chrisy":24f0n7rf said:
if you are diabetic it is very dangerous to follow the Atkins diet, have you ever known anyone on the Atkins, their breath is awful, and as I was told by my Nutritionist, if you cut any food sources from your diet you will loose weight, but soon regain it when it is re-introduced into your diet, as your body needs all the nutriants of a healthy eating plan. five small meals is better than three big ones. little and often is the rule, I as a diabetic have been told. and it's working for me.
I have some close friends who are diabetic and their doctors told them to get on the Atkins diet.
Saw a show on the Lakota Indian tribe not long ago and the research contributed the high incidence of diabetes to excessive carbohydrate intake. They said the tribe had been on a meat diet for centuries and the sudden change to today's sugar, flour, "carbs", etc. intake had taken it's toll on the insulin production system.
Eat the beef. It's good for you!
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Congress approves $750M for Indian diabetes
Posted to NDN AIM by Ishgooda
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2002
http://www.indianz.com/News/show.asp?ID ... 1/diabetes
Congressional leaders on Wednesday praised the approval of what they said was a record $750 million in funding to fight the growing epidemic of diabetes in Indian Country.
The House and Senate both authorized a five-year extension to the Special Diabetes Program. The money will go to diabetes prevention, treatment care and research for American Indians and Alaska Natives.
"We cannot lose our focus on the disaster that diabetes is having on our population, particularly the American Indian people. The problem could overwhelm our hospitals and clinics and signal the demise of too many lives," said Sen. Pete Domenici (R-N.M.), a member of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee.
The package cleared the House last week and won approval in the Senate yesterday by unanimous consent. Lawmakers said the funding will help tribes meet the health care needs of their members.
"It's a great stride toward improving the health status of Native Americans," said Rep. Dale Kildee (D-Mich.), the co-chairman of the Congressional Native American Caucus, a bipartisan group.
Diabetes afflicts Native Americans at increasingly high rates. Among some tribes, as many as 50 percent of the adult population has the disease, which has no cure.
The majority of cases in Indian Country are of a form called Type 2. It results when the body can't use energy from food properly, resulting in fatigue, increased appetite, nausea, increased thirst and blurred vision.
If untreated, diabetes can lead to blindness, kidney failure and amputations.
Typically, type 2 diabetes was known only among adults. But it is showing up in Native children at earlier ages.
A CDC study showed that Native children ages 15 to 19 have the highest rate of type 2 diabetes in the country. The prevalence was nearly three times greater than non-Indian youth.
Diabetes is not just an Indian problem, however. Among the greater population, the CDC has reported a 30 percent increase during an eight-year period in the 1990s. This is tied to a growing number of overweight and obese Americans.
Treating type 2 relies on changing behaviors. Eating well and exercising more can prevent the onset of heart disease, stroke and high blood pressure.
According to the National Institutes of Health, roughly 15 percent of Native Americans in the United States have this disease, which can rob them of their eyesight, their limbs, their kidneys and eventually their lives. They are 2.6 times more likely to have diagnosed type 2 diabetes than non-Hispanic whites.
That is a radically changed picture from the early part of the 19th century, when health surveys of Southwestern tribes found only one documented case of diabetes, Warne said.
He blamed the current epidemic more on environmental changes than on genetics.
In the 1920s and 1930s, rivers in the Southwest were dammed up to make way for large cities such as Phoenix. That effectively wiped out traditional farming for tribal communities. Fish, game and farm foods were replaced with government commodities such as lard and flour. The activities associated with fishing and farming were suddenly gone as well.
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