For my first article on EzineArticles I would like to jump straight to the cauldron and attempt to disseminate some facts about a disease that’s undoubtedly the greatest modern day killer of diabetes. You may well already be sitting there today tutting, shaking your head and believing that heart disease, obesity and cancer are the greatest killers and I can only agree with you, they are, which is precisely why I thought it had to be this topic I write about first since diabetes is a disorder that’s so mired in untruths, confusion and honestly covered in bovine faces, the fact needs to told as clearly and directly as you can.
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I will start with a gentle, historical introduction, although this will soon give way to particulars of a mortal cover-up and scandal affecting hundreds of millions globally. Often diabetes is categorized as a chronic autoimmune disorder, which essentially means it’s incurable, with the body attacking itself, which for the huge majority of cases is completely nonsense. Everyone has to know the facts about this disorder, although sadly the fact is going to be of small comfort to those suffering from the disease, though it can aid with an effective strategy in dealing with the disease before it erupts into a chronic, fatal symptom.
That term ‘symptom’ may cause some confusion, since there’s a really clear symptomatic set of disorders that diabetes is the greatest aetiology (cause) of. Diabetes in itself is just the first step down a long road of sickness, a street that need never have been hauled down. All of that will be made perfectly clear after an historical introduction to the disease.
Diabetes mellitus
It is a disorder that prevents some, or enough insulin being produced or utilized correctly. Insulin is produced in the pancreas, needing to turn sugar and other foods into energy to be used by cells, tissues, organs and muscles, for all of the various bodily functions. Without insulin, blood glucose levels get dangerously high, resulting in a range of complications. The term diabetes comes from the Greek, diabainen, meaning to straddle, or to siphon, because of the excessive urination related to diabetes, which is sweet, hence its title mellitus, Latin for honey or sweet, added to its title in 1676.
It had been recognised as a chronic (incurable) disease by the ancient Egyptians, Chinese, Greeks, Indians and Romans, with its title in the several languages interpreted as’sweet stink’. The Indian doctor Sushrata, in the 6th century BC, associated it with a lack of exercise and obesity. Galen, another century disciple of Hippocrates, only ever saw two instances, with Hippocrates making no mention of it, maybe as he never saw any instances.
The Persian Avicenna (980-1037) recognized two different types and handled it with a combination of lupine, zedoary seed and fenugreek, which is still prescribed today throughout Asia. The Egyptian Maimonides (1135-1204) cites it’s extremely uncommon in the colder parts of Europe and more common in warmer Africa, where he had 20 cases in ten years. So therefore its occurrence is said to be rare .
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The term diabetes appeared in English literature in 1425 and the term insulin, was first used by Sir Edward Sharpey-Schafer in 1910, derived from the Latin insula, meaning an island, a reference to the Islets of Langerhans in the pancreas where insulin is produced (which seems like a great scenic location for a picnic!). Sir Frederick Grant Banting won the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1923 for his work on insulin’s role, giving all patents attached to his discoveries openly into the world, in order to not put a price on health.
World Diabetes Day annually is deservedly called Banting Day in his honor and memory. It’s only a shame that the truth about this disorder has been all but completely covered up because this time and that which should happen to be publicly available has made trillions for the pharmaceutical sector. Diabetes was still so rare at the turn of the 20th century, it was considered no more than a curiosity, accounting for just 0.0028% of all deaths in the USA.
現在では
Today, over 10% of the US population are on prescribed medication for diabetes, another 10 percent who have diabetes are deemed to possess it ‘under control’ requiring no drugs and another 30 percent who reveal pre-onset symptoms (which equals an unbelievable 50 percent ). According to some claims it’s already responsible for as many as 40 percent of all deaths in the US, although CVD and cancer are already responsible for 80 percent of all deaths. Which makes 120%! How is this possible? Well here starts what can only be termed a conspiracy.
Please do not go thinking this phrase conspiracy has anything to do anti-establishment, anarchists or left-wing, dope smoking environmentalists, it really means to’breathe together’ and suggests any collusion of people or businesses and with diabetes there’s certainly been a substantial conspiracy. In the 1950s when Type 2 diabetes was recognised, it was called Adult Onset Diabetes, or Insulin Resistant Diabetes, or Hyperinsulinemia. It was viewed as a significant risk factor, even back then, for all the subsequent – Atherosclerosis, various Vascular diseases, Heart disease, Stroke, ADHD, liver impairment, Impotence, Kidney failure, various Cancers, Obesity, Retinopathy and Gangrene. Today we can add to the listing, systemic Candida, poor wound Healing, Multiple Sclerosis, Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s.
結論
Even n the 1930s, these diseases were viewed as symptoms of diabetes. Which is just like saying these diseases are brought on by diabetes. Why is this still not correct? A significant reason for this is that in 1949 the U.S restructured its healthcare agenda. Among the outcomes of the was that the splitting of the symptom collections from diabetes, all to be treated as different diseases. Thereafter, if a patient exhibited a symptom set from diabetes which was a heart disease, the individual had been ascribed to a heart specialist, if death resulted whilst viewing this specialist, departure would be listed as heart failure. If the diabetes had caused a problem with the kidneys, the individual could be under the auspices of a kidney specialist, similarly if death occurs whilst visiting this expert, the death is listed as kidney failure. If cancer was caused by diabetes the individual could be seen by an oncologist and if death was the consequence cancer was listed as the reason for death.
