How to Prevent Hereditary Diabetes (pillar article - how to)

 

Hello and welcome back to all my healthy Nature's New Nook subscribers. On today's article post I will be giving you guys tips, tricks, and vital information on ways you can prevent hereditary diabetes and other genetically common illnesses by following a plant based lifestyle. In many other of my blog post I have touched on this manner on how Nature's New Nook lifestyle can help reverse chronic illnesses. I will provide you scientific proven facts, real-life examples, tips, and more. First I will describe the causes and the how and why of hereditary diabetes, then I will talk about some real life examples of people who have reversed the disease. Finally I will give you tips and tricks on how to prevent it if it runs in your family. Once again I need to disclose that I am not a medical professional, before adopting and implementing some these steps/instructions into your daily life consult your primary care doctor. 

A very common misconception that people have about the correlation between our family genes and type-2 diabetes is that we are automatically going to develop it at some point in their lives. For example, an individual's grandfather and father have both had type 2 diabetes and both had strokes or heart disease. The individual automatically assumes that the reason for them to adopt one of these incidents will be because of their genetic predisposition. Genetics do indeed have some role in risk of diabetes but there are many different types of diabetes, the amount that your genes contribute depends on the particular type of diabetes. There are rare forms of diabetes and for these genes have a major impact. Then there are more common forms of diabetes such as type-2, for these it's a combination of genetics and the individuals lifestyle environment factors. But the positive aspect about type-2 diabetes is it a lot more manageable and can be prevented from early on in life. The World Health Organization considers processed meats as a Group 1 carcinogen to humans, which is placed in the same category as cigarettes and tobacco. According to an article in the Vanishiava Internet News Agency, Sarah Boseley analyzes the World Health Organizations claims saying “...dangers of processed meats indeed include higher stroke risk, increased risk of death, doubled risk of lung disease, doubled the risk of heart disease & diabetes, increased risk of prostate & colorectal cancer…”

Relating this topic to my own personal experience, my Dad was diagnosed with type-2 diabetes a few years ago. He was diagnosed after he suffered a very severe stroke that had him in the hospital for a week. Not trying to sound like I am bashing on my father but anyone who is close to him knows he does not practice healthy lifestyle factors. For the past two decades he has worked late night shift out at O'Hare airport. Because of his odd work schedule of working nights, and doing side-jobs during the day he started to have bad habits. He barely got more than 4 hours of sleep a day, smokes cigarettes heavily, diet consist of junk food, drank 7-9 jumbo coffees a day, and didn't exercise. To this day he still does not completely changed all his bad habits but has improved much more. I have told my Dad all about Nature New Nook and my goals to help people like him get healthier from a plant based diet. Although my Dad is not fully plant based, he agrees and understands the vegan lifestyle benefits but he argues he cannot maintain it due to work and his hectic schedule.

When I was developing my research for this article I came across a YouTube video from a channel called Physicians Committee (Link to Bob's Story ). The video is a sit down interview with a man name Bob Blackburn who claims he was able to reverse his diseases by going all plant based. He talks about his life story of how during his wrestling career he gained a lot of weight in order to bulk up. After his wrestling career he was constantly eating foods like tons of red meat, beef, eggs, and dairy. He goes on to talk about how his dad died at age 54 from diabetes when he was only 14, in turn Bob's was also diagnosed with type-2 diabetes at age 52. The flashbacks of not growing up with his father is what motivated him to get healthy and adopt a plant based diet. Two years after his diagnosis, his blood work results came back all in good numbers, resulting in his doctors conclusion that Bob was no longer diabetic.

Tips + Habits to help prevent/delay hereditary Type-2 diabetes

• Reducing daily processed meats and egg consumption is the first important step for achieving better health and a cleaner planet. Switching out the regular beef burger for a veggie burger, or opting for baked/fried tofu instead of chicken wings. Even making a tofu scramble instead of eggs, they have an identical texture and taste. There are several meat substitutes out on the market these days.

• Similar to meat substitutes there are even more dairy replacements in majority of grocery stores in the US. Swapping regular milk for almond/soy/coconut milk, the taste is better and has twice as much calcium as regular milk. Also substituting the regular yogurt for the dairy-free Silk yogurts. Plus multiple restaurants and fast food chains worldwide have implemented vegan options into their food menus.

• Increasing your intake of whole plant based foods like fruits, veggies, and legumes can help with the reversal and keeping your blood sugar level at a safe number.

• Becoming more physically active on a daily basis in order to keep a healthy and moderate weight is a very important tip. Some examples are walking or biking around outside for 30 minutes a day.

• Decreasing your daily intake of sugary drinks, caffeine, and refined carbohydrates.

• Decreasing and even quitting smoking cigarettes or vape can have a huge impact in the prevention of type-2 diabetes

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