Over the last several years, here at our clinic, we have been conducting very targeted research on the treatment of diabetes — and I'm happy to say, we are now in the process of preparing some of these case studies for publication. Stay tuned.
If our research is accurate, I believe that the nutritional guidelines that presently support the treatment of diabetes are not only wrong, but potentially harmful to diabetics. I also believe that continued ignorance surrounding the nutritional management of diabetes is a major factor in the escalation of this disease epidemic.
Allow me to explain.
Diabetes, according to world health authorities, is one of the single greatest health epidemics of our time. I want to give you some quick historical perspective. In the early 2000s, as part of the development of Healthscore, I was asked to give a series of lectures on the global burden of preventable lifestyle diseases such as diabetes, heart disease, and the like. I had a section of my slides dedicated to diabetes, and I always began that series with a couple of quotes, including one that stated "Diabetes is the single greatest epidemic facing our society!" I would then move on to the prevalence and the projected escalation of this epidemic.
At that time, it was estimated that 151 million people had diabetes globally. According to the World Health Organization and the International Diabetes Federation, it was projected that "by 2030, it is believed that 324 million people will have diabetes."
We're now sitting at about 450 million people with diabetes. The growth is exponential — and no one is sounding the alarm.
I'd look around the room and expect to see faces painted with the sheer terror of that projection. Instead, I mostly saw apathy. Here's the mic drop. We're now sitting at about 450 million people with diabetes. The growth is exponential, and what's worse, no one is sounding the alarm. Moreover, the guidelines released to treat this epidemic, written by experts, may actually be making this epidemic worse.
