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Understanding Diabetes in America

The Nature of Diabetes is Linked to Poor Diet, Poor Lifestyle

Nov 3, 2009 Rasham Nassar

Diabetes is a degenerative condition associated with the pancreas, for which common medicine offers treatments, and natural medicine offers a cure.

Most resources devoted to understanding diabetes offer a dismal explanation, claiming that the cause for diabetes is either unknown, hereditary, or is a factor of age and/or race. However, Dr. Gabriel Cousens offers a different perspective on the nature of this degenerative disease, one which has affected the lives of over 20 million people across the United States. With years' experience in the field of natural medicine and spiritual healing, as well as having founded the "Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center" in Patagonia, Arizona, Dr. Cousens claims this: there is a cure for diabetes, one that simply appeals to common sense.

Prior to revealing the current and historical contributions to curing one of America’s most prevalent diseases, it is important to preface this discussion by first addressing the nature of this diabetes.

The Pancreas, Beta Cells, and Diabetes

Diabetes is a condition which affects the pancreas, the human organ responsible for the production of insulin. Insulin is a hormone responsible for delivering glucose (the result of sugar and starch metabolism by the body) from the bloodstream to cells, which translate this glucose as usable energy. When a person ingests sugars, carbohydrates, and starches, the beta cells of the pancreas (one of three cluster groups of hormone-producing cells in the pancreas) release a sufficient amount of the glucose -regulating hormone insulin. When the beta cells of the pancreas are adversely affected, a condition most commonly understood as either Type 1 or Type 2 diabetes arises.

Type 1 Diabetes

Type 1 diabetes, also known as juvenile diabetes or insulin-dependent diabetes, is a chronic condition in which the pancreas produces little or no insulin. The cells of the body are starved of energy due to a lack of the glucose-carrying insulin hormone.

Type 2 Diabetes

Also called adult-onset diabetes, insulin-resistant or non-insulin dependent diabetes, this type of diabetes is characterized by the body's rejection of insulin, despite whether it has been accurately produced by the pancreas or not. For type 2 diabetics, a build-up of glucose in the blood stream is common, whereby an insulin injection would serve little or no purpose.

Current Treatments for Diabetes

The current medical offerings for Type 1 diabetes come in the form of supplemental insulin injections. For Type 2 diabetes, treatment usually includes prescription medications as well as dietary recommendations. However, Western medicine offers no "cure" for diabetes; a moderate or slight lifestyle variation marks the extent to which a diabetic patient is medically prescribed relief from this persistent ailment.

Long Term Effects of Diabetes

Diabetes is a condition which accelerates the aging process by slowly ceasing the natural functions of organ systems in the body. As symptoms progress, heart disease, kidney disease, pancreatic cancer, and blindness are a few of the life-threatening ailments linked to diabetes.

Ultimately, diabetes has the potential to cause premature death in adults, and death from insulin complications in children and teens is not uncommon in American society.

There Is a Cure For Diabetes

Thanks to groundbreaking advances in the treatment of this degenerative disease, Dr. Gabriel Cousens and a host of other natural doctors are offering the millions of suffering Americans much-needed relief from the devastating effects of diabetes, and introducing patients to a remarkable new way of life. Click here to learn more about the common sense diabetes cure.

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