Diabetes mellitus is a disorder in which the pancreas fails to secrete sufficient insulin or the body’s decreased ability to use insulin. Diabetes mellitus is Greek for ‘a passing through of sweetness’ which refers to the passing of sugar rich urine, a characteristic of the disease. It is a very serious disorder, sometimes fatal and is the leading cause of death in Western society because of its damage to the cardiovascular system.

In a healthy body food is digested to release glucose into the blood. This causes beta cells in the pancreas to release insulin into the bloodstream. Insulin helps in the transportation of glucose from the blood to the liver and muscle cells. This can then be released later into the blood for metabolism. If the pancreas fails to produce sufficient amounts of insulin or if there is insulin resistance then diabetes will set in.

There are two types of diabetes, Insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (IDDM) also known as juvenile-onset diabetes, type 1 diabetes and Non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) also known as maturity-onset diabetes, type 2 diabetes. Both environmental and genetic factors contribute to both forms of diabetes mellitus but the exact cause of diabetes mellitus is unknown. In both types, excess sugar in the blood known as hyperglycemia needs to be removed by the kidneys. Excessive thirst, frequent urination and hunger are the symptoms.

Non-insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM) also known as maturity-onset diabetes, type 2 because it typically occurs in obese people over 35 years of age, although some obese children have been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes due to lack of exercise and poor diet. The clinical symptoms of NIDDM are mild, and the high glucose levels can be controlled by exercise, weight loss, diet and sometimes a drug like glyburide (DiaBeta) is used to stimulate the pancreatic beta cells to produce insulin. Some type 2 diabetics have sufficient amounts of insulin in the blood and diabetes happens not because of shortage of insulin but because cells become desensitized due to down-regulation of insulin receptors. Ketosis rarely develops in NIDDM.

Eating foods containing carbohydrates such as rice, potatoes, bread and cereals will raise blood sugar and insulin levels. This sugar raising effect of a food is called ‘the glycaemic index’ and it measure how quickly the carbohydrate is absorbed by the body. Individuals whose diet consists of a high amount of sugary foods and foods with high glycaemic index are more prone to develop type 2 diabetes. Those whose diet consists of a high amount of foods which have a low glycaemic index are at low risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Typical foods with a low glycaemic index are oats, fruit, beans and peas. To prevent or control type 2 diabetes it is best to avoid processed and snack foods which are typically high in sugar and eat high fibre whole foods such as oats, fruits, vegetables and seeds which have a low glycaemic index, regular exercise to reduce excess weight is also very important. Taking high fibre supplements such as psyllium, guar gum, oat bran, pectin, glucomannan and fenugreek seeds has shown to be beneficial to those suffering from type 2 diabetes. Stopping smoking and cutting down on alcohol will be beneficial to the diabetic.

The following supplements may help if you are suffering from Type 2 Diabetes.

Alpha lipoic acid

Biotin

Brewer’s yeast

Chromium

Coenzyme Q10

Evening primrose oil

Fenugreek (seeds)

Fibre

Fish oil (EPA/DHA)

Fructo-oligosaccharides (FOS)

Glucomannan

Inositol

L-carnitine

Magnesium

Manganese

Medium-chain triglycerides

Multivitamins and minerals

Psyllium

Quercetin

Starch blockers

Taurine

Vanadium

Vitamin B1 (Thiamine)

Vitamin B12

Vitamin B3 (niacin)

Vitamin B6

Vitamin C

Vitamin D

Vitamin E

Zinc

Stewart Hare C.H.Ed Dip NutTh

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As Benjamin Franklin put it in a letter to Jean-Baptiste Leroy, in 1789, “In this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.” And when it comes to smoking, he could not have put it any more succinctly.

In the UK, the average packet of cigarettes carries duty and taxation of around £4 (around $7) per pack so if you are a smoker, you can be guaranteed the taxes part of the statement. In real terms that is over £1,460 ($2,500) per year – the equivalent of about 8.5 pence (15 cents) extra in the pound on the basic rate income tax for an average earner!

As for the death part of the statement, we know that death is inevitable but the average smoker’s life is shortened by 8 years according to widely accepted research. But there is a sting in this statistic that most people ignore. Half of all smokers are expected to die prematurely as a result of their smoking. From this key fact we can draw the conclusion that half of all smokers will not die prematurely from smoking. This explains the “my grandmother smoked 40 woodbines a day and lived to 98″ quotes you hear at the pub or in general conversations.

What people overlook when they make these statements is that of the half that die early as a result of smoking, the average demise is brought forward by eight years for the whole smoking population. This actually means that if you get caught up in the half that is going to die prematurely, you are going to die about 16 years earlier than normal.

In the case of the UK, the average life expectancy of a man is 76 years for a man and 81 years for a woman. These statistics include the premature deaths of smokers – so actually, if you don’t smoke, your life expectancy should be a few years more than this. If you do smoke, it may be a few years more than you think but it falls back 16 years from that of a non-smoker if you end up in the ‘wrong half’!

In the case of men, if the average life expectancy is 76 years and you are unfortunate enough to die 16 years early as an ‘average’ smoker, you will be 5 years short of your retirement age. How does that make you feel? All the work, all the pension contributions and then what – die of a heart attack or a lingering painful death as a result of cancer or a dribbling, mumbling wreck from stroke or the worst of all, a static, breathless existence in a chair incapable of doing anything because of emphysema?

If you think this is a little morbid, why not do some research on famous smokers or people in the public eye who have died from smoking related illnesses? You will be amazed at the number of smokers who die in their fifties and sixties. Most smokers are in denial that they will get cancer or heart disease but you could well be dying in your 50s or 60s as a result of smoking. There are well documented cases on the internet of smokers dying in their 20s and 30s as a result of thier habit and it could be you next.

Extensive research has categorically concluded that smoking causes a plethora of diseases. At the last count in my research, I had identified over 60 diseases, both fatal and non-fatal that can be directly linked to the consumption of cigarettes or other tobacco products.

I suggest that whilst there is nothing you can do about the inevitability of taxes, nor the inevitability of death, there is a choice for smokers to pay less tax and get a little more time in before death. Quitting is never easy if you are in denial and you believe you want to smoke, but there are methods available to overcome your emotional attachment to cigarettes. Today is always a good day to start stopping smoking.

Pete Howells owns the website easyquitsystem.com easyquitsystem.com and has devised a simple system that will help any smoker quit by giving them the instructions they need to follow to achieve their ambition to quit. Please visit easyquitsystem.com easyquitsystem.com to find out more about his incredible process for quitting smoking.

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This is the first of several articles directed to smokers. In order to better understand the psychology of nicotine addiction, I need to have input from smokers, and get inside your head. I look forward to your input and replies on my stop smoking discussion board. In my practice as a pulmonologist as well as in my Quit Doc Clinic, I have finally acknowledged that I can not MAKE anyone quit smoking. I can not scare anyone into quitting smoking. Half of lung cancer patients go back to smoking!!! The drive to stop smoking has to come from within. Statistics tell us that over 80% of smokers want to quit smoking. My “on the street” interviews suggest that it is significantly less than this. Why the difference? When someone fills out an anonymous survey they can be more open. In the interview process I get the “yeah, I know I should quit but…” When I get to the one on one level, I find out that there are only a few reasons.

Most of the time the failure to think about quitting is driven by either fear or immaturity. It is further fueled by denial (”oh that will never happen to me”). The top fear is not of the health consequences (stroke, heart attack, cancer) but the FEAR OF FAILURE. Most of my patients that I treat are afraid of failing their smoking cessation attempt. The second most common fear is that of gaining weight. I hear the rationalization of “I’ll probably gain so much weight that I will make myself more unhealthy than if I smoked!” Well, let’s look at this. It is estimated that you would have to gain 150 pounds to have the cardiovascular effects of smoking. And still you would not have the cancer risks! The third most common fear is FEAR OF CHANGE. Yep, most of us do not want to change our lifestyle. I get the comment “I’ve done it this way for the last 30 years no need to change now!” My response is usually, “The way that you have been doing it has gotten you into the mess you are in. Look at your lifeless skin? What about your breathlessness? What about the silent plaque that is building up inside of your arteries or the slow dissolution of lung tissue with each puff of that poisonous crap! What about immaturity.

Well you are full of it! There is the rebellious punk side of you that says “no one is going to make me do anything!” To this I say “Well Einstein, don’t you think that the big tobacco companies are responsible for getting you hooked in the first place? Don’t you think that addiction is controlling your life? Can you go over to a friend’s house and have a wonderful dinner and conversation without crawling out of your skin for your nicotine fix? This addiction has total control over you and can make you grovel at its whim.” In my Quit Doc Clinic, I usually do not treat patients younger than 30. The reason is that they generally lack the maturity to stay quit. They are invincible and have not suffered from health problems or faced their own mortality. I often tell my patients whom are children of the 60’s,70’s or 80’s that the mind set that they need to quit smoking is the same as they had when they quit all that other childhood stuff. They must be able to say “I’m done” and walk away. If they are still doing the late nights, alcohol, drugs etc. chances are that they have not matured to the point of being a successful nonsmoker.

I turn them away and tell them to come back when they grow up.”Denial? I don’t have denial!” This denial accounts for why many people go without even trying to quit. “It will never happen to me.” Or “you gotta die of something?” Smokers know they are playing Russian roulette. They believe there is one bullet and one thousand empty chambers. In reality, there is one bullet and only one empty chamber. Yes, that is right! Out of every two smokers, one will die prematurely of a smoking related death. The good news is that for every 2 people that we can get to stop smoking, we will save one life!! So what is the point of this article? Well you have to start somewhere.

Before you decide to attempt quitting, you must look at your own reasons for not quitting thus far. You surely don’t enjoy making the tobacco companies rich by giving them $1000/year for each pack per day that you smoke. You really don’t enjoy the odor that reeks off of your body or breath (oh yeah, I forgot, you can’t smell it until you quit). You may think it is your right to kill yourself by whatever means that you choose but what about the cancers, heart attacks and other illnesses that you are causing in those around you? That brings me to my next article on second hand smoke.

Kirk G. Voelker MD FCCP - Quit Doc Smoking Treatment Network

Dr Voelker is a pulmonologist who has helped thousands of smokers quit smoking in his Quit Doc Smoking Treatment Network clinic.

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The tobacco in cigarettes contains two main components - tar and nicotine. Tar is certainly a very dangerous ingredient, which causes all the diseases that cigarettes are notorious for, including the deadly cancers. Tar deposits in the lungs over time and without fail causes problems in the smoker’s system. While tar is the ingredient instrumental in inflicting the damage in the smoker’s body, nicotine is the main addictive ingredient.

People who get these constant cravings for cigarettes do so because of the nicotine present in them. Nicotine is a highly addictive drug, which stimulates the receptors of the brain into the sense of the false euphoria that comes with smoking. However, an excessive use of nicotine is not without its dangers. Nicotine can severely impair the brain’s impulses taking its toll on the mental and the sexual system of the person. Recent studies have also shown that nicotine can cause cancers apart from addiction.

One popular mode of treatment from smoking addiction is to get the person hooked to nicotine products that do not contain tar. This would at least keep the harmful effects of tar away, while the person could still satisfy his or her cravings for the nicotine. Therefore, there are so many nicotine patches, nicotine gums and nicotine lozenges available in the market. But now that the harmful effects of nicotine have also been studied, the medical fraternity is all out for vehemently refusing the use of nicotine products to stop smoking.

There are other problems associated with nicotine products to stop smoking. Nicotine is quite hazardous to people suffering from diabetes and for pregnant women, even though it is taken in the body in the form of replacement therapies. Nicotine is known to increase the levels of sugar in the blood, and can hasten the probability of heart attacks and strokes in diabetics. If pregnant women use nicotine therapies, then there is a risk that the baby born would be underdeveloped or impaired in other ways. There is also a link between nicotine and the disastrous condition you know popularly as SIDS.

Hence, nicotine replacement therapy is not all that safe as it is touted to be. That brings us to the search for another viable stop smoking alternative. People all over the world are now discovering the best stop smoking alternative that has ever been devised, and that is the herbal smoke cessation method.

The herbal way to stop smoking is a very safe method, and is also considered as one of the most effective methods for the purpose. Using a vast variety of popular herbs, formulations are prepared that serve several purposes for people addicted to smoking. They can detoxify the body of the harm smoke has done, serve as antidepressants to get rid of withdrawal symptoms and also reduce the craving for the addiction eventually.

There is no doubt why the stop smoking alternative of herbal remedies is becoming hugely popular today. An example of this alternative is the SmokeRX, a carefully prepared wonder therapy for even those hardened smokers who light up another cigarette when they have snubbed off the previous one.

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