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Health101.org
presents
Diabetes
Caused by Misinformation
By Don Bennett, DAS
We can all agree that misinformation is, in general, a bad thing. But
when it concerns health information, incorrect and/or misleading info
can cause needless suffering and premature death. This is why people like
me have devoted our lives to dispelling incorrect health information,
for how can you make informed decisions regarding your health, when your
decision-making process is hampered by false facts.
Let’s take diabetes for example. This is a serious disease. Normally
your body controls the amount of sugar that’s fed to your cells.
It does this every second of every minute of every hour of every day.
But when you take over this function and control your blood sugar “manually”
a few times a day, something’s gotta suffer. It’s one thing
if there is no choice, and your body is no longer capable of doing its
job, but my experience has been that there are a lot of people with “diabetes”
who honestly believe they can only manage their illness, and hope that
one day there will be a cure, when they needn’t have the illness
at all. Why do these folks believe something that’s not true? Lack
of information, or worse, misinformation.
If you study the current diabetes info available on Medline, you’ll
discover there are almost 600 new diabetes studies featuring hundreds
of different theories and conclusions. A good example of misinterpretation
(and I’m being kind here), is the study that shows that absence of
breast-feeding is associated with the risk of type 1 diabetes, thus the
search is on for the substance in breast milk that helps prevent diabetes.
Is it lost on mainstream researchers that if a baby is not being fed breast
milk, it is being fed something else, and that maybe it’s what is
being fed in breast milks’ place that’s increasing the risk
of diabetes, and not the other way around. Well, we probably have profit
motive to thank for research going down the wrong path.
But let’s now wander down the right path: is there research that
links cow’s milk consumption with diabetes? Have a look at this study
published in The Lancet on December 14, 1996, “Cow’s milk proteins
are unique in one respect: in industrialized countries they are the first
foreign proteins entering the infant gut, since most formulations for
babies are cow milk-based. The first pilot stage of our IDD [insulin-dependent
diabetes] prevention study found that oral exposure to dairy milk proteins
in infancy resulted in both cellular and immune response...this suggests
the possible importance of the gut immune system to the pathogenesis of
IDD.”
And four years earlier the New England Journal of Medicine reported, “Studies
have suggested that bovine [cow] serum albumin is the milk protein responsible
for the onset of diabetes... Patients with insulin-dependent diabetes
mellitus produce antibodies to cow milk proteins that participate in the
development of islet dysfunction [the part of the pancreas that makes
insulin]... Taken as a whole, our findings suggest that an active response
in patients with IDD (to the bovine protein) is a feature of the autoimmune
response.” So there is mighty compelling information to suggest that
those folks who are predisposed to diabetes should refrain from consuming
cow milk, but I’ve looked, and I don’t see that warning printed
on milk cartons (or the warning that the IGF-1 [insulin-like growth factor]
in cow’s milk acts like gasoline being poured on a fire, the fire
being any as-of-yet undiagnosed cancer you may have). In fact, I recently
saw an "independent researcher" telling T V viewers that dairy
foods can help prevent diabetes!
While strolling through a mall the other day, I was asked to donate money
to help find the cure for diabetes. Since the majority of people with
diabetes have type II (adult onset), and since I know that many people
with type II diabetes may rid themselves of it by eating a “special”
diet, as far as I’m concerned, there is already a “cure”
for diabetes. This “special” diet is nothing more than the diet
a human being is designed to eat (hint: you can find the majority of these
foods in a good grocery store’s produce department). The problem
is, in our culture, this diet is unheard of, so when it is suggested as
a means to alleviating diabetes (or other maladies), people scoff at the
notion. But if eating what you’re designed to eat, and not eating
what you’re not designed to eat means your blood sugar level stays
within normal parameters without your intervention (testing and
diabetes medications), which means that, technically, you don’t have
diabetes, I’d go down that road because nothing does a better
job of regulating blood sugar than a well-functioning blood sugar regulatory
system. And if someone who is predisposed to diabetes gets diabetes because
they live a “non-human” lifestyle, especially diet-wise, well,
to me that sounds like a normal, natural response, and thus not something
that can be “cured”. But since there are a lot of people who
want to be able to have their cake and eat it too (literally), a search
for a cure will continue... but don’t hold your breath. There is
never going to be an actual cure for diabetes, cancer, etc., because
they are perfectly natural; they are a natural result of someone’s
lifestyle. It’s just like there will never be a cure for broken bones;
if you fall off a cliff and break bones, those broken bones are a natural
outcome.
Bottom line, if you want the best odds of avoiding diabetes, and other
degenerative diseases, consider living as Nature intended, and be on the
lookout for one of the biggest causes of illness; misinformation.
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