Diabetes and The Cause of A Worldwide Epidemic
Posted: 11/29/2011 10:01:34 AM
By: Global Administrator | with: 2comments
Think twice before reaching for the 3 C's: carbs, chemicals, and Colas, because you might have Diabetes already! Diabetes continues to reach epidemic proportions as the western lifestyle takes a hold all over the world. New figures are showing that 350 million people worldwide now suffer with diabetes. This number has more than doubled in the past three decades.
Even as the American lifestyle plants its roots in a vast number of countries around the world, diabetes figures for the U.S. are rising at two times the rate of western Europe. An alarming statistic from the American Diabetes Association shows that 79 million are pre-diabetic (called metabolic syndrome). These people haven’t been diagnosed yet, but will be in the future. These are the modestly overweight, the obese, the un-fit, and those already having issues with blood pressure and cholesterol.
Diabetes is known to be one of the toughest disease processes to treat due the overwhelming number of symptoms that occur. The most significant and dangerous complication are:
- Heart Disease. Adults with diabetes have heart disease death rates 2-4 times higher than non-diabetics.
- Stroke
- High blood pressure
- Blindness. Diabetes is the leading cause of new cases of blindness in age group 20-70.
- Kidney Failure. Diabetes is the leading cause of kidney failure.
- Neuropathy. 60-70% of diabetics will have various levels of nervous system damage.
- Limb amputation
The total cost of diagnosed diabetes was 174 billion dollars in 2007. With rates of diabetes going through the roof, costs to treat this disease will continue to burden the financial system. The average diabetic patient in the current health care system is worth $250,000, meaning that is the amount of money the health care industry will make off one diabetic patient.
Type 2 diabetes used to be reserved for people over the age of 40. It used to be called adult onset diabetes. The name was changed to type 2 due to the rising number of children and teenagers that are being diagnosed every single year. Forty percent of all new diagnosed diabetes are children and teenagers between the ages of 10-17. One out of 3 children and teenagers are either overweight or obese which skyrockets the chances of diabetes. The numbers are out of control. Something obviously needs to change. What’s the solution? Is it gastric bypass surgery or more medications?
“You can throw all the diabetes drugs you want at them. If they are living the same lifestyle and eating the same foods, it’s a never-ending battle,” said Dr. John S. Steinberg, a foot and ankle specialist who is co-director of the Center for Wound Healing at Georgetown University. Most health care professions realize the need for a dynamic change in the way diabetes is treated.
What truly is needed is an introduction to the 5 Essentials of health which can be found at your local Maximized Living office today, pre-diagnosis. Maximized Living is a newer, better definition of health. We address causes long before the diagnosis occurs and it’s too late to treat. If you have the condition, addressing the cause by changing to a 5 Essential lifestyle and removing the interference is your best defense to healing and getting your life back.
Your ML doctor is part of a network of doctors around the world that are the only ones certified in the 5 Essentials. Learn the principles of where true health comes from and how to take the action steps to not only changing your life, but changing the lives of your family. Don’t become another statistic in the diabetes game, change the way you view and manage your health today.
1http://abcnews.go.com/Health/Diabetes/young-adult-diabetes/story?id=13918887&page=2
2http://www.diabetes.org/diabetes-basics/diabetes-statistics/
3http://health.msn.com/health-topics/diabetes/articlepage.aspx?cp-documentid=100273546