“There are many ways we can reduce the impact of cerebrovascular disease – by preventing or controlling diabetes and high blood pressure, reducing smoking, increasing physical activity and improving diet.”
Knowing that the risk of cognitive impairment begins in midlife with diabetes and other risk factors may be a powerful motivation for patients and their physicians to adopt and maintain long-term healthy practices.”
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The best predictor of type 2 diabetes is obesity or being overweight; in the United States, one-third of children and adolescents (ages 2 to 19) and more than two-thirds of adults are overweight or obese.
Obesity is often the result of inappropriate lifestyle choices, such as eating too many processed foods (high in carbs and low in healthy fats) and not fasting enough.
Interestingly, the poorest Americans have the highest obesity rates, and they also tend to eat diets that are very high in processed foods. This is another sign that processed foods play a major role in metabolic disorders, weight gain, and related health problems such as diabetes, heart disease, and dementia.
Taking diabetes medication may do more harm than good
Diabetes is a disease that stems from insulin resistance and, perhaps more importantly, dysfunctional leptin signaling caused by chronically elevated insulin and leptin levels.
This is why the medical community has not made any progress in treatments. Contrary to popular belief, treating type 2 diabetes with insulin is actually one of the worst things you can do because it only exacerbates the underlying problem.
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