Health
‘Sweet’ Lifestyles
to blame for
diabetes
Patrick Musira
W
e need to learn modifying
our lifestyles and to
manage our weakness for
sweetness by reducing
cholesterol intake in our diets, a local
medical expert advises.
Dr Branislav Svoren, a health care
practitioner, specialising as a physician in
Harare, says modern medicine may have
its place in emergency care, but when it
comes to the prevention or management
of chronic illness, many conventional
treatments are lacking. In the case of
diabetes, the battle is loudly proclaimed
to be one of blood sugar regulation.
“Check your sugar, and take your
drugs as prescribed,” seems the ired
message of most industry doctors to a
steadily increasing number of diabetics.
But, where modern medicine falls short
in its rigid symptoms-only approach,
alternative healing can help to bridge the
gap.
Instead of measuring success by glucose
levels in the blood while simultaneously
blaming the poor pancrease for what
is more likely a whole-body deficiency,
holistic applications can help restore the
body’s ability to heal itself – “to maintain
homeostasis”.
Where a healthy person’s body
converts carbohydrates from food into
glucose, it also produces insulin to
convert that glucose into energy.
“As a result, the glucose builds up in
the blood and can lead to any number of
very serious conditions, like blindnesss,
kidney failure, neuropathy and a whole
array of other diseases,” says the worldrenowned physician who runs a pain
clinic in Mount Pleasant .
Dr Svoren says according to a
recent study, drugs called statins have
been shown to increase the risk of
diabetes although this potential harm is
outweighed by the benefits of the drugs.
The study did find that people with
certain diabetes risk factors, such as
obesity and high blood sugar levels, had
an increased risk of developing diabetes
while taking statins. But people in
this group still experienced significant
reductions in their risk of cardiovascular
events, such as heart attack and stroke.
Intensive lifestyle intervention is key
Speaking
to
The Parade in
an interview at
his home, the
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medical practitioner said that the results
should not be interpreted as discouraging
statin use in people at increased risk of or
with established cardiovascular disease
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