I'm posting the email I got from Dr. Stefan Ripich, author of The 30 Day Diabetes Cure. It's quite long, but it's an eye opener and worth every precious minute of your time.
Dear Jhun,
Perhaps you've seen the news that Price Is Right host Drew Carey reversed his Type 2 diabetes and is now "a new man."
"I'm not diabetic anymore. No medication needed," Carey recently announced.
Of Course, the Medical Community Isn't Buying It
Doctors stubbornly maintain there's no cure for either Type 2 or Type 1 diabetes.
Obviously, they're not reading their own medical journals. Several studies show that Type 2 is easily reversed with a few simple lifestyle changes.
And in our book, The 30-Day Diabetes Cure, Dr. Stefan Ripich describes numerous patients who became entirely free of their Type 2 simply by altering their lifestyle.
Then there's the mysterious case of actress Halle Berry, who cured her Type 1 with a better diet, more exercise and de-stressing her busy life.
Like Drew Carey, these people no longer have any diabetic symptoms and are completely off medications.
If That Isn't a Cure, I Don't Know What Is
Now that Carey is living proof, perhaps the medical community -- and the 80 million Americans with Type 2 and prediabetes -- will realize that the solution to today's diabetes epidemic is right under our nose. (Literally!)
I certainly hope so, because diabetes is now the Number One health problem on the planet, affecting nearly 300 million people. In fact, it's the fastest-spreading non-infectious disease in human history.
One new patient is diagnosed every 10 seconds. Six people die from its horrible complications every minute. Seven million new cases are added every year. Six people die from its horrible complications every minute.
More than 60 million Americans are walking around with this silently destructive disease -- or are on the brink (prediabetes) -- and most are completely unaware!
Yet, We Could Wipe Out Type 2 in a Single Generation
It's absolutely true. Of course, that's if we wanted to -- which we obviously don't.
Last year, $400 billion dollars was spent on diabetes treatments. This represents a lot of test strips, monitors, drugs and insulin, laboratory costs, doctor visits, and medical procedures.
Clearly, there's far more money in treating diabetes, than curing it!
And that may explain why, of the $400 billion spent on diabetes last year, less than one percent went for patient education and prevention awareness programs -- even these are proven to be the most effective weapons we have.
Meanwhile, fast food and soda lobbyists spent $56,771,216 in 2009 to prevent our elected representatives from exposing the harm their food products inflict on the public health, making Type 2 diabetes the world's first corporate-sponsored disease.
I Don't Recommend You Follow Drew Carey's Example
In order to reverse his diabetes, the 52-year-old comic lost 80 pounds, going from a size 44 waist to a 34 in about seven months.
His secret?
"Lots of cardio," he said. "At least 45 minutes of cardio, six days a week." He also worked with a personal trainer who watched over him, providing regular advice and motivation
Then there was his diet: He cut out carbohydrates (although he admits he cheated a few times) and gave up crackers, bread, pizza, corn, beans, and all starches.
Instead, he ate lots of egg whites, fruit, and Greek yogurt. His sole beverage was water.
He also told a reporter he was using a "custom-made appetite suppressant administered by a Hollywood nutritionist."
"The Price Was Wrong"
Hats off to Carey for sticking with such a Draconian regimen for seven months. (I wouldn't want to -- and neither would most people.)
But it's easy to see why the Hollywood crowd is now engaged in "The Drew Carey Watch," waiting for the paparazzi snapshots that document his re-blimping.
Man does not live by egg whites and water alone. So my bet is that someone with a lifelong love of food and eating like Carey has, won't stick to this Gulag-like menu much longer.
After all, food is about both pleasure and health. If Drew has any hope of maintaining his new weight, he'd better find a diet that will satisfy both -- such as the Diabetes Healing Diet highlighted in The Diabetes Healing Cookbook.
Drew: There's an Easier, More Pleasurable Way!
For one thing, losing all that weight didn't reverse his diabetes -- even though the latest medical thinking believes it does.
It's really the other way around: Reversing diabetes resulted in his weight loss. Here's how...
When a diabetic stops eating the sugary foods and fast carbs that pump up his blood sugar levels and trigger insulin surges, weight loss occurs without trying (or dieting).
That's because insulin's main job is to turn all that excess blood sugar (called glucose) into fat (technically, triglycerides) and store it around your waist, hips and everywhere else. More insulin equals more fat.
By reducing glucose and insulin, your metabolism will begin burning your stored body fat for fuel. Result? Your body sheds pounds automatically.
Speed It Up with a Little Moderate Physical Activity
Climbing off the couch definitely will enhance this process. But 45 minutes of intense cardio is extreme and unnecessary -- unless you just love running.
If you don't (and I only know a few folks past 50 who do), a daily 20-minute walk -- or some yoga, dance lessons, gardening, stationary cycling, swimming, etc. -- is sufficient to stoke your metabolic furnace.
Bottom line? Had he read The 30-Day Diabetes Cure, Drew could have lost all that weight (and even more!) without starving and exercising like crazy. And his chances of keeping it off would be much higher.
Good Food Is the Cure for Obesity and Diabetes
While it was unintentional, Drew Carey is the high-profile embodiment of our society's current obesity/weight loss dilemma.
More than 70% of the American population is either overweight or morbidly obese.
Nearly 30% of us already have some form of diabetes or on the threshold of developing it.
How'd we get here? Bad food choices.
The food industry suckered us into getting hooked on all manner of junk that made them a fortune -- and made us sick.
All those convenience foods made it easy for us satisfy our advertising-driven cravings, while never considering the consequences of our non-stop, unconscious nibbling and noshing.
But Now We Must
Because the health consequences are too serious to ignore...
Having diabetes adds 15 years to a patient's appearance (due to accelerated oxidation) and subtracts 20 years from his or her lifespan.
And it's not a pretty way to go.
A diabetic's odds of heart attack are 400% higher than the general population. In fact, 75% of all diabetes-related deaths are from cardiac failure.
Then there are the inevitable complications, such as vision loss, painful neuropathy and limb amputation.
Diabetes drugs can't protect against these nasty complications. Neither will aggressive glucose lowering.
FACT: Studies confirm that you can have perfect blood sugar and still succumb to complications and premature death.
The only true solution is to reverse your condition now if you have Type 2 -- or to dramatically lower your insulin dose if you're Type 1.
Both can only be achieved by modifying your diet and lifestyle not by relying on drugs. (For the most effective changes you can make, see The 30-Day Diabetes Cure.)
It's Time for Our Own "Drew Carey Moment"
It usually takes an "a-ha!" moment like this to trigger a turnaround in a person's medical condition.
"It sucks being fat," Drew told reporters. "Really, I just got sick of it."
Tragically, this moment will never come for the vast majority of people with a life-threatening medical problem such as diabetes, heart disease, depression, or obesity.
It's just too easy to remain in denial. Or to entertain blind hope that you'll be one of the "lucky ones" who will beat the odds without lifting a finger to improve your chances. (Don't be on it!)
But a small percentage of people like Drew Carey actually see the writing on the wall -- and decide to make a change.
He may not have done it perfectly -- or have taken the wisest route. But what counts is that he did it.
He got sick and tired of his situation and he changed it.
He's an example and inspiration us all.
(At least, I hope he will be.)
I look forward to hearing from you. Dr. Stefan Ripich
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