diabetes-know your risks

Diabetes - Know Your Risks

Preface / Introduction

I received a call a couple months ago. Would I be interested in campaigning for The CanadianDiabetes Northern Alberta Campaign which runs April 7th to May 2nd Being that I presentlyvolunteer for the Heart & Stroke Foundation, it was an easy decision.

It was not based from personal experience, but rather from people I know, who live with diabetes.This ebook contains some tips, as well as some advice from a person very well familiar with thistopic. I am just grateful that I am healthy and have the ability to go out for a stroll in theneighbourhood, get some exercise and socialize a bit (providing they open their door) Having apurpose makes it all that much more enjoyable.

I dedicate this ebook to my former fellow co-worker, Doug, who will never read this, unless Ihand-deliver a copy to him, as he despises those silly computers and internet nonsense. He suffereda stroke from complications due to diabetes, and never came back to work. That was (7) years ago. Iremember it well. We stopped in the hospital to visit Doug just after his stroke, en-route to theformal ceremony in which I was to receive my black-belt in Taekwondo. At this time, Doug wasunable to speak yet, and had limited movement of one arm. His wife, Brenda, communicated forhim. I know, with almost a certainty, had he been able to communicate, he would have wished megood luck, then look at me in that certain way he did (as only a former Park Ranger could), andasked this question…just who did I bribe, or pay-off, to receive my black-belt.

It seemed so ironic that I was going to “claim my reward” for something I had to work at, for 8years, to achieve, and, it was just the beginning of the hard work ahead for Doug to learn how tospeak again, to move again. Seven years have passed, and Doug, the hunter-gatherer, always with agood story about his adventures, a co-worker I respected, and a confidante; always the trooper, hascome so far, and is able to drive with a special device installed, his dog takes him for walks or trikerides, and the trio are still able to travel.

But diabetes did leave its mark.

When I mentioned the campaign to Dr. Lant, I thought I sensed some trepidation, I can only surmiseas, while it’s good to get the word out, the internet is lightning speed to the masses, compared tocold-calling, and, if anyone knows about diabetes, or getting the word out, it would be Dr. Lant.

To have the ability send out a message that will reach millions, as opposed to the few, via theinternet, is great; albeit, not everyone is fond of computers, or the internet. I recall Doug calling me,utterly frustrated, because the spreadsheet that we enter our data into, just disappeared, nowhere tobe found. Our conversation would go something like this...

Me - “what do you see?” -

Doug - “nothing. I see nothing. I clicked everywhere, and I see nothing.”

Me - “do you see a hammer nearby, or any other blunt instruments in the room?”

Doug - “no”

Me - “good to know. Now take your mouse, go to the bottom left hand side of the screen……”

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Table of Contents

1. I chose life... and so should you. 347,000,000 adults now diagnosed with diabetes. How one man'sstory can help you at once! 2. 'I don't want her, you can have her; she's too fat for me!' (So is he!) 3. What Is Stage 2 High Blood Pressure

I chose life... and so should you. 347,000,000 adults nowdiagnosed with diabetes. How one man's story can help youat once! By Dr. Jeffrey Lant

The number of adults with diabetes worldwide has more than doubled in three decades, to anestimated 347 million a new study says. The study, led by Goodarz Danaei of the Harvard School ofPublic Health and Majid Ezzati of Imperial College, London, analyzed diabetes data from 1980 to2008. Their analysis found that 153 million people had diabetes in 1980; this number had swelled to347 million in 2008.

Much of that increase is due to aging populations -- since diabetes typically hits in middle age -- andpopulation growth, but part of it has also been fueled by rising obesity rates.

With numbers climbing almost everywhere, experts said the disease is no longer limited to richcountries and is now a global problem. Countries in which the numbers rose fastest include CapeVerde, Samoa, Saudi Arabia, Papua New Guinea, and the United States.

More alarming news.

These figures do not reflect the generations of overweight children and young adults who have yet toreach middle age. This will create a massive burden on already severely challenged health systems.

The most alarming news of all... Each of these people could take charge of their disease, but toooften don't, thereby triggering even graver health problems.

"A disease of the mouth."

I like to say, tongue firmly in cheek, that diabetes is a disease of the mouth: open mouth, insertenough of the wrong things, get disease and all its myriad of complications. I should know; I'm oneof the world's aging diabetics. Now 64, I was diagnosed about 50.

The day my blunt, most direct physician delivered the news he asked me one question: "Do youwant to live longer or shorter?" I chose longer; he then laid on me exactly what I needed to do toachieve the objective of more time and that of the highest quality. While hardly an ideal patient, Iwas more than willing to make the necessary changes in diet and lifestyle. Not only willing butcommitted and determined to do so. Once over 205 chunky pounds, my 5' 10 1/2" frame is now alean 157 pounds... with all other numbers appropriate; something to write home about, especiallysince I can wear the same trousers I wore in graduate school 40 years ago! Can you?

What I have learned along the way.

I want to say, right from the get-go, that I am NOT playing physician here; you need to consultyours at regular intervals as I do. Still, diabetes seems to me a disease tailor-made for personalmanagement. There are things, lots of things, you can do to improve your situation. Here's whatworks for me:

1) Take ownership of your disease and decide whether you want to gamble with your life by doinglittle or nothing.

The great thing about diabetes is that its improvement or deterioration is very much in your hands. Ifyou take charge in a positive, pro-active manner you are going to improve. if you persist in fightingyour diagnosis and what you can do, right at home, too, you won't. In other words, you can be adult

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about it... or select adolescent petulance.

2) Don't try to change everything overnight; do start making changes at once. Remember, diabetesand what you do to manage it is a marathon, not a sprint. This is a disease without (just yet) a cure;it's a disease that's with you sleeping and waking. You cannot, therefore, do something today andthen ignore it. With diabetes you're fighting a war, not a battle. Treat it accordingly.

3) Clean out your cupboards... clean out your refrigerator.

If you don't have readily at hand the destructive things... the high sugar drinks, the cakes and bakerygoods... all the things that work against your success and create long-term problems, so much thebetter.

If you don't have readily at hand the bad things and have to make a special effort to go out and getthem, you will, perforce, ingest less.

4) Don't think in terms of diets and deprivations. Think in terms of the additional life and time you'regetting.

We live in a culture that screams "I want this and I want this NOW!" We are all influenced by the"I'm worth it and I'm going to have it" mentality. Thus you need practical ways to overcome theseinsidious influences.

To start with, never call what you're doing a "diet". Diets are about depriving yourself; think insteadof buying your life back from the pawn shop. When you eat bad things you're cutting time off yourlife; when you make the necessary changes, you buy yourself back.

5) Count to 10.

Before you drink that sugary concoction or take another bite of your favorite confection, count to10. This gives your brain time to remind you that you probably can live without the indiscretion youare about to make. The sequence goes like this: want. stop. count to 10.

Now, if you do this and still eat the offending morsel, even two, don't collapse with guilt andrecrimination. Just resolve to do better next time... because you can be sure there WILL be a nexttime, and many such.

6) Eat all day.

Still eating big, set meals that leave you breathless and bloated? These constitute an assault on thebody. Stop it now!

Instead eat frequently throughout the day, small portions that satisfy and which your previouslyoverworked body can handle.

Start eating fresh fruit... nuts... small snacks of maximum protein and nutrition, minimum sugars,calories, carbohydrates. Make the portions small but make their ingestion frequent. Your bodyknows its work. Don't overfeed... graze instead. All day long.

7) Make breakfast your most important meal.

You've got a lot to accomplish today. You're going to need a lot of energy and stamina. Thus, youmust make breakfast your most important meal. Don't even dream of stinting here. Breakfastconstitutes the launching pad for a successful day. Treat it accordingly. By comparison never, evereat your biggest meal at the end of the day or evening. Your body can't handle it and shouldn't haveto try.




Before bed, give yourself a snack, fruit (raisons are always a treat), popcorn. You get the idea. Go tobed satisfied, sleep satisfied, wake up in productive good humor.

You'll start seeing -- and feeling -- results at once.

The great thing about managing your diabetes is that if you follow these sensible suggestions, you'llstart seeing results at once. For one thing (and very gratifying it is) your weight will start to drop...reverting to your body's natural weight. And as you see and feel that occurring, you'll be spurred tokeep on truckin', towards the Promised Land.

As you go, as you achieve results, reward yourself. You deserve it, not least because you are doingwhat every one of the 347 million afflicted should be doing... but aren't. Now that you are on yourway to success, print this article and share it with a friend. It's one of the privileges of your improvedsituation and state of mind. Use it... and help someone you know and love. Someday they'll throwtheir arms around you and tell you you saved their life. And it'll be true...




'I don't want her, you can have her; she's too fat for me!' (Sois he!)By Dr. Jeffrey Lant

Author's program note. This article will have more impact if you listen first to Arthur Godfrey's "Toofat polka". Godfrey, one of the nation's first television talk masters (d. 1983), was assuredly not anice guy. But he could both get to the point.and had at the ready the cutting line that leaves thevictim breathless... and an audience laughing at the shear audacity of the words. These talents wereshowcased in his very catchy "Too fat polka" with its signature line, "You can have her, I don't wanther, she's too fat for me". An unlikely hit in 1947, it was written by Ross MacLean and ArthurRichardson. Listen to it a time or two before you read this article. You can easily find it in anysearch engine. Then get prepared to polka... while I roll out a barrel of fat.

Have you looked at yourself lately, I mean really put yourself under a microscope and scrutinizedwhat was before you? If you're seeing oleaginous rolls where you should be showcasing lean meat,you are part of the problem... and today must make the decision to become part of the solution.

Let me share just three things with you about fat...

1) It's disgusting. I don't care what your (terminally obese) friend Trudy says about yourembonpoint.The extra flesh that you're packing is disgusting. You know it (even though you keepmanaging to delude yourself)... and every single person who looks at you knows it, too... and theydon't delude themselves about what they're seeing, the way you do.

... they just utter the devastating, involuntary, withering observation "Wow, that mamma is FAT!"That hurts when you know that mamma (or daddy) is... you.

2) It's not a problem caused by the prevalence of food... it's a problem caused by you, the personshoveling the calories down your throat. Last time I checked, we each had the ability to close mouthand stop problem. If you're fat, if you're obese, you're the lad or lassie who did the damage,destroying yourself and your lithesome lines, one bite at a time.

3) You are killing yourself. Fat... like sugar... like salt... is not a little problem; a trifling matter;something that gets a little slap on the wrist. Let's be candid with each other, or we're never going tostart solving this endemic problem. Fat kills. And, as you shovel those calories into an alreadyoverburdened body, you are acting as your own torturer and executioner.

Another study shows...

Before I tell you the results of the latest, really alarming study on this matter, I have this to say aboutstudies: "Enough already!" Since as long as I can remember (and for the record I'm the same age asGodfrey's hit tune) the nation's highest health authorities have been studying this problem to death.The studies all say the same thing: problem bad, problem worse than the last time we reported, morepeople slipping into obesity and all the problems that brings. I feel like Jackie DeShannon in her1965 hit "What the World Needs Now." "Lord we don't need another mountain. There are mountainsand hillsides enough to climb..."

We don't need another study either... We need -- action... and we need it yesterday. But since thestudy authors no doubt worked hard to produce the latest tome on this subject, I'll share the resultswith you.

According to a report released July 7, 2010 by the Trust for America's Health and the Robert WoodJohnson Foundation, obesity rates climbed at least 90 percent in 17 states from 1995 until 2010.




Here are their chief findings:

Item: nine of the 10 states with the highest obesity rates are in the South, led by Mississippi at 34.4percent. That means that a little more than 1 in 3 Mississippians is obese. On this basis, the stateshould be designated a disaster area... and the National Guard positioned to get citizens out of theirrefrigerators as the #1 priority.

Item: Alabama and West Virginia followed Mississippi in the "worst" states category. These threestates also lead the nation in diabetes and high blood pressure. Michigan was listed 10th at 30.5percent.

Item: Medicare and Medicaid, the nation's public health plans, each spend more than 20 percent oftheir budget to treat illnesses which are avoidable medical risks. Let's rewrite this in laymen'slanguage Joe Sixpack can understand: you and the rest of Obese America are eating more, eatingless wisely, less nutritiously... as a result you're transcending fat, achieving obesity in recordnumbers at record speed, and then expecting the government to save you from the mess you've madeof your body and your life.

Friend: when you see the facts well and truly, you've got to wonder why the remainder of thecitizens doesn't march on Washington and demand that those pandering congressmen stopsubsidizing these self-destructive people, taking our money to correct their problem. Outrageous!

More study facts.

The survey's authors dubbed a swath of 644 counties in 15 mostly southern states the "diabetes belt,"as reported in the Journal of Preventive Diseases. Colorado is the nation's slimmest state but still hasa 19.8 percent obesity rate. Here's the rub: Colorado had the second-smallest rise since 1995 BUTthat rate is still higher than Mississippi's was in 1995. This should concern the denizens of Vail, butprobably won't.

So, what's the definition of obesity anyway?

Obesity is defined as having a body mass index about 30. Thus, a 6 foot-tall adult male weighing221 pounds or more is considered obese, as is an adult woman standing 5 feet 6 inches tall,weighing 186 pounds or more, according to the National Institutes of Health. Such people -- andhere's the kicker -- are at a higher risk for diabetes and hypertension, according to the US Centers forDisease Control and Prevention.

False culprits...

Concerned Americans have drawn up a rapidly expanding list of the culprits. These include biggerservings and food consumed on the go. Such rapid consumption is bad for the body... and constitutesthe largest single change in the nation's food habits and ingestion over the last 20 years.

Lawmakers have chimed in with their best ideas: how about using taxes to influence eating habits?Maybe a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages (though this didn't make it into the 2010 health carelaw)?

But these are mere palliatives, not solutions. And every honest person engaged in the fight againstobesity knows it. What they also know is that personal responsibility and ownership of the problemare the keys, not least because America's financial condition is such that we cannot ask the wellpeople of the nation to subsidize those who chose rotten nutritional habits over common sense andthe benefits deriving from getting and maintaining ideal weight. If you're not doing this, YOU arethe culprit... and your first day of responsibility is today.

Chances are you, who know personally and so well the drawbacks of obesity, will yet do nothing to




correct them. That's why, a year or two from now, we'll be back at you with another report, a moreworrisome report... a report you'll ignore, just like you'll probably ignore this one. That's why "Youcan have him, I don't want him, he's too fat for me". (So is she.)




What Is Stage 2 High Blood PressureStage 2 blood pressure is not something that should be taken lightly. If your blood pressure gets tothis point you may need to seek medical attention quickly. Now if that doesn?t get your attentionthen nothing will.

Stage 2 high blood pressure is when the systolic is 160 or over and the diastolic is 100 or over. Inmost cases when a person has a consistent one or the other and often both at the same time, needs tobe put on some type of medication.

This is kind of blood pressure can happen when the first stage of high blood pressure is not takencare of. This condition is like any other type of condition you may get on your body.

For instance, if you get a deep cut on your arm, and you put off getting it taken care of, then whathappens? It gets infected, and the cut gets worse and then other factors come into play.

That is exactly what has happened with stage 2 high blood pressure. Now not taking care of a cutcan lead to an infection, stage 2 high blood pressure can lead to more serious conditions if not takencare of. You are at risk of heart failure, chronic kidney failure, coronary artery disease, and diabetes.Now if you think you have problems if you have just high blood pressure, then get one or all ofthose conditions along with it. Then you have real problems.

Now along with medication there are ways to get your blood pressure down and also have youaround a lot longer. I?m sure that would make you happy and your loved ones as well. It is veryimportant that you exercise daily. It doesn?t matter if you join a gym, start taking karate lessons orjust walking everyday for at least twenty minutes. Just make sure you get up, get moving, and getyour heart pumping.

Get rid of some of the stress in your life. A lot of stress we have in our life is self inflicted. That justmeans we have brought this stress on our self and if we brought it on our self then we can get rid ofit as well. I know, it?s a lot easier said than done, however it can be done.

Then we have one of the biggest issues and that is watching what we eat. This can be very tough if aperson has been eating a certain way their whole life than they are told they have to change.However, that may be the reason why that person is in the condition they are in.

Just remember, if you do have this condition, it is not an automatic death sentence. However itcannot be taken lightly either, just make sure you get to the doctor, and follow some of the simplerules that are above and you will be fine.




ResourceAbout the Author Harvard-educated Dr. Jeffrey Lant is CEO of Worldprofit, Inc., providing a widerange of online services for small and-home based businesses. He is also the author of 18 best-sellingbusiness books.

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