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Health Foods and You Natural Health & Wellbeing case of over-medicalisation? and body organs, so it helps create harmony and equilibrium within the body. Is Pre-Diabetes Disease Mongering? I have, personally, in the course of my professional work, come across an alarmingly high number of people who are diagnosed with Pre-Diabetes and who are also on medications for the condition. If a pre-diabetic condition is so easily fixed, or at least normalized, merely using dietary changes, one has to ask what are the motives for health authorities to widen the criteria. Is it so that pharmaceutical companies can have a huge new market for their products? Asking these questions opens the proverbial ‘can of worms’, so it may be prudent to leave you to ponder the questions it raises. There is much verifiable information to show that people diagnosed with Pre-Diabetes can quite happily revert to a healthy state with dietary changes, which includes eating more ‘real’ food and less processed food products. It’s fairly simple really. Useful Dietary Guidance – Can We Get it From Our Doctor? Most medical dietary information on maintaining good blood sugar levels revolves around the mantra ‘eat a healthy, balanced, low-fat diet with plenty of vegetables’. But, what does this actually mean? Official dietary guidelines for diabetes include servings of carbohydrate, as breads or processed cereals, and still recommend a low fat intake, and especially to avoid saturated fats. Even factory-produced margarines are still on the official list of good foods! Perhaps it’s time to re-consider our grouping of