How would you like to improve your odds with cancer, heart disease, obesity, and diabetes all at the same time and save money?

Sounds pretty great right.  Almost unbelievable!  Thankfully it is true and as you will see very possible and somewhat free.  I’d like to say that you’ll even live longer but I can’t predict the future.   This simple solution could save over a million lives a year so please pass this along.  The #1 thing you can do is not eat sugar.  I know that sounds impossible, but even if you scale back, you’ll make a major difference.  Let me show you a few eye opening things about sugar and disease.

From the CDC:

Number of deaths for leading causes of death

• Heart disease: 631,636
• Cancer: 559,888
• Stroke (cerebrovascular diseases): 137,119
• Chronic lower respiratory diseases: 124,583
• Accidents (unintentional injuries): 121,599
• Diabetes: 72,449
• Alzheimer’s disease: 72,432

Not all of these are related to sugar, but I put them up there for a comparison.  Clearly heart disease and cancer are the biggest whales.

“A well governed appetite is the greater part of liberty.”
~Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Now don’t call PETA because we are going to slay some whales.   Let’s start with the smallest problem.

#1 Diabetes: How is diabetes caused?

This really is about Type II only.  The driving force behind diabetes is the over consumption of sugar and simple carbohydrates.   It is really that simple.  The ridiculous recommendations for people to eat 6-11 servings of carbohydrates such as bread and cereal have given this country an epidemic of diabetics.   Don’t believe me, I can guarantee you that if you have a testing kit and are diabetic you’ll be amazed, test it yourself.
Give up the idea that cereal is good for you and open your mind to the world of real food and try this.

Actual patient example for breakfast:
Day 1: Cereal, toast, orange juice
Her blood sugar was 200 two hours later.

Day 2: After one of my lectures
Chicken, celery, cottage cheese.
Her blood sugar was 110 two hours later.

A simple diet change freed her from diabetes.  I wish the medical community would have the courage to tell people the truth.

#2 Cancer:  How does cancer start?

Good question and we have many answers for that.  It is often said that we get cancer everyday but our immune systems wipe out the problems before they really get rolling.  But if cancer does start, sugar   is probably the number one thing that will keep it going.

Johns Hopkins Press Release February 16, 1998

Johns Hopkins researchers have found evidence that some cancer cells are
such incredible sugar junkies that they’ll self­-destruct when deprived of
glucose, their biological sweet of choice.

“The change when we took away glucose was dramatic,” says Chi Van Dang, M.D.,
Ph.D., director of hematology. “By the next day, we knew very quickly that the cells we
had altered to resemble cancers were dying off in large numbers.”
Scientists have long suspected that the cancer cell’s heavy reliance on glucose, its main
source of strength and vitality, also could be one of its great weaknesses, and Dang’s new
results are among the most direct proofs yet of the idea.

One of our patient’s was going through a course of chemo and during one of the tests the “snack” that was given was a processed package of cookies.  When it comes to cancer and nutrition you have to fend for yourself.

Your brain still needs sugar to run well so a good plan if you don’t have cancer is to start decreasing what you eat.

• Have a much smaller piece of dessert

• Stop adding sugar to your coffee
• Stop eating toast or cereal for breakfast
• Choose water instead of soda
• Make fruit your sweetener
• Etc.

The one thing I have really noticed over the years is that the more I try and avoid sugar the more I dislike it.  I can’t eat very sweet things anymore.

#3 Heart Disease: How to prevent heart disease

It may not be what you think.

This is a very broad and mysterious problem.  There are many causes and contributing factors and cholesterol is the least of your concerns.  You can’t take a statin drug and sleep well at night thinking you are protected from a heart attack.  If that were true, the incidence of heart attacks would be going down year after year because more and more people are taking these drugs.  Drugs aren’t the answer.  Since many things contribute to heart disease, ponder how sugar may make it worse.

• Sugar increases insulin production in the body.  Insulin tells the body to store the sugar/carbs as fat AND hang on to it and not let it go.  This is one of the primary reasons 2/3 of America is obese.   Also, exercising to burn fat becomes pointless when the insulin won’t the body burn it as fuel.  This sobering fact alone contributes to heart disease through shear volume.   It takes at least 100 miles of blood vessels to support a pound of fat.  I’ve seen estimates up to 200 miles.  So for example, if you are 20 lbs. overweight you heart has to pump more blood volume through an extra 2000 miles of blood vessels.   That’s just more stress on it.

• Brace yourself.  This will probably be a new concept for you.  Don’t let that fool you.  Going back to the very beginning of the Cholesterol Theory there have been so many holes in the theory doctors have doubted it for over 50 years.  The only reason anyone believed it was because of advertising.   I’ll cover more of that later in another longer and larger article.  Those of you who read my book will realize that heart attacks occur from a lack of oxygen to the heart muscle, NOT from a blockage.  Just go with me here.  As we talked about in the book, a blockage is an after effect from a heart attack not the cause, so the BIG question is how does the heart suffer from lack of oxygen?

Since we are talking about sugar here I’ll give you sugar scenario.  Basically, sugar and oxygen combine to give you energy.  Your heart is an energy hog because it never rests.  If you consume enough sugar you will actually drop the overall blood sugar due to the action of insulin.  If you drop the blood sugar too fast often by combining a high sugar meal and exercise indirectly you can starve the heart of oxygen.  Without the blood sugar the oxygen can’t be used by the heart.  I am greatly simplifying it here, but just let that roll around awhile and it’ll make sense.

If everyone took this simple advice in this email, we could probably save over a million lives a year by decreasing heart attacks, improving cancer survivability, and eliminating type II diabetes and obesity.  Who knew national health care reform could be so simple.  Eat protein at every meal, take some good fats, eat your veggies and skip the packaged foods and viola` we have a new nation again.  It has to start with you.  At the bottom of the article you can make a large impact in the world by emailing it, Digging it, and using StumbleUpon.

Now if you cut back on your sugar and package food consumption, just think of all the money you’ll save on not buying bad food and getting better / cheaper health insurance.  Heck, if you lose weight you can shop in the clearance section for all the skinny clothes no one buys anymore.  Being healthy is a necessity and the ways you can save money are many.  Plus, you have more energy and look better.  Just even try and imagine how much money the government could save if we eliminated heart disease, cancer and diabetes.  The government won’t mandate that you eat less sugar, that is something you must do personally.

The morning seems to gleem the best lessons in health this week.

This story comes directly from Dale Abrahamson.  He was kind enough to give me permission to share his story about diabetes and the medications he was on.

I’ve known Dale for a long time.  So, I’ve been in the loop about his health for many years.  Last year he told me he had just received the diabetes diagnosis.  It isn’t a huge shock, because Dale is a big man.  Kind as the day is long but he fits the profile of the primary risk factor…a large waist circumference.

A healthy waist limit for women is 35 inches and, for men, 40 inches. Waist circumference is determined by measuring around the waist at the navel line.” -Reported researchers from Harvard and the National Institutes of Health.

He started on the medications and came to see me because he didn’t like taking them.  We never take people off medications, we just support them behind the scenes and boost their nutrition with supplements and do some dietary counseling.  He was relieved with my recommendations to say the least.  If you want the recommendations, they are in our new book coming out.

If patients are on medications, they can’t drop them right away anyway because the body will revolt and people will get worse.  What seems to work very well is what has happened to Dale.  For the last four months he has changed his diet and taken some very specific supplements we use to support the diabetic patient.

We used:
#1  Diaplex
#2  Gymnema

It is always a good idea to improve the nutrition of the body and the specific problem areas behind the scene just in case something goes wrong…like with Dale.

Last week, his eyesight was getting “fuzzy” and everything he saw was slightly offset.  He was getting worried about driving because he was hugging the right line, and he thought he was in the middle of the road.

He went to the doctor thinking the diabetes was getting worse because it can got o the eyes.  They upped the meds.  Then he went to the optometrist and he said there was NO evidence of diabetic damage in the eyes.  Dale started putting one and one together and being a rational individual he  stopped his diabetic meds on his own, just to see what would happen.  Results:

Within 2 days his eyesight was back to normal.

Within 3 days his blood sugar DROPPED to 132 and has stayed there.  With the medication his blood sugar was 168-187.

He has also lost all the weight he gained while on the meds.

I was amazed at how well he has done and all that has happened to him since I saw him last.

Medications have their place, but they also have their problems.  If you are on medications and you develop a new problem or something is getting worse, talk to your doctor.  They aren’t real receptive to changing anything, but be persistant.  Remember, all the patients we are working with are doing supplements and dietary changes behind the scenes.  If you aren’t actively working on becoming healthier, the odds of you stopping any medications successfully is very, very slim.

Being lean and healthy has some core fundamentals.  More info is coming in the days to come.

Dr. Altman

P.S. Blood sugar problems are fixable no matter what the American Diabetes Association says.
P.P.S To really blow your mind.  I know a chiropractor that has had diabetes get better simply from adjustments to the part of the spine that controls the pancreas.  Does it happen to everyone? No.  Is it something to consider by adding to your program for getting better? Yes.  Because you never know.  The ADA certainly has no idea what works.