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Diabetes Diary

The Diabetes Diary: Commemorating The Longest Walk 2011, Reversing Diabetes

Authored by Dr Gayle Eversole

List Price: $12.00

6" x 9" (15.24 x 22.86 cm) 
Black & White on Cream paper
206 pages

ISBN-13: 978-1475027518 (CreateSpace-Assigned)
ISBN-10: 1475027516
BISAC: Health & Fitness / Health Care Issues

2011 marked The Longest Walk 3, Reversing Diabetes. While the focus of the cross country walk was to bring attention to the issues surrounding diabetes in Indian Country, the effort was for all fighting in this battle to overcome the diabetes epidemic. The "diary" commemorates the walk and all those affected by this dis-ease and includes natural health information to help you with your walk to prevent and reverse diabetes.

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In 2011 an historic event took place between February and July.  Hundreds of people joined forces to walk from the west coast to Washington DC to raise awareness about diabetes.  This is the Longest Walk 3: Reversing Diabetes.


Since this event we have published our commemorative volume, The Diabetes Diary.  This is a publication that includes daily entries about natural ways to prevent and reverse diabetes and to improve your health. 

The Diabetes Diary - Now Available to purchase. Valuable natural health 100+ page reference resource for people with diabetes. 

Now I read comments from a doctor that I believe belongs in this publication.

from Dr. Stefan Ripich

In his view, people with diabetes are mostly influenced by their doctors. And most doctors don't teach their patients these fairly obvious lifestyle changes.

There are five reasons for this that he cites:

REASON #1: There’s no money in it for them.Health insurance providers don’t reimburse doctors for "patient education" about diet and lifestyle. So doctors have no financial incentive to learn what really works because prescribing drugs pays better and involves less work.
REASON #2: Most MDs don’t have time.Educating and motivating diabetes patients takes longer than the average 8 to 12 minutes per visit that doctors spend with a patient. The medical system just isn’t set up for this.
REASON #3: Doctors aren’t sure what really works.Some think you must lose weight. Or give up carbs. Or become a vegetarian. In reality, most physicians don’t have a clue about lifestyle modifications. And since there’s no financial incentive to become better educated (see REASON #1), they remain in the dark.
REASON #4: Physicians are ultra-conservative.They tend to play it safe ... go by the book ... are slow to change. They rarely deviate from "official treatment guidelines" because they’re afraid of losing their license or getting sued. That’s why modern medicine progresses so slowly.
REASON #5: Doctors are massively influenced by drug salesmen.Drug companies spend $16 billion annually to directly influence doctors. (That’s $10,000 for every single physician in the US!) Most often, these salespeople are the physician’s main source of new diabetes information.

From Stefan's perspective, this is tragic because our best weapons against Diabetes are not being used.
From our many conversations with leaders of the US Healthcare system Stefan's view is widely shared.
On top of this lack of leadership by the majority of doctors, Stefan views the majority of books out there on controlling diabetes to have some major flaws in them.
The biggest one being that they are simply not doable or realistic.

Cross-country walk aims to trample diabetes

I have been very blessed to be involved in a major project that began in February and ended in the last few days.

While I was not able to participate directly I provided support by posting "The Diabetes Diary" daily throughout the walk.

The Diabetes Diary

Over the course of the Longest Walk 3 thousands participated from coast to coast.  Because I am closest to Portland, Oregon where the Northern Route began my support for them was a focus.  It was pretty amazing, even on a virtual level.

You can learn more by reading this recent article -

Other resources are here -

Diabetic Health

Cancer Risk Higher with Diabetes

Many people know that with diabetes comes a higher risk of many health problems.  This new report adds to that.  It tell us that we MUST prevent - reverse - and cure diabetes.

Natural Health and good nutrition tell us this has to be a priority.  This is much more urgent as Congress attempts to cut funding drastically for diabetes.

During The Longest Walk we are posting more information here each day during the week, weekends excluded.

Just a not to say that Lantus insulin is carcinogenic.  It is a genetically engineered drug.

Diabetics have higher risk of death from cancer

By Kate Kelland and Gene Emery

LONDON (Reuters) - Doctors know that diabetics have a higher than normal risk of dying of heart attacks or strokes, but new research on Wednesday showed that having diabetes also ups the risk of dying from many cancers and other diseases.

The findings shed light on the potential burden of disease that will build in the future as the number of cases of diabetes is predicted to rise dramatically in coming decades.

"These findings highlight even more the need to prevent diabetes and to understand it better," said Emanuele Di Angelantonio of Britain's Cambridge University, who worked on the study as part of an international collaboration.

"They show that diabetes is not only a cardiovascular risk factor, but is linked as well to other conditions."

The research, published in the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), collated and analyzed data from 97 previous studies involving more than 820,000 people worldwide.

It found that being a diabetic hiked the odds of dying from cancer by 25 percent, and also heightened the risk of death from infection, kidney and liver disease.

The risk of death was only higher in people with poorly controlled diabetes, however, as indicated by high blood sugar levels after a fast.

Among the biggest cancer risks for diabetics were liver and pancreatic cancer, colorectal or bowel cancer, and lung cancer.

Diabetes is reaching epidemic levels with an estimated 280 million people, or 6.4 percent of the world's population, suffering from it and numbers predicted to rise further as obesity rates also increase.

The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says up to a third of U.S. adults could have diabetes by 2050 they continue to gain weight and shun exercise.

Another study published this week found that millions of people with diabetes are undiagnosed or poorly treated, raising their risk of early death from heart disease and of serious complications like blindness and chronic kidney disease.

The Cambridge-led study found that aside from cancer and vascular diseases such as stroke, diabetes was also associated with deaths from many other causes including renal disease, liver disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, mental disorders, pneumonia, other infectious diseases.

"A 50-year-old with diabetes died, on average, six years earlier than a counterpart without diabetes," said Cambridge University's John Danesh, who also worked on the study.

The study did not look at why these death rates were higher among diabetics, so the researchers could not say whether diabetes link was simply a proxy for generally poorer health.

"Preventing diabetes becomes that much easier when we have a complete picture of the debilitating effect it has across the body and we know what steps to take to mitigate the damage," said Stephen Holgate of Britain's Medical Research Council, which part-funded the study.

SOURCE:  bit.ly/g5guqz The New England Journal of Medicine, online March 2, 2011. 

Good Heart Health

Good Heart and Cardiovascular Health are important to everyone, especially people with diabetes. This is especially an urgent issue

The outcome of a study published in the American Heart Association (AHA) journal Circulation on February 14, 2010 has resulted in the dismal conclusion that only one in 1,933 Americans may be meeting the American Heart Association's criteria for good heart health.

University of Pittsburgh vice chancellor for clinical research Steven E Reis, MD and his associates analyzed data from 1,933 men and women aged 45 to 75 who participated in the community-based Heart Strategies Concentrating on Risk Evaluation (Heart SCORE) study. Surveys, physical examinations and blood test results provided information concerning the presence of the following factors: not smoking, meeting physical activity and healthy diet goals, and having a body mass index lower than 25, untreated cholesterol level of less than 200, blood pressure of lower than 120/80 and fasting glucose below 100.

Only one participant met all seven criteria of ideal heart health and fewer than 10 percent of participants had five or more components. African-Americans had an 82 percent lower chance of having five or more components compared to subjects of European ancestry.

"Of all the people we assessed, only one out of 1,900 could claim ideal heart health," stated Dr Reis, who is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh's Cardiovascular Institute. "This tells us that the current prevalence of heart health is extremely low, and that we have a great challenge ahead of us to attain the AHA's aim of a 20 percent improvement in cardiovascular health rates by 2020."

"Many of our study participants were overweight or obese, and that likely had a powerful influence on the other behaviors and factors," he observed. "Our next step is to analyze additional data to confirm this and, based on the results, try to develop a multifaceted approach to improve health. That could include identifying predictors of success or failure at adhering to the guidelines."