You may be heading for disaster. Diabetes and high blood pressure are by-products of bad eating habits. About 75% of diabetics have type 2 diabetes, and 50% of them will go on to develop high blood pressure and the implications are far reaching.
Symptoms to Watch Out For
Other symptoms that may occur before diabetes and high blood pressure surface are weight gain, elevated triglycerides, insulin resistance, and decreased HDL cholesterol. If a person has all of these symptoms together, they are said to be suffering from Metabolic Syndrome X. The reason for the name is that the organs and cells involved in this group of ailments, undergo a breakdown in metabolic processing linked to a common cause; the regular intake of high glycemic foods.
High glycemic foods include white bread and rolls, white rice, sugar, chips, baked potatoes, broad beans, many breakfast cereals, and the list goes on.
Insulin Resistance Symptoms
Your pancreas is an amazing organ and can normally function quite well even when we eat high glycemic food. The beta cells will release a hormone called insulin that will trigger receptors, the gateways into the body’s cells, to receive glucose (sugar) from your food. It all works efficiently. When too much glucose is produced the insulin will then “signal” your muscle and liver cells to store the excess glucose as glycogen, and that store house will serve as a supply for when your body glucose levels drop, maintaining a regulated level of 70-110 mg per dl.
Problems will only begin to take root if you habitually eat a diet of glycemic foods. Your glucose levels will be constantly high. Your beta cells will produce more insulin to cope with the load which will result in the destruction of those little gateways into liver, fat, and muscle cells. When that happens the beta cells work even harder, producing more insulin to try and force insulin into the cells, destroying even more cell receptors. The vicious cycle continues.
At this stage your cells have become insulin resistant. Diabetes and high blood pressure will soon develop as well as the other metabolic syndrome X symptoms. How
Insulin Resistance Rebounds
When fat cell receptors become insulin resistant, triglycerides are broken down and released into the blood, elevating the fat in the blood. When muscle cells become insulin resistant, uptake of glucose is reduced raising the glucose in the blood higher. And when liver cells become insulin resistant they can’t store any excess glucose as glycogen, so again adding to the already high levels of glucose. You are now diabetic. Blood pressure is raised due to the faulty insulin metabolism. You will probably develop –
Narrowed blood vessels
Hardening of arteries
Damage to artery walls
Damage to the kidneys
Vitamin and mineral deficiencies
Fat burning mechanism switches off
Weight gain
So your wonderful working pancreas is now overworked with producing so much insulin that the beta cells are beginning to burn out. Soon you will have to rely on insulin injections, on top of all the other serious health issues you will now have to deal with. But it hasn’t happened yet. Or has it Don’t self-harm. Change your diet now!
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