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"A year and a half and two plateaus later, she is now down 82 pounds, and the pre-diabetes, high blood pressure, and very high cholesterol are history. She wants to trim another 20 pounds and I see no reason why she shouldn't succeed. Her genes want to keep her around. where most dieters make their first mistake. Since they have stopped losing weight, they assume that the program has stopped working and abandon it for their old ways. Oh well, I'm a failure, this diet is a failure, give me a pound of M&M's! Trust me, you have already learned how to eat and maintain a lower weight." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

"Esselstyn's discussion of the importance of avoiding oils for those with advanced heart disease, I have found that even moderate- to high-glycemic fruits in the diet raise the blood glucose levels of those with pre-diabetes and diabetes. While limited amounts of these foods may be acceptable for those not in a pre-diabetic or diabetic physiology, I do not recommend them until people are maintained in a healthy physiology (fasting blood sugar of 70-85 for at least six months to a year)." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) "If you have pre-diabetes or diabetes, I suggest you not use caffeinated drinks such as black tea (containing 60 mg/cup caffeine), green tea (25-30 mg/cup), or even Yerba Mate (25 mg/cup). Do not drink coffees (lOOmg/cup caffeine), even if they are decaffeinated. Instead, consider the herbal teas and other teas made from natural plant sources. STRINGBEAN POD According to Paavo Airola in How to Get Well, stringbean pod tea is an excellent natural substitute for insulin and therefore extremely beneficial in diabetes." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) "Two hours after drinking the glucose, the normal value should be less than 140; anything between 140 and 180 is pre-diabetes. Levels above 180 in the first hour or 200 at the end of the first hour indicate diabetes. Levels above 140 could also indicate hypoglycemia, depending on the pattern of a full five-hour test. At the Tree of Life, we only use 40 grams of glucose in a five-hour test because the sugar is such a stress on the system. We find clinically that our results have been highly sensitive and accurate at this amount." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) "Please understand that insulin resistance is a precursor to diabetes, so anything that contributes to insulin resistance encourages a move from pre-diabetes to diabetes, or makes an existing diabetic condition worse. Chronic cigarette smoking has been found to markedly aggravate insulin resistance for Type-2 diabetics.75 Lack of exercise certainly helps to activate the expression of Type-2 diabetes." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"This is the notion of "pre-diabetes," when glucose metabolism crosses a threshold such that consensus considers it to be impaired but not sufficiently impaired to warrant the diabetes label. In 1997 the "Expert Committee of the Diagnosis and Classification of Diabetes Mellitus" of the American Diabetes Association revised the criteria for the diagnosis of type 2 diabetes. One criterion was a fasting blood glucose level of 126 mg/dl. The nih panel that formulated the criteria for the Metabolic Syndrome listed in the chapter established the cutoff at 110 mg/dl." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"Ninety-two percent had pre-diabetes or diabetes. Ninety-five percent were overweight. Eighty-five percent had food and/or environmental allergies. Ninety-one percent had sleep problems. Ninety-four percent had depression or mood swings. Ninety-seven percent had constipation. One hundred percent had an acidic body pH, which means, according to Dr. Morter, they are prone to get cancer. The list goes on. The question is why does fast food apparently cause so much disease and illness? There are many factors." - Kevin Trudeau, More Natural Cures Revealed: Previously Censored Brand Name Products That Cure Disease (Get the book.)

"HHS, ADA Warn Americans of 'Pre-diabetes', Encourage People to Take Healthy Steps to Reduce Risks." March 27, 2002. http://www.hhs.gov/news/ press/2002pres/20020327.html. Drewnowski, Adam. "Fat and Sugar: An Economic Analysis." American Society for Nutritional Sciences: Sugar and Fat—From Genes to Culture Symposium 133 (2003): 829S-830S. -. "Obesity and the Food Environment: Dietary Energy Density and Diet Costs." American Journal of Preventive Medicine 27, no. 31001 (2004): 154-62. Drewnowski, Adam, N. Darmon, and A. Briend. " - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.) "Insulin Resistance and pre-diabetes." http://diabetes.niddk.nih.gov/dm/pubs/insulinresistance/. NPD Foodworld. "Americans May Be Finding Balance in Their Eating Patterns: The NPD Group Releases Findings from Its 19th Annual Report on Eating Patterns in America." Port Washington, NY, October 13, 2004. http://www.npdfoodworld.com/foodServlet?nextpage=pr_body.html& content_id=2026. -. "Eating Patterns in America: Want to Understand the Impact of the Low Carb Craze, Spot Trends in America's Eating Habits and Track the Restaurant Industry?" http://www.npd xom/foodpress/epa.html." - Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., Sugar Shock!: How Sweets and Simple Carbs Can Derail Your Life-- and How YouCan Get Back on Track (Get the book.)

"Hg or higher þInsulin resistance, a condition in which the body can't properly use insulin or blood glucose; as demonstrated by the presence of pre-diabetes (glucose levels between 101 and 125 mg/dl) Syndrome X is a serious health issue because people who have it are at increased risk for coronary artery disease, other diseases related to plaque buildup in artery walls (e.g., stroke and peripheral vascular disease), and type 2 diabetes." - Michael T. Murray, Beat Diabetes Naturally: The Best Foods, Herbs, Supplements, and Lifestyle Strategies to Optimize Your Diabetes Care (Get the book.) "Syndrome X—as well as type 2 diabetes, pre-diabetes, and obesity—can be viewed as different facets of the same disease, having the same underlying dietary, lifestyle, and genetic causes. These risk factors are detailed in Chapter 4. The bottom line is that the human body was simply not designed to handle the amount of refined sugar, salt, saturated fat, and other harmful food components that many people in the US and other "Western" countries—especially those who live a sedentary lifestyle—consume." - Michael T. Murray, Beat Diabetes Naturally: The Best Foods, Herbs, Supplements, and Lifestyle Strategies to Optimize Your Diabetes Care (Get the book.)

"In humans, we have seen research findings showing that a whole foods, plant-based diet reverses advanced heart disease, helps obese people lose weight and helps diabetics get off their medication and return to a more normal, pre-diabetes life. Research has also shown that advanced melanoma, the deadly form of skin cancer, might be attenuated or reversed by lifestyle changes.15 Some diseases, of course, appear to be irreversible. The autoimmune diseases are perhaps most frightening because once the body turns against itself, it may become unstoppable." - T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health (Get the book.)

"The metabolic syndrome—as well as type 2 diabetes, pre-diabetes, and obesity—can be viewed as different facets of the same disease, having the same underlying dietary, lifestyle, and genetic causes. The bottom line is that the human body was simply not designed to handle the amount of refined sugar, white flour, salt, saturated fat, and other harmful food components that many people in the United States and other Western countries—especially those who live a sedentary lifestyle—consume." - Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon, Hunger Free Forever: The New Science of Appetite Control (Get the book.) "Cardiovascular disease, high blood pressure, liver disease, and kidney damage are just a few of the many complications that can arise from pre-diabetes. Importantly for those who want to lose weight, this loss of precision control over blood sugar results in a significant increase in appetite. When blood sugar surges after a meal in those with insulin resistance, it is accompanied by a massive release of insulin. This insulin does eventually activate insulin receptors to open up cells to glucose, and this glucose surge is usually followed by a rapid drop in blood sugar." - Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon, Hunger Free Forever: The New Science of Appetite Control (Get the book.)

"Yet, the American Diabetes Association in their 2006 guidelines for diabetes and pre-diabetes, when making treatment and nutritional recommendations, joined pediatricians in maintaining the general medical status quo, by not calling attention to this very correctable health concern and recommending that magnesium be addressed in a significant way. This is despite the increasing evidence over the years that magnesium is even more deficient in diabetics and that current dietary recommendations do not address the issue." - Mark Sircus, Transdermal Magnesium Therapy (Get the book.) "The Emerging Truth Magnesium, Metabolic Syndrome, and Diabetes The rising concern about metabolic syndrome26 (synonymous with pre-diabetes) is another concern increasing today, and magnesium's role simply cannot be ignored in these disorders, but it is! There is no doubt today that diet alone cannot ensure adequate intake of magnesium to prevent the problems associated with the explosion in rates of metabolic syndrome in youth and adults, or the prevention and the treatment of diabetes." - Mark Sircus, Transdermal Magnesium Therapy (Get the book.) "More than one in four American adults have metabolic syndrome, according to the latest government estimates28, and recent reports to the American Diabetes Association at their 2006 symposium report that half of all Americans will develop a condition known as insulin resistance, a type of "pre-diabetes" that puts them at high risk of heart attacks.29 The March 27, 2006 issue of Circulation discussed the role magnesium might play in preventing this serious syndrome. A 15-year study looked at the magnesium intake of 4,600 people aged 18-30." - Mark Sircus, Transdermal Magnesium Therapy (Get the book.)

"Syndrome X, as well as Type II diabetes, pre-diabetes and obesity, all can be viewed as different facets of the same disease-having the same underlying dietary, lifestyle and genetic causes. The Causes of Syndrome X The human body is not designed to handle the amount of refined sugar, salt, saturated fats and other harmful food compounds that many people in the United States and other "Western" cultures consume-especially for those who live a sedentary lifestyle." - Jan Lovejoy, Get Balanced-the Natural Way to Better Health with Superfoods (Get the book.)

"There are almost as many people in the United States with pre-diabetes (about 16 million) as there are diabetics. Although many of these people are reassured by their doctors or told that they just have "a touch of dia-(contlnued on next page) betes," research increasingly indicates that impaired glucose tolerance, even if diabetes never fully manifests, is accompanied by serious health risks and it should be treated carefully. Many people with impaired glucose tolerance fulfill other criteria of what is known as the metabolic syndrome." - Michael T. Murray and Michael R. Lyon, Hunger Free Forever: The New Science of Appetite Control (Get the book.)

"Liebman, Bonnie, The Gathering Storm: The pre-diabetes Epidemic, (Nutrition Action Health Letter. Vol. 31, No. 5, June 2004.) Mercola, Dr. Joseph, The Potential Dangers of Sucralose, retrieved February, 2004, from http://www.mercola.com/2000/dec/3/sucralose_dangers.htm ------Each Daily Soda Increases Obesity Risk 60%, (February 28, 2001) - retrieved from http://www.mercola.com/2001/feb/28/obesity_soft_drinks.htm Myth: Artificial Sweeteners Promote Weight Loss, (University of California, Berkeley Wellness Letter. Vol. 2, Issue 12, Sept. 1986." - Kelly Harford, M.C., C.N.C., If It's Not Food, Don't Eat It! The No-nonsense Guide to an Eating-for-Health Lifestyle (Get the book.)

"An estimated 16 million people now have pre-diabetes.3 In essence, minerals take us to the very formation of life. All qualities of positive or negative health can be traced back to a lack of minerals. In order for us to get adequate mineralization, the minerals need to be in angstrom-size form, which is 0.001 micron. They need to be attached to covalent hydrogen in the water, which will pull them inside the cell. It is at the intracellular level where the action happens." - Gabriel Cousens, M.D., Spiritual Nutrition: Six Foundations for Spiritual Life and the Awakening of Kundalini (Get the book.) "An estimated 16 million people have pre-diabetes. The following list shows the potential problems that can arise from a high-glycemic diet. The items marked with an asterisk (*) were compiled and listed by Nancy Appleton, Ph.D., author of Lick the Sugar Habit, and published in Health Freedom News, June 1994." - Gabriel Cousens, M.D., Spiritual Nutrition: Six Foundations for Spiritual Life and the Awakening of Kundalini (Get the book.)

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