Health,Medicine and Glyconutrition: The Future Isn’t What it Used to Be
This is what they call “Hope”?
We’ve all gotten used to the idea that certain maladies will be around for a whilelike until the Second Coming. Maladies such as cancer, heart disease, diabetes, arthritisand many more are expected to be around, in epidemic proportions, longer than we think we will be aliveand anyone who tries to tell us otherwise is looked upon with real skepticism. In fact, when anyone tries to tell us “there’s hope” for such maladies as, say, diabetes, we are more likely to believe that the person is trying to sell us somethingand usually we are right.
But, what’s even worse is the fact that the “hope” we do receive is usually something like the following:
Studies show people at high risk for type 2 diabetes can prevent or delay the onset of the disease by losing 5 to 7 percent of their body weight. You can do it by eating healthier and getting 30 minutes of physical activity 5 days a week. In other words: you don’t have to knock yourself out to prevent diabetes. The key is: small steps that...