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From LEF.ORG’s most recent newsletter….

Type I diabetes, sometimes referred to as insulin-dependent diabetes
mellitus (IDDM), has both similar and dissimilar manifestations
as compared to Type II diabetes mellitus. Although both Type I and Type
II diabetes often result in similar disabilities, that is,
neurological disorders, cardiovascular disease, and sometimes organ
failure, the causal factors are quite different. For example,
Type I diabetes reflects an inability to metabolize carbohydrates caused
by an absolute insulin deficiency. This type of diabetes
occurs most often in children and young adults as a result of inadequate
insulin production in the beta cells of the pancreas.

Type II diabetes generally occurs because of a metabolic failure at the
cellular level, a condition spurred by poor diet, obesity,
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My apologies, Anna, if you are not the same person as on the other list. My
basic premise is still the same though. Why post if it contributes nothing but
to encourage more petty nit picking?

Chris

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Message: 7
Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 09:03:37 -0600
From: "Anna"
Subject: Re: Digest Number 983

Chris,
Also make sure "you" get your facts straight,
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I have been pondering this for a while, and I am starting to change my opinion.
I think, as a whole we have a very resiliant population, and our bodies adjust
to a LOT more than we give credit too. Although as diabetics we have to closely
monitor our consumption, healthy people can enjoy a much larger variable of food
consumed.

Where I feel we do not give justice to our population is in attempting to
diagnose Insulin Resistance early enough. They predict from 30%-50% of our
youths will become Type II diabetics, which is initially caused by IR . If we
were to have in school screening of adolescents for IR, and get them on the
correct treatment 20 years before their pancreas burns out, Type II diabetes
could almost be totally erradicated in our lifetime.

Attempting to force everybody to change their eating habits might SEEM to be the
way to go, its not actually addressing the cause and effects of the disease.
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Kathy Bellerue

Egads……can’t you kids STOP THE INSANITY????

I have been on this and other lists for a year now…(guess when I was
diagnosed..;O) and I get a LOT out of almost all of the contributions. I
discard the stuff I choose not to follow, and I further research those that I
choose to believe. I do try to eat more whole grains to replace the gross
simple carbs, and I cannot tell you how enlightening the information on
antioxidants and how free radicals effect how our bodies cells regenerate. This
is the cause of our Insulin Resistance and if there is going to be a cure, its
in that direction. Everybodies contribution about diabetes is worthwhile

The posts I get NOTHING out of are those of people poking at each other for no
reason. They have no place here. Jewell, please try to not respond to every
slight you percieve, its emotinally toxic to everybody. Duncan, your value
lies in who you DO help, not in those who choose to not listen- Its not worth
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jewel are you type 1 or type 2 i believe our food affects alot ,Dee

I have a personal story I want to share with everyone. I think you be
moved by it.

Tim Vanderbilt

Beneficial Effects of High Dietary Fiber Intake in Patients with Type
2 Diabetes Mellitus
"A high intake of dietary fiber, particularly of the soluble type,
above the level recommended by the ADA, improves glycemic control,
decreases hyperinsulinemia, and lowers plasma lipid concentrations in
patients with type 2 diabetes"
…..The New England Journal of Medicine Volume 342:1392-1398 May 11,
2000

Dietary fiber and type 2 diabetes
"Water-soluble fiber appears to have a greater potential to reduce
postprandial blood glucose, insulin, and serum lipid levels than
insoluble fiber. Viscosity of the dietary fiber is important; the
greater the viscosity, the greater the effect. "
…Clin Excell Nurse Pract. 2000 Sep;4(5):272-6.
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Hey I wanted to share my testomony with anyone who is willing to
listen to it.
I wasn’t even aware that I had Diabetes until I started feeling the
symtoms. My

blood pressure was
higher my legs started to feel numb and sometimes tingle. At first I
thought it was

normal but,
later I started having head rushes. I was (and still am over 40) and
well I wasn’t

exactlty
thin so I went to the doctor and asked him about my symptonms, when
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>In the Research area
>>2000 death rates were 25.8 per 100,000 white males, 47.8 per
100,000 black males; 20.6 per 100,000 white females and 50.4 per
100,000 black females.
>>Latest numbers: 798,000 new cases of type 2 (non-insulin dependent)
diabetes are diagnosed every year

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