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Diabetes covers a variety of conditions resulting from a malfunction of sugar metabolism. For precise medical information, please visit the site of Diabetes UK (www.diabetes.org ). Diabetes is more and more frequent in modern societies, mostly because processed foods contain more and more refined sugars. Babies and children eat larger and larger quantities of refined sugars in the form of sweets, chocolate, cookies, industrial bread, pizzas, soft drinks, etc. Many young people develop a tolerance to sugar. Their liver and their pancreas get tired or ruined from a very young age. Diabetes can start at any age.

Diabetic conditions can worsen under the effect of stress, anxiety, fear, and activities that require tension and concentration as well as certain physical activities. They all require specialised medical and nutritional help.

Refined sugars are harmful for everyone: they metabolise very quickly (hence their name “fast sugars”), and bring our body a large quantity of energy in a very short time. Since very few people nowadays perform intense physical activities, this sugar energy is not used (“burnt”) by our body. Our organism reacts in various ways to this sudden surplus. It may store it in the form of fat (lipids) and so increase the risk of obesity and cardiovascular conditions). It may be eliminated by the liver and the kidneys through blood and urine.

If blood sugar levels remains higher than 1,2 g/l for some time, it will cause permanent damage to arteries, eyes, kidneys, etc.

In order to control one’s diabetes, it is very important to balance out ones eating habits as a support and complement to medicated treatment. Nutritional changes have to be progressive as well as radical. Progressive to respect individual tastes and preferences, and to avoid brutal and traumatic changes. Radical, in terms, for example, of replacing as soon as possible all refined fast sugars by slow unprocessed sugars, as found in natural grains for instance.

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