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6277. thoughtful - 9/10/2004 12:48:41 AM While drugs may clearly be important for diabetics, weight loss by following a balanced diet with controlled carb intake and adding exercise, preferably 10 min walk after every meal is probably the best thing one can do for oneself.
Also, some have found alpha lipoic acid helpful with nerve damage that accompanies diabetes. 6278. Bill Russell - 9/10/2004 5:11:34 AM Try cinnamon. It's cheap and it tastes great. 6279. thoughtful - 9/10/2004 5:32:52 AM it's cheap, tastes great, but can't undo years of damage by excess insulin floating in the system which causes metabolic aging. Remember it takes a lot of abuse of the system for it to finally break down into type 2 diabetes. and no amount of cinnamon is going to undo that. and no amount of cinnamon can make up for the essential elements you aren't getting in a high carb diet. 6280. Bill Russell - 9/10/2004 5:45:25 AM Yup! 6281. arkymalarky - 9/10/2004 9:32:21 AM Bob is at the peak of his health after 8 months with diet and exercise. Not that people should abuse themselves that long, but lifestyle changes can work on health problems relatively quickly compared to how long it took them to develop in the first place.
You can eat a lot of complex carbohydrates on a diabetic diet, too. It's a very balanced and healthy diet if you emphasize healthy carbs. They do not advise low-carb like Atkins and warn patients against it. 6282. Bill Russell - 9/10/2004 2:47:35 PM "re that toilet bowl thing, the myth busters busted that myth. bathroom bacteria seems to make its way to toothbrushes wherever they are, even those that haven't been anywhere near a bathroom."
One of the great mysteries of the world ..... IF true.
6283. concerned - 9/11/2004 2:07:45 PM Speaking of exercise, today I was able to do an overhead press with a York barbell loaded to 185 lb. Not completely shabby for a 49 1/2 year old guy who has barely touched a free weight in 21 years. The exercise machine at work is a joke. I was able to press the military press stack (supposedly 295 lb) while seated ten times without popping a sweat.
As much as exercising with free weights bored me when I did it in my '20's, I think there's nothing quite as effective at building real strength, so I'll make an effort to get back into it before I qualify for senior citizen discounts. 6284. concerned - 9/11/2004 2:16:15 PM Re. 6266 -
That sounds like great news. I was getting close to being 'glucose resistant', so anything easy to use that keeps the blood sugar down is worth a try. Recently, I've been taking a chromium supplement while cutting down on foods that have high glycemic indexes and I think that's already helped. 6285. Bill Russell - 9/11/2004 5:58:41 PM I wish you every success, concerned. I know it is not fun. 6286. rebelwithacause - 9/13/2004 8:28:02 AM I am not a vegetarian, but I keep thinking I should be. Surely vegetarians who don't eat refined sugars and other processed foods, don't have the problems with diabetes that others do.
Is anyone here a vegetarian, or one who doesn't eat the products of dead animals? I mean eggs and milk products would be from live animals. 6287. arkymalarky - 9/13/2004 9:48:44 AM I've known people who were (Chelsea Clinton was) but I can't remember anything they said about pros and cons health-wise.
In my husband's case wrt type ii diabetes, he flat ate too much, and way too much "fast food" in a two-year period when he was constantly on the go and highly stressed. 6288. wonkers2 - 9/13/2004 10:26:09 AM Since the publicity on Clinton's heart by-pass, I've been experiencing [or imagining] symptoms similar to his--pains due to acid re-flux [or something else???]. Right now I'm waiting it out to see if it goes away. Recently I had a really bad case of bursitis in my right elbow. But by the time I could get an appointment (4 weeks--you'd think I was in Canada) it had pretty well disappeared so I did my bit to keep health care costs down and cancelled the appointment. 6289. concerned - 9/13/2004 12:28:03 PM Re. 6286 -
That should certainly help. I suspect one of the big culprits regarding Type II diabetes is the large reliance on 'high fructose corn syrup' in processed foods, although processed food manufacturers have generally been moving away from it within the last year, I presume for this same reason. Some studies have shown that the fructose only sweetening elevates blood triglycerides and raises the incidence of Type II diabetes in (for instance) women who drink non diet pop. Since learning this, I've virtually sworn off non-diet pop and drink 100% fruit drinks which I sometimes dilute 1:1 with flavored soda water. I actually like to drink this concoction more than the straight fruit juice in many cases.
It's interesting that manufacturers who a year ago were sweetening breakfast cereals almost exclusively with high fructose corn syrup have switched en masse to sugar, honey, etc. I observed this trend myself. Anybody who has any cereal boxes from a year or more ago vs the same cereal sold today can probably verify this for themselves. 6290. rebelwithacause - 9/13/2004 12:32:14 PM "have switched en masse to sugar, honey, etc."
The sugar is processed sugar, not brown sugar and the honey may show as an ingredient, but at the end which means very small amounts. 6291. rebelwithacause - 9/13/2004 2:26:22 PM Mental Health:
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Gay students are offered special college scholarships
- LISA LEFF, Associated Press Writer
Monday, September 13, 2004
(09-13) 17:00 PDT BERKELEY, Calif. (AP) --
Alyn Libman won a $15,000-a-year scholarship to the University of California at Berkeley with a resume that showed more than just Libman's athletic achievement and academic potential.
It also showed years of ridicule, beatings and threats, along with Libman's decision to become a boy in 11th grade.
"It felt amazing to actually be embraced by someone who didn't just dismiss me for being different," said Libman, a 19-year-old aspiring civil rights lawyer and the first transgendered person to win a scholarship from The Point Foundation, a Chicago nonprofit organization that has awarded more than $1 million to college-bound gays since 2002.
For those seeking financial aid to attend college, it doesn't necessarily hurt to be gay or transgender. An increasing number of charities, professional groups and universities offer scholarships on the basis of sexual orientation.
More than 50 such scholarships are available nationwide -- from the $1,000 scholarships that Zami, an advocacy group in Atlanta, is giving to 21 black gays this year, to the $2,000 awards the United Church of Christ distributed to gay seminarians, and the $3,000 fellowships George Washington University administers so gays can spend a semester studying politics in the nation's capital.
Many of these organizations recognize that youngsters who come out of closet are sometimes cut off by their families and suffer financially because of it.
6292. alistairconnor - 9/13/2004 7:31:33 PM I have been a vegetarian for nearly twenty years -- more accurately, I was a vegetarian until about six months ago, I eat meat when it's offered these days.
I've always eaten eggs, and an excessive amount of cheese, and fish.
(I'm not sure if I'm a lapsed vegetarian, a non-practising vegetarian, a backslider, a renegade, or what. We'll see.)
I eat mostly organic food, and avoid highly refined and processed stuff. I have no intention of changing that.
I've always enjoyed excellent health. We'll see about that too. 6293. thoughtful - 9/13/2004 9:06:36 PM your body can only see 3 basic food groups...protein, fat and sugar. it makes no difference whether the sugar is from corn syrup, white or brown sugar or fresh fruit. your body can only lay down fat in the presence of insulin. anything that causes an insulin rush and maintaining high levels of insulin will all potentially lead to clogged arteries and insulin resistance...what doctors are now calling syndrome x.
Being vegetarian doesn't necessarily help as you can avoid meat and still eat a high sugar diet...fruits, starchy vegetables, fruit juices, etc.
rather, it is important to make sure you get sufficient protein..whether from animal or nonanimal sources, get a balance of fats including omega-3 and saturated fats while avoiding transfats, and adjust carbo intake to regulate your weight...exercisers can eat more carbs than a desk jockey. Finally, because of their importance in providing fiber and important minerals and vitamins with very low calories, it's important to have nonstarchy vegetables at every meal. 6294. thoughtful - 9/13/2004 9:57:48 PM the above is based on the . Schwarzbein is an endocrinologist who, through experimentation with herself and observance of her patients along with current scientific understanding of how nutrition impacts the body, has developed this plan.6295. thoughtful - 9/13/2004 9:58:04 PM
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6296. alistairconnor - 9/13/2004 10:14:03 PM I wasn't particularly commenting on diabetes. I don't eat a lot of high-sugar foods though. In particular, avoiding processed foods surely helps because they add sugar to just about everything.
In general, although I'm very open and curious about food and cuisine, I have a very conservative attitude to what I ingest on a regular basis. Although high-quality meat exists, the run-of-the-mill stuff carries a charge of hormones, antibiotics, GMO feedstock, and other stuff which I have absolutely no use for.
This is of course a good reason for prefering organics too. Though obviously not guaranteed to be free of contaminants (having been grown on the same planet), they carry a much lower dose, and traceability, in general, is very good.
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