Even when I lived at the home, we usually had those Gowd awful instant mashed potatoes (very high starch, aka sugars) once a day in either lunch or supper meals. If not we had some kind of pasta (noodle) or some kind of high starch item in the meals. Noodles AND instant mashed potatoes were a double whammy.
So here is what happens. You go to the home, and move in. You become less active, burning fewer calories, and they begin stuffing you with starches which are in basic forms, sugars. When your body reaches the point where you are taking in more than you are burning, it starts to store the stuff as body fat. And when your body tank gets full, you end up with insulin resistance, and high sugars in blood. This is Type 2 diabetes.
The American Diabetes Association says the way to treat this is to inject more insulin. Insulin which your body is already reacting to, by either not making it, or not not making enough of it. OR, your body is not reacting to the insulin which helps keep your sugars down. In other words, these medical genius are trying to force your body to store even more sugar in a body that is already reached its full mark and is saturated with it.
Sounds kinda stupid to me, how about you? But this is what they do, and the Vets home follows the ADA guidelines. Insulin is not cheap. It also does other things which results in other medical complications.
Is it possible to reverse the Type 2 condition? Yes. But the home will not and does not treat the problem using the method necessary. And what is that method? Reduce carb/sugar intake to below what the person burns each day. They need to burn off that stored energy from their "full tank" before the Type 2 insulin resistance will reverse itself.
Think of it like this.. The body is resistant to insulin because there is no place to put the extra sugars because the body's tank is already full. However once you empty the tank, even a little below full, the body then has a place to put extra energy and it will then use the insulin to do so. Thus insulin resistance is returned to normal.
The home MUST stop feeding the residents these high amounts of carbs and sugars, or many more and future residents will continue to develop and die of Type 2 diabetes complications. Something that can be avoided with a proper diet based on calories being burned, and how much exercise the residents are getting.
Is it possible to reverse the Type 2 condition? Yes. But the home will not and does not treat the problem using the method necessary. And what is that method? Reduce carb/sugar intake to below what the person burns each day. They need to burn off that stored energy from their "full tank" before the Type 2 insulin resistance will reverse itself.
Think of it like this.. The body is resistant to insulin because there is no place to put the extra sugars because the body's tank is already full. However once you empty the tank, even a little below full, the body then has a place to put extra energy and it will then use the insulin to do so. Thus insulin resistance is returned to normal.
The home MUST stop feeding the residents these high amounts of carbs and sugars, or many more and future residents will continue to develop and die of Type 2 diabetes complications. Something that can be avoided with a proper diet based on calories being burned, and how much exercise the residents are getting.
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