All three major news channels reported on new recommendations We are using the CBS clip

I personally take 1200 mg of EPA/DHA per day and 2000 mg of vitamin D. The 1200 mg is in the form of two concentrated omega 3 fish oil capsules. Each of the 1000 mg capsules I take has 400 mg of EPA and 200mg DHA for the total of 1200mg.

See  http://www.diabetic-diet-secrets.com/omega3-epa/dha.html for our article on omega 3 our vitamin D recommendation was in the section on inflammatory foods. Searching the section on recommendations for diabetics it becomes clear I need to add a page on vitamin D.

 Expanding a little on the CBS report that featured  Dr. Jennifer Ashton, Omega 3 and vitamin D are very powerful anti-inflammatories. Type 2 diabetes is one of the many inflammatory diseases. While Dr. Jennifer Ashton spoke about the connection to heart disease, all of the inflammatory diseases respond well to removing inflammatory foods from our diet and increasing anti-inflammatory foods.

See our page on inflamatory foods  http://www.diabetic-diet-secrets.com/articles/anti-inflammatory-foods.html

Avoid Diabetes with This Vitamin

Skip the iceberg lettuce and go for the dark leafy greens on your next trip to the salad bar. Iceburg lettuce is almost devoid of usable nutrients. The dark leafy veggie are loaded. Beside the other nutrients in the dark leafy vegetables scientist have discovered a specific connection between vitamin K and type 2 diabetes.

Turns out the vitamin K in greens like kale and spinach may reduce your chances of developing insulin resistance -- a major risk factor for diabetes.

Earlier this year  Registered dietician Keri Glassman explained to Harry Smith some natural, low cost food items that may fill the grocery shelves during the coming year. Much of this is old news to members on readers of this site. There is howerer some new information about vitamin K.

Watch the video.

Keep Insulin on the Job

In a study, people who took vitamin K supplements for 36 months had lower blood levels of insulin and experienced improved insulin resistance compared with an unsupplemented control group. Contrary to other studies, only the men benefitted from K -- possibly because more of the women were overweight or obese. These conditions contribute significantly to insulin resistance and diminish the body’s response to vitamin K.

All About Inflammation

How does vitamin K boost insulin function? The researchers aren’t quite sure, but they suspect it helps quench inflammation, for one. And although more research is needed to confirm the study’s findings, you can’t go wrong eating dark leafy greens and other vitamin K-packed foods, since they boost your health in numerous other ways. But if you are on a blood thinner, such as warfarin, talk to your doctor before increasing your vitamin K intake.

Try these yummy K-packed recipes from EatingWell:

This has absolutely nothing to do with type 2 diabetes. I  usually try to stay very focused but I can not resist this time. On rare occasions a truly remarkable talent comes out of the crowd and this time it is Susan Boyle.

Congratulation Susan. Reguardless of the final outcome you are the clear winner of the competion. I cannot understand how you came in second to a Mediocre dance troop. Susan, your's is an incredible talent. I wish you the best and if there is any justice in the world you will sing for the Queen and go on to a career of singing professionally.

If you have not seen Susan  in the finals, here it is.

From the beginning of this site we have been talking about diet being the best way to control ype 2 diabetes. Now there is another warning about a diabetic drug. The study is from UCLA.The study is partially funded by Merck, the maker of Januvia. Instead of pushing more bad drugs at the type 2 diabetic population, why are they not paying attention to the better ways to controll type 2 diabetes with diet. I think this is fairly obvious. There are not huge profits in teaching people how to maintain a healthy diet.

 

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I sent the following to President Barack Obama through The Office of  Public Liason at the white house website. http://www.whitehouse.gov/administration/eop/opl/ I am asking all who see this see this to also send a message from the same contact form. I am sure the web submissions are read by a staff member and President Obama may never see it unless there are several who also send a message. When you send yours please reference message from Toma Grubb Diabetic-diet-Secrets.com lets do a call for action for change we can believe in and echo Barack Obama's words, YES WE CAN.

This is the message I sent:

I am doing my part to help both the economy and the health care crisis in the explosive growth rate of type 2 diabetes and a cluster of other chronic diseases. It may sound a bit strange to link these two but there is a close link. Some estimates say type 2 diabetes is costing the economy 1.3 trillion dollars when all factors are taken into account. Getting type 2 diabetes well controlled can reduce the cost by as much as 80 % which would help the economy not to mention the benefit to the Americans who have or will be getting type 2 diabetes.

At this point you are probably thinking that is the domain of The American Diabetes Association, NIH, CDC etc. You would be right and they should be the sources of the best information for controlling type 2 diabetes but they are failing miserably and the type 2 diabetes crisis is still doubling about every 10 years. We could have a long discussion about why this is happening but I only have 5000 characters.

In a nut shell, in 1950 less than 1% of the population was diagnosed as diabetic. In 2009 we are at, approaching or past 9% of the population. Some segments of the population are as high as 40%. We have to look at what has changed in the past 58 years to figure out what has gone wrong and what we can do to reverse the problem. We created the problem in only 58 years. With a concerted national effort we could return to or near 1950 levels in probably 5 years. If I could wave a magic wand and I could immediately get people to change the way they eat we could solve the problem in less than   100 days. I reversed my own type 2 diabetes from very high, near fatal levels to non-diabetic levels in less than 90 days. I grant you access to my VA medical records to verify this. I was diagnosed and treated in February 2005 at the VA hospital in Seattle. The recovery can be documented by my records at the Denver VANC between February 2005 and June 2005. By June 2005 I had an A1c of 5.2 and no longer taking medications for the type 2 diabetes. What I had been taught by my medical team at the VA had not worked. What was working were strategies I got from searching the internet.

Based on what I learned I started a small grass roots movement to help other type 2 diabetics. When I was looking for good information I had to search thousands of websites to find what would work. I spent 10 - 18 hours a day searching and studying the problem. When I realized there was not a free site that offered all the best information I set out to build one. Now 4 years later most of my efforts are accomplished through the website www.diabetic-Diet-Secrets.com and the book that I offer to companies for the cost of production and the free ebook I give away from the website. The site is HONcode accredited through the World Health Organization and has Google PR of 5/10

The site helps several thousand people each month. There are currently 1091 site members and that grows by a few just about every day. The stats from my server tell me there are between 35,000 and 45,000 visitors each month and up to 270,000 page loads.

What can this administration do to help?

• 1.      This one cost the government nothing other than some staff time to get it done. Provide .gov  links to my site and sites similar to it help increase search engine placement so more people can find it.
• 2.      Setup and maintain a national accrediting mechanism for health related web sites similar to WHO's HONcode. Make sure there is a level playing field where new and innovative sites have just as much chance of getting the accreditation as the stale medical sites that are far behind the curve of current research (Such as American Diabetes Association) Provide an avenue for accreditation that is open to individuals like myself. There are commercial medical accreditation services but an accreditation cast several thousand dollars ($17,500 when I checked a couple of years ago.) making it impossible for individuals and small grass root movements.
• 3.      There are books written by diabetics who have learned how to beat type 2 diabetes with proper diet. I wrote one of them. There are several others that are also written by people who have actually beaten the disease themselves. One is death to Diabetes. Acquire rights to publish these books at government printing presses, Print them and distribute them to doctors, clinics and hospitals to give to their type 2 diabetes patients. I offer printing rights to mine to the government for free.
• 4.      Help get studies on why we are able to control our diabetes with diet without meds. I am willing to cooperate with NIH, CDC or anybody else to help arrange a study on the effectiveness of a proper diet. There have been attempts to study this but the healthy diet presented by the main stream is not getting the job done while mine and Dewayne MaCaully and others I can think of are working. The premise of proper diet in previous studies is flawed but still diet and exercise was twice as effective as drug interventions according to a study done by the NIH

I will continue to do the best I can on a grass roots level with or without government assistance but together we could do so much more. I will be posting this on www.Diabetic-Diet-Secrets as well as send it to you