Top 5 Recommendations for

Preventing and Reversing diabetes

*** If you are currently on medications to control your blood sugar you must work with your healthcare provider because your blood sugar may drop to dangerous levels without also reducing your medications.

Secret #1) Stop eating all refined sugars. This means giving up all foods made with HFCS (especially soda), grains or other refined sugars. If you find this step difficult, wean yourself off these foods day by day.
-Drinking just one sweetened drink a day can raise your diabetes risk by 25 percent compared to drinking one sugary drink per month

Secret #2) Ingest large quantities of daily vegetables. (limited carrots). If you have diabetes fruits should be minimized initially.

Secret #3) Exercise a little bit every day. Start at a comfortable level and gradually increase it. Even just walking 30 minutes a day can have a huge impact on preventing diabetes. The key is to make it a daily activity.

Secret #4) Get sunshine or vitamin D. Have your levels tested. They should be between 50 - 90 ng/ml. More than 70% of white Americans are vitamin D deficient. That number rises to 97% among African Americans. Latinos and Asians are at around 80% deficiency. Vitamin D deficiency promotes diabetes (and cancer, heart disease, kidney disease, immune suppression, and so on). So if you really want to prevent diabetes, boost your vitamin D levels ideally with daily sunshine or quality vitamin D3 supplements.

Secret #5) Avoid all processed foods. Avoid eating refined anything. That includes white breads, processed meat (which strongly promotes diabetes) and dairy products. Switch from cow's milk to almond milk or coconut milk.

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Rebuttal - Dietary Supplements and Mortality in Older Women

A recent study, "Dietary Supplements and Mortality Rate in Older Women," published in the Archives of Internal Medicine, 2011;171(18):1625-1633, has caused some concern among the public about the safety of dietary supplements. We at Thorne Research have thoroughly reviewed this study and share the following analysis in order to help you better understand the study's design and its findings, and to help allay any concerns you may have.   Click Here to download report

The July/August 2002 issue of the Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics finds that a specific chiropractic adjusting technique is very effective in helping correct certain types of breech (feet-first) presentations in pregnant women.

According to the author, Dr. Richard Pistolese of the International Chiropractic Pediatric Association (ICPA), intrauterine constraint (a tightening of the uterus that obstructs normal fetal movement) can adversely affect the developing baby's spine during prenatal and perinatal periods. Intrauterine constraint has also been related to a number of problems including structural defects of the fetal skeleton and, more commonly, can lead to a breech presentation of the baby. In the United States, 86% of breech babies are delivered by cesarean section.

"The importance of preventing intrauterine constraint and subsequent cesarean section delivery is apparent, considering current statistics," reports the author. "The United States and Canada have some of the highest rates of obstetric interventions in the world, which boosts the already high cost of obstetric intensive care."

C-sections are also dangerous. The infant death rate of breech babies is approximately four times that of a normal (head-first) presentation. In 1999, 22% of all births in the United States were C-sections.

The chiropractic technique, known as "The Webster Technique" does not involve physically moving the baby from the outside and should not be considered a medical obstetric procedure.

With the adjustment of specific areas of the spine and pelvis and relaxing abdominal muscle tension and spasms, intrauterine constraint can be relieved in many cases and the baby can turn to a normal head-first presentation on its own. It is best performed in the 8th month of pregnancy. After that point, breech resolution is less likely to occur.

Pistolese concludes that the Webster Technique can help avoid the costs and dangers associated with cesarean section. "In view of these findings," he says, "the Webster Technique deserves serious consideration in the management of expectant mothers exhibiting adverse fetal presentation."

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