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Build Health: Want To Prevent Diabetes?
To prevent diabetes you will get a real jolt when you follow
the prescription offered up in the "Journal of the American
Medical Association."
This 'prestigious' organization reported on separate studies
of coffee drinkers in Sweden and Finland.
Whiz-bang medical researchers discovered that women could
decrease their risk of diabetes by 29 percent when they followed
a regimen of drinking three to four cups of coffee a day.
The ladies who had the fortitude to drink 10 or more cups of
coffee a day fared even better. They reduced their risk of
diabetes by 79 percent.
The men participating in the studies also reduced their risk,
but not to the extent as did the women.
When men drank three to four cups a day, they reduced their
risk of diabetes by 27 percent. The men who drank 10 or more cups
of java per day reduced their risk by 55 percent.
These results confirm a January report by the equally
'prestigious' Harvard School of Public Health. That report
concluded that drinking six 8-ounce cups of coffee a day could
reduce diabetes risk in men by about 50 percent and in women by
30 percent.
If the numbers have any connection to reality, the more coffee
you drink, the better off you are. And that is the rub.
The numbers have nothing to do with reality, nothing to do
with the truth.
Here in America the rate of adult-onset diabetes, or Type 2
diabetes, is growing incrementally. Nowadays it typically shows
up in middle-age populations, but the disease is on the rise
among ever-younger age groups.
Do not step up your coffee consumption in the belief it will
help you prevent diabetes. This disease has absolutely nothing to
do with a lack of coffee drinking.
Science and truth are not synonymous. Medical scientists do
not deal with truth. The medical scientists who monkey around
with coffee drinking merely play with limited and approximate
descriptions of reality. In this case, extremely limited and
hardly approximate.
If you are serious about preventing diabetes, you have to look
at the differences between the people of the past who did not get
diabetes, and the people of today who get diabetes. This entails
more than merely harping on the fact the younger generation is
becoming more overweight and less active.
We have plenty of newly discovered diabetics who are active
and on the thin side-and they drink lots of coffee.
The primary difference between the people of the past who did
not get sick and die like we do, and the present lot who become
diabetics, is poor nutritional status.
The diabetic-in-process has an inadequate intake of nutrients
and/or excessive intake of nutrient-poor foods. Conversely,
his/her healthy ancestors had a nutrient-dense diet.
The nutrient-dense diet of the past contained, minimally, four
times the amount of minerals, and ten times the amount of
fat-soluble vitamins found in the American diet of the late
1930's and early 1940's.
Folks who learn where health comes from and practice
prevention won't become diabetic, and will not need the medical
community dosing them with coffee, or any other magic bullet.
About The Author
Bill Quesnell, author of "Minerals: The Essential Link to
Health," is a health educator and Price-Pottenger Nutrition
Foundation member. He helps people recover energy and vitality.
Subscribe to FREE monthly ezine, 'Where Health Comes From' at
info@mineralsbuildhealth.com.
Write Bill at 5039 Voltaire St. #3, San Diego, CA 92107 See
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