Diabetes

Diabetes destroys teeth. My lower teeth literally crumbled away.
Do you like my new dentures?

The first study below could explain why I am the only person I know of on either side of my family before me who had diabetes. Then, for some reason I came down with it. It was a mystery to me until I read the study about how a mother's diet can change the baby's genes.. I just always figured I had it because Mother stuffed my mouth with Hershey Bars when I was a baby to shut me up.

On the other hand, the second study below reveals that it could be ME at fault for all the carbohydrates and sugars I've preferred all of my life.

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Sugar is, of course, a refined carbohydrate. Sugar has been strongly linked to the promotion of diabetes, clinical depression, weight gain, obesity and various nutritional deficiencies. It's also an acidic ingredient that promotes osteoporosis by forcing the body to leach minerals out of its bones in order to buffer the acidity of the sugar.

Sugar puts extra stress on the pancreas and liver, and if consumed in large quantities over time, sugar can result in decreased insulin sensitivity, which is one of the preconditions for adult onset diabetes. There's a lot more bad news about sugar, including mental problems such as mood swings, clinical depression, and even violence, especially in males. But for this review, I'm not going to go into all of the details of what's wrong with sugar. Read "Sugar Blues" by William Duffy if you want the whole story. You can also look up some of the literature yourself with the Google Scholar search engine, which has 17,300 citations for research about sugar and diabetes

http://www.newstarget.com/002698.html

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Vincent has diabetes, too - but it was in his dad's family; so his diabetes may be genetic. On the other hand, the study below states that permanent changes can be made that can affect future generations. If mine was caused by the inadequate diet mother had, Vincent could very well have been hit with a double whammy. I do know that when I was a little girl, mother's favorite meal was a hamburger and chocolate malt. I don't know what she ate when she was pregnant. Probably not very much. They were VERY poor.

What is interesting about the concept of gene alteration is that it is really nothing new to me. It just substantiates certain premises that I already knew from scripture and common sense:

• The Bible states in several passages that God will visit the iniquity of the fathers upon the sons to the third and fourth generation (generational curses that CAN be broken!).
  
  
• Not only that, but I have predicted for a long time that scientists would eventually get around to seeing that genetics can be altered in men and women that can be passed to their children. The alterations are usually caused by SIN (iniquity) in the person's life ... drinking, doping, smoking, poor diets, sexually-transmitted diseases, radiation, etc. Yep, I was right again and ahead of the curve.

Scientists are so dumb. I don't know why they don't use a little common sense, not to mention start reading the Bible! There are so many "secrets" there, if they would but listen and follow up on what a particular scripture is saying!

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(First Study mentioned above)

Mother's diet changes baby's genes

August 4 2003
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/08/03/1059849278586.html

<snip> Randy Jirtle, a professor of radiation oncology who directed the study, said: "For the first time ever, we have shown precisely how nutritional supplementation to the mother can permanently alter gene expression in her offspring without altering the genes themselves."

The researchers said there was much support for the idea that nutrition could affect gene expression in people. Several studies have shown that women who have a poor diet while pregnant have children who grow up with a tendency to diabetes and heart disease.

This study could help explain that. The agouti gene not only affects coat colour, but also metabolic factors involved in diabetes and heart disease.

Mice with overactive agouti genes tend to be obese and susceptible to diabetes because the protein controlled by the gene affects one brain signal involved in appetite.

A researcher, Rob Waterland, said:

"Diet, nutritional supplements and
other seemingly innocuous compounds
can alter the development in utero
to such an extent that it changes
the offspring's characteristics for life, and
potentially that of future generations."

Nutrition is likely to be one of the environmental factors that decides which genes turn on and which stay silent. Everyone inherits two copies of each gene - one from each parent. For most functions, only one gene expresses while the other is silent.

"Our study demonstrates how early environmental factors
can alter gene expression without mutating the gene itself,"

Mr Waterland said.

Reuters

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Another study said, in part:

Dorothy Gietzen of the University of California at Davis has found similar results in rats, mice, even slugs. When Gietzen knocked out the gene that serves up the critical enzyme switch, the animals continued to eat foods that lacked nutrition. Animals who had not been tampered with waited for something more nutritious to come along.

"If the amino acid is not there, they won't eat the diet," said Gietzen, who published her most recent results in the journal Science. "Their brains recognized that their diet was not good for them."

The problem is there are other, stronger signals that don't always tell us to choose the apple over the candy bar.

"The story goes that in evolution when we didn't have much food around, the instinct to eat food rich in calories was a good signal to have because high-fat foods store well," said Kelley.

Battle of Signals

Kelley's research has shown that a high-fat diet appears to alter the brain biochemistry through the release of reward signals, in a similar reaction to drugs such as morphine. This is due to the release of opioids — "pleasure chemicals" in the brain — that reduce the feeling of being full.

More studies by Dr. Sarah Leibowitz, a neurobiologist at Rockefeller University in New York, have shown that exposure to fatty foods might reconfigure the hormonal system to want more fat. In her research, rats fed a high-fat diet become more resistant to leptin — the hormone that stops eating. At the same time, levels of galanin — a peptide in the brain that stimulates eating and slows down energy expenditure — increased.

"Imbalanced diets, whether rich in sugar or fat,
interfere with normal satiety processes,
causing resistance to hormones such as insulin
and leading to overeating," she said.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Health/story?id=652781&page=2

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Advice for Apples

If you're apple-shaped — meaning that you primarily store fat around your middle — you'll need to take some special precautions with your weight. People who have a larger waist are more likely to develop heart disease, high blood pressure, and diabetes.

Elevated health risks seem to come along with a waist measurement of greater than 35 inches in women and greater than 40 inches in men. Abdominal fat is worse than fat on your buttocks or thighs because that extra fat surrounds important organs such as the liver and pancreas. When you have fat in this area of the body, your body can't use the insulin produced by your pancreas very well. This is called insulin resistance, and it causes high blood glucose levels. High blood glucose puts your organs at higher risk. If you lose weight, the amount of fat stored around your waist and important organs will decrease, and they will all work better.

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I wondered why diabetes affected the retina.
Here's why, maybe:

... a person's pancreas and retina have the same genes,
but only the pancreas can turn on the genes that allow it to make insulin.

University Of Michigan Health System
http://www.med.umich.edu/1toolbar/whatsnew.htm
Date: 2002-06-28 (my birthday - I was 64 - just trivia is all)

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(Back to the article on how a mother's diet can make genetic alterations)

Changes in our diets takes the will to do it.
But genetic alterations are something else.
So, how can those generational curses be broken?

Excerpt from: http://members.aol.com/CanTellYou2/advice/index.htm

A) Confess and ask forgiveness for the sins of your forefathers which brings curses/judgments upon your families heads. "the sins and the iniquities are passed to the 3rd and 4th generations".

B) You must forgive your ancestors whose sins passed the pain, suffering and sickness upon you and your future generations.

C) Ask GOD to forgive you, and your future generations, in JESUS' name, for the sins of the forefathers and ask GOD to remove the judgment against your bloodline that allows you to be cursed/attacked.

The advice above includes commanding Satan and all the evil and evil beings he can throw at us to DEPART, DEPART, DEPART [and not return and to be replaced by NOTHING except the Goodness of God, in the Name of Jesus Christ by the Power of His Blood and with the help of the Holy Spirit and God's Angels].

Thank you, God our Father
Thank you, Jesus our Savior
Thank you, Holy Spirit our Comforter and
Thank you, Holy Angels our Mighty Warriors
Thank you all for protecting us
against Satan's principalities and evils

Give each of us a Fresh Anointing & Covering of your Blood every day, Jesus
Keep the Holy Spirit and Bubbles of Mighty Warrior Angels
round about each of my family members, me, my friends, and my animals at all times
We ask in Your Name, by the Power of Your Blood
And with special thanks to God for His Holy Promises to us
Amen