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“Dr. Dinesh Kacha addresses the root cause of insulin resistance and lack of insulin, reversing diabetes through ayurvedic lifestyle & fixing the metabolic damage  that will not just prevent the disease but also reverse it as his researches believes that focus on lifestyle through the approach of Aahar Vihar Ausadh  based on ayurvedic principles and processes will help the management of disease.”

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Author:Dr Dinesh Kacha
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“According to the surgeon general, obesity today is officially an epidemic; it is arguably the most pressing public health problem we face, costing the health care system an estimated $90 billion a year. Three of every five Americans are overweight; one of every five is obese. The disease formerly known as adult-onset diabetes has had to be renamed Type II diabetes since it now occurs so frequently in children. A recent study in the Journal of the American Medical Association predicts that a child born in 2000 has a one-in-three chance of developing diabetes. (An African American child's chances are two in five.) Because of diabetes and all the other health problems that accompany obesity, today's children may turn out to be the first generation of Americans whose life expectancy will actually be shorter than that of their parents. The problem is not limited to America: The United Nations reported that in 2000 the number of people suffering from overnutrition--a billion--had officially surpassed the number suffering from malnutrition--800 million.”

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Book:The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals
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“Just as calories differ according to how they affect the body, so too do carbohydrates. All carbohydrates break down into sugar, but the rate at which this occurs in the digestive tract varies tremendously from food to food. This difference forms the basis for the glycemic index (GI). The GI ranks carbohydrate-containing foods according to how they affect blood glucose, from 0 (no affect at all) to 100 (equal to glucose). Gram for gram, most starchy foods raise blood glucose to very high levels and therefore have high GI values. In fact, highly processed grain products – like white bread, white rice, and prepared breakfast cereals – and the modern white potato digest so quickly that their GI ratings are even greater than table sugar (sucrose). So for breakfast, you could have a bowl of cornflakes with no added sugar, or a bowl of sugar with no added cornflakes. They would taste different but, below the neck, act more or less the same. A related concept is the glycemic load (GL), which accounts for the different carbohydrate content of foods typically consumed. Watermelon has a high GI, but relatively little carbohydrate in a standard serving, producing a moderate GL. In contrast, white potato has a high GI and lots of carbohydrate in a serving, producing a high GL. If this sounds a bit complicated, think of GI as describing how foods rank in a laboratory setting, whereas GL as applying more directly to a real-life setting. Research has shown that the GL reliably predicts, to within about 90 percent, how blood glucose will change after an actual meal – much better than simply counting carbohydrates as people with diabetes have been taught to do.”

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Book:Always Hungry?: Conquer Cravings, Retrain Your Fat Cells, and Lose Weight Permanently
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“…Sugar has become an ingredient avoidable in prepared and packaged foods only by concerted and determined effort, effectively ubiquitous. Not just in the obvious sweet foods (candy bars, cookies, ice creams, chocolates, sodas, juices, sports and energy drinks, sweetened iced tea, jams, jellies, and breakfast cereals both cold and hot), but also in peanut butter, salad dressings, ketchup, BBQ sauces, canned soups, cold cuts, luncheon meats, bacon, hot dogs, pretzels, chips, roasted peanuts, spaghetti sauces, canned tomatoes, and breads. From the 1980's onward manufacturers of products advertised as uniquely healthy because they were low in fat…not to mention gluten free, no MSG, and zero grams trans fat per serving, took to replacing those fat calories with sugar to make them equally…palatable and often disguising the sugar under one or more of the fifty plus names, by which the fructose-glucose combination of sugar and high-fructose corn syrup might be found. Fat was removed from candy bars sugar added, or at least kept, so that they became health food bars. Fat was removed from yogurts and sugars added and these became heart healthy snacks, breakfasts, and lunches.”

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Book:The Case Against Sugar
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“People all over the United States are ready to try to take off the unwanted weight they gained. They’re ready to start walking, jogging, riding bikes, taking exercise classes, walking the malls, or just moving more outside. They’re hoping to lose the weight they have gained. But they’ll fail, mostly.”

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Book:Glucose Control Eating: Lose Weight Stay Slimmer Live Healthier Live Longer
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“Most weight-loss books are written by smart, well-intentioned people who read a lot of other weight-loss books and write their book based on their collected 2nd hand knowledge and their personal experience. Glucose Control Eating© is different. It’s based on over 40 years of empirical testing and over 85,000 tests on the impact of foods and drinks on weight.”

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Book:Glucose Control Eating: Lose Weight Stay Slimmer Live Healthier Live Longer
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“Most people don’t know how to lose weight. They try different diets with good intentions and hope. They fail. They try again and fail. Then they often give up and return to eating for satisfaction and fulfillment. Why have so many failed? They’ve tried cutting out sweets. That helps, but it’s only part of the cause of their weight gain. They’ve tried counting calories. That’s burdensome and, again, only part of the story. They’ve failed because no one has ever told them, in clear, everyday terms, how we all gain and lose weight.”

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Author:Rick Mystrom
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“How do you control the amount of insulin your body produces? You control the amount of glucose you put into your bloodstream. Put in less glucose, your body will produce less insulin, and you will lose weight. Put in more glucose, your body will produce more insulin, and you will gain weight. That brings us to the premise of this book: Control your blood glucose, and you control your weight. Lower blood glucose, and you will lose weight. This is universal. How do you lower your blood glucose? The answers are in Glucose Control Eating©.”

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Book:Glucose Control Eating: Lose Weight Stay Slimmer Live Healthier Live Longer
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“Why Is It So Hard to Lose Weight? Body fat is hard to lose because the body automatically burns the easiest energy source first—blood glucose; when blood glucose gets too low, the body then uses the next easiest source of energy—glycogen in the liver—which converts back to glucose and goes into the bloodstream. Then and only then, after the liver is depleted of glycogen, does the body begin to use body fat. That is why body fat is so hard to get rid of. It’s the last source of energy used and is also a very stable molecule that is hard to break down. You can gain weight easily simply by putting more glucose in your bloodstream than you need for your current activity or inactivity. But it’s harder to lose weight because body fat is the last source of energy your body uses. This is the very reason that you can gain weight quickly, but losing weight takes longer.”

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Book:Glucose Control Eating: Lose Weight Stay Slimmer Live Healthier Live Longer
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“How We Gain and Lose Weight To understand how we gain and lose weight, we need to start with insulin. Medical researchers and internal medicine doctors almost universally agree that the amount of insulin a person produces determines weight gain and weight loss. For example, Gary Taubes, a medical researcher and recipient of multiple awards from the National Association of Science Writers, refers to insulin as “the stop-and-go light of weight gain and loss.” Produce more insulin—you will gain weight. Produce less insulin— you will lose weight.”

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Book:Glucose Control Eating: Lose Weight Stay Slimmer Live Healthier Live Longer
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“What is the number one cause of death in the United States? It's not high cholesterol or accidents by cars, planes or trains. It's not wars. It's not drug addiction, and it's not even disease, so that lets out heart disease, cancer, strokes, diabetes and more. In Third World countries, infections and malnutrition are major causes of loss of life. But in the United States the number one cause of death is not any of these things. IT IS PRESCRIPTION DRUGS (Null, TW).”

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Author:Dr. Sherry Rogers
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“Experts on dietetics (the study of diet and its health effects) are finally recognising that balanced vegan diets are healthy. The British Dietary Association has stated well planned vegan diets can support healthy living in people of all ages, and other similar professional bodies all over the world agree. On the other side, the World Health Organization has classified processed meat as carcinogenic, and there is increasing evidence that eating lots of meat and dairy increases blood pressure and blood cholesterol, which leads to heart disease, and that cutting them out can significantly reduce your risk of type 2 diabetes, a disease which is affecting an increasing number of people in developed nations.”

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Book:Ethical Vegan: A Personal and Political Journey to Change the World
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“Nutrition and physical activity are important parts of a healthy lifestyle when you have diabetes. To manage your blood glucose, you need to balance what you eat and drink with physical activity and diabetes medicine, if you take any. What you choose to eat, how much you eat, and when you eat are all important in keeping your blood glucose level in the range that your health care team recommends.”

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Book:A Day in the Life of Larry and Roger, a Pair of Diabetic Feet
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“Getting a good amount of exercise is a primary component to our program. Roger and I make sure that we put our daily exercise at the top of our list of things to do. It will help improve our quality of life for absolute certain. Although it’s not always easy to get Roger going, he knows the importance of exercise and will eventually fall into place beside me with a grumble and a half smile”

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Book:A Day in the Life of Larry and Roger, a Pair of Diabetic Feet
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“Diabetes And Lifestyle The inactive lifestyle leads to loss of muscle mass that may cause insulin resistance because our bodies are meant to be physically active. For thousands of years we led an active lifestyle, and it is only for the past 100 years or so we have got somewhat sedentary. We addresses the root cause of the disease & corrects metabolism through the approach of Ayurveda.”

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Author:Dr Dinesh Kacha
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“Humans went from experiential and physical beings to conceptual ones, and one could surmise that in the future we will become even more brainy still. The changes in sedentary lifestyle alone are staggering. Dietary changes might have led to a diabetes since there may be different levels of pancreatic reserve. The explosion of carbohydrate intake that moderns indulge in may surpass the limit of the pancreas to endure, resulting in either childhood diabetes or later onset type 2 diabetes. We must be careful not to outsmart ourselves and in vanquishing the predators that plagues us for millions of years to create new ones. Having moved from chaos to order, we need to appreciate order’s value, to protect and enhance it. Any slide into chaos may well be swift and irreversible.”

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Book:Footprints of Schizophrenia: The Evolutionary Roots of Mental Illness
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“Was Arben alive when they brought him here, or had he lapsed into a diabetic coma? When the brain doesn't get enough glucose, or receives too much, it cannot function properly. The symptoms can appear slowly: an altered mental state, an inability to speak, drowsiness, weakness, headaches, restlessness, shaking, an irregular heartbeat, an eventually the loss of consciousness. If left untreated, it results in permanent brain damage and utlmately, death.”

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Book:Storm Child
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“Gula: Racun Manis yang Mempercepat Kehancuranmu Setiap kali kamu memasukkan gula ke dalam tubuhmu, kamu sedang mempercepat proses kehancuranmu sendiri. Kamu pikir itu cuma sekadar permen, minuman manis, atau camilan kecil yang "tidak apa-apa"? Tidak. Itu adalah racun yang diam-diam mempercepat entropi tubuhmu, membuat organ-organmu membusuk lebih cepat dari yang seharusnya. Pankreasmu? Dipaksa kerja rodi. Setiap kali kamu menelan gula, pankreasmu harus memompa insulin lebih keras untuk menyeimbangkan kadar gula darahmu. Tapi ini bukan mesin yang bisa bekerja tanpa batas. Lama-lama, pankreasmu lelah, kehabisan tenaga, dan akhirnya menyerah—selamat datang di dunia diabetes, di mana tubuhmu sendiri menjadi medan perang yang tidak bisa kamu menangkan. Jantungmu? Dijerat perlahan. Gula tidak hanya membuatmu gemuk, tapi juga menciptakan plak di pembuluh darahmu. Kamu pikir masih sehat? Tunggu sampai jantungmu harus bekerja dua kali lipat untuk memompa darah melalui pembuluh yang semakin menyempit. Serangan jantung? Stroke? Itu bukan kejutan—itu adalah konsekuensi yang sudah kamu bangun sendiri. Hatimu? Dihancurkan tanpa ampun. Terlalu banyak gula tidak hanya merusak pankreas dan jantung, tapi juga membuat hati (liver)mu berubah menjadi gumpalan lemak. Hati yang seharusnya menjadi pusat detoksifikasi tubuhmu malah menjadi tempat penyimpanan sampah lemak akibat gula yang berlebihan. Selamat, sekarang kamu punya penyakit hati berlemak non-alkoholik, sesuatu yang dulunya hanya diderita oleh pecandu alkohol—tapi sekarang, kamu mendapatkannya hanya dengan hobi minum bubble tea setiap hari. Otakmu? Melemah secara perlahan. Kamu pikir gula memberi energi? Itu hanya sementara, sebelum akhirnya otakmu menjadi tumpul akibat resistensi insulin di sistem sarafmu. Ingatanmu mulai kabur, fokusmu menurun, dan kamu akan mulai merasakan kabut otak—sebuah gejala nyata bahwa gula telah merusak fungsi kognitifmu. Dan yang paling brutal? Tubuhmu mulai menua lebih cepat dari yang seharusnya. Gula menciptakan reaksi glikasi dalam tubuhmu, yang berarti kulitmu kehilangan elastisitas, sel-sel tubuhmu lebih cepat rusak, dan kamu mulai terlihat lebih tua dari umurmu seharusnya. Kerutan muncul lebih awal, stamina menurun drastis, dan sebelum kamu sadar, kamu sudah berada di titik kehancuran total. Jadi, silakan terus makan gula, terus menikmati "kenikmatan sesaat" itu. Tapi jangan kaget saat tubuhmu mulai runtuh lebih cepat dari orang lain. Karena entropi tidak peduli dengan penyesalan. Tubuhmu bukan hanya mengalami penuaan alami—tubuhmu sedang dihancurkan lebih cepat oleh setiap sendok gula yang kamu masukkan sendiri.”

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Author:Vergi Crush
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“Consuming artificially sweetened diet drinks can heighten the risk of diabetes via disbiosis. Some studies show a doubling of the risk via drinking two diet beverages a day.”

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Book:Drop Acid: The Surprising New Science of Uric Acid?The Key to Losing Weight, Controlling Blood Sugar, and Achieving Extraordinary Health, Hardcover
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“The situation with regard to insulin is particularly clear. In many parts of the world diabetic children still die from lack of this hormone. ... [T]hose of us who search for new biological facts and for new and better therapeutic weapons should appreciate that one of the central problems of the world is the more equitable distribution and use of the medical and nutritional advances which have already been established. The observations which I have recently made in parts of Africa and South America have brought this fact very forcible to my attention.”

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Author:Charles Herbert Best
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“Diabetes is a disease that separates warriors from the rest. There are no days off from it. At best it is manageable; at worst it’s the greatest weight and discouragement that can be felt. A person with diabetes is born with a special purpose. As someone who has walked this path, I see all the mothers, fathers, caregivers and those who struggle with the disease. I understand your pain and desire to give you hope. This bond connects us and serves as a support for those days I lose hope as well. You will never do it alone.”

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Book:Zandra: My Daughter, Diabetes, and Lessons in Love
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“Banting’s initial idea was neither original nor successful, but he persisted in it, and his persistence led to a solution that was both original and successful. He would later say that if he had been more familiar with the literature on the subject and had known about the previous attempts, he would not have pursued his idea at all. Fortunately [..] for millions of children, he knew next to nothing.”

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Book:Breakthrough: Elizabeth Hughes, the Discovery of Insulin, and the Making of a Medical Miracle
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