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DIABETES A Modern Day Epidemic As I was researching diabetes in pets, I was dismayed to see that 99% of everything I pulled up discussed symptom based treatments. Virtually nothing a ributed the 32% increase in canine and feline diabetes to lifestyle! The number of diabe cs are con nuing to rise for dogs, cats and humans because the underlying cause is not being addressed. This is the text book defini on of Diabetes Mellitus: An absolute or rela ve deficiency of insulin. NO!!!! Diabetes is a lifestyle disease caused by eating an exceedingly high carbohydrate diet! The body (pet or human) is designed to keep blood sugar within a certain range. When that level rises (due to ea ng high carbs or refined sugars) the pancreas produces insulin. Insulin's job is to regulate blood sugar. If there is too much blood sugar, more than what the liver can store, insulin will convert that excess sugar to fat and s ck it in a fat cell. Fat should only live in fat cells. But when the fat cells become full, the fat has to go somewhere so it goes into the liver, pancreas and muscle. Fa y liver is one of the leading causes of liver failure in people today. It is this overflow syndrome that results in diabetes. A clear example of this is the ca le industry. Cows just before slaughter are fed a high grain (high carb) diet to create the marbling (high fat) in the muscle (the meat). Diabetes isn't a deficiency of insulin, it's a result of exhaus ng the pancreas's ability to deal with excessive sugar, leading to insulin resistance. WE MUST ADDRESS THE ROOT CAUSE OF DIABETES IN PETS IF WE ARE TO MAKE HEADWAY IN PREVENTING AND CURING IT 1. Dogs and cats were never designed to eat high carbohydrate diets (processed kibble and canned foods are exceedingly high in carbohydrates). 2. Processed foods lack diges ve enzymes, pu ng all the diges ve strain on the pancreas. 3. Free choice feeding (leaving food in the bowl all the me) leads to constant spikes in blood sugar (and the resul ng spike in insulin) as the pet eats throughout the day/night. 4. Persistent inflamma on. Leaky gut and the relationship to inflammation Leaky gut is a condi on in which the permeability lining in the gut becomes "leaky", allowing par cles to enter the body that should not have. These par cles travel by the blood stream to the liver where the liver sees them as invaders and mounts an inflammatory response. Page 18 | Abby's Magazine - www.AbbysHealthAndNutrition.com