| 80 years ago Dr. E.P. Joslin, founder of the famous | | | | Our body continues to adapt to the diet that is high |
| Joslin Diabetic Center in Boston, suspected a high-fat, | | | | in fat hence it will finally be resistant to insulin and the |
| high-cholesterol diet might favor the development of | | | | blood sugar levels increase. When the blood sugar |
| diabetes. | | | | level is high enough our kidneys can't hold back and |
| He made a prophecy when he said:" I believe the | | | | sugar will 'spill over' into the urine. You now have a |
| chief cause of premature atherosclerosis in diabetes, | | | | condition called diabetes mellitus. (Mellitus comes from |
| save for advancing age, is an excess of fat, an | | | | the sweet tasting urine). |
| excess of fat in the body (obesity), an excess of fat | | | | In todays stressed lifestyles it is hard to maintain a |
| in the diet, and an excess of fat in the blood. With an | | | | healthy diet and to reduce the intake of fat. We eat |
| excess of fat diabetes begins and from an excess of | | | | a lot of processed foods and this means that most |
| fat diabetics die, formerly of coma, recently of | | | | foods, like vegetables etc, have lost most of its |
| atherosclerosis." | | | | nutritious value and processed foods often contain a |
| Did you know that an overweight person that has | | | | lot of fat. |
| low physical activities is 11 times more likely to get | | | | I don not even dare to speak about the different |
| diabetes mellitus (Diabetes type II or adult-diabetes)? | | | | fast food restaurants. |
| So why do a diet that is high in fat and low in fiber | | | | If you are serious about lowering the risks of getting |
| give us this disease? | | | | diseases related to obesity there are a couple of |
| One of the purposes with insulin is to put fat into fat | | | | steps to take in order to do some minor changes on |
| cells. This function was/is necessary when there | | | | your lifestyle. |
| were risk of starvation and in our economy this is | | | | First of all, do not eat processed foods. Buy fresh |
| not very likely to happen in quite some time. But this | | | | vegetables to make sure you get a healthy diet. |
| is a process that has evolved during thousands of | | | | Reduce meat that holds much fat, eat lean meat |
| years. If you eat more fat or calories your body will | | | | instead. |
| want to save this for the next rainy day. | | | | Secondly, start to exercise by walking. For example, |
| In an average diet we consume too much of | | | | instead of parking your car next to the entrance of |
| unhealthy foods and fats and too little vegetables | | | | the shop, park at the far end instead. I know lots of |
| and fruits. Our body aims at saving. Finally when our | | | | people that do exercises when, for example, cleaning, |
| storages are full (when we are overweighted or | | | | hanging clothes up to dry and so on. Small changes is |
| obese) the individual fat cell start to become | | | | the key. |
| resistant to the insulin because it can not store any | | | | Thirdly, during the transition from an unhealthy diet to |
| more fat. This slows down the storation and | | | | a healthy one, it helps to take drugs that prevent |
| sometimes it even comes to a complete stop. | | | | your intestines from absorbing the dietary fat. |