Sugars and Diabetes Connection

Hello Everyone in Natural Health Nation-

I hope that you had a great Labor Day weekend and were able to relax a bit. I talked to several patients this morning and their complaint was the weekend was too busy, as most weekends are. The weather sure was nice even though it was a little hot, but we know this won’t continue and the temperatures will start going down a bit. Hopefully we will have a nice long fall that stays somewhat warm but we will see. I had an uncle that used to work at a LP gas company. They had watched the temperatures over the years and they average out. So, if you have a really hot summer, you would normally have a cold winter. But if the summer was more moderate, you have a more moderate winter. With the busy weekend and some of the beverages people consumed, don’t forget to stay hydrated and that means good quality water and electrolytes which are basically sea salt or mineral salt. We are still using a lot of our product called Cal-Amo that helps people with muscle spasms and leg cramps and that tired feeling of being wore out after being outside.

Our health shops are going well and I’m looking forward to next Monday. This month were talking about the major degenerative diseases that plague our country and next Monday we will talk about Diabetes. I was talking to someone else over the weekend who had made a dessert for the cookoutshe was headed to and she told me that she doesn’t eat the desserts but others do a lot. I explained that I wish people would understand the connection between eating a lot of refined sugars and carbohydrates and how that wears out the pancreas over time, which can then be diagnosed as Diabetes because of the lack of insulin being produced. Not only is the refined sugar something the body has never had before its invention, but the refining process takes out all the minerals and fiber and other nutrients that are normally in foods that contain some sugars. It’s not that the sugar itself is particularly bad, it’s just that the process of refining it and making everything so sweet, and addictive by the way, that the body can just not handle all that sugar. Something to think about.

The article that I’m sending along today looks at the difference between animal protein sources and plant protein sources. Of course, our bodies do better with animal sources of proteins because our bodies are an animal or mammal being. People think that whatever they buy and put in their mouth automatically goes to where it is supposed to. And people that had a good digestive system, that may be true but most don’t. This is especially true for folks after age 35 to 40 when their ability to produce the correct stomach acid starts to wane. All those folks out there that are on proton pump inhibitors and taking ant- acids like candy, and there are a lot of them, will age a lot faster as are not absorbing the food nutrition that they’re eating. Their symptoms of acid reflux might be better, but at what cost. It’s so important to look at the cause of the condition rather than just treat symptoms. Symptoms are like the red light on the dashboard of your car, the body is asking for help. But if you’re just putting black tape over it, like taking medication, the car eventually will stop running. I just feel that people rely on doctors too much and don’t think about how the body works. This is what we specialize in here at Natural Health, looking at underlying causes of problems and getting the body to work correctly so that it can heal itself, as it has done for thousands of years. 

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Dr. Mark