Reversing Diabetes and Controlling Blood Sugar

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Posted on 19th February 2015 by admin in Health Alerts

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Dear Living Fuel Family,

Diabetes and blood sugar conditions such as insulin resistance and hypoglycemia are commonplace in the discussion of health in modern society.  We are barraged by products, magazines, websites and books that attempt to teach how to “manage” or “live with” your diabetes as if it was something you owned or cared for.  We’ve long taught that Type 2 Diabetes (formerly known as adult-onset diabetes) is reversible with diet and lifestyle changes.  And these same changes can radically speed your journey to Super Health and to your optimal body weight.

Today on LivingFuelTV, Monica and I continue our special series on my book, The Super Health Diet: The Last Diet You Will Ever Need!  In The Super Health Diet, I explore the connection between blood sugar and weight optimization which we discuss today.  Discover how you can use strategies and tools from the diabetic “community” to help accelerate you to Super Health!

Join us by clicking on the graphic below to watch.

SuperHealth to you!

KC Craichy

Founder, Living Fuel Inc.

Reversing Diabetes

HealthAlert: Diabetes Clarified

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Posted on 20th March 2014 by admin in Health Alerts |LivingFuelTV

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Heart disease, stroke, and cancer, the top three killers in America, have an important health condition in common.  It’s not diabetes, but a significant pre-cursor to diabetes.  In today’s important LivingFuelTV HealthAlert, we explain this condition and discuss an important health marker that can measure your susceptibility to type 2 diabetes.  We’ll also present in simple terms the key differences in type 1, type 2, and type 3 diabetes.  With the booming impact of diabetes on global health, this episode contains ‘must know’ information.

Click on the graphic below to watch and learn.

 



KC Craichy’s SuperHealth Podcast: Cholesterol Myth and Fact

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Posted on 10th October 2012 by admin in Health Alerts |Super Health |SuperHealth Podcasts

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Cholesterol, the modern health villain, is actually a naturally-occurring lipid (fat) that is absorbed by the body from your diet and also naturally produced in the liver.  Cholesterol circulates in the blood system and is critical to life.  Perhaps you or a loved one has recently been diagnosed with “high” cholesterol and immediately prescribed a cholesterol-lowering medication to assist your body in reducing your total cholesterol to under 200 mg/dL or other target.  HDL cholesterol is often referred to as “good” cholesterol and LDL as “bad”, but is cholesterol really good and bad?

Today in our SuperHealth Podcast, join me as we discuss what cholesterol does in the body and present straight forward strategies to help manage cholesterol levels.  In reality, the cholesterol in your body may be doing you more good than harm.  Once again, let’s re-think conventional wisdom and the pharmaceutical approach to health.

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TheraSweet® – The Healthy Sweetener

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Posted on 24th April 2012 by admin in Super Health

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A recent story on CBS’ television newsmagazine 60 Minutes highlighted the wide-ranging negative health effects of sugar consumption. Unfortunately, conventional artificial sweeteners can be equally detrimental. One of the giant steps you can make toward Super Health is curbing sugar intake.

For those instances where we do want to sweeten our foods, Living Fuel developed Therasweet®, an all-natural, plant-sourced, low-glycemic alternative to table sugar and artificial sweeteners. Use delicious Therasweet in your morning coffee, afternoon tea, and your favorite recipes. Why is Therasweet a healthy alternative?

Xylitol is derived from natural, organic hardwood trees and has long-been used safely by diabetics and those carefully monitoring their blood sugar levels.
 

Tagatose is a naturally occurring low-glycemic sweetener that has a minimal effect on blood glucose and insulin levels.

 
Micro-encapsulated probiotics assist in digestion and a healthy immune system; the same beneficial healthy bacteria (prebiotics and probiotics) that you find in yogurt, kefir, and other fermented foods.
 

In the featured video below, join Living Fuel founders KC and Monica Craichy to learn what Therasweet is, why you should add it to your pantry, and how to best enjoy it. Click on the graphic below to watch.
 

 

 

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SuperHealth Challenge Tip!

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Posted on 5th March 2012 by admin in Super Health

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Our blood glucose or blood sugar levels are one of the most important measures of good health. New research has demonstrated that fasting blood glucose levels at about 75mg/dl to 85mg/dl might be ideal and any amount of incremental fasting glucose over 85 mg/dl incrementally increases heart attack risk. Many people are challenged to keep their blood glucose below 100mg/dl, which is a ticking time bomb that should be treated as an emergency with immediate diet and lifestyle changes.

KC Craichy
Author
The Super Health Diet


KC Craichy’s SuperHealth Podcasts: Is Diabetes Reversible? Part 2

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Posted on 28th February 2012 by admin in Health Alerts |SuperHealth Podcasts

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Diabetes can be a devastating diagnosis. Do you know …

… the distinction between pre-diabetes, type 1 diabetes, type 2 diabetes, and type 3 diabetes?
… that type 1 diabetes accounts for 5% of diagnoses, and is a condition not resulting from diet or lifestyle?
… the role insulin plays in diabetes?
… how important our lifestyle and food choices in preventing a type 2 diabetes diagnosis in the first place?
… steps you can take today to reverse diabetes or prevent from becoming a diabetic statistic?

The answers to these questions, coupled with some very practical tips you’ll learn today could literally save your life.

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SuperHealth Challenge Tip!

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Posted on 13th February 2012 by admin in Super Health

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Spacing your three meals out more can actually have some additional beneficial effects on your blood sugar and on other aspects of your health. It takes about three hours for your body to digest a meal. If you eat every two or three hours, your body will constantly be in the process of digesting food, which nutritionists call the “fed state.” If, however, you don’t snack or eat again, you’ll go into the post-absorptive state or maximum metabolic mode after about three hours. Keep in mind that eating is one of the most taxing things we do to our bodies, and it is important to allow time for proper digestion, assimilation, and endocrine function.

Several beneficial actions happen in the post-absorptive state. First, you begin to tap into your body’s stored energy reserves to run your engine. How so? Your hormone levels adjust to shift your body out of fat-storage mode and into fat-burning mode. It also reduces free radical damage and inflammation, increases the production of antiaging hormones, and promotes tissue repair. Meanwhile, your metabolic rate remains unchanged.

If you need to snack, make sure you have a snack strategy and inventory on hand. Snacking on combinations of carbohydrates and proteins, including sports drinks, protein bars, bananas, etc., are often necessary during workouts and athletic events. Otherwise, it is best to learn to fuel yourself for five to six hours without snacking as discussed earlier in this chapter and within “The Dynamic Role of Proteins in Weight Loss” chapter.

KC Craichy
Author
The Super Health Diet

Holiday Health Challenge Tip!

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Posted on 30th December 2011 by admin in Holiday Health Challenge

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For about three to four hours after you begin eating a typical meal, your body is operating in what is called a “fully fed state.” Essentially, your body is operating on what you just ate. From that point your insulin levels return to pre-meal levels, and the body is fueled from stored energy that is being released in a catabolic process. I call this state “maximum metabolic mode,” which is the time when the most body fat is being burned. This mode can continue for another 12 to 18 hours until you eat again. This is because your bloodstream contains a steady supply of essential nutrients to stave off the breakdown of lean body mass while your endocrine system is signaling for the release of stored energy. The moment you eat anything that provokes a significant rise in blood sugar, this maximum metabolic mode stops. Because of snacking and eating too frequently, most people spend little or no time in maximum metabolic mode.

KC Craichy
Author
The Super Health Diet


KC Craichy SuperHealth Podcast – Reversing Diabetes and Controlling Blood Sugar

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Posted on 18th July 2011 by admin in SuperHealth Podcasts

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Diabetes and blood sugar conditions such as insulin resistance and hypoglycemia are commonplace in the discussion of health in modern society.  We are barraged by products, magazines, websites and books that attempt to teach how to “manage” or “live with” your diabetes as if it was something you owned or cared for.  We’ve long taught that Type 2 Diabetes (formerly known as adult-onset diabetes) is reversible with diet and lifestyle changes.  And these same changes can radically speed your journey to Super Health and to your optimal body weight.

Today in our SuperHealth Podcast, Monica and I continue our special series on my new book The Super Health Diet: The Last Diet You Will Ever Need! In The Super Health Diet, I explore the connection between blood sugar and weight optimization which we discuss today.  Discover how you can use strategies and tools from the diabetic “community” to help accelerate you to Super Health!

KC Craichy


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KC: Welcome to Living Fuel TV. I’m KC Craichy. This is my wife, Monica. So, what’s the big deal with your blood sugar? Does it really matter? Well, those of you with diabetes, or metabolic syndrome, or hypoglycemia, it matters to you. But why should it matter to the rest of us? Well, there’s an implication of blood sugar and longevity, and blood sugar and weight optimization that we want to talk to you about today.

Monica: Now, you’ve said before that everybody should treat themselves as if they were a diabetic, meaning what they eat and their lifestyle choices.

KC: Yes, they should treat themselves as if they were a diabetic in the proper manner, not the manner that conventional medicine talks about. It is not okay to eat a piece of cake and just offset it with insulin or diabetic medication. It is not okay if one is hypoglycemic to just eat sugar. It is really a very kind of a barbaric idea that’s wearing people out, frankly.

Monica: So what are some of the things that people should do as if they are treating themselves as a diabetic with their diet choices? What do you mean by that?

KC: Well, I’m talking minimizing the sugars. I’m talking taking the sweet drinks really out of the equation, the sweetened drinks that are carbohydrate or sugar-sweetened drinks. To actually not eat all the time, the contrary, the six meal a day thing that we talk about all the time is that six meals a day will cause your endocrine system to work, and your adrenals to work, and multiple insulin surges a day. You don’t really allow your body to do what it’s designed to do. I mean Grandma really did get it right, three square meals a day and no snacks.

Monica: Okay. In your new book, KC, Super Health Diet, on page 199, you say for one of the 14 new reasons for losing weight, reason number 12 says, “Lifestyle changes can prevent or delay Type 2 diabetes.”

KC: I am fully convinced that diabetes is reversible through diet and lifestyle. The literature suggests it. I have seen numerous cases happen. So, you should have hope. If you’re dealing with Type 2 diabetes or metabolic syndrome, you should have hope.

Monica: Or even hypoglycemia and all those other blood sugar issues. Yes.

KC: All the blood sugar issues, even Type 1 diabetes. You can optimize your blood sugar levels and not overuse insulin, which will shorten one’s life. There’s a huge connection here between diabetes and all these blood sugar issues and optimal weight as well as longevity and energy levels and the whole thing, so getting this under control. This system that we outline in the Super Health Diet is a diet that will clearly optimize blood sugar in most people. If you stay with the live foods and the four corners of super food nutrition and you have the right levels and the kinds of proteins and so on, you really will make a radical change in your life. I have seen people lose 50 and a 100 pounds following this kind of program that their main issue was diabetes. So, in diabetes it’s high insulin levels all the time. High insulin levels store fat signals in the body. What you really want is to start out with lower blood sugar. As you eat have the blood sugar levels rise and fall over an optimal period of time, which is five or six hours. Then after about three hours, glucagon rises and starts the maximum metabolic mode. That’s a lot of detail. We outline this in the book. You can read more about it there. But the net of it is, allow your body to work how it is designed, and you will have a radical change in your life.

Monica: Okay. Something else I want to bring up from your book on page 196. In your point number eight of 14 new reasons for losing weight, you say, “Type 2 diabetes in young adults.” Let’s talk about that for a second.

KC: This is a huge issue. Children are running around with things that they perceive as healthy. Some of you parents even think they’re healthy. They’re drinking sports drinks and juices and juice boxes and soft drinks. They are so loaded with sugar.

Monica: They’re not really drinking water anymore, even.

KC: Which is one of the keys to health, frankly. So this is on top of eating all the pizza and school lunches and things like that. It is a huge problem, bringing a disease that was often known as an adult-onset problem into children, which is really setting them up for a lifetime of disease. The good news is that this is reversible. If we have to go back to the fundamentals of health, we lay them out clearly in the Super Health Diet. We’re going to go over the details in how to do a lot of this stuff over the coming weeks. If you want to read ahead, the book is available everywhere books are sold or at livingfuel.com.

We just hope this was helpful to you and we hope it inspires you. God bless you, and have a great day.