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NATURALLY Speaking
'Keeping up with a Kahn' Last week this column noted that last month, Dr. Richard Kahn, the chief medical and science officer of the American Diabetes Association (ADA) for almost 20 years declared that sugar has nothing to do with diabetes. This week this column follows up on reports by Dr. Kahn from this past weekend at the annual ADA meeting. Kahn is excited about a new drug called muraglitazar or Pargluva. It has been tested against Actos that is commonly used with diabetics. However, it has been tested against lower levels of Actos rather than higher levels that are common. In contrast to the expectant tone of Kahn is the caution of the lead investigator for the muraglitazar study. He downplayed it comparatively speaking in regard to Actos with an interesting choice of words that the new drug is not a compound that blows it out of the water. The drug that Kahn is encouraged about was noted to have worse side effects than Actos such as increased fluid retention as well as double and triple the heart failure rate. The gargantuan pharmaceutical Bristol-Myers Squibb makes the drug that Kahn is pushing and just happens to be the primary sponsor of the ADA fundraising event 'Tour De Cure'. Is that a Kahnflict of interest? The experimental drug that Kahn is hopeful about has been reported as "the first insulin sensitizer to also target lipids". Au contraire. The proper form of the mineral chromium (that which is grown rather than that which is chemically synthesized) in the proper amount (200 to 300 micrograms daily) has been shown repeatedly and consistently to normalize blood sugar and A1C scores as well as reduce total cholesterol while increasing HDL. 200 micrograms daily has been demonstrated to accomplish this in 6 months. That is the same period of time that the drugs were tested but with much less results. 300 micrograms daily has been noted to accomplish this in a matter of weeks -- but only in the proper (grown) form. The chromium results have been accomplished without any side effects at all. A statement by Kahn that, "Most people with diabetes have hypertension and a variety of lipid disorders … that's why they develop complications, particularly cardiovascular disease" falls considerably short of completely accurate. The reason that people with diabetes have a variety of lipid disorders and develop complications, particularly cardiovascular disease, is due to a gross deficiency of the mineral chromium. Chromium deficiency is THE primary cause of diabetes mellitus and A primary cause of cardiovascular disease. That is why people with diabetes are more than twice as prone to cardiovascular disease. They are already grossly deficient in chromium and that puts them well on their way down the path to cardiovascular disease. The proper form of chromium in the proper amount has consistently demonstrated superior results to those achieved with muraglitazar/Pargluva or Actos, and has done so without side effects -- and that's not a con! Keeping up with a con The U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reported at the ADA meeting that diabetes care has improved dramatically in the past decade. Contrast this to the statement just weeks ago by a diabetes expert, Dr. Jaime Davidson of a University of Texas medical school that, "Diabetes management actually worsened in the past 10 years." CDC at the same ADA meeting also noted the tremendous increase in diabetics over the past decade. CDC is trying to have it both ways. Are you buying that con? Consider this A search for 'chromium' on the massive ADA web site yielded only six items. Three were references to the same small study that is currently underway. Two were only mentions of two past studies. One was a single line about one study with positive results. "More studies need to be done," was noted. Yet the ADA is not doing more studies. Furthermore, more studies have already been done -- many more studies through the course of decades. Does the ADA really want answers to diabetes or only answers limited to a particular paradigm?
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