Wake Up Your Pancreas With String Beans

The Native American Remedy for Low Blood Sugar and Diabetes

By Gayle Eversole, DHom, PhD, MH, NP, ND

A project I have been working on for quite a few years, I guess going back as far as the early 1990s, is helping educate our people about preventing and assisting in the natural care of diabetes.

More than any other group of people American Indians are plagued with this dreadful disease.

When I was researching the educational program I designed when I was completing my doctoral coursework I found an interesting fact. Attributed mainly to Plains people, but not absent in tribes from other geographic areas in the Southwest and other regions, diabetes was considered somewhat of a survival mechanism.

Many traditional foods and locally found herbs have historically been helpful in the care and treatment of diabetes.

The last program I presented was at the Indian Health facility located in the Blackfeet Nation at Browning, Montana. As a gift I was given a book on the Ethnobotany of the Blackfoot Tribe. I refer to this book still today. It was a reference source while I was compiling a guide for diabetes based on natural care during The Longest Walk 3. The Diabetes Diary is that book.

A new project I am searching for support and funding is a nutrition program for Indian children to help them learn more about traditional food, traditional ways of preparing the food, and the nutrition behind the foods. If you would like to support this project, please donate here.

Now back to a bit of history.

The garden green bean we know as snap beans or string beans was a part of American Indian tribal cultivation when the Spanish and Portuguese arrived some 500 years or more ago. Along with the Jesuits the beans were taken to other parts of the world by these explorers. Today there may be more than 500 varieties of common beans.

For many years I was able to get bean pod tea and I sold it in the health store I had in Granite Falls, Washington. Then the bean pods became very hard to find so I discontinued the item even though I had many requests for it. I then provided people with information about growing their own beans and making their own tea.

These beans are full of healing nutrients. Fresh picked string beans have 41 mg of calcium, 42 mg of phosphorus, 1.14 mg of iron, 6 mg of sodium, 230 mg of potassium, 735 IU vitamin A, 40 mg folic acid (vitamin B9), 17.9 mg vitamin C, and 27 mg magnesium in one cupful.

Many of the old time natural healers used green beans in the care of people with diabetes (PWD). One of my teachers, Paavo Airola, ND, PhD, always emphasized the importance of string bean juice for anyone with diabetes. His clients drank it five times a day with their five small meals.

He believed in this because he knew of nothing that was more important in rejuvenation the spleen, liver and pancreas. His research proved that this juice stimulated the Islets of Langerhans in the pancreas.

In addition to diabetes, this wonder juice can help people with alcohol dependence, uremic poisoning, and drug addiction.

Using a juicer such as the Vita Mix or any other juicer you may have, add the whole beans after washing and draining. Any part of the plant is good so don't be too fussy. Add about half a cup of water and turn the juicer on.

You can mix in some beet powder, greens powder, or some carrot powder with your String Bean juice for additional therapeutic benefits.

More about Diabetes

http://www.leaflady.org/natural_healing_for_diabetes.htm

http://www.leaflady.org/Diabetic_Health.htm

http://naturalhealthnews.blogspot.com/2011/09/diabetes-and-wound-care.html

http://naturalhealthnews.blogspot.com/2011/02/diabetes-diary.html

More of my articles may be found at leaflady.org, Natural Health News, and Rense.com.

Natural Health News: Diabetes Diary

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.

Diabetes Diary: https://www.createspace.com/3823542

Blood Pressure Care Naturally: https://www.createspace.com/3857772

The Garden Series: https://www.createspace.com/3822966

Study links statins to higher diabetes again

For years, more than a dozen at least, I have been covering the statin drug issue. My focus has been to educate people about the serious risks of this drug class and to help them realize that what they are being told is not always correct.


Now, again, we have a new report on the fact that statins can raise your risk of getting diabetes.


In light of all the serious risks from this drug class perhaps you might wish to consider natural care approaches to the cholesterol conundrum.

Health Forensics

An increased risk of diabetes among statin users was first seen in 2008, in a randomized controlled trial of the drug Crestor, says Vivian Fonseca, the American Diabetes' Association's president for medicine and science. A 2011 analysis in the Journal of the American Medical Association and a 2010 analysis in The Lancet also found an increased risk of diabetes among statin users.Complete article

Related Article and good interview


Find over 20 articles on this topic here at Natural Health News

In a related Atlantic article the writer says: "Long prescribed to reduce levels of cholesterol in the blood, high doses of statins might even end plaque build-up, according to researchers."  


Why would you want the risk and expense of a drug when natural health approaches will do the job for you.  Remember that arteriosclerosis did not appear on the scene until the beginning of the use of homogenization of milk in the 1950s.


Selections from Natural Health News

Natural Health News: Statins appear to harm about as many people ...

Nov 11, 2011

In the past, statins have said to help prevent pneumonia (infection in the lung) on the basis of epidemiological studies. However, it is generally the case that frail, elderly individuals, with perhaps complicated health histories ...

http://naturalhealthnews.blogspot.com/

Natural Health News: Statins 'without known benefit but with definite ...

Sep 30, 2011

If you want to balance out your cholesterol, first check your thyroid, then evaluate triglycerides that are the real danger to your health, and get nutritional and lifestyle support. Health Forensics can help. Posted by herbalYODA ...

http://naturalhealthnews.blogspot.com/

Natural Health News: New-Onset Diabetes With Statins

Mar 28, 2011

Now more studies shoe increased risk of diabetes among other health problems from statins. And the cookie cutter medicine machine wants YOU to take this drug if you have diabetes. Its doing the same as aspartame. ...

http://naturalhealthnews.blogspot.com/

Natural Health News: Again: Statins Not Effective

Nov 21, 2010

Again: Statins Not Effective. Statin drugs may be over-prescribed. So tell me what is new! Not only are they over-prescribed, they have heart-risky side effects and many more problems like kidney failure secondary to ...

http://naturalhealthnews.blogspot.com/

More for the Diabetes Diary

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.

Diabetes and Wound Care

Maggots used in wound care dates back hundreds if not thousands of years.

Creepy-crawlies may help heal diabetes wounds
By Fran Lowry | Reuters – Fri, Sep 23, 2011

(Reuters Health) - Researchers from Hawaii have a suggestion for how to jump-start the healing of difficult diabetic wounds: let maggots do the work.

To allow such wounds to heal, doctors remove infected or dead tissue with scalpels or enzymes, a process they call debridement.

But these tools often fail, said Dr. Lawrence Eron from Kaiser Hospital and the University of Hawaii in Honolulu.

"These problem patients with diabetes really need better treatments in order to salvage their limbs," he told Reuters Health.

"Maggot debridement treatment is overwhelmingly effective," he added. "After just one treatment these wounds start looking better."
He and his colleagues presented their findings this week in Chicago at a scientific meeting, and they still haven't been vetted by independent researchers.
Eron's team treated 37 diabetics with maggots. The patients all suffered from a type of artery disease that causes poor circulation in the limbs, and they all had stubborn wounds -- some up to five years old.
The doctors put 50 to 100 maggots (of the species Lucilia sericata) on the wounds and left them there for two days, at which time they applied new ones. They repeated this five times on average.

"We cage the maggots in a mesh-like material. Nylon panty hose might be used. And then we seal them so they don't get out," Eron explained.

Twenty-one patients had successful outcomes, defined as eradication of infection, complete removal of dead tissue, formation of robust connective tissue in the wound and more than three-quarters closure of the wound.

The treatment failed in a handful of patients. One had excessive inflammation surrounding the wound, two bled too much, and three had problems with infected bones.

Five wounds were infected with the antibiotic-mocking "superbug" MRSA, but they healed successfully with the maggot therapy. Nine wounds were infected with another bacterium called MSSA, and six of those healed up. All 10 cases with infection due to group B streptococci were successfully treated, Eron said.

Asked how he persuades patients to undergo the creepy-crawly treatment, Eron said he carefully explains the procedure and then has them sign a consent form.

"A lot of patients might be somewhat wary of having live insects placed into their wounds so we explain how it works and what possible problems might occur," he said.

Maggots secrete substances into the wounds that liquefy dead tissue and then they ingest the material to further degrade it in their gut. The wounds are cleaned, and other substances contained in the maggot secretions allow the development of granulation tissue, a type of connective tissue that forms during wound healing.

"After this, we go on to do further treatment with hydrogels, grafts of cell culture tissue, or negative pressure dressings," said Eron. "But to get to this point where these techniques will work, you really need to clean up the wound, get rid of dead tissue, and get robust granulation tissue into the wound. And this is where the maggots help."

Honey is also a great healer for wounds in people with diabetes.  Essential oils help especially when there is great infection. http://www.leaflady.org/honey.htm

A Massage Technique - U.S. physician, Dr. J. B. Dawson, has discovered a simple massaging technique that can restore blood flow to skin ulcers and speed the healing process. Skin ulcerations develop in a circular pattern that resembles a three-layered bull's eye. At the center of the circle is a red, inflamed area where tissue destruction has taken place. Just around the outside of that red center, you'll usually find an area of pus formation. This area is surrounded by a rim of swollen tissue, which forms the outer boundary. To promote healing in the ulcer, Dr. Dawson gently and carefully massages the red center of the ulceration in a circular manner once a day. To block the pain of the massage, he uses a mixture of 2 percent lidocaine and an antibacterial ointment. This gentle method of massage increases circulation to the infected area. After a few days, Dr. Dawson begins to massage the area more firmly and gradually expands the massage to include the outer rim of the circle. Within a few days, if the pain caused by massaging the ulceration starts to subside, there is no longer any need to use the lidocaine and the ointment. When the infection begins to clear, you can substitute vegetable (olive oil) oil for the antibiotic ointment. As treatment continues, the increase in circulation slowly destroys the outer rim of the ulcer. The destruction of the border appears to be the key to healing diabetic lesions. Dr. Dawson reports that, with his technique, ulcers as large as 3 centimeters (a little over an inch) heal completely in one to two weeks. He has found that they heal even better if they are left exposed to the air with a thin covering of lubrication. If you can't find lidocaine, Solarcaine (the sunburn ointment containing lidocaine) should work just as well. Dr. Dawson mixes an over-the-counter antibacterial ointment with the lidocaine.          

from our main domain, http://www.leaflady.org/Diabetic_Health.htm

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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

Just because it comes from a med school doesn't mean it is good advice

I receive the Johns Hopkins newsletters. I receive many others too so I am up to date on what information is going around in mainstream medical channels.  This one was in my email this morning -

Nine Ways to Eat Better With Diabetes 

Here are nine ways to change your diet that will help you manage your diabetes better and improve your health. These tips apply to people with type 1 or type 2 diabetes, but the specifics of your nutrition management will differ depending on which type you have and should be discussed with a qualified nutritionist. 

Diabetes tip #1:  Choose plant-based foods over animal-based foods. Eating a Mediterranean-style diet -- which is high in fruits, vegetables, nuts, legumes and olive oil and low in red meat, poultry and animal fats -- has been found to reduce the need for blood-glucose lowering medications in people with type 2 diabetes.

Diabetes tip #2:  Go for whole grains rather than refined ones. Refined grains such as white flour, rice and pasta don’t offer much nutritional value and can send blood glucose soaring. Whole grains like oat flour, brown rice and whole-wheat pasta, on the other hand, are rich in fiber, vitamins, minerals and antioxidants.  

Diabetes tip #3:  Use a healthier spread on bread. Avoid products that contain a lot of saturated fat, like butter and cream cheese, and regular margarine, which contains trans fats.  Your best substitutes are trans-fat-free margarines or those that contain plant stanols or sterols.  

Diabetes tip #4:  Get your D from dairy. In addition to providing calcium, dairy products are a good source of vitamin D. Recent research has linked vitamin D deficiency with a greater likelihood of developing serious complications like cardiovascular disease if you have type 2 diabetes.  

Diabetes tip #5:  Substitute a sweet potato for a white one. Sweet potatoes recently made the American Diabetic Association’s (ADA) list of “superfoods” and it’s easy to see why: They have a lower glycemic index than regular potatoes, meaning they don’t raise your blood glucose levels as much. They’re also rich in carotenoids, which are important for eye health; the natural plant compound chlorogenic acid, which may help reduce insulin resistance; and potassium, which lowers blood pressure.

Diabetes tip #6:  Cook with canola oil instead of corn oil. Canola oil is low in saturated fat and high in monounsaturated fat, which can lower harmful low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol and maintain beneficial high-density lipoprotein (HDL) cholesterol.  

Diabetes tip #7:  Favor fatty fishes. Eating fish that contain omega-3 fatty acids helps to lower triglycerides and raise HDL cholesterol as well as cut down on inflammation in the blood vessels, which raises heart disease risk.  

Diabetes tip #8:  Use alcohol cautiously. Alcohol taken in moderation can benefit some people and has been associated with longer lifespan. However, alcohol can cause hypoglycemia, especially if you are taking a blood glucose-lowering medication. 

Diabetes tip #9:  Shake the salt habit. Excess sodium causes the body to retain fluid, which can raise your blood pressure as well as your risk of heart attack and stroke. Instead of sprinkling table salt on food, try spices, herbs, or a squeeze of lemon; avoid processed foods like jarred spaghetti sauces, luncheon meats, canned soups and condiments.   

Posted in Diabetes on July 14, 2011   Johns Hopkins Newsletters

I get my feathers in an uproar when I read these because -in this one - the information is really not good.

Here's what I sent in as a comment on some but not all of this "health" tip -

I read an article recently about health care providers whose knowledge is sorely out of date, or they just don't keep up with current research. This is the reason I am commenting on some items in your list about diabetes and eating.

Flour is NOT a whole grain.

Many people with diabetes actually have gluten intolerance and therefore it is not a good idea to suggest a processed food like whole wheat pasta.

Margarine regardless of what or how it is manufactured is NOT a health promoting food. The suggestion that plant sterol based fake fat is healthier is vacuous because plant sterols come from genetically modified soy and canola. GMOs cause a range of health problems. Soy in any form except fermented is bad for health. Canola is TOO monounsaturated for health and it IS a transfat as well as being hepatotoxic (not good for people with diabetes. MUCH better to use unsalted butter from dairy with NO rGBH and make it into "spread" by mixing it with olive oil. New research shows that healthy fat includes butter.

Dairy allergy should be evaluated before suggesting dairy as a source for Vitamin D. This is usually low efficacy Vit D2 in milk and it is D3 that is the more effective source. Do a 25 OH and make sure the level is 50-80, 80 is better.

If you undercook white potato it will not have as high of a glycemic index as in over cooked baked potato or mashed etc.

Corn and canola oil are bot more likely than not GMO. Both are sold in plastic and this increases the risk of exposure to xeno-estrogens and increased cancer risk. Canola is a trans fat and hepatotoxic O-9 - too unsaturated for health.

If you choose Celtic salt is is a very health choice and unlike boxed salt it is low in sodium and contains many minerals. Because it is mineral rich you don't use much.

I could write more but this is enough for starters. All I have written is backed by REAL science.

I hope you'll be more of a sleuth when it comes to believing what you read on the internet, even when its coming from what you believe to be a reputable source.

Thinking caps on please.

 

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Jun 07, 2011

Natural Health News has over three dozen articles on diabetes and related topics. Our main domain since 1991, www.leaflady.org, has numerous pages on this topic. CHI-Creating Health Institute on facebook has posted to ...

Natural Health News: New-Onset Diabetes With Statins

Mar 28, 2011

Now more studies shoe increased risk of diabetes among other health problems from statins. And the cookie cutter medicine machine wants YOU to take this drug if you have diabetes. Its doing the same as aspartame. ...

Natural Health News: Reversing Diabetes: 2011

Mar 13, 2011

Also, I'd say a highlight for today was definitely running into a diverse group of people who are walking across the country. Go figure! The event is called "The Longest Walk 3". It's to raise awareness for Diabetes. ...

Natural Health News: Cancer Risk Higher with Diabetes

Mar 02, 2011

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 ...

The Diabetes Industry

Natural Health News has over three dozen articles on diabetes and related topics.  Our main domain since 1991, www.leaflady.org, has numerous pages on this topic.  CHI-Creating Health Institute on facebook has posted to our Diabetes Diary since February and this will continues through 12 July in support of the Longest Walk, Reversing Diabetes.  I also publish the subscription Diabetes E-List.

I went into nursing in 1969.  Prior to that I was working in public health and community mental health.  Over these many years I have been a staunch advocate of natural therapy for diabetes and other health concerns, as well as a proponent of PREVENTION.

Now some 30+ years later comes a health organization that makes the same statements as I have been making for decades, as if the idea was new.  It is no different than a couple of my competitors that seem to try all sorts of tricks to top the search engines, event to the point of using our name.

However, as some one who has always been ahead of the pack, it is good to know that I am not the lone beacon on the shore.

And you'll see why I developed HEALTH FORENSICS as an extremely effective system to help you find "the road to new health".

You'll note recent posts regarding the Food Pyramid and "The Plate" as well as coverage of diabetes drugs and artificial sweeteners, statins, and more here at the ORIGINAL Natural Health News.

FYI
American Diabetes Association’s Guidelines Are Killing Diabetics!

VOICES OF LW3

UPDATE: 30 April -  

Pro golfer targets diabetes

The Diabetes Diary

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN, Associated Press – Fri Apr 29, 7:30 pm ET

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Professional golfer Notah Begay III is fighting the growing problem of diabetes among Native-American youth, saying the disease could ultimately cost tribes their future leaders if nothing is done.

Begay took his wellness message to the airwaves Friday during the national Native America Calling radio program and in a television show that was broadcast via satellite to students in nearly 200 schools across Indian Country.

Part Navajo and part pueblo Indian, the 38-year-old golfer said diabetes has become an epidemic among his people but he wants people to know it's a disease that can be prevented.

"We're in a fight, literally, to save our kids' lives," he told The Associated Press in an interview. "The reassuring thing about this entire thing is that this is a fight we can win, but it's not going to come without some monumental change."

Native Americans are more than twice as likely to have diabetes compared with other groups, and they are three times more likely to die from the disease, according to the Indian Health Service.  Complete Article

27 FEBRUARY - This event began 14 February, 2011.  Walkers on both the northern and southern routes will reach Washington DC by July 8, 2011.  Support and encourage themas they walk through your community.

Follow The Longest Walk 3 Reversing Diabetes

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Diabetes Diary: Daily posts on weekdays about diabetes and natural health in support of The Longest Walk 3. Follow us as most of our work is focused on this event and the need to prevent and reverse diabetes for all affected people. Now published in book form (2012), see link above to purchase. 

Diabetic Health

A Tasty Way to Get More Magnesium

I personally like quinoa, mainly for its protein, but also its many uses.  I add organic quinoa flakes to oatmeal, pancakes, and other foods.  I like it in place of rice as it is gluten free.

I guess I'd like to have Larry's Markets' recipe for their quinoa salad with oranges.  In the interim I found one one I think I'll play with, my choice is to omit the corn.  But you may like it as it is in this recipe.

Quinoa salad: 

• 1 cup quinoa, well rinsed
• 1 cup frozen corn kernels, thawed
• Juice of one lemon
• 1 Tbs olive oil
• 2 to 3 scallions, minced
• Salt and black pepper, to taste
• Bean salad:1 16-ounce (455g) can low sodium pinto beans, drained and rinsed
• 1 cup diced tomato
• 1 Tbs apple cider
• 1/4 cup chopped parsley or cilantro
• Freshly ground black pepper, to taste
• Garnishes: Pumpkin seeds
• Black olives
• 1 red bell pepper, cut into strips

Directions

• Boil 2 cups water (480mL) in a saucepan. Add the quinoa and simmer, covered, for 15 minutes. When done, fluff with a fork and transfer to a bowl. Combine quinoa with remaining ingredients for the quinoa salad.
• While the quinoa cooks, toss the bean salad ingredients in another bowl.
• To assemble, spread quinoa salad evenly on a platter. Leave a well in the center and mound bean salad into the well. Sprinkle with pumpkin seeds. Arrange olives and pepper strips around the edge. (Delicious Living)

Low magnesium linked to inflammation

The experiment revealed several findings: Fewer than half of the people in the study were getting enough dietary magnesium to meet the estimated average requirement (the amount estimated to meet the needs of 50% of people), and more than one-third had low magnesium levels in their blood.

People with low-magnesium diets had higher levels of C-reactive protein, a marker of inflammation that is closely correlated with cardiac risk.

A low magnesium diet was also associated with a higher body mass index, a number based on height and weight that is used to diagnose overweight and obesity. Scientists have found a close relationship between obesity and inflammation. CRP levels decreased in people in the magnesium group whose CRP levels were high at the beginning of the study, but increased in those in the placebo group.

“The findings show that many individuals have a low magnesium status associated with increased chronic inflammatory stress that could be alleviated by increased magnesium intake,” the study’s authors said. (Magnesium Research)

People with Diabetes (PWD) often have low magnesium levels: More on Magnesium

Quinoa is high in many health promoting nutrients, and you'll get about 90mg of magnesium from a half-cup serving.

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New-Onset Diabetes With Statins

UPDATE: 12 January 2012


Another report is out today linking statin drugs and diabetes. Natural Health News has been reporting on statins since 2006 and we have been covering the drugs in our other venues since 1996.


Numerous articles on this topic can be located on Natural Health News using our search function on the main page.


Here is a related report

Listen to this interview

30 March 2011 - 

People with Diabetes (PWD) are 70% more likely to have liver disease. 

Diabetes Diary: This is now in process of publication, pre publication copies are $8, available from us. 

Diabetes increases Parkinson's risk http://care.diabetesjournals.org/cgi/content/long/34/4/910

I hope you are connecting the dots...


28 March -
Need I say more?  Now more studies shoe increased risk of diabetes among other health problems from statins.  And the cookie cutter medicine machine wants YOU to take this drug if you have diabetes.  Its doing the same as aspartame.  Red Yeast Rice  is a statin and will have this effect in some people.

We offer a very good supplement to help raise HDL, lower LDL and reduce total cholesterol while decreasing triglycerides. 


CLINICAL RESEARCH: LIPID-LOWERING AND DIABETES

Predictors of New-Onset Diabetes in Patients Treated With Atorvastatin

Results From 3 Large Randomized Clinical Trials

David D. Waters, MD, Jennifer E. Ho, MD,David A. DeMicco, DPharm, Andrei Breazna, PhD, Benoit J. Arsenault, PhD, Chuan-Chuan Wun, PhD,John J. Kastelein, MD, PhD, Helen Colhoun, MD, PhD and Philip Barter, MD, PhD Division of Cardiology, San Francisco General Hospital, and the University of California at San Francisco, San Francisco, California
 Pfizer, Inc., New York, New York
 Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
 Department of Public Health, University of Dundee, Dundee, Scotland
Heart Research Institute, Sydney, Australia
Manuscript received July 28, 2010; revised manuscript received October 4, 2010, accepted October 11, 2010.
^_* Reprint requests and correspondence: Dr. David D. Waters, Division of Cardiology, San Francisco General Hospital, 1001 Potrero Avenue, San Francisco, California 94114 (Email:dwaters@medsfgh.ucsf.edu).
Objectives: We sought to examine the incidence and clinical predictors of new-onset type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) within 3 large randomized trials with atorvastatin.
Background: Statin therapy might modestly increase the risk of new-onset T2DM.
Methods: We used a standard definition of diabetes and excluded patients with prevalent diabetes at baseline. We identified baseline predictors of new-onset T2DM and compared the event rates inpatients with and without new-onset T2DM.
Results: In the TNT (Treating to New Targets) trial, 351 of 3,798 patients randomized to 80 mg of atorvastatin and 308 of 3,797 randomized to 10 mg developed new-onset T2DM (9.24% vs. 8.11%, adjusted hazard ratio [HR]: 1.10, 95% confidence interval [CI]: 0.94 to 1.29, p = 0.226). In the IDEAL (Incremental Decrease in End Points Through Aggressive Lipid Lowering) trial, 239 of 3,737 patients randomized to atorvastatin 80 mg/day and 208 of 3,724 patients randomized to simvastatin 20 mg/day developed new-onset T2DM (6.40% vs. 5.59%, adjusted HR: 1.19, 95% CI: 0.98 to 1.43, p = 0.072). In the SPARCL (Stroke Prevention by Aggressive Reduction in Cholesterol Levels) trial, new-onset T2DM developed in 166 of 1,905 patients randomized to atorvastatin 80 mg/day and in 115 of 1,898 patients in the placebo group (8.71% vs. 6.06%, adjusted HR: 1.37, 95% CI: 1.08 to 1.75, p = 0.011). In each of the 3 trials, baseline fasting blood glucose, body mass index, hypertension, and fasting triglycerides were independent predictors of new-onset T2DM. Across the 3 trials, major cardiovascular events occurred in 11.3% of patients with and 10.8% of patients without new-onset T2DM (adjusted HR: 1.02, 95% CI: 0.77 to 1.35, p = 0.69).
Conclusions: High-dose atorvastatin treatment compared with placebo in the SPARCL trial is associated with a slightly increased risk of new-onset T2DM. Baseline fasting glucose level and features of the metabolic syndrome are predictive of new-onset T2DM across the 3 trials.

SOURCE: http://content.onlinejacc.org/misc/terms.dtl

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Reversing Diabetes: 2011

UPDATE 13 MARCH
FROM REGIS AND KELLY

Also, I'd say a highlight for today was definitely running into a diverse group of people who are walking across the country. Go figure! The event is called "The Longest Walk 3". It's to raise awareness for Diabetes.

The walkers left San Diego on 2/14 and plan on getting to Washington DC by 7/8. A lot of Native Americans are in charge of this event, including Wounded Knee, pictured below on the left and the chief in the middle...

  

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2/21 Now entering its second week, The Longest Walk III continues to cross these United States to call attention to diabetes and especially in Indian Country.

As the walkers come through your area, support them and support this grand effort.

Route Information

“Reversing Diabetes”

  

On February 14th, 2011, The Longest Walk III will begin a 5,400 mile walk/run relay across America. The purpose of which is to draw attention to the alarming epidemic of diabetics in Indian Country.

Led by A.I.M. co-founder Dennis Banks, the walk will begin at La Jolla Shores, California (San Diego), and ending in Washington, D.C. on July 8th. The route will be southern based which will include the states of: Southern California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia.

Banks, himself a diabetic, said that “Diabetes has reached an epidemic state in Indian Country and the percentage of diabetes amongst Native Americans may be as high as 75%” (Indian Health Service’s estimate is at 35%). “Surgery involving amputation is very common”, Banks said, “making Native people Partial Indians”.

Key organizers in each state are developing evening lectures by Banks who will also conduct seminars in juicing your vegetables. “Vegetables”, he said “are becoming extinct”, and wants to aid in a massive “Reversing Diabetes” program across Native America.

California, which will host the opening ceremonies, is being directed by Orlando Vigil of Taos New Mexico. He will guide and walk with members of many Southern California tribes to and through the southern tribal nations of the Diegueno Kumeyaay, Lusenio, Serrano, Cahuilla, Chemeuuai, and Quechan territories. 

The walk will also provide the opportunity to collect diabetic concerns and stories heard across America and develop this information into a personal in-depth perspective from the Native view. In addition to this, the U.S.D.A and Banks will campaign for Indigenous lands to set aside 2,000,000 acres of prime farming land into large vegetable gardens to begin supplying our people with fresh produce. “Everyone should have a garden for good nutrition and exercise. We are working on a 50 year program to reverse the symptoms of diabetes. If we don’t start now, in 50 years we will all be diabetic, with no future at all,” Banks said.

The opening activities will commence at 6:00 a.m. at La Jolla Shores, San Diego, California with  a prayer by a local elder, Bird Singers opening with a 3 hour ceremony of doctors, foreigners, and speakers, and ending with a pipe ceremony, including Dennis Banks to provide detailed key information pertaining to the walk.

Should you wish to assist with the largest, most historic walk for the fight against reversing diabetes, please contact The Longest Walk III website for any further information. Any contributions before and during the walk will be greatly appreciated and can be arranged by calling (763) - 242 - 4242 or joining the walk.

The DC Event is here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=136597933048303&index=1

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