"Greed and dishonest science have promoted a lucrative worldwide epidemic of diabetes that honesty and good science can quickly reverse by naturally restoring the body's blood-sugar control mechanism"
Nexus Magazine, Volume 11, Number 4, 2004
Thomas Smith
Introduction
If you are a diabetic, your physician will never tell you that most cases of diabetes are curable. In fact, if you even mention the "cure" word around him, he will likely become upset and irrational. His medical school training only allows him to respond to the word "treatment". For him, the "cure" word does not exist. Type 2 diabetes, in its modern epidemic form, is a curable disease and has been for at least 40 years. In 2001, the most recent year for which US figures are posted, 934,550 Americans needlessly died from out-of-control symptoms of this disease.
Your physician will also never tell you that, at one time, strokes, both ischemic and hemorrhagic, heart failure due to neuropathy as well as both ischemic and hemorrhagic coronary events, obesity, atherosclerosis, elevated blood pressure, elevated cholesterol, elevated triglycerides, impotence, retinopathy, renal failure, liver failure, polycystic ovary syndrome, elevated blood sugar, systemic candida, impaired carbohydrate metabolism, poor wound healing, impaired fat metabolism, peripheral neuropathy as well as many more of today's disgraceful epidemic disorders were once well understood often to be but symptoms of diabetes.
If you contract diabetes and depend upon mainstream medical treatment, sooner or later you will experience one or more of its symptoms as the disease rapidly worsens. It is now common practice to refer to these symptoms as if they were separable, independent diseases with separate, unrelated treatments provided by competing medical specialists.
It is true that many of these symptoms can and sometimes do result from other causes; however, it is also true that this fact has been used to disguise the causative role of diabetes and to justify expensive, ineffective treatments for these symptoms.
Epidemic Type II diabetes is curable. By the time you get to the end of this book, you are going to know that. You're going to know why it isn't routinely being cured. And, you're going to know how to cure it. You are also probably going to be angry at what a handful of greedy people have surreptitiously done to the entire medical community and to its trusting patients.
Today's diabetes industry is a massive community that has grown step by step from its dubious origins in the early 20th century. In the last 80 years it has become enormously successful at shutting out competitive voices that attempt to point out the fraud involved in modern diabetes treatment. It has matured into a religion. And, like all religions, it depends heavily upon the faith of the believer. So successful has it become that it verges on blasphemy to suggest that, the kind high priest with the stethoscope draped prominently around his neck is a charlatan and a fraud. In the large majority of cases, he has never cured a single case of diabetes in his entire medical career.
The financial and political influence of this medical community has almost totally subverted the original intent of our regulatory agencies. They routinely approve death-dealing, ineffective drugs with insufficient testing. Former commissioner of the FDA, Dr Herbert Ley, in testimony before a US Senate hearing, commented: "People think the FDA is protecting them. It isn't. What the FDA is doing and what the public thinks it's doing are as different as night and day." 2
The financial and political influence of this medical community completely controls virtually every diabetes publication in the country. Many diabetes publications are subsidized by ads for diabetes supplies. No diabetes editor is going to allow the truth to be printed in his magazine. If a diabetes magazine starts putting up stories of how to cure your diabetes naturally, then what would be the point of having ads for drugs and supplies? Drug companies would stop sponsoring the magazine and it would go out of business. The only way the magazine can survive is by printing stories of how great the drugs are. This is why the diabetic only pays about one-quarter to one-third of the cost of printing the magazine he depends upon for accurate information. The rest is subsidized by diabetes manufacturers with a vested commercial interest in preventing diabetics from curing their diabetes. When looking for sources that tell the truth about diabetes, look first to see if it is full of ads for diabetes supplies.
And then there are the various associations that solicit annual donations to find a cure for their proprietary disease. Every year they promise that a cure is just around the corner—just send more money! Some of these very same associations have been clearly implicated in providing advice that promotes the progress of diabetes in their trusting supporters. For example, for years they heavily promoted exchange diets, which are in fact scientifically worthless—as anyone who has ever tried to use them quickly finds out. They ridiculed the use of glycemic tables, which are actually very helpful to the diabetic. They promoted the use of margarine as heart healthy, long after it was well understood that margarine causes diabetes and promotes heart failure.
If people ever wake up to the cure for diabetes that has been suppressed for 40 years, these associations would soon be out of business. But until then, they nonetheless continue to need your support.
For 40 years, medical research has consistently shown with increasing clarity that diabetes is a degenerative disease directly caused by an engineered food supply that is focused on profit instead of health. Although the diligent can readily glean this information from a wealth of medical research literature, it is generally otherwise unavailable. Certainly this information has been, and remains, largely unavailable in the medical schools that train our retail doctors.
Prominent among the causative agents in our modern diabetes epidemic are the engineered fats and oils that are sold in today's supermarkets.
The first step to curing diabetes is to stop believing the lie that the disease is incurable.
In 1922, three Canadian Nobel Prize winners, Banting, Best and Macleod, were successful in saving the life of a fourteen-year-old diabetic girl in Toronto General Hospital with inject able insulin. 6 Eli Lilly was licensed to manufacture this new wonder drug, and the medical community basked in the glory of a job well done.
It wasn't until 1933 that rumors about a new rogue form of diabetes surfaced. This was in a paper presented by Joslyn, Dublin and Marks and printed in the American Journal of Medical Sciences. This paper, "Studies on Diabetes Mellitus", 7discussed the emergence of a major epidemic of a disease which looked very much like the diabetes of the early 1920s, only it did not respond to the wonder drug, insulin. Even worse, sometimes insulin treatment killed the patient.
This new disease became known as "insulin-resistant diabetes" because it had the elevated blood sugar symptom of diabetes but responded poorly to insulin therapy. Many physicians had great success in treating this disease through diet. A great deal was learned about the relationship between diet and diabetes in the 1930s and 1940s.
Diabetes, which had a per-capita incidence of 0.0028% at the turn of the century, had by 1933 exploded by 1,000% in the United States to become a disease seen by many doctors. 8 This disease, under a variety of aliases, was destined to go on to wreck the health of over half the American population and incapacitate almost 20% by the 1990s. 9
In 1950, the medical community became able to perform serum insulin assays. These assays quickly revealed that this new disease wasn't classic diabetes; it was characterized by sufficient, often excessive, blood insulin levels.
The problem was that the insulin was ineffective; it did not reduce blood sugar. But since the disease had been known as diabetes for almost 20 years, it was renamed Type II diabetes. This was to distinguish it from the earlier Type I diabetes, caused by insufficient insulin production by the pancreas.
Had the dietary insights of the previous 20 years dominated the medical scene from that point and into the late 1960s, diabetes would have become widely recognized as curable instead of merely treatable. Instead, in 1950, a search was launched for another wonder drug to deal with the Type II diabetes problem.
This new, ideal wonder drug would be effective, like insulin, in remitting obvious adverse symptoms of the disease but not effective in curing the underlying disease. Thus it would need to be taken continually for the remaining life of the patient. It would have to be a patentable drug because natural medication is not patentable. Like insulin, it would have to be cheap to manufacture and distribute. Mandatory government approvals would be required to stimulate physicians to prescribe it as a prescription drug. Testing required for these approvals would have to be enormously expensive to prevent other new medications from becoming competitive.
Additionally, natural medications that actually cure disease would have to be suppressed. The more effective they were, the more they would need to be suppressed and their proponents jailed as quacks. After all, it wouldn't be very profitable for big pharma if diseases could be cured with cheap alternative methods.
This is the origin of the classic medical protocol of "treating the symptoms". By doing this, both the drug company and the doctor could prosper in business, and the patient, while not being cured of his disease, would just be temporarily relieved of some of his symptoms.
In many cases natural methods work better than most drugs prescribed by doctors. This is why the force of law has been and is being used to drive the natural, often superior, medicines from the marketplace, to remove the word "cure" from the medical vocabulary and to undermine the very concept of a free marketplace in the medical business.
Now it is clear why the "cure" word is so vigorously suppressed by law. The FDA has extensive Orwellian regulations that prohibit the use of the "cure" word to describe any competing medicine or natural substance. It is precisely because many natural substances do actually both cure and prevent disease that this word has become so frightening to the drug companies and mainstream medical community.
The Commercial Value of Symptoms
After the drug development policy was redesigned to focus on relieving symptoms rather than curing disease, it became necessary to reinvent the way drugs were marketed. This was done in 1949 in the midst of a major epidemic of insulin-resistant diabetes.
So in 1949, the US medical community reclassified the symptoms of diabetes along with many other disease symptoms into diseases in their own right. With this reclassification as the new basis for diagnosis, competing medical specialty groups quickly seized upon related groups of symptoms as their own proprietary symptoms set.
Thus the heart specialist, endocrinologist, allergist, kidney specialist and many others started to treat the symptoms for which they felt responsible. As the underlying cause of the disease was widely ignored, all focus on actually curing anything was completely lost. Instead of treating the cause of all these problems, they were broken down and treated separately by themselves.
Heart failure, for example, which had previously been understood often to be but a symptom of diabetes, now became a disease not directly connected to diabetes. It became fashionable to think that diabetes "increased cardiovascular risk". The causal role of a failed blood-sugar control system in heart failure became obscured.
Consistent with the new medical paradigm, none of the treatments offered by the heart specialist actually cures, or is even intended to cure, their proprietary disease. For example, the three-year survival rate for bypass surgery is almost exactly the same as when no surgery is undertaken.
Today, over half of the people in America suffer from one or more symptoms of this disease. In its beginnings, it became well known to physicians as Type II diabetes, insulin-resistant diabetes, insulin resistance, adult-onset diabetes or more rarely, hyperinsulinaemia.
According to the American Heart Association, almost 50% of Americans suffer from one or more symptoms of this disease. Type II diabetes, also called adult-onset diabetes, now appears routinely in six-year-old children.
Many degenerative diseases can be traced to a massive failure of the endocrine system (the function of the hypothalamus, pituitary, thyroid, pancreas, adrenal, ovary/testes, and pineal glands which secrete various hormones and influence almost every cell, organ, and function of our bodies). This was well known to the physicians of the 1930s as insulin-resistant diabetes. This basic underlying disorder is known to be a derangement of the blood-sugar control system by badly engineered fats and oils. It is exacerbated and complicated by the widespread lack of other essential nutrition that the body needs to cope with the metabolic consequences of these poisons.
All fats and oils are not equal. Some are healthy and beneficial; many, commonly available in the supermarket and found in most foods, are poisonous. The health distinction is not between saturated and unsaturated, as the fats and oils industry would have us believe. Many saturated oils and fats are highly beneficial; many unsaturated oils are highly poisonous. The important health distinction is between natural and engineered.
There exists great dishonesty in advertising in the fats and oils industry. It is aimed at creating a market for cheap junk oils such as soy, cottonseed and rapeseed oils.
With an informed and aware public, these oils would have no market at all, and the USA—indeed, the world—would have far fewer cases of diabetes.
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Epidemiological Lifestyle Link
As early as 1901, efforts had been made to manufacture and sell food products by the use of automated factory machinery because of the immense profits that were possible. Most of the early efforts failed because people were inherently suspicious of food that wasn't farm fresh and because the technology was poor. As long as people were prosperous, suspicious food products made little headway. Crisco, the artificial shortening, was once given away free in 2 1⁄2 lb cans in an unsuccessful effort to influence American housewives to trust and buy the product in preference to lard.
Margarine was introduced and was bitterly opposed by the dairy states in the USA. With the advent of the Depression of the 1930s, margarine, Crisco and a host of other refined and hydrogenated products began to make significant penetration into the food markets of America. Support for dairy opposition to margarine faded during World War II because there wasn't enough butter for the needs of both the civilian population and the military. At this point, the dairy industry, having lost much support, simply accepted a diluted market share and concentrated on supplying the military.
Flax oils and fish oils, which were common in the stores and considered dietary staples before the American population became diseased, have disappeared from the shelf. The last supplier of flax oil to the major distribution chains was Archer Daniels Midland, and it stopped producing and supplying the product in 1950.
More recently, one of the most important of the remaining, genuinely beneficial fats was subjected to a massive media disinformation campaign that portrayed it as a saturated fat that causes heart failure. As a result, it has virtually disappeared from the supermarket shelves. Thus was coconut oil removed from the food chain and replaced with soy oil, cottonseed oil and rapeseed oil. Our parents and grandparents would never have swapped a fine, healthy oil like coconut oil for these cheap, junk refined and processed oils. It was shortly after this successful media blitz that the US populace lost its war on fat. For many years, coconut oil had been our most effective dietary weight-control agent.
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Mainstream Medical Treatment
After the diagnosis of diabetes, modern mainstream medical treatment consists of either oral hypoglycemic agents or insulin.
• Oral hypoglycemic agents
In 1955, oral hypoglycemic drugs were introduced. Currently available oral hypoglycemic agents fall into five classifications according to their biophysical mode of action. These classes are: biguanides; glucosidase inhibitors; meglitinides; sulphonylureas; and thiazolidinediones.
The biguanides lower blood sugar in three ways. They inhibit the liver’s normal release of its glucose stores, they interfere with intestinal absorption of glucose from ingested carbohydrates, and they are said to increase peripheral uptake of glucose.
The glucosidase inhibitors are designed to inhibit the amylase enzymes produced by the pancreas and which are essential to the digestion of carbohydrates. The theory is that if the digestion of carbohydrates is inhibited, the blood sugar level cannot be elevated.
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• Insulin
Today, insulin is prescribed for both the Type I and Type II diabetics. Injectable insulin substitutes for the insulin that the body no longer produces. Of course, this treatment, while necessary for preserving the life of the Type I diabetic, is highly questionable when applied to the Type II diabetic.
It is important to note that neither insulin nor any of these oral hypoglycemic agents exerts any curative action whatsoever on any type of diabetes. None of these medical strategies is designed to normalize the cellular uptake of glucose by the cells that need it to power their activity.
The prognosis with these "modern" mainstream treatments is increasing disability and early death from heart or kidney failure or the failure of some other vital organ.
The only way to reverse this disease is to become informed and to apply an alternative methodology that is soundly based upon good science.
Effective alternative treatment that directly leads to a cure is available today for some Type I and for many Type II diabetics.
For the Type I diabetic, an alternative methodology for the treatment of Type I diabetes is now available. It was developed in modern hospitals in Madras, India, and subjected to rigorous double-blind studies to prove its efficacy. It operates to restore normal pancreatic beta cell function so that the pancreas can again produce insulin as it should. This approach apparently was capable of curing Type I diabetes in over 60% of the patients on whom it was tested. The major complication lies in whether the antigens that originally led to the autoimmune destruction of these beta cells have disappeared from or remain in the body. If they remain, a cure is less likely; if they have disappeared, the cure is more likely. For reasons already discussed, this methodology is not likely to appear in the United States any time soon, and certainly not in the American mainstream medical community.
The goal of any effective alternative program is to repair and restore the body's own blood-sugar control mechanism. It is the malfunctioning of this mechanism that, over time, directly causes all of the many debilitating symptoms that make regular treatment so financially rewarding for the diabetes industry. For Type II diabetes, the steps in the program are:
• Repair the faulty blood sugar control system. This is done simply by substituting the pristine looking but toxic trans-isomer mix of fats and oils found in attractive plastic containers on your supermarket shelves with clean, healthy, beneficial fats and oils. Consume only flax oil, hemp oil, coconut oil, fish oil and occasionally cod
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"So What do I do?"
Start eating the right foods, and avoiding the wrong ones.
How do you know which foods are good and which are bad? Well that's where our team at the International Council for Truth in Medicine comes in. We have scoured decades of scientific research and thousands upon thousands of studies that have examined foods, food additives, vitamins and minerals and we have combined this knowledge into our 7 Steps to Health guide.
How do you know it works? Unlike most drugs, pills, fad diets, and other useless crap sold to diabetics, our claims are scientifically proven - here are the results: Our anti-diabetes eating plan is nearly TWICE as effective for lowering blood sugar as taking Metformin - the most widely prescribed drug to treat diabetes.
When scientists compared the American Diabetes Association diet (The one prescribed by most doctors and endorsed by the ADA) vs. the foods used in our eating plan, they found that it lowered cholesterol THREE times more effectively, and was THREE times more effective in treating and beating diabetes than the diet prescribed by the American diabetes association... still think they have your best interests at heart?
More research found how type 1 diabetics could lower their insulin medication by 40% and have their cholesterol drop 30%
Another study investigating various nutritional methods - uncovered how 74% of patients completely stopped the need for oral diabetes medication and 44% stopped the need for insulin after just a few weeks. That's what some people would call "completely cured" - again; without drugs, pills, surgery or injections.
It's not just diabetes that you can obliterate. Studies show how you can even lower your chance of dying from heart disease by 31%!
A study done nearly 50 years ago found that people who ate certain foods (which we talk about in detail further down in this book) had THREE times higher risk of stroke.
No drugs, pills, injections, surgery fad diets, powders, shakes, calorie counting, weird supplements, crazy exercises or living with the constant threat of prescription drug side effects. These amazing results - scientifically proven and guaranteed - all accomplished using foods found in any grocery store.
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(There are 4 more pages of scientific studies proving these miraculous results and showing exactly which foods destroy diabetes)