Diabetes....

I found this little tid bit the other day in "Nourashing Traditions" by Sally Fallon. My sister in law is a diabetic and I found this very interesting info. Read on!

In The Saccharine Disease (1975), Cleave says the blame for prevalence of diabetes on the doorstep of refined carbohydrates. He acknowledges the genetic basis of the disorder but "rejects unequivocally" the assumption that this is a "defect". "The hereditary features of the disease...do no more than reflect the inheritance of personal build, including that of the pancreas itself, rendering the persons concerned more vulnerable to the new environmental factor...These features in no sense indicate hereditary defect...the body is not build wrongly but is being used wrongly." The more pronounced the genetic predisposition, according to Cleave, the earlier the onset of the disease, provided the triggering event occurs. In the industrialized society, the triggering event appears to be the overload of sugar, white flour products, white rice and precessed fruits and vegetables. "The consumption of refined carbohydrates...imposes unnatural strains upon the pancreas, either through over consumption, or ...rapidity of consumption and absorption, or...both." Joseph D. Beasley, MD and Jerry J. Swift, MA The Kellogg Report

Now, I've not researched the names of the writers nor the person quoted, but this really does make you wonder and question the "truth" behind mainstream health and our own eating habits as consumers. Let me know what you think!