12: Mark-John Clifford: Diabetes Awareness

Written on September 1, 2010 by admin

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Mark-John Clifford is the featured guest on this week’s episode of the Carbohydrates Can Kill Show with Robert Su, MD. Welcome back!

When I was a pharmacy and medical student during 1960’s, diabetes mellitus (DM) was a disease only found in about 5% of the US population. In 2007, 10.7% of it, aged 20 years or older was diagnosed with DM,. During the same period, 23.1% of it aged 60 years or older had DM. The total medical cost related to DM was 174 billion dollars for 2007. The rate for new cases of DM has increased rapidly each year. Worse of all, many people do not realize that they have developed DM, until their incidental blood and urine tests yield abnormal readings of sugars. By the time, when DM is diagnosed many of them have already developed other diseases, which are a result of hyperglycemia. If they had conducted semiannual or annual serial blood sugar tests, they would have found the mass of the insulin producing pancreatic beta cells is shrunk and could have restricted carbohydrates for preventing them from becoming DM. Mark-John did not know he was a diabetic even for a good while after he suffered from coronary artery syndrome. Worst of all, he could not improve his health conditions based on the ill dietary advices by the medical establishment. He finally had to do his own research and changed his dietary style for controlling his DM. With his terrible personal experience, he has initiated a crusade to raise public awareness of DM and its prevention. Do not miss this very revealing interview with Mark-John about Diabetes Mellitus.

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I found your website in Google few moments ago, and luckily, this is it I was looking for the last weeks, thanks
http://FarTooMuch.Info J. Russell Lemon

I did enjoy this ‘podcast’ on my computer, but I would like to make a few comments. Not all carbohydrates are equal. Fructose is more of a problem then glucose. This show did not talk about the toxins that greatly increase blood sugar. Eating Bt-corn chips or a Bt-taco or drinking something with high fructose corn syrup will greatly increase my blood sugar. Eating non-GMO or organic corn chips or tacos has a much smaller effect. Eating a Rubio’s fish taco [corn] can even result in a lower blood sugar after a few hours.

Three years ago I was very sick. A lady on the web was having the same problems as I. She made a stew for her and her husband and fed the remainder to her dog. Her dog almost died. She found that the corn in her stew was genetically modified to manufacture the Bt-toxin.

Foods containing Bt-corn, Bt-soy, Bt-cotton seed, Bt-canola, etc. greatly increase my blood sugar and blood pressure. By eliminating GM foods with the Bt gene from my diet, and avoiding aspartame, trans-oils, trans-fats, & MSG, in six months my doctor told me I no longer needed atenolol for high blood pressure nor metformin for blood sugar. I celebrated with a half liter of a chocolate malt and next morning my blood sugar was below 100. Since then I found I need a little metformin.

It seems that for me, foods containing iodine help lower by blood sugar. Since I was avoiding salt, I was missing the iodine in that salt. Exposing myself to a half hour of summer sun [without sunblock] also helps. [i.e. vitamin D] And of course, trans-oils and trans-fats are non-water soluble and interfere with the bodies cells ability to absorb and use sugar and other nutrients. We do eat butter and olive oil, neither of which block any metabolic process.

The toxins I believe are in Bt-foods include the Bt-toxin [insecticide], and the herbicides glyphosate, gluphosinate or 2,4-D. For me, these cause high blood pressure, high blood sugar, stomach problems, and can contribute to lymphoma, and cancer of the pancreas and liver. It is my personal belief that these toxins are a major contribution to high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, stomach problems and significant increase in cancer.

Thank you for allowing me to give my opinion. http://opinion.fartoomuch.info/GMO.htm
http://opinion.fartoomuch.info/Cancer.htm

—Russ

http://www.carbohydratescankill.com Robert K. Su MD

Mr. Lemon, most of all, I want to thank you very much for taking the time to make comments. Every one of us may be different from each other because of the genetic variations. Sometime, one person may react to one thing more than the other that cannot be a statistical issue. However, when we have many people (do not have to have more than 50% or a majority) share the same experience that may or should be an important trend.

Studying diets or foods is very complex, because when involving more than one variable factor, the study result may mislead us into believing one thing, which may not be true. The case in point is the cause of atherosclerosis. When we consume so much carbohydrate and fat, especially the saturated fat, and when we find lots of cholesterol and fat in the atherosclerotic plaque, naturally, we would suspect the fat, especially the saturated fat because of its high melting point, for building up atherosclerosis. But, now we understand that inflammation comes first to the endothelium of the blood vessel and attracts while blood cells to the site for destroying and remodeling the normal vascular structure, During that process, macrophages engulf the oxidized LDL-cholesterol (and triglyceride) to become foam cells and build the plaque. (Coronary Artery Disease: Understand Atherosclerosis and its Prevention. http://www.carbohydratescankill.com/628/coronary-artery-disease-understand-atherosclerosis-its-prevention)

Many factors other than hyperglycemia can trigger inflammation. However, the most important incriminating factor is hyperglycemia itself, because it is inflammatory and pro-inflammatory. With further studies, Bt-toxin, which you referred in your comments may or may not be responsible for more damages to our health.