My mom died from Heart Failure and guess what was the root cause? Diabetes.
I can describe the daily life of my mom by having the habit of taking at least a bottle of soda every after meal. She cannot help it. She really liked soda. Unfortunately, she had diabetes that was not really visible and so I would define her disease as the silent killer in her life. I love my mom but I lost her because of the traitor disease. Her final diagnosis was heart failure before I lost her in 2006.
Jamaica Healthy Lifestyle Survey reports that if you have diabetes then you have two to four times possibility to develop cardiovascular disease compared to people without diabetes. Some of the leading effects of diabetes are hypertension, obesity, and abnormal blood lipids and all these lead to cardiovascular disease.
Like my mom, millions of Americans are habitually dependent on sodas. Soft drinks are extremely sugary drinks that increase the risk of type 2 diabetes, which can lead to heart problems and other chronic diseases.
A study in Harvard shows that those who consume an average of one can of a sugary beverage per day had 20% higher risk of heart attack compared to men who rarely consumed sugary drinks.
CDC summarizes the use and misuse of sugar in the body by saying that: "Diabetes mellitus also increases the risk for heart disease. Your body needs glucose (sugar) for energy. Insulin is a hormone made in the pancreas that helps move glucose from the food you eat to your body's cells. If you have diabetes, your body doesn't make enough insulin, can't use its own insulin as well as it should, or both."
Insulin levels should be balanced in the body otherwise, a person will have the body in a "fat storage mode" always even if he or she is eating healthy foods. The imbalance should be solved. A Harvard Doctor, Dr. Terry Shintani, solves this by his Peace Diet, which produces the balance in the body within ten days through proper choices of foods to eat.
Diabetes is a silent killer at times and you need to take on a more aggressive defense. Get the best diet to solve it before it is too late.
