Lara's Health Wisdom

February 12, 2006
Newest Post! Adult Onset Diabetes

Adult onset diabetes (or diabeetiss if you're Wilford Brimley) is out of fashion; it is now called type II diabetes. This is different from type I where the body does not even produce insulin. With type II the cells of the body decide they just do not want to deal with insulin anymore, which is a problem because insulin helps our cells to take in sugar, but our cells need sugar (screw you Dr. Atkins!) to do whatever the particular cells are supposed to do. If you do not want to get type II diabetes just use common sense, exercise, eat healthy foods most of the time (eating healthy foods all of the time is kind of boring) because even though it can run in families, about 90% of people with it are... well... fat.

Hopefully this can be an on-going contribution!

In Response to the Question: "Sodium. Why is it bad?"

Too much is bad because water follows sodium so the more salt you have the more water your body will retain. And the more water you retain the higher your blood pressure. And the higher your blood pressure the more likely you are to damage your kidneys and the lining of your blood vessels which can cause irregularities on the lining which makes it easier for cholesterol to build up on your vessel walls which can either completely block up and give you a heart attack or with continuing high blood pressure can dislodge and give you a stroke. Either way you are dead meat. Salty, dead meat. Like bacon or beef jerky.

Love,

Lara