I recently wrote about the remarkable book “Genius Food,” which gave me a whole new perspective on our health in general and diabetes in particular. According to author Max Lugavere and his co-author, Dr. Paul Grewal, a variety of medical issues stem from our bodies’ inability to process all the sugar found in the standard American diet. Some experts have decided to label Alzheimer’s disease simply Type 3 diabetes and macular degeneration little more than “diabetes of the eye.”
There’s no doubt that more people—including plenty of baby boomers—are diabetic today than ever before. In fact, more than 25 percent of Americans over the age of 65 have the disease, which means that those of us who were born in the 1950s have a higher likelihood of having diabetes than any other age group. For this reason alone, a British study that examined ways to self-control Type 2 diabetes is particularly noteworthy.
