What causes type 2 Diabetes?
While type 1 diabetes is a genetic issue where the body doesn't produce enough or any insulin, research and experience is showing that Type 2 Diabetes is a preventable and reversible illness. The cause is insulin resistance, and insulin resistance is a result of poor dietary and activity choices. When your cells have too much fat in them, and not enough activity to burn that fat, they turn away insulin trying to get more stored in there. The receptors are literally turned off. Conventional medicine still treats the symptoms instead of the cause with medication and insulin injections, but this is a bandaid solution and does not reverse the problem.
Trying to reverse insulin resistance by lowering your carbohydrate intake may seem intuitive, but is not the only answer. Reducing sugar intake gives your insulin a break, and may reduce some of those unnecessary fat stores, but your body also needs to move,and needs plant based food for fiber, antioxidant, and complex carbs rich in macro and micro nutrients. Carbs are getting a bad rap, but we need carbohydrates! High intake of fatty foods can cause just as many issues as too much candy and soda. We need to get back to an intuitive way of eating: what makes me feel my best and what do I need to be healthy?
If you think of your body as a car and your cells as the gas tank, you are going to need to burn up the gas before putting more gas in the tank, Also if you find out you're putting bad gas in the tank you wouldn't take a pill to make more room and continue putting in bad gas. You would put in the right amounts of the right kind of gas, right? Let's take the same amount of care of our bodies as we do our cars!
End type 2 diabetes, solve the dietary problem with a better diet, not pills!
Intuitive Eating
Wonder: what does my body need?
Whole: replace refined carbs with whole foods and eliminate excess fat
Wait: eat slowly, as you eat be mindful of what makes you feel good and when you feel satisfied
What you gain: wise food mind and healthy body
Whole: replace refined carbs with whole foods and eliminate excess fat
Wait: eat slowly, as you eat be mindful of what makes you feel good and when you feel satisfied
What you gain: wise food mind and healthy body
