoid skin grafts or amputations. According to the European Journal of Medical Research, topical honey proved to have positive effects on post-operative wound infections due to gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria17 following Caesarean sections and hysterectomies. "Honey provides a moist healing environment yet prevents bacterial growth even when wounds are heavily infected," notes Dr. Peter Molan of the Honey Research Unit at the University of Waikato, New Zealand. " - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.) "Doctors report a surge in young adolescents who are developing Type 2 diabetes—which can lead to heart disease, high blood pressure, kidney disease, stroke, limb amputations, blindness and, of course, a diminished quality of life and shortened life span. The consumption of foods that are of no use to the body is a major cause of disease, including infection. Meat or other flesh foods belong in that category. When you eat meat, your body can extract only a fraction of the meat's constituents, and the rest has to be disposed of in different ways." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.)

"Consistently high blood sugar levels can, over time, lead to blindness, kidney failure, heart disease, limb amputations, and nerve damage. In fact, diabetes is the leading cause of blindness in adults between the ages of twenty and seventy-four, and it accounts for 40 percent of the people who have kidney failure. Cardiovascular disease is two to four times more common among people with diabetes, and is the leading cause of diabetes-related deaths. The risk of stroke is also two to four times higher in people with diabetes, and 60 to 65 percent have high blood pressure as well." - Phyllis A. Balch, CNC, Prescription for Nutritional Healing, 4th Edition: A Practical A-to-Z Reference to Drug-Free Remedies Using Vitamins, Minerals, Herbs & Food Supplements (Get the book.)

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