The Link Between Diabetes and Cancer « Health Now, Wealth Forever

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By Marilyn, on October 21st, 2011

I don’t know how many of our readers read the Natural Grocers , The Nutrition Reporter, by Jack Challem*.  He reported on Diet, Insulin, and Breast Cancer Link on Sunday, October 16, 2011. “Recently doctors have discovered that type 2 diabetes –characterized by elevated blood sugar and insulin levels – increases the risk of some cancers, particularly those of the breast, colon, and pancreas.”

Whoa!  Challem cited a study done by Geoffrey C. Kabat, Ph.D., of the Albert Einstein School of Medicine, NYC.  His study tracked the health of 5,450 women.  These women were also part of a larger study of 162,000 women, “some of whom were given hormone therapy, dietary treatments, or calcium and vitamin D supplements.  After eight years of follow up, Kabat found that postmenopausal women with high insulin levels were twice as likely to develop breast cancer, compared with women who had relatively low insulin levels.”

Challem also talks about high levels of insulin-like growth factor-1 (IGF-1).  It is associated with a greater risk of breast cancer.

Challem urges us to eat Fresh Foods, Quality Protein and High-Fiber Vegetables and Fruits.  Health Now Wealth Forever has been presenting many blogs urging the same information.  I was really glad to again see an article that again stresses Fresh Food—urging us away from the packaged, processed foods that contain little to no nutritional value.  Eating Quality Protein helps lower blood sugar, stimulates the release of glucagon— a hormone that counteracts and lowers insulin, and helps maintain muscle.  Then there are the High-Fiber Vegetables and Fruits.  These high-fiber foods also help stabilize and lower blood sugar.

In the fifties, when corporations and manufacturers started to dictate and produce our food instead of the local farmer, baker, etc., we started down this path to obesity, diabetes and cancer, plus many other diseases.  We have allowed this to happen—to make our lives easier.  We have addicted ourselves to the easy way—fast foods, processed foods, boxed and canned foods so much so our children do not know what real food is.  To become healthy, we are going to have to be the watchdogs—acknowledge that the easy way we have become addicted to has brought on all these health problems.  We have allowed this, now is the time to start waking up—MYSELF INCLUDED.

*Natural Grocers, The Nutrition Reporter by Jack Challem is an advertisement flyer in the local Sunday newspaper. Jack Challem will produce references on request. You can read all Natural Grocers’ articles here.