And remember you have a good chance of reversing it as many thousands of people have already done this.

Lunchmeats usually contain an artificial preservative called sodium nitrite, which becomes nitrosamines, substances that are cancer-causing.  Even though this occurs, the level is still within the USDA’s limit of 200 parts per million in most processed meats.

The processing of lunchmeats is a process that eliminates nutrients from the food and puts sodium in instead. These types of foods are notoriously high in sodium, in fact, which is linked to high blood pressure.

Since diabetics are at risk to develop high blood pressure due to the high insulin levels, then it makes sense that a pre-diabetic and a diabetic should not have lunchmeats.

What’s the substitute? Well it’s foods such as real chicken legs, real chicken thighs and breasts, real turkey, real beef roast, pork, lamb or buffalo meat. And ground meats – as long as they don’t contain any “pink slime”.

There are plenty of better choices than lunchmeats.

Unfortunately, there are still quite a few dietitians and medical professionals who honestly believe diabetics can have sugar in their diet.

What can I say except that maybe these health professionals never really did their homework to find out diabetes is a disorder of carbohydrates… and the worst carbohydrate is the simple carbohydrate, sugar! I don’t know where they went wrong in the process of learning – or if they attended any recent classes on how to reverse Type 2 diabetes in the first place.

The fact is, if you want the traditional results seen with many Type 2 diabetics and pre-diabetics (amputations, kidney disease, dialysis, cataracts and peripheral neuropathy), then follow their plan because they have it down pretty pat. If you do everything they say, that’s what you have to look forward to.

If you follow the advice of someone who works with pre-diabetics and Type 2 diabetics to help them reverse their illness, then take sugar out of your diet. You will be pleasantly surprised at what happens.

 For example, you lose weight. Hey, isn’t it supposed to be difficult for a diabetic to lose weight?

Another example is your moods will stabilize. Hey, aren’t you supposed to depend on mood prescription drugs for this? Who ever said that someone could do it themselves?

And one more example is that your headaches go away and your concentration level improves. How cool is that?

What this usually means is that you’ve had pre-diabetes for awhile and the blood sugar is already “trained” to be deposited in your eyes.

Excess blood sugar has to go somewhere in your body. It’s similar to if you bring home a bag of groceries. No matter how full your refrigerator is, you have to still stuff the groceries into the refrigerator! No matter how full your cabinets are, you still have to stuff more into the cabinets.

You’ll rearrange things in the refrigerator and in the cupboards before you’ll throw out things, if you’re like most people!

And that’s what your body does. It rearranges the DNA of your proteins in your eyes to accommodate the high levels of blood sugar. Some of the blood sugar will go out in your urine, too. This is a good way to eliminate it – or is it? Actually it isn’t because the kidney is damaged along the way.

Your only solution is to take the steps necessary to lower your blood sugar. It’s not rocket science. It’s simple physiology.

Blood sugar is deposited on nerves throughout the body.  This is why people get peripheral neuropathy. When excess blood sugar goes to the eyes, you get cataracts. When it goes to the area of the penis, then blood sugar gets deposited on the nerves of the penis.

This ends up interfering with how the penis works, just as when a person has peripheral neuropathy and can’t feel where his feet are in space.

If you value your sex life, start making the changes that have to be made to reverse your diabetes.

The top five changes are:

1. Lose weight if you are overweight.

2. Take sugar and sweeteners out of your diet.

3. Start exercising.

4. Start monitoring your blood sugar level with a blood sugar kit daily… so you can identify what’s getting you off track.

5. Consider using supplements and herbs.

1. Start exercising.

2. Start making dietary changes.

To start exercising, you may want to kick-off with a simple 15 or 20-minute walk the dog session every day. This is a relatively easy thing to do and you will increase the bonding you have to your dog, man’s best friend.

When you start exercising, the good thing that happens is the muscles start taking up the blood sugar out of the blood. This is exactly what you need. Insulin resistance is seen in pre-diabetics and it means the muscles are stubbornly refusing to take in the blood sugar. This is why insulin levels end up so high – the pancreas tries to take extra measures to get the blood sugar into the cells, and insulin is a hormone that allows blood sugar to enter cells.

Even if you simply jump up and down for 2 minutes about 30 minutes after you eat, you will get the blood sugar into the muscle cells. The type of exercise really doesn’t matter much; it’s the exercise that is responsible for the change in blood sugar levels.

Exercise trains your body to put the blood sugar in the cells where it belongs.

Research studies show Type 2 diabetics who don’t exercise have higher blood sugar levels than those who do. So plan your exercise for the week today.

 Next is diet. If all you did was remove foods from your home that have sugar and artificial sweeteners in them, you’ll be making a huge step towards reversing your pre-diabetes.

And the beauty of this is that you will also be losing weight.

Hyper means too much. Hypo means too little. The word glycemia means blood sugar.

So hyperglycemia means blood sugar too high. Hypoglycemia means blood sugar too low.

It’s important to know the difference… because if you start monitoring your blood sugar levels now, you’ll have to evaluate whether or not your blood sugar is in the normal blood sugar range, too high or too low, even if you aren’t giving yourself any insulin injections.

Normal blood sugar level is 80 to 120 mg/dl (4.4 to 6.7 mmol/L). High blood sugar is anything out of this range. Low blood sugar level is 70 mg/dl (3.9 mmol/L).

When blood sugar levels are out of the normal range, you’ll feel symptoms. Low blood sugar causes symptoms such as headaches, dizziness, aggressiveness, shakes, irritability, moodiness, anger outbursts, hunger, cravings for foods you know you shouldn’t eat, depression, passing out, anxiety, fatigue, and even the sweats.

You’ll also potentially feel as if you can’t concentrate on whatever it is you are doing. It’s interesting to know that every mental disorder symptom such as psychosis, schizophrenic hallucinations, and others can be found in the low blood sugar zone. These symptoms are more likely to happen when someone has low blood sugar.

Blood sugar levels that are too low can lead to coma and death.

High blood sugar causes fatigue and the feeling that you want to rest. You lack any motivation to do anything. Blood sugar levels that are too high can lead to coma and death.

Thus, you only have three numbers to remember for blood sugar: 70, 80, and 120.

One of the first questions is this: what’s the difference between pre-diabetes and Type 2 diabetes?

The answer is that pre-diabetes is considered a preliminary stage of diabetes. The blood sugar level is obviously elevated from the normal range of 80 to 100 mg/dl (4.4 to 5.5 mmol/L), and is over 100 mg/dl (5.5 mmol/L). However, it’s not yet at 150 mg/dl (8.3 mmol/L).

Almost all cases of pre-diabetes can be reversed if you take steps when it’s at this stage.

With a diagnosis of pre-diabetes, the doctor most likely asked the patient to take a class in diet for diabetes. This is because diet still remains the #1 method to reverse pre-diabetes. And it’s quite effective, too.

Does it mean you’ll be giving up sugary foods? Well, if you want to reverse pre-diabetes, then the answer is yes. If you want to indulge in sweets for a few more years, then maybe you’ll change your mind after you’re prescribed medications such as Metformin and start noticing side effects. Or maybe you’ll change your mind ten years later when you’re scheduled for an amputation. Sugar feeds bacteria, you know, and diabetics are more prone to develop infections that won’t heal.

It’s definitely something to think about now.

The best water for your body is purified water. This means the water has to be run through a carbon filter to remove chemicals and pesticides. Tap water is purified to an extent but it needs to be purified more, right at your tap. This is why many people have resorted to point-of-use filters.

Point-of-use filters are water filters attached to the kitchen faucet. There are many varieties of these filters. The simplest filter removes only particulate matter from the water flowing through the faucet. Surprisingly, even large particles of paper can be found in the tap water. The local water company tries its best to get these out of the water but a certain amount are still left in the water.

This simple filter isn’t enough to purify your water. You see, water has chlorine added to it for purification at the water company and this chlorine needs to be removed because it is linked to heart disease. As a Type 2 diabetic, you can’t take a chance that you will develop heart disease; diabetes already sets you up for it.

So you need that basic carbon filter from a point-of-use water filtration system.

Carbon has been used for many years in the military as a method to purify water from chemicals. It’s safe. But there’s something else you have to remember – you have to replace the carbon filter from time to time. When you read the instructions on your filter, do follow their recommendations. Otherwise, the carbon filter becomes so saturated with chemicals that it cannot do its work any more.

Shower filters are another good way to purify your water. It is said by experts you get more water into your body via breathing the water vapor in the shower than drinking so make sure you get a carbon filter for your shower as well.

These two steps will start to restore your health.

But there’s one more thing to do: bless the water before you drink it or use it in cooking. Studies actually show that blessing the water changes its molecular structure! All for the good!

But take a look at your face in the mirror right now. Do you notice the corners of your mouth are drooping? Are there deep crevices that look like you are frowning?

If so, this gives us an indication we need to smile more.

Make a list of all the things that make you happy. Don’t stop until you fill an entire page of things that make you happy.

Here’s an example:

1. Observing puppies.
2. Observing babies and making a baby laugh.
3. Watching a sunset with a loved one.
4. Getting a promotion.
5. Making an achievement or accomplishment.
6. Seeing a blood sugar reading in the normal range.
7. Reading a funny book.
8. Watching a funny movie.
9. Telling jokes to a child.
10. Sleeping in a bed with fresh linens and freshly washed blankets.

The more things you can put on this list, the better off you are going to be. The reason why is that when a time comes and something makes you not so happy, it’s time to pull out the list and start engaging in some of these activities.

For example, let’s say the worst happens. A friend dies. Now this is a time for grief, but what if our culture has instilled in us the idea this grieving should go on for a very long time? What if we could leave the grieving for only a few days and then get back to our purpose in life?

Negative emotions will never contribute to health so the quicker you can get out of them, the better off you will be.

Set aside a few hours to feel the loss, and then follow it with the joy of what that person brought to your life. Even if the relationship wasn’t particularly good, that person delivered gifts to you. Decide what the treasures are.

Then go to your list. If your list includes some of the things on the above list, schedule a time to go to the library to get some funny books, stop off at the pet store and observe puppies, and come home to wash your bedding. Do at least three things that make you happy.

When you do this, you re-engage the neural pathways in your brain that remind you that you feel happy. You can get off the track of feeling bad.

Let me know what’s on your list!

Dropping them cold is certain to cause problems, so don’t go cold turkey. Because of the caffeine content, you can’t just stop them – unless you want a really bad headache that makes you want to give up the pursuit of removing these drinks from your diet.

Your best way is to wean yourself off them. How many cans are you drinking each day? If you’re drinking 2 cans a day, give yourself 3 weeks to wean off them completely. Here’s a sample weaning diet:

Day 1 … 2 cans
Day 2 … 1-1/2 cans (Start getting used to pouring out the other half can down the drain.)
Day 5 … 1 can
Day 10… ½ can
Day 14… ½ can three times a week
Day 20… None at all

If you’re consuming 1 can a day, you can opt for this method:

Week 1 … Choose 5 days a week to have your can of pop.
Week 2 … Choose 3 days a week to have your can of pop.
Week 3 … No more pop.

You can do it!

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