‘Protein may be key to gestational diabetes’ read the headline last week of a news story on the first day for American Diabetes Month.
My eyes rolled in rhythm with my deep sigh.
The mineral chromium is a key for metabolic efficiency of protein and it is the key for efficient blood sugar metabolism.
The mineral chromium is not a “may be” but is in fact “key to gestational diabetes”.
Pie in the sky
Delving beyond the headline it turns out that some university researchers were not addressing protein in general but rather an obscure, isolated, specific protein that “may” have some involvement with blood sugar metabolism.
The short item was filled with many “may” possibilities/guesses, and hopes for development of test$ (plural) and treatment$ (also plural) some time in the by and by distant future.
Reminds me of the old expression, “So heavenly minded they’re no earthly good.”
Back to earth
Practically speaking bringing this down to where the rubber meets the road gestational diabetes is as easy as 1-2-3.
1) The mineral chromium is essential for blood sugar metabolism and is substantially processed out of a significant portion of the average American dietary so that gross deficiency of chromium leads to gross increase in diabetes.
2) The mineral chromium is one of the first minerals to pass the placenta to the baby in mass which enhances growth and assists maintenance of genetic integrity.
3) If a pregnant woman is near the breaking point for gross chromium deficiency then the high demand from the developing baby sends her over the edge. Following birth then the extra demand is removed and the diabetes “disappears” … for a time.
Studies have shown that women that manifest gestational diabetes have an increased incidence of later developing full blown diabetes and at an average age younger than women not having had gestational diabetes.
It should be noted that only chromium incorporated by growth processes has great effectiveness so it is best to look for 100% whole food chromium.
Chromium baby
It’s the chromium, baby, and chromium for the baby as well as for the mom-to-be. To adapt from the bard, when it comes to a mom-to-be or not-to-be, that (chromium) is the answer to the question of diabetes to be or not to be!
Webmaster Comments:
Normally, I do not make many comments. I leave Not-A-Doc's words unmodified and unabridged, however this is a topic which I feel strongly about. To this I wrote the following:
The bard William Shakespeare was "the man" wasn't he.
"Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles,
And by opposing end them?
To die: to sleep;
No more; and by a sleep to say we end
The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to,"
For too long, one of the most vulnerable populations in our society has been pelted by sling stones, in the form of "oral diabetic agents" and the sharpened "arrows" of the needle. Pregnancy is a time when women should be protected from "outrageous fortune" but instead they are fed outrageous misrepresentation and outright lies. The complication of a misrepresentation is that the "well informed" speak a truth to the "uninformed", with both believing it and both thereby stripped of their choices because of a pervasive lie -- much as the chromium is stripped from nearly every food.
Sometimes these outrageous fortunes are perpetrated by even more insidious vehicles -- the falsities of industry. Witness the profit driven statements by the medical "prophets", foretelling a bleak future of ill health and dis-ease which only they can stave off. The ultimate in the bearing of false witness against a neighbor is a lie motivated by profit to enrich one class of individual at the expense (and a great one at that) of another population.
However, how can one "take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them" if one is unable to even know the "troubles" because of such an obfuscation? By combating the lies, by combating the half-truths, by combating the misrepresentation, and combating all instances of pride over reason which pervades the entire system. Stand up, rise against.
George Orwell, in his novel '1984' had ironic juxtapositions, phrases and slogans of which pretty much sums up the entire subject of this article.
"IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH"
This process is that by which the High remain High by deliberately dumbing down the rest of the population so as to stop revolution before it can start.
Believe the hype of these prophets and the health collapse won't happen NOW and perhaps it won't happen tomorrow, but the self-fulfilling prophecy of "To die: to sleep;" will occur, "and by a sleep to say we end The heart-ache and the thousand natural shocks That flesh is heir to." Only "heir to" because of a persistent abuse perpetuated by an industry which makes its money off of the sick -- the more the sick, the more the money. We don't have health care in this country but rather we have sick care in this country. We have sick care for the sick who get sicker while the rich get richer off of the backs of the sick.
Technology has the effect of reducing short term costs at the expense of capital investment. However in the medical industry it has the opposite effect with increased capital investment and increased short term cost. Does that make sense or does that make dollars and cents? Why is that? Follow the money.
So again, I say, "Stand Up, Rise Against!"
Peace,
NotADoc.org WebMaster
