American Diabetes Association. “The Rising Cost of Diabetes in America.” Diabetes Forecast. June 2013. Web. 11 October 2016.
This article is published by the American Diabetes Association. There is not a specific author stated, but because of the source, the article is reliable. The website Diabetes Forecast is one published to help people fighting diabetes or to educate those who need more information than just what the doctor might provide.
This article states how expensive it is to live with diabetes. Specific costs are given and facts of how it has risen over the years. Solid numbers reflect the fact that it is expensive to fight the disease. Doctor appointments and medicines add up to be costly.
I will use this information to share facts of how much it costs people to fight diabetes. Some Americans would argue that it is too expensive to buy healthy food every week, instead of the junk food, which is full of carbohydrates and processed sugars. However, when looking at the bottom line of what will happen in the end by consuming the bad foods and in turn, paying money for doctor appointments and medications, it is worth it to spend a little more on healthy food, which will help reverse diabetes, and will be a lesser cost, better benefit.
Cucuzzella, Mark, M.D. Personal Interview. 16 September 2016.
Dr. Mark Cucuzzella has been practicing medicine for years. He is also a professor at West Virginia University and as an Air Force Reserves Lt. Colonel, he is the chief medical consultant for the United States Air Force Marathon. I interviewed Dr. Cucuzzella personally on Sept. 16. He hosts a blog and often times a podcast. He has been invited to Washington D.C. to speak to the politicians about the importance of good nutrition and how the proper nutrition will affect the future generations, including, but not limited to, reversing Type 2 diabetes. Dr. Cucuzzella was a borderline diabetic himself, but now has near-perfect numbers, making him a very qualified source.
Dr. Cucuzzella states that it is possible to reverse diabetes by changing to a low-carb diet. He explains the science of the body and how the body processes sugar and why changing to low-carbs will change the dynamics of the how the body will process and break down the foods. He said “Insulin resistance is the most common medical condition present in a majority of the world’s populations (over half the population in the US has diabetes or pre-diabetes.) Those with insulin resistance who eat high carbohydrate diets develop persistently elevated blood insulin concentrations. Higher insulin levels promote more resistance. So it is a doom loop unless you reverse it.”
I will be able to use his information to prove from a medical and a scientific standpoint that consuming more carbohydrates makes the body work harder to process sugars, therefore becoming insulin resistant and eventually a type 2 diabetic. Thus, reducing the amount of carbohydrates consumed can actually reverse the process.
Hallberg, Sarah, M.D. “Reversing Type 2 Diabetes Starts with Ignoring the Guidelines.” Online Video Clip. YouTube. YouTube, 4 May 2013. Web. 11 October 2016.
Dr. Sarah Hallberg is the Medical Director of the Medically Supervised Weight Loss Program at IU Health Arnett, a program she created. She gives seminars on the facts of how ignoring the typical guidelines of diabetes can reverse it. Her seminar, published on YouTube, is backed by Perdue University, lending credibility to her presentations.
In this seminar, Dr. Hallberg covers many aspects of why low carb eating can reverse diabetes. She takes her patients, who tend to be obese because of having an insulin resistance, and goes against the odds of what most doctors prescribe. She prescribes a low carb diet and monitors them, with astonishing results of patients being able to go off all of their diabetes medicines. She states the statistics of diabetes today, such as the fact that 50% of Americans have diabetes or pre-diabetes due to insulin resistance. Dr. Hallberg gives 5 Rules of Eating, which in essence, when practiced, have proven to reverse diabetes in patients. She explains the medical details behind insulin resistance and why so many experience it. And in the end, she describes how low-carb eating shows evidence of patients reversing their diabetes.
I will be able to use this seminar to back up the fact that yes, diabetes can be reversed. I can use her patients’ statistics through her studies, as well as her facts stated about how the insulin resistance functions in the body and why reducing carbs will fix that. I will use her 5 rules as part of my paper to explain what it is that diabetics need to follow in order to reverse diabetes and remain without the issue.
Maffetone, Phil. “Carbohydrate Intolerance and the Two-Week Test.” MAF. May 6, 2015. Web. 19 October 2016. <http://philmaffetone.com>
Dr. Phil Maffetone is registered clinician, and has served as a professional coach to athletes all over the U.S., including Olympians and professionals. He is an internationally recognized coach, clinician, author and researcher in the field of nutrition. Dr. Maffetone lectures worldwide on the topics of nutrition and fitness, making him a very credible source.
In this particular article, Dr. Maffetone explains how many of us are carbohydrate intolerant, we just do not know it. He explains how the body processes insulin and carbohydrates and how that affects each one of us differently. In this article, he shares how to go about figuring out how to understand what affects your body, as an individual, as far as carbohydrates go. Perhaps one person can tolerate sweet potatoes, but another cannot. He gives a scientific way to go about testing individually, that is safe and proven to work. It is a two week test that is medically proven to help individuals figure out what carbohydrates affect their body.
I will use this information in my paper to explain how a diabetic can go about figuring out how to cut out the carbohydrates affecting them. It’s a proven test, with many testimonies to its working, including my own family implementing this. I will share the information for my readers to grasp a knowledge of the healthy way to go about implementing carbs or taking them out, thus in the end, being diabetic free.
Maffetone, Phil. “The Future of Fat Burning.” MAF. February 5, 2016. Web. 10 October 2016. <http://philmaffetone.com>
Dr. Phil Maffetone is registered clinician, and has served as a professional coach to athletes all over the U.S., including Olympians and professionals. He is an internationally recognized coach, clinician, author and researcher in the field of nutrition. Dr. Maffetone lectures worldwide on the topics of nutrition and fitness, making him a very credible source. He explains that a high-fat, low carb diet is the best way for us to have healthy lives, preventing illness and being physically active.
In this article, Dr. Maffetone says that implementing higher-fat foods in place of high carbohydrate foods can lead to a healthier body when it is in a state of nutritional ketosis. “The state of nutritional ketosis may be the ideal approach to prevent most of the common chronic diseases from Alzheimer’s to cancer, and diabetes to heart disease.” He goes on to explain that starting with a healthy eating plan is the way to reversing some of these illnesses.
This information can be utilized in my paper by using his research to prove that by switching to a low-carb diet, the metabolism is increased and the ability for a body to fight illnesses improves significantly.
Schillinger, Dean. “Why Sugar Matters Today. Finding Tools to Fight Diabetes.” Sugar Science. University of California San Francisco. January 2015. web. 10 October 2016.
Dean Schillinger, M.D. is a doctor and professor at the University of California San Francisco. He also works as the Chief of the Diabetes Prevention and Control Program for the California Department of Public Health. He has published over 100 articles, using his scientific and medical research he has performed. Dr. Schillinger has also been awarded many accolades for his research and education of diabetes prevention.
Here Dr. Schillinger gives many facts about how sugar contributes to the increase in diabetes probability. He shares statistics of ages of people diagnosed today v. years ago. He also shares about how the cost of diabetes has risen so much over the last few years. He says, “In 2004, diabetes cost Americans $700 billion in direct medical costs and lost productivity — up by 41% from just five years earlier.”
I can use this information to back up the idea that the cost of diabetes is a problem, and that by eating appropriately and being educated on the low carbohydrates is far less of a cost to the general population. I also can use this to prove that sugar in the diet is creating diabetes in the population, therefore eliminating it can reverse the disease or prevent it altogether.
Volek, Jeff S. M.D. and Stephen D. Phinney, M.D. The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Living. Beyond Obesity, 2011.
Dr. Volek is an Associate Professor in the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Connecticut. He teaches and leads a research team that explores the physiologic impact of various dietary and exercise regimens and nutritional supplements. He’s best known for his research on low-carbohydrate living and how that will impact the body. Dr. Phinney is a physician scientist who has spent 35 years studying diet, exercise, fatty acids, and inflammation. Together they have compiled research with proven facts about how carbohydrates affect the body.
In this book, the authors talk about how low carbohydrate living improves life all around. I want to dive into two specific chapters. The first chapter is about all the contradictions that society presents against the idea of cutting out carbohydrates. The authors present each argument and the counter-attack of why that argument is wrong. For example, some of society would say carbs are critical for the body to have energy. Many people who may read this paper would feel the same. The author gives the contradiction to that by saying that yes, carbs provide a certain energy, however our body can also gain that same energy from fat. And to follow that, they explain that consuming a high amount of carbohydrates can actually contradict the body’s ability to utilize fat sources. That would be just one example. Then, from a second chapter of the book, the authors explain insulin and how that works in the body. Low carb diets make better insulin for the body.
I will use this information to explain what insulin is and how it works in the body. I will share the facts given about low carbohydrates allowing the body to have better resources in the body to fight diabetes. I also will take the counter-arguments mentioned to argue for my proposed idea that by switching to a low-carb diet, one can reverse diabetes. The arguments against my case are refuted in the book with evidence from the authors, so this will only further prove my point.
This article is published by the American Diabetes Association. There is not a specific author stated, but because of the source, the article is reliable. The website Diabetes Forecast is one published to help people fighting diabetes or to educate those who need more information than just what the doctor might provide.
This article states how expensive it is to live with diabetes. Specific costs are given and facts of how it has risen over the years. Solid numbers reflect the fact that it is expensive to fight the disease. Doctor appointments and medicines add up to be costly.
I will use this information to share facts of how much it costs people to fight diabetes. Some Americans would argue that it is too expensive to buy healthy food every week, instead of the junk food, which is full of carbohydrates and processed sugars. However, when looking at the bottom line of what will happen in the end by consuming the bad foods and in turn, paying money for doctor appointments and medications, it is worth it to spend a little more on healthy food, which will help reverse diabetes, and will be a lesser cost, better benefit.
Cucuzzella, Mark, M.D. Personal Interview. 16 September 2016.
Dr. Mark Cucuzzella has been practicing medicine for years. He is also a professor at West Virginia University and as an Air Force Reserves Lt. Colonel, he is the chief medical consultant for the United States Air Force Marathon. I interviewed Dr. Cucuzzella personally on Sept. 16. He hosts a blog and often times a podcast. He has been invited to Washington D.C. to speak to the politicians about the importance of good nutrition and how the proper nutrition will affect the future generations, including, but not limited to, reversing Type 2 diabetes. Dr. Cucuzzella was a borderline diabetic himself, but now has near-perfect numbers, making him a very qualified source.
Dr. Cucuzzella states that it is possible to reverse diabetes by changing to a low-carb diet. He explains the science of the body and how the body processes sugar and why changing to low-carbs will change the dynamics of the how the body will process and break down the foods. He said “Insulin resistance is the most common medical condition present in a majority of the world’s populations (over half the population in the US has diabetes or pre-diabetes.) Those with insulin resistance who eat high carbohydrate diets develop persistently elevated blood insulin concentrations. Higher insulin levels promote more resistance. So it is a doom loop unless you reverse it.”
I will be able to use his information to prove from a medical and a scientific standpoint that consuming more carbohydrates makes the body work harder to process sugars, therefore becoming insulin resistant and eventually a type 2 diabetic. Thus, reducing the amount of carbohydrates consumed can actually reverse the process.
Hallberg, Sarah, M.D. “Reversing Type 2 Diabetes Starts with Ignoring the Guidelines.” Online Video Clip. YouTube. YouTube, 4 May 2013. Web. 11 October 2016.
Dr. Sarah Hallberg is the Medical Director of the Medically Supervised Weight Loss Program at IU Health Arnett, a program she created. She gives seminars on the facts of how ignoring the typical guidelines of diabetes can reverse it. Her seminar, published on YouTube, is backed by Perdue University, lending credibility to her presentations.
In this seminar, Dr. Hallberg covers many aspects of why low carb eating can reverse diabetes. She takes her patients, who tend to be obese because of having an insulin resistance, and goes against the odds of what most doctors prescribe. She prescribes a low carb diet and monitors them, with astonishing results of patients being able to go off all of their diabetes medicines. She states the statistics of diabetes today, such as the fact that 50% of Americans have diabetes or pre-diabetes due to insulin resistance. Dr. Hallberg gives 5 Rules of Eating, which in essence, when practiced, have proven to reverse diabetes in patients. She explains the medical details behind insulin resistance and why so many experience it. And in the end, she describes how low-carb eating shows evidence of patients reversing their diabetes.
I will be able to use this seminar to back up the fact that yes, diabetes can be reversed. I can use her patients’ statistics through her studies, as well as her facts stated about how the insulin resistance functions in the body and why reducing carbs will fix that. I will use her 5 rules as part of my paper to explain what it is that diabetics need to follow in order to reverse diabetes and remain without the issue.
Maffetone, Phil. “Carbohydrate Intolerance and the Two-Week Test.” MAF. May 6, 2015. Web. 19 October 2016. <http://philmaffetone.com>
Dr. Phil Maffetone is registered clinician, and has served as a professional coach to athletes all over the U.S., including Olympians and professionals. He is an internationally recognized coach, clinician, author and researcher in the field of nutrition. Dr. Maffetone lectures worldwide on the topics of nutrition and fitness, making him a very credible source.
In this particular article, Dr. Maffetone explains how many of us are carbohydrate intolerant, we just do not know it. He explains how the body processes insulin and carbohydrates and how that affects each one of us differently. In this article, he shares how to go about figuring out how to understand what affects your body, as an individual, as far as carbohydrates go. Perhaps one person can tolerate sweet potatoes, but another cannot. He gives a scientific way to go about testing individually, that is safe and proven to work. It is a two week test that is medically proven to help individuals figure out what carbohydrates affect their body.
I will use this information in my paper to explain how a diabetic can go about figuring out how to cut out the carbohydrates affecting them. It’s a proven test, with many testimonies to its working, including my own family implementing this. I will share the information for my readers to grasp a knowledge of the healthy way to go about implementing carbs or taking them out, thus in the end, being diabetic free.
Maffetone, Phil. “The Future of Fat Burning.” MAF. February 5, 2016. Web. 10 October 2016. <http://philmaffetone.com>
Dr. Phil Maffetone is registered clinician, and has served as a professional coach to athletes all over the U.S., including Olympians and professionals. He is an internationally recognized coach, clinician, author and researcher in the field of nutrition. Dr. Maffetone lectures worldwide on the topics of nutrition and fitness, making him a very credible source. He explains that a high-fat, low carb diet is the best way for us to have healthy lives, preventing illness and being physically active.
In this article, Dr. Maffetone says that implementing higher-fat foods in place of high carbohydrate foods can lead to a healthier body when it is in a state of nutritional ketosis. “The state of nutritional ketosis may be the ideal approach to prevent most of the common chronic diseases from Alzheimer’s to cancer, and diabetes to heart disease.” He goes on to explain that starting with a healthy eating plan is the way to reversing some of these illnesses.
This information can be utilized in my paper by using his research to prove that by switching to a low-carb diet, the metabolism is increased and the ability for a body to fight illnesses improves significantly.
Schillinger, Dean. “Why Sugar Matters Today. Finding Tools to Fight Diabetes.” Sugar Science. University of California San Francisco. January 2015. web. 10 October 2016.
Dean Schillinger, M.D. is a doctor and professor at the University of California San Francisco. He also works as the Chief of the Diabetes Prevention and Control Program for the California Department of Public Health. He has published over 100 articles, using his scientific and medical research he has performed. Dr. Schillinger has also been awarded many accolades for his research and education of diabetes prevention.
Here Dr. Schillinger gives many facts about how sugar contributes to the increase in diabetes probability. He shares statistics of ages of people diagnosed today v. years ago. He also shares about how the cost of diabetes has risen so much over the last few years. He says, “In 2004, diabetes cost Americans $700 billion in direct medical costs and lost productivity — up by 41% from just five years earlier.”
I can use this information to back up the idea that the cost of diabetes is a problem, and that by eating appropriately and being educated on the low carbohydrates is far less of a cost to the general population. I also can use this to prove that sugar in the diet is creating diabetes in the population, therefore eliminating it can reverse the disease or prevent it altogether.
Volek, Jeff S. M.D. and Stephen D. Phinney, M.D. The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Living. Beyond Obesity, 2011.
Dr. Volek is an Associate Professor in the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Connecticut. He teaches and leads a research team that explores the physiologic impact of various dietary and exercise regimens and nutritional supplements. He’s best known for his research on low-carbohydrate living and how that will impact the body. Dr. Phinney is a physician scientist who has spent 35 years studying diet, exercise, fatty acids, and inflammation. Together they have compiled research with proven facts about how carbohydrates affect the body.
In this book, the authors talk about how low carbohydrate living improves life all around. I want to dive into two specific chapters. The first chapter is about all the contradictions that society presents against the idea of cutting out carbohydrates. The authors present each argument and the counter-attack of why that argument is wrong. For example, some of society would say carbs are critical for the body to have energy. Many people who may read this paper would feel the same. The author gives the contradiction to that by saying that yes, carbs provide a certain energy, however our body can also gain that same energy from fat. And to follow that, they explain that consuming a high amount of carbohydrates can actually contradict the body’s ability to utilize fat sources. That would be just one example. Then, from a second chapter of the book, the authors explain insulin and how that works in the body. Low carb diets make better insulin for the body.
I will use this information to explain what insulin is and how it works in the body. I will share the facts given about low carbohydrates allowing the body to have better resources in the body to fight diabetes. I also will take the counter-arguments mentioned to argue for my proposed idea that by switching to a low-carb diet, one can reverse diabetes. The arguments against my case are refuted in the book with evidence from the authors, so this will only further prove my point.