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Last Updated: Jul 11th, 2008 - 19:38:32 |
The Atkins Diet and Diabetes
The usual American diet is one that's filled with processed foods with sugars and processed carbohydrates consumed on a daily basis.
Since this is the familiar way of eating in the States, it is not so much questioned except that staying on this road leads to the development of diabetes.
This means most Americans are on the road to an unhealthy diet leading to pre-diabetic conditions, and worse, diabetes itself.
This runs counter to common health sense since, if one is well informed, the stages and causes of how one's diet contributes to diabetes can be spotted early.
The path to developing diabetes involves the glycemic index. Every carbs listed on the glycemic index is marked along with the insulin reaction level they produce.
Eat something ranking high on the index will certainly cause your own pancreas to cop out a great deal of insulin in order to break down sugars and carbs. This also produces high quantities of glucose. American fast food diet contains refined carbs and sugars that rank high on the glycemic index.
As children, we used to be capable of digesting most our foods, since our bodily functions were more efficient during our younger years. Yes, some effects of eating a lot were there, like mood swings and gaining pounds.
But as kids, these things were treated as normal. As adults, however, these effects take on a different attitude. Obesity is an epidemic given the American diet of high carbs and unstable levels of blood sugar.
Most overweight people are also resistant to insulin. This resistance means that insulin is ineffective in taking out glucose from the bloodstream.
As said before, an overworked pancreas jets out a lot of insulin, sometimes twenty times more so than what the body usually needs. The outcome is extremely low levels of blood sugar, which in turn makes one's body release a lot of adrenaline for correcting low levels of blood sugar.
Age serves to aggravate the levels of insulin hardships and blood sugar difficulties. This is termed 'hypersinulism,' and it known as the pre-stage for Type II diabetes. This is usually accompanied by high triglycerides and also high blood pressure.
Full blown diabetes sets in after many years of being on a continuous high carbs diet. Insulin is really our body's prime creator of fat, and diabetes is known to be accompanied by weight gain, and obesity in some. This entails that pre-diabetic stages can be addressed, otherwise, staying on the high carbs path leads to full diabetes.
Your own doctor can check you up, and do insulin level exams, so you'd know if you're at risk for pre-diabetes symptoms. In conjunction with medical checkups, what you can do is try out low carb diet plans, like the Atkins diet.
Atkins is the polar opposite of a pre-diabetes condition. Atkins seeks to control your blood sugar level. When adhered to, it can swing you away from developing full-blown diabetes.
The antithesis of the high carbs American fast food diet, Atkins combines proteins, good carbs, and fats to prevent your body from sliding in to diabetes.
The effect of curbing carbs limits your spikes of insulin levels. Lower insulin means your own pancreas can recover and perform as it should be. Atkins also tends to curb down your hunger, cutting your cycle of eating too much.
This means that Atkins both reduces your hunger and keeps you off the path of what is the eventual outcome of the American diet: diabetes and obesity.
Always consult with your doctor before starting any weight loss program.
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