CADIZ – Last week Carol A. Teeter (RN, BSN), diabetes nurse educator held her monthly workshop. The theme was: Myths and Mistakes in Managing Diabetes. Diabetes is growing rapidly and a chronic health issue. Some of the issues stressed were the misunderstandings a myths created by people, which include: Diabetes is only a “touch of sugar” or, “I’m just borderline.”
More myths include, eating too much sugar causes diabetes; giving up favorite foods, including deserts; not having to worry about diet, or don’t need to exercise if taking a diabetes pill and nothing can be done to prevent health problems once contracting diabetes.
Some of the topics stressed are that diabetes is something to be concerned about. Estimates show that up to 79 million people in this country have pre-diabetes which can be a precursor to developing diabetes. Unless lab work is done, pre-diabetes can go undetected for years causing damage throughout the body. Not only is diabetes a serious disease, pre-diabetes is as well.
It is estimated that over 29.1 million people in the U.S. have diabetes, and nearly a third of them are undiagnosed. Over time, this can lead to many complications and decreased quality and length of life.
The Healthy Life Workshops are held the first Thursday of each month at the Harrison Community Hospital cafeteria.
I was diagnosed with type 2 Diabetes and put on Metformin on June 26th, 2014. I started the ADA diet and followed it 100% for a few weeks and could not get my blood sugar to go below 140. Finally i began to panic and called my doctor, he told me to get used to it. He said I would be on metformin my whole life and eventually insulin. At that point i knew something wasn’t right and began to do a lot of research. On April 13th I found this book on http://www.wje592.com/i-am-finally-free-of-diabetes/. I read the book from end to end that night because everything the writer was saying made absolute sense. I started the diet that day and the next morning my blood sugar was down to 100, the next day was in the 90’s and now i have a fasting blood sugar between Mid 70’s and the 80’s. My doctor took me off the metformin after just one week of being on this lifestyle change. I have lost over 30 pounds in a month. I now work out twice a day and still have tons of energy. I have lost 6+ inches around my waist and I am off my high blood pressure medication too. I have about 20 more pounds to go till my body finds its ideal weight. The great news is, this is a lifestyle I can live with, it makes sense and it works. God Bless the writer. I wish the ADA would stop enabling consumers and tell them the truth. You can get off the drugs, you can help yourself, but you have to have a correct lifestyle and diet. No more processed foods.
it is really Beautiful and healthy workshop
To be honest, there are plenty of diets already for diabetics like http://bit.ly/3-week-secret which our neighbor has used to great effect(hence i know about it)
Whats nice to hear though is the alertness in the society for diabetic needs.
Unless and until, we change our habits diabetes would continue to spread at same pace and now canada is in support of enacting new laws for food labels which will make it almost impossible to decipher whether sugar in product is natural or artificial and thereby putting more people at risk of diabetes. looks like we are still not aware of risk of sugar in our food.