As We Stay In To Avert The Pandemic Outside Beware The Pandemic Within

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Am I trying to scare you people
Yes
Don’t believe what I am going to tell you now
As you stay home, I hope you will research
And then judge for yourselves
Sine we have all the time in the world, a bit of story-telling first, before I get to what I really want to share
In July, 2005, I was then staying on my farm in Pahang
It was the durian season, and I had 1 1/2 acres of mature durian trees ( about 80 trees )
We had a bumper crop that season and for 3 days and 3 nights, I feasted
Durian, pulut and santan
Breakfast, lunch, tea time, dinner
The third day was a Sunday, and I was working in the farm with the boys
It started to rain cats and dogs and I started to run uphill towards the house
Then it happened
A shooting, throbbing pain, on the right side of the head, and cold sweat in the heavy rain
I was to find out later that the durian binge had driven my blood sugar and blood pressure levels through the ceiling and that pain I experienced suggested I might have just missed having a stroke
It was also then that I was diagnosed as suffering from type 2 diabetes
For 10 years after that diagnosis, I was on medication
Dosage increased once in that time
In 2015, I started to use my own body as a laboratory to see if I might be able to control the diabetic condition without medication
By April, 2015, I went off my medication completely and with some modest restraint on diet, was having an average fasting blood sugar reading that suggested a relatively controlled diabetic condition
In the months running up to the 14th GE, traveling on the ground, I ran out of my supplements, could not control what I ate, and refused to go back on medication
Post GE14, the diabetic condition took a turn for the worse
Peripheral neuropathy kicked in
Then I was introduced to a holistic health place called the Living Center in Sunway Geo   ( sadly, it has closed down ) and met three lovely people
Dr. Sharifah, Carmen and John
They started me on a journey that took me from being in a very poor and dangerous state of diabetic control to reversing that diabetic condition
How I did that, I will share in my next post, which I want to dedicate to those with type 2 diabetes and who might be interested to look into controlling that condition or, better yet, reversing it
Here, I want to tell non-diabetics about a pandemic that I learnt of during that journey, a pandemic that I discovered has long been in our midst
Pre-diabetes
First, do you know what is the optimum ideal level of sugar the average human should have in his or her body at any one time
I will let Dr Eric Berg tell you
The average American consumes 31 teaspoons of sugar a day
See what the consequence is
Pre-diabetes, unknown to most who already have it
The average Malaysian has 26 teaspoons a day
When’s the last you tested your blood sugar
Was non-diabetic
Great
Was it pre-diabetic, though
You’re thinking, “No, I did not dip into this bowl 26 times today”
You take your coffee or tea without sugar
Great!!
The source of the pre-diabetic pandemic at home, then
Hidden sugars in all the processed food stored at home
As we stay at home to avoid the Covid-19 pandemic outside, are we eating our way to the pre-diabetic pandemic awaiting us at home
As we tell the kids to stay home and stay safe, are we exposing them to this

 - The People's Parliament

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