Yet another medication, approved for years by the FDA, is now being questioned. The Food and Drug Administration is now warning that diabetes medication Actos may actually increase the risk of bladder cancer when used for over a year. Not again! What kinds of medicines are these that are being approved when the long-term results aren?t even known. We are supposed to trust the FDA to tell us how we can make ourselves better with the least possible risk. Germany and France have already pulled the drug , and another drug from the same family, Avandia, was pulled from US shelves earlier this year because it increased risk of heart attacks! Though the FDA won?t pull approval for the drug, they say they will issue a warning on the label.
But what does that mean for those who suffer from diabetes? Is there something else that we can do, more naturally, to help us deal with the disease? Dietary Carbohydrates in our Standard American Diet  (SAD) are the main reason for the development of Diabetes Type 2.  Therefore, it is crucially important to correct your diet.  To figure out what food is good and what is not, scientists suggested so called Glycemic Index (GI).  It gives us the idea of how high blood sugar goes after eating certain foods.  Pure glucose is the worst and its Glycemic Index (GI) is 100.  A baked potato is not that much better: its GI is 97.  In contrast, the GI of whole barley or fructose is about 20.  It was shown that eating foods with low GI reduces the risk for Diabetes and Obesity. Diabetes dietary suggestions:
Increase intake of high fiber foods, legumes, onions and garlic.
Stay away from complex carbohydrates like potato and rice.
Avoid trans-fats.
Stay away from any processed refined carbs like juices, candies, cookies, soda, etc.
Of course, diet alone cannot fix the problem.  It cannot fix neurotransmitter imbalance, and it may not be able to fix mineral and vitamin deficiency because of maldigestion or malabsorption.  To figure out what is going on you need to see a Functional Medicine Doctor to get to the root cause of the problem and eliminate it. There is a major flaw with diabetes drugs to begin with. A diabetes drug is meant to lower your blood sugar levels. The problem with almost all diabetic drugs is that they bring sugar down and hence the appetite up. That, in turn brings our weight up, never helping us with our diabetes. You always end up going back to the medication again and again. Try some of these tips to make us a little healthier and see what the benefits can be naturally!
Eat healthy: fruits and vegetables,
lose weight,
eat organic,
get enough sleep,
avoid processed food,
avoid wheat, milk, alcohol, smoking and caffeine.