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If people ever wake up to the cure for diabetes that has been suppressed for 40 years, these associations will soon be out of business. But until then, they nonetheless continue to need our ot treatments. Orthodox coverage is standard in all states. If people ever wake up to the cure for diabetes that has been Alternative medicine is not. For example, there are only 1,400 suppressed for 40 years, these associations will soon be out of licensed naturopaths in 11 states compared to over 3.4 million business. But until then, they nonetheless continue to need our orthodox licensees in 50 states.* Generally, only approved treat- support. ments from licensed, credentialled practitioners are insurable. For 40 years, medical research has consistently shown with This, in effect, neatly creates a special kind of money that can increasing clarity that diabetes is a degenerative disease directly only be spent within the orthodox medical and drug industry. No caused by an engineered food supply that is focused on profit other industry in the world has been able to manage the politics of instead of health. Although the diligent can readily glean this convincing people to accept so large a part of their pay ina form —_ information from a wealth of medical research literature, it is gen- that often does not allow them to erally otherwise unavailable. spend it as they see fit. Certainly this information has been, The financial and political influ- and remains, largely unavailable in ence of this medical community the medical schools that train our completely controls virtually every retail doctors. diabetes publication in the country. Prominent among the causative Many diabetes publications are sub- The first step to curing diabetes agents in our modern diabetes epi- sidised by ads for diabetes supplies. is to stop believing the lie that demic are the engineered fats and oils No diabetes editor is going to allow . 8 that are sold in today's supermarkets. the truth to be printed in his maga- the disease IS incurable. The first step to curing diabetes is zine. This is why the diabetic only to stop believing the lie that the pays about one-quarter to one-third disease is incurable. of the cost of printing the magazine he depends upon for accurate infor- mation. The rest is subsidised by diabetes manufacturers with a vested Diabetes History In 1922, three Canadian Nobel Prize winners, Banting, Best and commercial interest in preventing diabetics from curing their dia- Macleod, were successful in saving the life of a fourteen-year-old betes. When looking for a magazine that tells the truth about dia- diabetic girl in Toronto General Hospital with injectable insulin.° betes, look first to see if it is full of ads for diabetes supplies. Eli Lilly was licensed to manufacture this new wonder drug, and And then there are the various associations that solicit annual the medical community basked in the glory of a job well done. donations to find a cure for their proprietary disease. Every year It wasn't until 1933 that rumours about a new rogue form of they promise that a cure is just around the corner—just send more diabetes surfaced. This was in a paper presented by Joslyn, money! Some of these very same associations have been clearly Dublin and Marks and printed in the American Journal of Medical implicated in providing advice that promotes the progress of dia- Sciences. This paper, "Studies on Diabetes Mellitus",’ discussed betes in their trusting supporters. For example, for years they the emergence of a major epidemic of a disease which looked heavily promoted exchange diets,’ which are in fact scientifically very much like the diabetes of the early 1920s, only it did not worthless—as anyone who has ever tried to use them quickly respond to the wonder drug, insulin. Even worse, sometimes finds out. They ridiculed the use of glycaemic tables, which are insulin treatment killed the patient. actually very helpful to the diabetic. They promoted the use of This new disease became known as "insulin-resistant diabetes" margarine as heart healthy, long after it was well understood that because it had the elevated blood sugar symptom of diabetes but margarine causes diabetes and promotes heart failure.* responded poorly to insulin therapy. Many physicians had con- —s siderable success in treating this disease — =f through diet. A great deal was learned about the relationship between diet and dia- ao ( _, betes in the 1930s and 1940s. { ( ‘< J Diabetes, which had a per-capita < incidence of 0.0028% at the turn of the Pam century, had by 1933 zoomed 1,000% in the o oN United States to become a disease seen by many doctors.* This disease, under a variety of aliases, was destined to go on to IL “ a wreck the health of over half the American 7 S “v population and incapacitate almost 20% by the 1990s.’ In 1950, the medical community became able to perform serum insulin assays. These assays quickly revealed that this new disease wasn't classic diabetes; it was characterised by sufficient, often excessive, blood insulin levels. The problem was that the insulin was ineffective; it did not reduce blood sugar. But since the disease had been known as diabetes for almost 20 years, it was renamed The first step to curing diabetes is to stop believing the lie that the disease is incurable. 30 + NEXUS JUNE — JULY 2004 www.nexusmagazine.com