Controlling Fluctuations of Diabetes Blood Glucose, Healing and Preventing Nerve Damage with Baby’s Milk
by
Leonida Lidman
Controlling Fluctuations of Diabetes Blood Glucose, Healing and
Preventing Nerve Damage with Baby’s Milk
Copyright ©2002, 2004, 2005, 2009 by Leonida Lidman
ISBN-13 978-1-926585-64-2
Second Edition
Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication
Lidman, Leonida, 1938-
Controlling fluctuations of diabetes blood glucose, healing and preventing nerve
damage
with baby’s milk [electronic resource] / written by Leonida Lidman –
2nd ed.
Electronic monograph in PDF format.
ISBN 978-1-926585-64-2
Also available in print format.
1. Diabetes--Diet therapy. 2. Blood sugar. 3. Infant formulas.
4. Lidman, Leonida, 1938- --Health. 5. Diabetics--United States--Biography. 6. Diabetes--Popular works. I. Title.
RC662.L54 2009 616.4'620654 C2009-907420-6
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DEDICATIONS
SPECIAL THANKS AND APPRECIATION TO:
Professor Jennie C. Brand-Miller, Ph.D
World’s Foremost Authority on Glycemic Index Food Values; Founder, Director Nutritional Research Laboratory, University of Sydney, Australia for her most valuable contribution that led to the solution of this author’s life threatening problem of insulin fluctuations.
This work is also lovingly dedicated
to my grandchildren:
Matthew Kennedy, Jr.
and
Aimee Rabino
who inspired me to write my experience with diabetes
and to my husband, Walter J. Lidman
for his emotional and material support
as well as to
all persons afflicted with diabetes
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Chapter II: Exercise
Chapter III: Controlling Fluctuations in Blood Glucose from Sudden Sugar Highs to Sugar Lows
Chapter IV: Long-Term Diabetes Complications
Chapter V: How Baby’s Milk Healed My Diabetes Nerve Damage; Physical Aches and Pains
Conclusion
About the Author
INTRODUCTION
This book tells graphically the constant pain and life threatening complications related to Type 2 Diabetes which has afflicted the author for the past 18 years.
Diabetes has no known cure. It is a global scourge that has emerged as the biggest national and worldwide crippler and killer faster than major illnesses such as heart disease and cancer. (“The Stealth Epidemic”, The New York Times, January 9, 2006).
The most recent report on diabetes by the U.S. Center for Disease Control in 2000 revealed 21,000,000 Americans with diabetes and predicted that 41,000,000 more will get it. The World Health Organization reported 121,000,000 afflicted and predicted that 266,900,000 more will get it worldwide.
Typically, complications of Type 2 Diabetes set in years before any symptoms appear and before they are diagnosed. (Richard Kahn, Ph.D., Chief Scientific and Medical Officer, American Diabetes Association)
These reports from the U.S. Center for Disease Control and from the American Diabetes Association confirm that medical complications that diabetes sets off attack every major organ, causing severe nerve damage along with painful swelling of fingers, joints and knuckles; muscle aches and pains; painful tingling of the legs and feet; restless legs; wounds that do not heal that lead to amputation; severe imbalance in walking; bladder problems and kidney diseases needing excruciating dialysis.
This book is about controlling Type 2 Diabetes and preventing this crippling nerve damage, preventable pain and destruction of major organs by eating ‘healing’ or low glycemic foods; drinking baby’s milk formula; regular exercise and taking prescribed medication. All are paramount in the control and prevention of this killer disease.
CHAPTER I The Urgent Phone Call about My Diabetes and the Medical Treatment that Followed
Prior to being diagnosed as diabetic in 1991, I suffered frequent urination; excessive thirst; blurry vision; fatigue; frequent indigestion; diarrhea; profuse sweating at night even in cold weather; swollen knuckles; pinpricks on my hands, legs and feet which felt like bugs crawling inside my skin. My former family physician, Dr. Antonio Loreno, called this “tingling sensation” and advised rubbing liniments and applying a hot water bag massage on my legs when the liniments didn’t work and elevating my legs when asleep. This only worked for a few hours but never completely relieved my discomfort.
For excessive urination and thirst, Dr. Loreno told me to avoid sweets, salty and fatty foods. For extreme fatigue, he prescribed daily over the counter vitamins; a refreshing warm bath before sleeping; avoiding alcohol (which I never drink) and caffeine from coffee which I drink excessively.
He ordered a blood test which showed the onset of diabetes. He referred me to a diabetes specialist, Dr. Muriel Levy-Kern, who classified the blood test result as “diabetes in limbo” since the blood sugar level was not high enough to be classified