Gary Null - No More Diabetes: A Complete Guide to Preventing, Treating, and Overcoming Diabetes

No More Diabetes

Copyright 2013 by Gary Null

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eISBN: 978-1-62873-517-8

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Null, Gary.

No more diabetes: a complete guide to preventing, treating, and overcoming diabetes / Gary Null.

pages cm

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN 978-1-62636-155-3 (hardcover: alk. paper)

eISBN: 9781628735680

1. DiabetesPopular works. 2. DiabetesAlternative treatment. 3. DiabetesDiet therapy. 4. Naturopathy. I. Title.

RC660.4.N86 2013

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2013013718

Printed in the United States of America

This book is to serve as a thorough resource manual about diabetes, its causes, prevention, and treatment. Throughout the text, scientific research on medical complications and the causes thereof when people suffer from diabetesthe majority having been published in peer-reviewed medical journalswas relied upon. The preventative and therapeutic approach that is provided is based on a natural systems approach. In addition to suggested nutrition and dietary regimens, this also necessitates lifestyle changes, including exercise, mental composure, and living habits. Invaluable information on particular superfoods and recipes are offered to help you begin altering the attitudes and ways in which we eat.

Having authored more than ninety books, I have discovered that personal testimonials by patients suffering from particular illnesses are very motivating for people. Therefore, a chapter has been included to offer individual stories by people who have beaten this seventh leading cause of death in the United States.

There are many people who contributed to No More Diabetes. Jim Feast, who has edited several of my other publications, performed his usual expert job in developing many of the more complex scientific data into a manner readable to the layperson. Special appreciation goes to my research assistants Mitzi Flade Sampson, Nadia Abdo, Porochista Khakpour and Jeremy Stillman who have devoted hundreds of hours individually to gathering the most current and past scientific data about diabetes and natural ways to prevent and treat it, and to my producer Richard Gale who provided insights from his medical background and coordinated the publication. Doug Henderson and Jennifer Shagawat gathered testimonials and recipes. Thanks also to my Art Director Jay Graygor for his excellent work on the cover design.

Thinking starts from doubt or uncertainty. It marks an inquiring, hunting, searching attitude.

John Dewey, Democracy and Education

Americans love to make lists, but sometimes these lists are just too short. Take the list of the leading killer diseases. If I asked you which diseases were the primary causes of death in the United States, you would probably correctly identify cancer and heart disease, and stop there. Its more than likely you couldnt name the seventh top causein fact, you might even be surprised to learn it is diabetes.

This book is an in-depth study of diabetes, of the physical, behavioral and even mental causes that leads to its emergence, and of the practices that will block and reverse it.

Anyone familiar with my ideas can anticipate some of the points I will cover. Three things they could correctly put on that list are: 1) a presentation of the latest, cutting-edge research on the topic, including lengthy and fact-packed interviews with doctors who have made a study of and successfully treated the disease, 2) an emphasis on how you can be proactive in ensuring or regaining health through such practices as exercising and adopting a more natural, vegetarian or near-vegetarian diet, and 3) a list of mouth-watering vegetarian recipes, along with a vitamin, mineral, and herbal supplement protocol that has proven useful in helping to abate or forestall the illness.

There is much more inside, including some things that will not fit on any list of my favorite topics. Not many people realize that in my leisure moments I like to indulge my penchant for reading American literature and philosophy, and one philosopher who has proved particularly congenial to my way of thinking is John Dewey, a writer who was prominent from the early 1900s to 1950, and was long a fixture at Columbia University. Broadly speaking, in his whole life he made one argument: We will destroy ourselves unless we see life whole. This is the main reason I admire this man. That has also been one of my own driving thoughts and can be reformulated for this text along these lines: the scourge of diabetes will only be conquered through an ultra-holism that sees true bodily health as one component of natural living that includes not only a vegetarian or semi-vegetarian diet, exercise, and an aware lifestyle, but also the shape of our communities, our relationships, and our leisure and work habits.

All of that will be touched on here. However, dont be apprehensive. You will not suddenly come upon a lecture on metaphysics stuck in the middle of a talk on healthy living. That wont happen, but you will find, at key junctures, we are suddenly glancing off the thought of Dewey.

Now that you have some idea of what to expect in this book, let me begin with some facts about this disease, the illness that few people recognize as belonging on the list of leading killers.

Diabetes mellitus affects over 24 million children and adults in the United States, and each year the problem worsens. To put it in the starkest terms, ones provided by the CDC, every twenty-four hours, four thousand adults are diagnosed with diabetes and two hundred people die from it. If things continue as they have been, roughly one quarter of the American population is facing a future of diabetes. Furthermore, over 57 million American adults have a health condition known as pre-diabetes. Pre is something of a euphemism. Make no mistake, pre-diabetes is a serious condition, and those who suffer from it are well on their way to full-blown diabetes.

Thats the US. If we think of the rest of the world, we find the problem is found almost everywhere. Partially as one of the unexpected byproducts of globalization, which has encouraged fast-food diets in countries where such eating had been previously unheard of, in 2000 throughout the world over 171 million people were diagnosed with diabetes. By 2030, The World Health Organization predicts that over 360 million people worldwide will have it. This is an increase of more than 40 percent in industrialized nations, where fast food and other unhealthy lifestyle choices reign supreme, and a 170 percent increase in developing nations, where diets are beginning to change for the worse, helping the spread of the illness.