{"id":1459,"date":"2021-12-03T19:00:27","date_gmt":"2021-12-03T19:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.romeorichards.com\/healthcare-reforms\/?p=1459"},"modified":"2022-11-11T14:21:02","modified_gmt":"2022-11-11T14:21:02","slug":"helping-my-friend-beat-diabetes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.romeorichards.com\/healthcare-reforms\/helping-my-friend-beat-diabetes\/","title":{"rendered":"Helping My Friend Beat Diabetes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-4299\" src=\"https:\/\/www.romeorichards.com\/healthcare-reforms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/1-Ad-size-580-x-400-300x207.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.romeorichards.com\/healthcare-reforms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/1-Ad-size-580-x-400-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.romeorichards.com\/healthcare-reforms\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/1-Ad-size-580-x-400.jpg 580w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>A close friend of mine was recently diagnosed with diabetes.<\/p>\n<p>When he called to give me the news, he was in shock.<\/p>\n<p>I can understand my friend\u2019s apprehension because diabetes is usually the beginning of serious illness such as coronary health disease, hypertension or stroke.<\/p>\n<p>And diabetes, if not properly managed, can lead to amputation.<\/p>\n<p>Diabetes results in elevated blood sugar levels as a result of the body\u2019s inability to release and respond to normal insulin.<\/p>\n<p>I tried consoling him by telling him that diabetes is no longer a life sentence of painful insulin injections.<\/p>\n<p>That it was possible to reverse his diabetes with simple lifestyle changes.<\/p>\n<p>There are two types of diabetes: type 1 and type 2.<\/p>\n<p>I have no information which suggests that type 1 diabetes can be reversed.<\/p>\n<p>But type 2 diabetes can be reversed because it results from lifestyle events such as:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Stress<\/li>\n<li>Heart disease<\/li>\n<li>Poor diet<\/li>\n<li>Inactivity<\/li>\n<li>Environmental factors<\/li>\n<li>Medications that prevent insulin production<\/li>\n<li>Excess weight<\/li>\n<li>Inflammation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Therefore, identifying the cause of your diabetes and making the requisite lifestyle changes, will easily reverse it.<\/p>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>How to Reverse Diabetes<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The following are steps to be taken to reverse diabetes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Completely remove sugar from your diet<\/li>\n<li>Stop alcohol consumption<\/li>\n<li>Stay away from processed food<\/li>\n<li>Exercise daily<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t stress. Stress is demand, simply reduce the demands in your life.<\/li>\n<li>If you believe in anything, study and practice and you will be OK.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A close friend of mine was recently diagnosed with diabetes.<\/p>\n<p>When he called to give me the news, he was in shock.<\/p>\n<p>I can understand my friend\u2019s apprehension because diabetes is usually the beginning of serious illness such as coronary health disease, hypertension or stroke.<\/p>\n<p>And diabetes, if not properly managed, can lead to amputation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4350,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romeorichards.com\/healthcare-reforms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romeorichards.com\/healthcare-reforms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romeorichards.com\/healthcare-reforms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romeorichards.com\/healthcare-reforms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romeorichards.com\/healthcare-reforms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1459"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.romeorichards.com\/healthcare-reforms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4454,"href":"https:\/\/www.romeorichards.com\/healthcare-reforms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1459\/revisions\/4454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romeorichards.com\/healthcare-reforms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.romeorichards.com\/healthcare-reforms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romeorichards.com\/healthcare-reforms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.romeorichards.com\/healthcare-reforms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}