Healthy Weight Loss
Obesity and Diabetes
Obesity and Diabetes often go hand in hand, however there are two types of Diabetes:
Type 1 Diabetes – occurs when your immune system attacks the insulin producing part of your pancreas. It kills these cells and you can no longer produce insulin. The function of insulin is to take the glucose (blood sugar) from the bloodstream into the muscles and other cells where it can be burned to produce energy. When you don't have enough insulin, the glucose from your diet accumulates in your bloodstream. Glucose becomes toxic very quickly. Within a short time, this blood sugar overload can damage your eyes, brain, lungs and kidneys.
Type 2 Diabetes – occurs when the pancreas functions just fine, but the cells in your muscles and the rest of your body become resistant to insulin. The insulin cannot signal the cells to open up and receive the glucose. Just as in Type 1 Diabetes, glucose (blood sugar) increases to dangerous levels. The fuel cannot be burned to create energy, so you feel tired. As the glucose level climbs in the bloodstream it can destroy your eyes, brain, lungs and kidneys.
Type 1 diabetes is characterized by low insulin and high glucose. Type 2 Diabetes is characterized by high insulin and high glucose. This extra high insulin hormone is very inflammatory. It can destroy your blood vessels, disrupt your entire family of hormones and make you fat.
Controlling diabetes
The key to controlling the damage from Type 1 Diabetes is to control your carbohydrate levels. Determine how many carbs you have eaten and adjust your supplemental insulin levels to match. Carbohydrates in Nopalea are listed on the Supplemental Facts Panel.
The key to controlling Type 2 Diabetes is to limit the number of carbohydrates per day: 1 gram of carbohydrate per pound of body weight daily. (Healthy people will often eat 2 grams of carbohydrate per pound of body weight daily.) Determine how many grams of carbohydrate you need and plan a diet to match. Include your servings of Nopalea in the final carb count.
In order to lose body fat, it is often necessary to employ a low-carb diet. Limiting carbohydrates to 60 grams or less will often result in reducing blood sugar and increasing insulin sensitivity. Reducing stress, increasing exercise and increasing dietary fiber help with insulin resistance as well.
Type 2 diabetes is at epidemic proportions in developed lands around the world. We all need to increase our activity, dietary fiber, good fats and lean proteins as well as reduce stress to improve our health. Once we lose our health it is difficult to get back. Guard it jealously.
Take Control of Your Health
- Count your carbohydrates daily: 1 to 2 grams per pound of body weight
- Increase your dietary fiber: 1/4 to 1/3 gram per pound of body weight
- Reduce your carbohydrates even more when insulin resistance is a factor
- Eat lean proteins: 1/4 to 1/3 gram per pound of body weight
- Drink pure water: 1/3 to 1/2 ounce per pound of body weight
- Reduce stress
- Improve sleep
- Increase daily activity: 30 minutes to 2 ½ hours daily
David Ogden
CEO TheInterbiz LLC
1-386-308-1956 (24 hours)
trivita [@] theinterbiz.com
Office Hours-6AM-12AM GMT +8
David Ogden
Healthy Weight Loss
Phone 386 308 1956 after 6PM EST
No comments:
Post a Comment