The 2 types of diabetes are type I and type II. Type I diabetes is characterized by the pancreas making too little or no insulin. An separate with diabetes type I will have to inject insulin throughout the day in order to control glucose levels. Type II diabetes, also known as adult onset diabetes, is characterized by the pancreas not producing enough insulin to control glucose levels or the cells not responding to insulin. When a cell does not respond to insulin, it is known as insulin resistance. When a subject is diagnosed with type II diabetes, exercise and weight control are prescribed as measures to help with insulin resistance. If this does not control glucose levels, then medication is prescribed. The risk factors for type II diabetes include: inactivity, high cholesterol, obesity, and hypertension. Inactivity alone is a very brawny risk factor that has been tested to lead to diabetes type II. Exercise will have a positive effect on diabetes type II while rising insulin sensitivity while type I cannot be controlled be an exercise program. Over 90% of individuals with diabetes have type II.
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D. S. Epperson
Food manufacturing in the US has always been active convenience, product availability, taste and price. The more society ventured away from the family garden and kitchen, the more food manufacturers developed a market or niche for their products at home in the cupboards. Processed foods no longer are limited to flour and sugar on the country store shelf, but have evolved to include the variety of foods eaten regular and taken from restaurants, grocery stores, super markets and convenience stores.
As the commonality of quick processed foods increases throughout the world, health problems such as obesity, diabetes and cancer have also become common and fatal to the point that *”1 in 3 American adults have Insulin Resistance, a pre-diabetic condition”, and this will only be the beginning.
The philosophy behind Functional Food is to create food additives and ingredients that will enhance the bodies health by making manufactured foods much beneficial to the consumer with down losing quality or taste.
It is the intention to not only create additives and ingredients that will benefit todays market but will benefits today's generation as they age.
By using products such as "SugarBlendtm",and "FlourBlendtm,, in drinks, cakes, cookies, candies, breads, pastries, and snacks, today's children will have increased mineral uptake, aiding in the prevention of Osteoporosis as they age, increasing bowel function, reducing the unplanned of colon cancer and by aiding in the control of blood sugar swings that may cause diabetes subsequent in life. These "Functional" properties are accomplished without broadside effects that may cause consumers to reject manufactured products. These side effects include sweeteners that cause a aperient effect, gas, bloating, aftertaste and harmful sweetness in higher heat. Styrofoam-like textures, no taste, unpalatable smell and color in cooking flour substitutes.
We see that parents today are becoming much aware and enlightened in the direction of nutrition, especially with regards to growing children. If foods are eaten that increase calcium in the bones today, twenty years from now, it is possible that this generation won't suffer from Osteoporosis or Colon Cancer. If foods are eaten today that keep the blood sugar steady and absorb slowly in the gut, not only will the child have protection from disease, but they will have a lessor unplanned of developing diabetes twenty years from now also.
The main objective of Home Blend Gourmet and others that manufacture functional food is "The Health of Humanity". Manufactures using these products today can influence the health of future generation and secure their markets for tomorrow. We create first rate ingredients and additives by being on the cutting edge of research. The demands of swift paced lives and lifestyles shouldn't cost the health of the human race. We can help food manufactures become more health semiconscious and competitive with marketing strategies that will put them above the rest of the pack.
Today, the education of the general public on nutrition is vastly brought about finished mass media, by informational commercials, finished news media, T.V. talk shows, magazine articles and newspaper articles.
High protein, low-carb, low-fat diets have gained popularity through media blitzes on celebrity books, university studies, restaurant menus and nutritional labels. These diet plans have also gained popularity by the prove results, some of the newest diets include Glycemic Indexing, or the blood glucose response to the manufactured products. We check our food formula's for impact to blood sugar response by doing in vivo spoken tolerance tests. all formula is created to not single aid in control of nutritional conditions, but that the side-effects of that formula is advantageous to the hominian body. We offer In Vivo testing for any of our manufacturing clients that would same to use Glycemic Indexing guidelines for marketing their products. We are southwest Pacific Health Enterprises, and we license our food formulas only to domestic Blend Gourmet.
*AACE, AC of Endo. Conference, 08-25-26, 2003
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