We have several epidemics in
our day of degenerative diseases
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...they seem to be related.
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We're going to be talking
about these... such things as
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diabetes in the
next half an hour
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and we'd be
happy if you joined us.
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I'm Agatha Thrash,
a staff physician at
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Uchee Pines
Institute in Alabama.
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Welcome to "Help
Yourself to Health"
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with Dr. Agatha Thrash
of Uchee Pines Institute...
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and now, here's
your host, Dr. Thrash.
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When we talk of diabetes,
everybody always thinks of sugar
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and well that they should
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because excessive sugar
is a problem for people who
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have diabetes.
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But just as much a problem
as sugar, is that of fat.
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So, we need to
talk about fat as well.
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Now fats can come in the form
of margarine, and mayonnaise,
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fried foods,
cooking fats, salad oils...
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all of these are
free fats or visible fats
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and any of these can be
a problem to the diabetic
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especially if the
diabetic is overweight
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and with type 2 diabetes,
that is a very frequent finding.
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Now I have asked
Valerie Schreiber,
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who is one of my
colleagues at Uchee Pines
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to help me in demonstrating
some things about foods
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and my
granddaughter Melissa Thrash,
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who will also help to
demonstrate some things
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about foods.
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And we would like to show
you some things about these two
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troublesome
areas... fats and sugars...
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and of course, we could
spend quite a long time...
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we could spend the rest of
the day just giving you recipes.
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But, two very simple
things and one is nut butter
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and the other is a dessert.
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So, Valerie Schreiber will
talk with you about nut butters.
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Thank you, Dr. Agatha.
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I'd like to share with
you how you can make very good
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nut butter out of almonds
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And much more inexpensive than
you can go to the health food
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store or your regular grocery
store and buy nut butters
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They can be quite expensive...
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especially the
almonds and the pecans
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But what you can do at home
is you can buy a bag of almonds
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and take your almonds and put
them on a loaf pan in the oven
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about 250
degrees for about 2 hours
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or a little bit more
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and you can test them at
that time and it will toast them
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just right...
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And then, all you have to do, is
if you have a Champion Juicer,
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is just put them
through the Champion Juicer
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And you can watch
me, in just a moment,
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just how I'm going to do this.
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Go ahead and put some nuts in...
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Wow, that comes right out
as nut butter... I'm amazed!
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Yes, it looks just
like peanut butter.
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It's just that
simple... as you can see.
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It makes beautiful butter
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and right over here, I
have made an almond butter pie.
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And, it is absolutely delicious.
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It's made with tofu
and some almond butter.
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My... that is beautiful.
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Is it frozen? ... It's frozen.
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Ah ha... You freeze it
and then you eat it frozen.
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Just like you would
a peanut butter pie.
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Same as peanut butter pie...
This is the almond butter pie.
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This is beautiful and it's
tasty and it's also healthful.
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So we can be very
happy for almond butter pie.
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YES! And then we can put a
dip of banana ice cream on it.
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Ohhh... a dip of
banana ice cream on it...
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Now a diabetic can eat this?
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Yes, a diabetic can eat this
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because of the tofu that is
in it will cause the blood sugar
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not to rise as rapidly
and because of the nuts
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that are in it,
will not rise as rapidly.
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Very good... and that means then
the glycemic index will not be
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so high and we will
talk a little bit later about
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the glycemic index
and what that means.
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Now, we have here something
else that is very interesting
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and important and
that is a sugar substitute.
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Now, in the same Champion Juicer
that we have used to make the
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almond butter... now we
can make banana ice cream.
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It's a hands-down
favorite in our home to have
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this kind of dessert.
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In fact, we can make a whole
meal of this kind of dessert.
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What do you have here, Melissa?
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I had just frozen
these bananas overnight and
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I did it in a
ziplock freezer bag.
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You can do it to
anything other than bananas,
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berries work very well too.
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I'm just going to run them
through the Champion Juicer
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and we're going to
get the butter out.
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And actually, I like to have
the butter... the almond butter
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I like to have
that in my ice cream...
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As soon as it's all
though, then I just sort of mix
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it up nicely and
it's really quite good.
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Ahhh... there
come the bananas now
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Now the bananas go
through very quickly and you can
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see it's beginning to look like
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banana ice cream now.
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It actually looks
like vanilla ice cream
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and with the almond
butter in it, we call it
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almond butter ice cream.
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This would be good for diabetics
because bananas happen to
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be high in sugar,
so mixed with some
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almonds would be good!
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Yes, okay... that's a
very good illustration.
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My! That looks just
like vanilla ice cream.
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And having had a good
bit of experience with it,
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I know it tastes
like ice cream too.
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It tastes delicious!
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Can you do anything
else with this other than
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just put it through plain?
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Yes, actually I have
made it into a dessert.
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Oh yes... banana split!
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Oh that eaten with
a cracker or a cookie
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would be quite satisfying
for a diabetic... Sure.
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Can you make any other
ice cream besides banana?
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Yes, you can use
berries and mangos and peaches
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and anything else that
you would freeze overnight
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in the freezer.
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And diabetics can
use all of those...
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Actually, some diabetics
are extremely sensitive to
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some fruits...
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But fruits like
strawberries and blueberries and
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most kinds of
berries... blackberries,
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most diabetics can eat
those very well and they can be
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mixed with a little banana ice
cream which makes them creamy
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Bananas work up creamy with
a juicer better than any others
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but it's only the Champion
Juicer that will make this
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kind of creamy ice cream.
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So you'll want to use that kind
of fruit as part of the base.
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But you can put in a
little bit of banana,
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then some strawberries,
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a little bit more banana,
then some more strawberries
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and you can have
strawberry ice cream.
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And this is very nice and most
diabetics can eat it very well.
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In fact, most diabetics can
even eat this, but it depends on
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the severity and the sensitivity
that the diabetic has.
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Now with blueberries,
it's exactly the same thing...
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a little bit of
banana, then some blueberries,
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a little more banana and a
little more blueberries and
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is a beautiful blue color
and is really quite delightful.
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I hope this little illustration
has been of help to you
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so that you can understand
that not everything about
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delicious food
has to be unhealthful.
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But we can have some
very healthful things that are
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easy to make and that
give us a lot of nutrients
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and do not cause the diabetic
to have a violation of their
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general principles.
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Now diabetes is
of 2 general types...
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the type 1 and the type 2.
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We used to call the type
1, the juvenile diabetes,
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and the type 2, the
adult-onset diabetes.
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And we can still do that
but you will find that if you
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classify them in the
2 different varieties,
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that it makes it easier for
you to know how to treat it.
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Now my husband and I wrote
a book a couple of years ago
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called "Diabetes and
the Hypoglycemic Syndrome"
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In this book, we tried to
gather everything from all
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over the world... every
remedy that we could think of
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that would be
helpful for a diabetic,
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every practice that
they could use that would
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help them with their diabetes,
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and put it all in one book...
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and that is this book, "Diabetes
and the Hypoglycemic Syndrome"
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And, as you read through
this, you will find some very
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helpful things... whether you're
a type 1 or a type 2 diabetic
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We have written all those things
that are written for type 2
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diabetics can also help
those that have type 1 diabetes
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not to have the complications
of diabetes to accelerate.
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We should think of
diabetes as accelerated aging...
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because
essentially that is what it is.
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It is a degenerative disease
related to other degenerative
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diseases in a
syndrome called "syndrome X"
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Syndrome X...
because of too much insulin,
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is characterized by, not only
diabetes, but also hypertension
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heart disease
that's with a high LDL
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and a low HDL.
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So the bad cholesterol is
up, the good cholesterol is down
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in syndrome X...
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And then also
cancer and overweight...
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these are also
difficulties that people have
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who have syndrome X.
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Now with the type 1 diabetic,
or the juvenile diabetic,
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it often comes on
rather suddenly...
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in fact, it may
be almost EXPLOSIVE.
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They may have a little
bit of warning but then
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when the diabetes
really comes on rather quickly,
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they may get sick and
even prostrate very quickly.
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So adults need to be
aware that small children even
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can have a
serious problem there.
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A friend of mine, a
pediatrician, went with his wife
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on a small trip... they
were planning to be gone only
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4 days...
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They left an aunt in charge
of their 2 small children;
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one was 3 years
old and the other 5.
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The 3-year-old was not feeling
very well when they left home
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In fact, for a day or
so, he'd just been a little,
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what they
thought was just puny...
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They lived in Savannah, Georgia
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and it was summertime
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and so they thought, well
maybe the heat, he's playing
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too hard in the heat.
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And so when they left,
he didn't have an appetite
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...he would not eat and
the aunt encouraged him to eat
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just a little bit
which he promptly threw up
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and they had spent one night
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in the motel at the place
where they were vacationing
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for those 3 or 4 days when
they got a call from their aunt.
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And she said, "John is still
not well, in fact, he is worse.
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I think you should
come home and see him. "
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Well the doctor said, "No,
you're just overly concerned.
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He's going to be all right. "
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So, he allayed her
fears, but in a couple of hours,
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she called again...
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Well, she couldn't get
in touch with him right away
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so she was persistent,
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and sent someone for them.
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And again, the doctor thought...
well, she's just being
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overly concerned.
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So he listened to her on
the phone and tried to allay
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her fears but she said,
"No, I really want you to
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come home now. "
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So... nothing to do but the two
of them to pack and go back home
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So my friend said...
that he walked in the door...
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and he sort of had
his hands on his hips
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and he said to his aunt...
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"Now show me where
this sick boy is. "
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Well he took one look
at his son and he said,
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"My son is very ill. "
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So they went directly to
the hospital, got a blood sugar,
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found that it was over 400
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and the boy was
already in acidosis
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and it was a little
bit nip and tuck to get him
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so that he was
straightened out again.
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So it CAN BE that a child
can get a very sudden onset
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of type 1 diabetes.
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Now there are certain
precursors of type 1 diabetes
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and Don Miller, who is
my associate at Uchee Pines
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a lifestyle
counselor and a health educator
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and he will now talk with
you about some of the precursors
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of diabetes type 1.
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Okay Dr. Thrash.
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There are various
things that will precurse or
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perhaps lead to diabetes type 1.
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We don't know all the reasons
why a person develops type 1.
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Of course we realize that
it can be an inherited trait
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that a person receives from
a parent and they've got type 1
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diabetes and we can't do much
about things that we inherit.
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But there are 4 more factors
that they've come up with
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that they theorize are things
that may be causing children
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to develop type 1 diabetes.
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One, is a recent
infection of some type.
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And because we realize that...
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let me just go back
and explain what type 1 is
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a little bit... Dr.
Thrash has talked about it...
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but we have in our pancreas...
we have some beta cells
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and it's our beta cells
that produce the insulin
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which takes the
glucose into our cells.
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It's when the beta
cells are no longer there,
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or do not produce insulin
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we have type 1 diabetes...
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which means the person is
going to be diabetes-dependent
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for the rest of their lives.
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So some type of an infection
might harm those beta cells.
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It can also be, and we
don't understand all of this,
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but science has showed us
a child who goes to daycare
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is more likely to come
down with type 1 diabetes
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than the child who
does not go to daycare.
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A child who drinks milk,
dairy milk, after 9 years of age
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in large quantities has a
bigger chance of developing
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type 1 diabetes.
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And really scary is a
child before 6 months of age
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who takes in dairy milk,
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has a larger chance of
developing type 1 diabetes.
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Now, why might that be?
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Why might it be that
taking in dairy products
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would cause us to
develop type 1 diabetes?
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Well, there's a reason for this.
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The milk protein is a
17 amino acid peptide chain
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...that's what it
looks like to the body
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and the body
recognizes, for the most part,
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that protein to be an enemy.
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And it sends out its
immune response to it
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produces cells,
antibodies, to that protein
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to try to protect
our cells from that.
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Trouble is, down in pancreas
street where we have those
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beta cells, the beta cells
are made up of a 17 amino acid
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peptide chain very
similar to the milk protein.
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And so as these antibodies,
produced by the beta cells
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of the immune system,
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are out looking for the antigens
which are on the milk proteins,
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they find the beta
cells in the pancreas...
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and they attack the beta cells,
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and it's basically
an autoimmune disease
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where "auto" means
we're fighting ourselves
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and a child that
cannot do anything about it
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but is receiving dairy milk
which should be fed to a calf
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is now receiving the very
thing which is going to destroy
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his beta cells...
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and cause that child,
for the rest of his life
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to be an insulin-dependent
type 1 diabetic.
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And so, these 5 things,
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some of them, we
can do something about.
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And all that we can do,
we need to do to protect
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our children from
something as terrible
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as type 1 juvenile
diabetes, Dr. Thrash.
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One of the things that
we know about how to handle
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a diabetic is some understanding
of the glycemic index.
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And I'm going to
go to the board now
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and draw for you a
graph, so that you can see
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just what the glycemic index is.
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And you need to know before
that, that there is a certain
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spread of the laboratory tests
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that will help you to know
what proper blood glucose is.
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Notice here, that the laboratory
gives, as its normals 65 to 109
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But your ideal
level is 70 to 85.
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With triglycerides,
which is another problem that
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diabetics often have,
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the laboratory will
give as its normals 0 to 149.
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But, up to 100 is our ideal.
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And over that, is
getting to be too much.
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Creatinine which
is a waste product
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filtered by the kidney,
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the laboratory will
give you 0.5 to 1.5...
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But I don't like to see
the creatinine higher than 1.2
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and especially if it's
going up year by year...
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that makes me think that
the kidneys are not functioning
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as briskly as they had been.
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Then the uric acid level,
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which is another aspect
of all of this syndrome X,
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the uric acid
level at 2.4 to 8.2
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that is what the
laboratory gives,
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but I don't like to
see it any higher than 5.
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So if it's higher than 5, then
it may be a problem for you.
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Now, the glycemic index is
not what the blood glucose is.
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We say that 70 to
85 is the blood glucose
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but as we look at the
board, I will show you
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just what we mean when
we say the glycemic index
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because the glycemic
index gives us another parameter
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that helps us to
control diabetes.
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So let us say that
here is the graph...
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and here is your fasting blood
sugar, right here... this line.
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So you eat a
meal, or you eat a food,
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and that food
takes your blood sugar up
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and then brings
it back down again.
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Now the glycemic
index is the whole area
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of the graph that represents
the level that the food goes
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and your fasting level.
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So lets say that
this food is nuts
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and that this
food is white sugar.
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Now the level will
come back down the same
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but it has gone up quite a lot
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and, in fact, it may
even come down quicker
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but since it has gone up a
lot, it has a lot greater area
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under the curve,
than a nut would have.
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And you may get the
same nourishment from them
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both so far as the
energy that you get.
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But, you do not have the
same influence on your body.
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So, the glycemic index is
one thing that we want to study.
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And, Valerie Schreiber is going
to help me show you some foods
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that have a low or
a high glycemic index.
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So Valerie, what can you
tell us here about these foods
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that you have?
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Well, I'm first going to show
you the different foods that are
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high and the foods that are low
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on the glycemic index
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and it's simply a marker,
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telling us, as Dr. Agatha said,
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how fast our sugar goes
up, according to what foods
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we eat and some of them
are quite surprising as to
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the ones that
will do that to us...
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and an example is
potato, as I have right here.
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It is high on the glycemic index
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so is corn and so are carrots.
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Now does that mean that,
oh.. I can't ever have a potato,
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or a carrot or an
ear of corn again?
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No, it doesn't mean that,
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but it means that if you're
going to eat these vegetables,
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then you have to figure out
a food that would be high fiber
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so that it will slow
the rise in your blood sugar
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and so you don't want to eat
a whole meal of foods that are
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going to cause your blood
sugar to go, very quickly, up...
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You want to eat foods
that will cause it to go slower
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and so, those are
your high fiber foods.
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And God has given us that in
His vegetable kingdom as well.
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So now what you
would want to do is...
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Let's say... oh, I
want a corn on the cob
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or I want a baked potato.
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How you would do that
is, you would go ahead and
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have yourself
like a spinach salad
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or, you know, a good
salad that would have broccoli,
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cauliflower in it.
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And/or, you can
take some lentils or soy
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and both of these are
very low on the glycemic index
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And so you could
make burgers, loaves...
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all sorts of things
you can make out of soy
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Soy is extremely low on
it and so beneficial for
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many other things
for our body as well
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And, lentils
are extremely tasty.
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And so you could
have this and a nice salad
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and then you could go
ahead and have your ear of corn,
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or your baked potato.
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And it would be quite
permissible to do that.
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Now another area to
consider on the glycemic index
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is bread.
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And, unfortunately, even
in the whole grain breads,
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it will tend to
rise it a little swifter.
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So, if you want to eat bread,
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you would do the same
thing that I explained
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to you just a minute ago.
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You would go ahead and have a
good salad with LOTS of fiber.
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And/or a good legume like
pintos or something with soy...
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Tofu would be another good one.
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But another good substitute
for bread would be Wasa.
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That is very high in
fiber... and this is rye
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and it's very high in fiber and
very low in the glycemic index.
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So you could alternate
having bread and then have Wasa
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at another time, so that
you could still enjoy having
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something either
crunchy or kind of bready.
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What if you put the almond
butter that you previously
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made on the bread? Yes...
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Now you can go ahead and
put almond butter on here
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and that would slow it...
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And so you could go ahead
and have your almond butter on
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your bread and it would
be permissible to eat that.
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Now another thing is...
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You know, people
love pancakes and waffles.
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Well, the standard
pancake mixes and waffles are
00:23:57.38\00:23:59.86
very questionable...
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and they will go ahead
and shoot her sugar up high.
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So, the BEST ones to get...
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and I'm telling you,
they make best waffles and
00:24:06.25\00:24:08.64
pancakes you ever ate...
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happens to be
buckwheat flour and soy flour.
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And what's so nice
about soy flour is that
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it acts like a
leavening in there.
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It will rise them up and make
them nice and fluffy and soft.
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And you can make
the BEST pancakes,
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and you can make the
BEST waffles out of soy flour.
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So then you don't have to use
baking soda or baking powder?
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No, you do not have to use it.
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The soy just puffs
them up a little bit.
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The soy just puffs them up
and makes them nice and fluffy.
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And the steam from your
waffle iron does the rest?
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Oh yes! And they are delicious
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and they don't affect the...
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makes me hungry just to think
of it... I know it! I know...
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it does me too!
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And we'll have some
banana ice cream on that waffle?
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You could have banana
ice cream on that waffle!
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Yes! You could have banana
ice cream on that waffle and put
00:24:49.43\00:24:51.69
some strawberries on top
and you would be just fine.
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Fiber, as we said a
few minutes ago, does slow
00:24:57.70\00:25:01.44
the glycemic index.
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Another thing,
that eating a large meal
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will rise your
sugar, your glycemic index,
00:25:05.83\00:25:08.67
so it's important that if you're
having problems with diabetes,
00:25:08.70\00:25:12.01
that you want to
eat smaller meals.
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Now this doesn't mean,
okay I can eat 6 meals a day.
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No... it means the
regular meals that you're eating
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whether it be 2 or 3,
00:25:18.00\00:25:19.02
you eat smaller meals.
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And then you will find that
your sugar level will not rise
00:25:20.91\00:25:24.52
as rapidly.
00:25:24.55\00:25:25.52
So... so those are very
good things to know about
00:25:25.55\00:25:30.59
the glycemic index...
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and how we can handle this
00:25:32.18\00:25:33.58
and how we can make
it so that even though
00:25:33.61\00:25:37.01
we may eat something that
has a pretty high glycemic index
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If we manage our diet
in just the right way,
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then we are going to be
able take care of things well.
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Now type 1 diabetes is
never handled with a fast.
00:25:48.54\00:25:54.49
But type 2 diabetes can very
properly be handled with a fast.
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In fact, that's one of
the standard treatments
00:25:58.86\00:26:01.16
that we use for that.
00:26:01.19\00:26:02.24
And I would like to tell
you just a little bit about
00:26:02.27\00:26:06.94
some of the experiences
that we have had with fasting.
00:26:06.97\00:26:09.39
We have had many people
who have some to Uchee Pines
00:26:09.42\00:26:12.28
type 2 diabetics, who are on
70 or 80 or 90 units of insulin.
00:26:12.31\00:26:18.45
We give them a fast, and of
course, they don't take insulin,
00:26:18.48\00:26:21.61
they don't take
food during that time.
00:26:21.64\00:26:23.33
They only take
water and clear herb teas.
00:26:23.36\00:26:27.00
And as they take these,
when we finish with the fast,
00:26:27.03\00:26:33.02
sometimes that's 2
days, sometimes it's 3 days,
00:26:33.05\00:26:36.10
sometimes it may be
up to 5 days that we will
00:26:36.13\00:26:39.10
have the person to fast.
00:26:39.13\00:26:40.53
But as soon as
they come off the fast,
00:26:40.56\00:26:42.44
we may find that their insulin
requirements have halved.
00:26:42.47\00:26:46.32
So that we are no longer
using 70 or 80 or 90 units.
00:26:46.35\00:26:49.71
But now we may be
using 20 or 30 or 40
00:26:49.74\00:26:53.66
for that individual.
00:26:53.69\00:26:55.36
And as we continue to
help them to lose weight,
00:26:55.39\00:26:58.42
and to exercise more...
00:26:58.45\00:27:00.72
As we do these
things, then the person slowly
00:27:00.75\00:27:04.15
gets off insulin.
00:27:04.18\00:27:06.34
Once in a while, we'll have
a person who has a lot of the
00:27:06.37\00:27:10.22
oral antidiabetic
agents that they are using
00:27:10.25\00:27:12.93
and we need to have
them take a fast too.
00:27:12.96\00:27:17.48
For these individuals,
if they come to our center,
00:27:17.51\00:27:20.04
then we can easily
fast them 4 or 5 days
00:27:20.07\00:27:23.06
when they're
right under our care.
00:27:23.09\00:27:25.27
But, if they're at
home, then we tell the person
00:27:25.30\00:27:28.50
not to fast more than
a day or two per week.
00:27:28.53\00:27:31.35
So they can fast on Monday,
00:27:31.38\00:27:33.03
and then they can fast
again, perhaps, on Thursday.
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And again, the person
who is on these agents
00:27:36.21\00:27:40.77
can usually stop
taking them gradually as they
00:27:40.80\00:27:44.67
get better in
control of themselves.
00:27:44.70\00:27:46.62
I hope that your understanding
of diabetes has been increased,
00:27:46.65\00:27:51.76
and that you will improve
00:27:51.79\00:27:53.53
your glycemic index.
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