There’s no other way to put it…
The pandemic has been a nightmare for diabetics. Having the blood sugar disorder puts you at far higher risk for severe COVID and death.
About 4 in 10 people who died of COVID-19 in the U.S. have had diabetes, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Among people under 65 who died of COVID, half had diabetes.
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced recently that more Americans than ever have blood sugar issues.[1]
More than half of American adults have type 2 diabetes or prediabetes.[2]
It’s a full-blown epidemic.
Since the 1950s, the incidence of diabetes has soared by more than 900% in the U.S.[3]
If you have blood sugar issues, your doctor has likely advised you that obesity causes diabetes and that you should lose weight.
A drink or two a day can help you prevent type 2 diabetes.
That’s the surprising finding of a major Danish study that followed more than 70,000 people.
It runs counter to the advice that doctors gave for years. They warned diabetics and prediabetics against drinking. They believed it caused dangerous blood sugar swings.[1]
But the new research shows the opposite is true—if you choose the right beverage.
When bodies are donated for medical research, scientists closely examine the cadavers. Lately, what they’ve been finding is disturbing.
Professor Rolf Halden is an Arizona State University researcher. He and his colleagues are finding tiny bits of plastic throughout the bodies they look at. It is concentrated in the liver, kidneys, lungs, and spleen, but it’s in other organs as well.
In 2013, a new class of diabetes drugs was approved by the FDA. It was hailed as a breakthrough.
The medications were called SGLT2 inhibitors. They included Invokana (canagliflozin), Farxiga, (dapagliflozin), and Jardiance (empagliflozin).
The drugs worked by causing the kidneys to remove more blood sugar.
SGLT2 inhibitors were touted as providing superior blood sugar control for type 2 diabetics with no serious side effects.
America is heading toward a diabetes disaster.
Nearly 90 million people in the U.S. have prediabetes. Don’t let the “pre” fool you.
Prediabetes is a serious condition. It means that your blood sugar levels are elevated and heading toward full-blown diabetes and all the health problems that it entails…nerve damage, kidney disease, vision loss, heart disease, strokes, and more.[1]
Along with all those issues, diabetics often die early.