Brittanie Volk: Your Diabetes Is Not Your FaultLainaa:
Here’s what’s to blame:
First, since 1980 you’ve been responsibly following the government’s Dietary Guidelines for Americans. You’ve eaten a diet high in carbohydrates and low in fat.
During that time you’ve grown older, you’ve lived your life, and you’ve gained weight. All those carbohydrates just aren’t the right eating plan for someone who, most likely, is carbohydrate intolerant—something that probably runs in your family and that you were probably born with.
Being carbohydrate intolerant, also called being insulin resistant, meant that all those carbohydrates, which you were told to consume, pushed your body to crank out high levels of insulin, which, over time, made your body even more insulin resistant. Which pushed your body to make even more insulin, and so on, and so on, until your body couldn’t keep up anymore and you found yourself diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.
Along the way, doctors and practically everyone around you probably told you to eat less and exercise more. Great. Thanks. Who hasn’t tried that before? I think we can all acknowledge that this simply does not work! As we at Virta know, that advice is wrong because eating less (being hungry) and having to exercise more goes against how your body is meant to work.[1-4] All the advice did was make you feel like a failure.
So then, perhaps, you were put on medications to manage your diabetes, perhaps even insulin shots. But the problem with insulin is that it’s the hormone that makes your body store fat. And so that’s exactly what your body did: it stored fat. And you gained weight. And your diabetes got worse, so then you needed more insulin, which made you gain more weight, and so on, and so on.
Where in that story, exactly, does Mick Mulvaney think it’s your fault that you developed diabetes?
All I can say is, thank goodness we can help you here at Virta, where we have seen so many of you successfully stop that vicious cycle and reverse your type 2 diabetes. That’s why what we say is, We’re on your side: this isn’t your fault, and you’re doing great.
Suomessa suurimmat syylliset diabetekseesi ovat THL, VRN ja käypähoitoporukka.