Your new image implants a seed in your mind that draws the new life to you. And that’s why your new image of your life can’t be based on the past before you had diabetes.

Think about this for a minute. If you focused on the old image of your life and had a picture of yourself eating a processed food diet as before the Type 2 diabetes diagnosis, then what would happen to you if you achieved your goal? If you reversed your diabetes, then by going back to the ways of the past, you would be calling in a new case of diabetes to yourself!

This isn’t too smart! Do you see how an old image of your life would harm you eventually in the future? It would negate all your work that it took to achieve normal blood sugar … several months worth of work.

So what does your new image of life look like? It may look like this: You are sitting at the dinner table with your family eating a healthy meal together, chatting about how good life is. Since all of you are eating a healthy foods, you all have eyes that sparkle and skin glowing with radiance. You all look the best you have ever looked and you share the best tasting meals. The food is great and everyone can’t wait to share in the talk about what will be on the menu for next week.

It’s not only great tasting, healthy meals you share together. Your family has a membership for the gym and although you all don’t work out together, you work as a team with other family members when you are there together. You push each other to meet the next exercise challenge.

Your family is functioning better than ever. Relationships are a lot less stressful when everyone is healthier. Life becomes so much fun and you’re planning more vacations away. Your business is more successful than ever, with new clients coming in the door every day. You feel more spiritually alive than ever!

Be detailed … more than the above “sketch” in what your new life will be like. Don’t hold back any of your dreams. Dreams can come true, right?

But the problem is that many people try a natural remedy and then find that it doesn’t work… and then give up the idea that all natural remedies work! Some of them are so embarrassed the one they chose didn’t work they then start criticizing all natural remedies and saying that anyone who promotes a natural remedy is a trickster or a fraud!

These people aren’t legitimate, they say.

Certainly there are frauds in every field. Even in the medical field! I often think about the fraudulent research studies that are released each and every day, and these research scientists are rarely exposed!

But the problem is if you know nothing about natural remedies and you choose one at random, you’re like a fraudulent research scientist who runs a research study on knee pain with participants who don’t have it in the first place. There’s a mismatch of the solution for the person.

Here are two top tips about what to remember when you select and/or use natural remedies.

1. Health remedies are seldom successful on their own. Think about the efficacy of the trampoline exercise discussed yesterday for high blood pressure, compared to the efficacy of the trampoline exercise along with a low sodium diet, losing weight, and herbs that have been shown to reduce blood pressure. Which do you think will work better?

2. Read up to a dozen remedies for the same illness before you try any of them. The reason why this is important is because by reading remedies, it’s as if you are on a treasure hunt. Every little remedy you find you will think is your answer – at first. But having 12 remedies allows you to add an aspect of intuition and select the top ones that feel best to you.

He really mesmerized me because he said that one of the fastest ways to decrease blood pressure was to jump on the mini trampolines for about 10 minutes a day.

He didn’t really explain how it worked so well, just that it did.

Jumping on a trampoline is said to get the trapped white blood cells to begin to move around again in the bloodstream.

This is a really good thing because researchers have found that a small infection in the wall of an artery almost looks like a little pimple. The infection draws in the white blood cells and other substances that cause inflammation. As the white blood cells pile up, an area of plaque is formed in the artery. Before long, the artery’s diameter starts to close down, which raises the blood pressure.

By jumping on the trampoline, you remove those white blood cells so that the liver can deal with them. The artery starts to open up eventually and the elasticity in the artery has the potential to come back. Soon the blood pressure goes back down to normal.

The theory does make sense physiologically.

And as you already know, being Type 2 diabetic means that you have to always be on guard for high blood pressure, hardening of the arteries, heart attack and stroke.

So any little tip you get on preventing or reversing any of these diseases could mean that you are one step away from contributing to reversing them.

And that’s something to celebrate!

Type 2 diabetes is known as the silent disease because it usually sneaks up on you without warning. It often starts with feelings of extreme tiredness, or a need to eat even though you really feel full. It sometimes shows up as blurry vision, or you might have a headache that lingers even though you have taken medication to get rid of it. You might find you have a cut or sore that doesn’t heal. And guess what, these symptoms are often put down to other issues, such as getting older, or overworking.

Knowing there is a history of Type 2 diabetes in the family is a distinct advantage. Unfortunately, many people develop the disease and are not aware there is a problem until they receive their diabetes diagnosis. And by then the damage has already commenced and it has come down to maintenance instead of just prevention.

If a parent has diabetes then his or her children are more at risk. If both parents have developed Type 2 diabetes, then the odds are magnified tremendously. But, again, that doesn’t mean it is definitely a sentence. Although some factors cannot be helped, there are others which contribute to the disease and can be eliminated. Unlike Type 1 diabetes, which usually begins before the age of 20 when the pancreas fails to produce insulin for the body to process energy, Type 2 diabetes generally begins after the age of 30 and is caused by weight gain and physical inactivity.

With sugar building up in your blood, your blood becomes thick and difficult for your heart to circulate. High blood sugar in the blood clogs arteries, leading to:

heart attacks,
strokes, and
a number of other very serious health issues.

Since blood sugar is the culprit here, maintaining a healthy diet is essential. Adding plant foods such as nuts, soy foods, olive oil, flaxseed and avocado, that contribute some fat and/or protein to your meals seem to help minimize high blood sugars. Higher soluble fiber plant foods will also help minimize high blood sugar levels from high carbohydrate meals. For example, before you eat the main meal, have:

a cup of vegetable or bean soup,
a green salad with raw vegetables and kidney beans,
a small serving of oat bran before eating a problematic breakfast,
any other high fiber vegetables.

Keeping your intake of unhealthy carbohydrates down is critical to success. If this one factor can be controlled then the rest will play out much easier.

Portion control is also a pivotal point. Excessive weight is like opening the door to this disease, since the vast majority of Type 2 sufferers are overweight. But it isn’t just the weight itself that is the problem, but also the location of it. Having excess fat around the abdominal area, especially for men, increases the chances of developing Type 2 diabetes considerably.

But mealtime is crucial not only in the amount and type of foods eaten, but also the frequency. There should never be a long span of time between meals as this taxes the body and makes it stress over the limited food that is available for processing. Moderately spaced meals, as well as snacks, are important. And people diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes are often advised to not skip either one.

Another key element of combating the effects of diabetes is exercise. Exercise helps you to keep a strong pulmonary and cardiovascular system; it also is especially important if you’re trying to get fit while also losing weight. It will also help to prevent many other conditions that might not be directly related to diabetes, but can cause complications that will affect the severity of the disease.

The link between a family history of Type 2 diabetes and your risk of developing it is clear… but it is not necessarily inevitable.

It’s really not a secret, it’s the food on your plate. One of the most important keys to Type 2 diabetes control and reversal is first to know what foods will harm you most. Then stop letting them harm you!

Here’s how to change your diet, one step at a time:

1. Replace the diet drinks with water and herb teas such as peppermint, chamomile, green tea, chair tea, or rose hip teas.

2. Cut down how much coffee you drink daily: stick to one cup per day.

3. Begin eating a quart bowl of non-starchy vegetables every day. This bowl can contain:

broccoli, cauliflower,
asparagus, cabbage, carrots,
lettuce, kale, spinach,
onions, garlic, leeks,
ginger, celery,
green peppers, hot peppers,
zucchini, and
other non-starchy vegetables.

4. Switch from white rice to brown rice.

5. Switch from white bread to sprouted breads with whole grains or whole grain breads with less than 17 grams carbohydrate per slice.

6. Switch vegetable and corn or safflower oil to olive oil.

7. Throw out the margarine and fake butters and replace with unsalted butter.

8. Replace the breaded meat and fish products with the real cuts of meat and fish.

9. Change your snacks to raw almonds, walnuts, peanuts, which are unsalted.

10. Limit whole grains to 2 to 3 servings per day unless you are a male 5’9″ (175.3 cm) or taller, (3 to 4 servings for tall people).

11. Eat fruits in serving sizes only.

12. Go through the packaged foods in your cabinet. If you can’t eat one serving of that food at a time, throw it out.

13. Go through the packaged foods in your cabinet again. Eliminate the foods that have more than 30 grams carbohydrate in one serving.

14. Go through the packaged foods in your cabinet once more. Eliminate the foods that have more than 300 mg sodium per serving.

As a Type 2 diabetic, you have to make a decision. Do you want to continue consuming foods that are harming you and causing all your health problems, little by little, with every meal? The bad reactions to these foods is happening even though you may not feel them occurring.