Participants: Curtis & Paula Eakins
Series Code: AL
Program Code: AL00196A
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00:01 Twenty four million people have this disease
00:04 and in an five years span this disease has doubled. 00:08 If your over 60, one fourth of you have this disease. 00:12 What is it? Well, today's program is entitled 00:15 diabetes and epidemic. We'll be right back. 00:45 Hi, welcome to Abundant Living. My name is 00:47 Curtis Eakins, your co-host for today, and this is my 00:51 beautiful bride and wife and friend and partner 00:55 in business relationship, Paula Eakins. I just 01:02 ran out of math skills so, I think I'll just stop there, 01:07 Susan maybe watching too. Thanks a lot, thanks a lot, 01:09 thanks a lot. Yeah you're a lot to me, partnership in 01:11 our ministry. Absolutely, Absolutely It's same here. 01:14 Yes, same here. Having a wonderful time. Absolutely. 01:17 In our traveling. Yes, and we are hitting another 01:20 heavy subject. And not only a subject that you may 01:25 in the tease you talked about a subject that as you 01:29 get a little bit older and what we are actually seeing 01:31 now is we're seeing this whole thing of diabetes 01:34 epidemic actually come into the area of your teenagers. 01:37 That's true, and your young adults, and so it's a very 01:41 critical disease and one in which can be prevented, 01:47 yes, in many ways, yes absolutely. 01:50 Yes, and again this is the first part of a running 01:54 series called defeating diabetes series, alright, 01:58 so we're gonna be doing diabetes and we're going to 02:01 be talk about the diabetes and carbohydrates, 02:03 lifestyle reversal, neuropathy, nerve damage 02:07 and some other lifestyle modifications as well. 02:10 So this is the first part of the defeating diabetes 02:12 series. And as you mentioned before children are also 02:17 diagnosed with diabetes and normally when the 02:19 children's diagnosed with diabetes usually before 02:21 the age 12. In most cases it's about type I 02:26 over 90 percent. As you get older you get more 02:29 a type II. We will talk about that later on as well, 02:31 but the first of all, let's talk about diabetes, 02:34 let's give a definition, honey, what's happening 02:36 when a person is a diabetic? 02:37 Well, basically what happens is when a person is defined 02:41 as a diabetic when the insulin that they are 02:43 producing is either not enough or that they're 02:46 actually producing it in amounts that is not 02:49 helping the system. Okay, so it's not enough 02:51 which means that they don't have enough of the 02:53 insulin. Number 2 is that they could be making it 02:56 but when you're making it, it's still causing an 02:58 issue with the body itself. And so type I, type II 03:02 they used to say insulin dependent, non-insulin 03:04 dependent, well, two types. Insulin dependent or 03:07 non-insulin dependent are the two types and what I 03:10 said earlier is that this has now moved down into 03:13 the teenagers as well as in young adults many 03:15 because of lifestyle once again. 03:17 Okay, yeah, that's true. And again this is now 03:20 categorized and classified as an epidemic just 03:24 several years ago now because it's increasing at 03:28 an increasing rate and so these other forms of 03:33 diabetes are gestational diabetes those who, 03:35 women are pregnant as well and, that kind of goes away. 03:39 Well, that kind goes away once the baby is 03:41 delivered, but again, so but a lot of times most people 03:45 have type II, that's over about 90, 95 percent. 03:49 Type I is about 5 percent. We talk about that as well 03:52 as go through the series defeating diabetes. 03:55 Now as far as numbers are concerned let's talk 03:57 about some numbers first of all to. Now again 04:00 this is a fasting glucose, when you have a fasting 04:04 glucose from a 100 to 125 you consider it to be 04:09 pre-diabetic, okay, 100 to 125 and of course this is 04:14 all you in our work book as well and about 60 04:16 million people fall into that category, 60 million, 04:21 alright, now once you've reached 126 and beyond, 04:27 then you're said to be a diabetic and about 04:30 24 million people are in that category and 18 are 04:34 diagnosed but another 6 million are undiagnosed. 04:39 So you maybe watching this program today. 04:42 You may be in a 6 million percentage, a number 04:45 and you may be a diabetic and don't even know it, 04:48 6 millions is quite a lot of people, its a lot of people. 04:51 And so that's why testing is very important for us 04:54 that's concerned as well. Well, you know the thing is 04:56 I guess people always ask me the question about 04:59 how exactly does this thing happen? 05:01 What goes on inside the system? One of the things 05:03 that we like to do on Abundant Living show 05:05 when we doing our community programs is to actually 05:08 show you know what's going in the body system 05:11 and in this respect an individual takes in 05:14 any kind of carbohydrates, simple or complex, you know, 05:17 simple meaning something like, you know, your fruit 05:19 kingdom. Complex meaning something like, you 05:21 know, your potatoes, your rice, we are talking that. 05:24 Once those they're called carbohydrates, once it goes 05:26 into the system then what happens is the body when 05:29 that sugar comes in, it comes in as glucose 05:32 and from that glucose the body once again is trying to 05:36 send that glucose into the liver or into the muscle. 05:40 Now once it goes into the liver or the muscle 05:42 it's called glycogen. And that's once again 05:44 a very complex type of sugar and from there 05:49 it automatically alerts the pancreas. 05:51 The pancreas is alert as soon as that sugar, glucose 05:53 comes into the system that there is sugar in the blood 05:57 and with that in mind the pancreas then sends out the 06:00 insulin and the insulin, of course, then moves into the 06:03 those two areas, the muscle and or liver. Now 06:06 anything in excess of what the body needs to have 06:09 then goes automatically into fat stores and that fat 06:13 storage is there, of course, there still might be a 06:16 problem with sugar in the blood. That's true. And that 06:20 where the diabetes comes in. It has not gone 06:22 appropriately to where it needs to go and it is still 06:25 in the bloodstream, so therefore it is classified 06:27 as sugar diabetes. Yes, okay, again we're going to 06:32 talk about the sugar caused diabetes. We're gonna hold 06:35 off on that first because that's why I'm going to ask 06:37 you, yes, yes, yes, because we use the term sugar 06:41 diabetes so hold on to that because this is coming. I 06:44 think I want to ask you that question as well. Let's 06:46 talk about the health risk. Okay, Now folks 06:50 from head to toe because blood is everywhere in the 06:54 body. Every organ, every gland needs blood for 06:59 nutrients, therefore, every organ, gland is 07:01 affected by diabetes because glucose, when 07:05 you say glucose we're meaning blood sugar. 07:07 We use those terms interchangeably. It' going 07:10 to affect every organ and gland and the muscle 07:12 in a body from head to toe. And let's go to our 07:14 fist graphic because a lot of these are affective 07:18 when a person is a type II diabetic. 07:21 Let's go to the top of the picture there that my wife 07:23 said already, it's going to affect the muscle and also 07:26 the liver and of course maybe taking carbohydrates 07:30 then of course, the carbohydrates turns into 07:34 glucose and it's stored in those two areas of the top, 07:37 the muscle and the liver. And when it's stored 07:39 there in those two areas, we called that glycogen. 07:43 Now, let's go to the brain. The brain needs glucose 07:47 to think, to reason, to write, to read, therefore 07:53 if we do not have the proper amount of glucose 07:56 or do not have a tight control of our glucose. 07:58 The brain will be affected by that as well. 08:02 I'm going to skip the adipose tissue, 08:04 because I'm going to let my wife about that 08:06 I want to go over to the pancreas, of course 08:08 we all know that the pancreas now most people 08:10 don't know that, the pancreas produce insulin 08:14 but only by the beta-cells, right, right, not the 08:17 alpha-cells, the beta-cells. And beta-cells only 08:19 comprise about 2 to 3 percent of the entire 08:21 pancreas. So with that in mind sometimes the 08:24 pancreas beta-cells are damaged they cannot produce 08:27 that insulin so of course we become a diabetic 08:29 because of high glucose in blood steam. Let's go back 08:32 to that graphic again because we want to talk 08:34 about also the gastrointestinal track 08:36 particularly the stomach. When there's glucose high in 08:39 the blood stream, it is also going to affect the nerves 08:43 in the stomach, we called that Gastroparesis, 08:46 nerve damage and later on in the next few week 08:49 we are going to be talking about diabetes 08:50 and botanical medicine, neuropathy, nerve damage 08:55 as well. So, you can see that diabetes can affect 08:58 a host of organs and glands in a body because every 09:02 organ, every gland needs blood. If blood has a lot of 09:08 glucose, blood sugar in it, it's gonna effect every 09:11 organ and gland as well, so it's a multi-facet disease. 09:15 Multi-facet, you know what there is a question 09:20 that someone asked and they said sugar diabetes, 09:23 we using those words Yeah, that's my question, 09:25 sugar diabetes, yes. Well, go ahead and ask me the 09:28 question. Okay, yeah, because a lot of people 09:30 think that if they eat a lot of sugar then they 09:34 gonna get diabetes Absolutely, So can you help 09:38 us out? Yes or no. well, I have a report Okay. 09:41 And it's asking a question just like you just got 09:43 finished saying that sugar's the culprit. 09:44 But Dr. James Anderson, medical doctor, 09:47 professor of Medicine and Clinical Nutrition, 09:49 University of Kentucky. He had two groups of 09:52 individuals. Okay. The first group were lean, healthy 09:55 men and these men were doing a diet of 10 percent 09:59 fat and they were doing 1 pound of sugar a day. 10:03 Okay, wait a minute. Lean, healthy man, 10:05 lean, healthy man, 10 percent of their diet was 10:08 fat, was fat, and they had 1 pound of sugar. 10:12 Yeah, 1 pound of sugar that's like cookies, cakes 10:14 and pies. Right 'Cause a lot of people, 1 pound, 10:16 would probably want to get into that study. 10:18 Well, let's just see what happens. Okay. 10:20 Because we have group two, group two, that group two 10:23 was also lean healthy men, okay, but these men were 10:26 given a diet of 65 percent fat. oh! My goodness, 65 percent 10:31 fat, alright, okay, so one group had low fat, 10:36 high sugar, a pound, right, the second group had high 10:41 fat, but low amount of sugar, very low sugar, 10:44 alright. So you would assume, most people would 10:47 assume that those individuals in a group that 10:52 had the high amount of sugar the 1 pound 10:54 of sugar, probably had more diabetics than the other 10:58 group that had hardly any sugar, is that true or not? 11:01 Well, the results. The results. Group I, the ones 11:04 who had that the sugar, the high amount sugar and low 11:07 fat. This group did not produce not one diabetic. 11:11 Wait a minute. The group they had 1 pound of sugar 11:14 did not produce 1 diabetic in 11 weeks. That's what 11:16 the stats say none. However, group two, the one that 11:21 had the high amount of fat, 65 percent in their diet 11:23 in fat and a very low sugar content produced 11:29 a mild diabetics, in less than two weeks. A mild 11:33 diabetic. Now I think because of the fact that 11:35 people hear a word sugar diabetes they think that 11:37 means sugar. Is the cause. It just means that sugar 11:40 is in the blood, it just means that sugar in 11:42 the blood, okay, but not the cause, however, however, 11:45 however, what's happening is that 65 percent of that 11:48 fat in the diet coming from processed foods, 11:51 okay, alright, and then of course your meat 11:52 kingdom, your diary kingdom those together. What 11:55 happens is that the fat in the blood then coats 12:00 the cell, okay, that the pancreas is sending in the 12:03 insulin to go get that sugar into the cell itself. 12:06 It can't do it, because the cell is completely 12:09 surrounded by fat. Okay, with that in mind 12:13 then of course diabetes. Okay, okay, 12:16 I think Dr. James Anderson, university of Kentucky. 12:19 Yup! Professor of medicine, yeah, so can we do 12:21 anything? Okay, clinical nutrition. We know him 12:24 personally. He came to our house the other night yeah, 12:26 okay, You know, okay, wonderful, he is the same 12:27 guy who remember, some you remember the, the Oat 12:30 Bran craze back in the 70s, yes, yes, yes, the same 12:33 person. That's Dr. James Anderson. Yeah, yeah. okay, 12:35 do that. Heavily involved in talking about once again 12:37 plant based diet. Okay, plant based diet is 12:39 one of the things that he also talks about as well, 12:42 okay, so. I want to before you going to the next 12:45 question, or whatever we have there because diabetes 12:50 is a multi-facet disease, right that affects a lot of 12:54 organs and glands in body. Let's go to the next graphic 12:58 because it also affects the heart as well. Again when 13:03 glucose is high in the blood stream it makes our 13:07 red blood cells very stiff and rigid as you see there. 13:12 So with that in mind those red blood cell are very 13:16 stiff and rigid if there's any cholesterol deposits 13:20 in the blood stream, it's going to have a very 13:22 difficult time going through that cholesterol deposit, 13:25 or that plaque that we talked about, okay, 13:27 in later weeks gone by. So with that in mind 13:31 if a person is a diabetic they have a 2 to 4 times 13:34 greater risk of heart attack and a stroke because of 13:39 that. Diabetes is also, now get this folks, the leading 13:44 cause of adult blindness, the leading cause of renal 13:52 failure. Amputation, some 72,000 amputations per year 13:59 year, alright, I worked at Huntsville hospital for nine 14:01 years and the one surgical procedure that I dread the 14:06 most was amputations, assisting in that surgical 14:09 procedure and I mean I have a leg in my hand as a 14:14 very erie feeling you know, and sometimes the foot 14:17 I mean it looks black and the necrosis is dead tissue 14:20 is always is very damaged. So that's why we're doing 14:25 this program, this series defeating diabetes in a 14:29 series over the next several weeks because we need to 14:32 gain control of diabetes and defeat this disease. I know 14:36 and one of the things we've done this in our community 14:38 and you've done the foot and then you've also done 14:41 the eye and I think by the time foot and the eye come 14:44 up one of the screen I think the people are ready to 14:46 make some changes. Yeah, I started to had some of those 14:49 pictures on the screen here but this program 14:53 probably would not air, did you, but it's very graphic. 14:56 So you didn't bring any graphics with you. No, No 14:57 I didn't bring it, yeah. But you know don't tell them 15:00 what you said about the fat now, yes, because when 15:03 fat goes up the risk of diabetes goes up 15:06 proportionally. Let's go to our first graphic and this 15:09 is a graphic of the United States. And let's look at 15:13 this time now, this is the United States and so with 15:17 that in mind this is the United States and the 15:19 obese rate. So therefore, with that in mind you see at 15:24 the bottom part of the United States in the 15:27 South Central region where it's more blackened 15:30 that means there is more obese in those areas than 15:33 any other areas in the United states, so you see 15:35 there for I know this is a world wide program 15:39 here but you have probably Louisiana, 15:43 most of Mississippi, a great part of Alabama, parts of 15:47 Georgia, some Tennessee there as well. Those are the 15:51 states that has at least 30 percent of their individuals 15:55 who are obese. Now keeping that in mind look at that 15:59 map very carefully. Let's go to the next map 16:03 because the next map is a diabetes map. You see there 16:07 it's almost the same area as the amount for obesity. 16:13 So as if obese goes up, so does diabetes goes up as 16:16 well. You just explained that because the fat closes the 16:19 cell. So that's why we did a series again. The winning 16:22 weight series as far as how to lose that weight as well. 16:25 Well, I guess the next question is where are the 16:27 warning signs? Where are the warning sign that 16:29 individual can look? There are a lot of warning signs 16:32 and it really depends on a type of diabetes, 16:34 you have type I and type II, they're kind of 16:36 different but some of the warning signs 16:37 are excessive thirst, constant urination, 16:42 blurred vision, slow healing cuts, tingling 16:47 prickly numbness in the finger and on your toes, 16:50 those are the some of the warning signs that a person 16:52 maybe diabetic and that's why testing is very 16:54 important. And that's lot. Yes Okay and we cover some 16:59 of the testing in our work book, so lets read that 17:02 and find out. And along with that we talk about 17:05 something in the epidemic diabetes, epidemic then we 17:07 know that we're gonna be, as we go through these series 17:10 we'll be talking about things that we can do 17:12 and signs we'll look at. Yes. We gonna go over this 17:14 again, again with you. But you know it's time to go 17:16 into the kitchen and we're going to the kitchen 17:18 and we gonna be doing a black bean and on top 17:23 of that we're going to also do some plantain. 17:25 I am not sure if you seen that before or not but 17:27 let me tell you something. Black beans and plantains oh! 17:31 Yes. Oh! Yes. Get your paper and 17:32 your pencil and meet us in the kitchen. |
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