The word diabetes traces back almost two millennia related to the thirst and frequent urination created by this now all too common condition of which “rates continue to soar” to quote a recent headline trumpeting a new study in the Archives of Internal Medicine.

The word mellitus that commonly follows relates to the sweet aspect of the disease.

Once commonly referred to as “sugar diabetes” it is now more commonly related to carbohydrates in general than to sugar specifically. Diabetes should more commonly be known specifically as related to refined carbohydrates which include white sugar and white flour. The refined white flour much more rapidly converts to sugar in the body.

Heart disease is much more common among those with diabetes than among those without this condition.

What is the common connection between the “sweets” disease and heart disease?

Unveiling the mystery

“February is American Heart Month -- a time to start heart-healthy habits, and to learn about the risk factors for heart disease. These risk factors include smoking, being overweight, lack of exercise, diabetes, high blood pressure and cholesterol, family history, and age,” the First Lady said in the first weekly Presidential radio address this month.

Mrs. President mentioned risk factors but failed to make even a single mention of the overriding and underlying reasons for those risk factors i.e. that dietary matters are the matters of the heart that really matter.

Six of the eight “risk factors” for heart disease cited by Laura Bush are related to deficiencies of the mineral chromium – all except smoking and high blood pressure.

Chromium has also been determined to be an essential nutrient for life (that means you can’t live without it) specifically for blood sugar metabolism.

It shouldn’t be a mystery that the refined carbohydrate excesses of Standard American Dietary (SAD) choices are the common link between diabetes and heart disease especially – though not exclusively – due to chromium deficiency.

Whole grains and whole “raw” sugar both have chromium in abundance. The refining of grain into white flour removes 91 per cent of the chromium and 98 per cent is removed when sugar is refined into white sugar.

Government figures released 2 years ago noted that 20 per cent of the nation’s dietary is refined, white flour. Factor white sugar consumption in and you have more than one-third of the average dietary grossly chromium deficient.

Chromium is a mineral that the body readily receives in a dietary form but is significantly rejected in non-food forms much more than with any other major nutrient. Whereas 100% whole food nutrient supplements are normally superior to other supplements in the case of chromium the difference is night and day. One might even say that it is a difference of life and death.

Both family history and age are actually manifestations of not only chromium losses but gross nutritional deficiencies also of silicon (95% removed by refining), selenium (92% removed by refining), magnesium (75% removed by refining) and pyridoxal (the vitamin called B6 the majority of which is removed by refining). These are the most important nutrients for heart health and their losses are dug deeper with families historically having the same consumption tax-ing bad dietary habits accumulated over many years with interest that matures with age bearing the brunt in the form of heart disease – generally recognized as the number one killer of Americans.

More medical chicanery

Heart deaths partially halted a large diabetes study at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) this past week.

A significant increase in heart deaths “among patients who pushed their blood sugar to super-lows” said the “news” from Associated Propagandaess. The truth is that the blood sugar levels reached were not even down to normal – let alone “super lows”.

Modern mediSIN keeps two sets of books for blood sugar record keeping – one for diabetics and another for non-diabetics. The A1C score measures average blood sugar levels during a 2-3 month period. The level determined as normal is a higher number for diabetics as those of mediSIN do not believe a diabetic can reach normal levels. It is only due to their inFATuation with drugs and ignorance of the most basic nutrition truth that they are prevented from correcting diabetic blood sugar levels to actual non-diabetic normal levels.

The study’s medical authors concluded that lowering diabetic blood sugar levels to actual normal must be dangerous and their media monkeys pushed that along.

Why didn’t they think that it was aggressive drug use (artificial means) that might be to blame? Actually they did think of that but issued a quick denial that more aggressive use of drugs with recognized side effects (including increased heart problems) could have anything to do with it. After all, drugs are their bread and butter.

Reuters “news” service went to even greater lengths with their bold headline, ‘Avandia not to blame for deaths in trial, U.S. says’.

“GlaxoSmithKline's diabetes drug Avandia was not to blame for heart deaths in a trial to see if treating diabetes would reduce heart disease, U.S. government-funded researchers said,” opened the article.

The study actually said no drug was to blame so technically the headline and much more specific opening line are at least reflections of reality.

The truth is that Reuters is a European agency and Avandia is made by the British GlaxoSmithKline so Reuters was fulfilling their promotional portion as part of the unholy trinity of BIG Government, BIG Pharma and BIG Media.

The real truth is that though reports often mention last year’s study that noted Avandia users had 43 per cent more heart attacks they seldom ever mention that heart deaths were much greater at 64 per cent more!

Sound sensibilities

Neither the diseases of diabetes or of the heart are due to drug deficiencies.

Gross deficiency of chromium is the primary cause of diabetes and a primary cause of heart disease. Addressing heightened blood sugar levels by correcting this deficiency with the right form of this mineral (100 per cent whole food grown varieties) and the right amount (usually 100 micrograms three times daily) has proven very effective and is vital for heart health as well.

Addressing chromium deficiency for diabetes and heart disease is not just common sense but also sound, scientific sense as well.