Type 1 Diabetes In Children:

Finding Answers To Retain
Diabetic Health In Your Children

Type 1 diabetes in children seems to be growing at an alarming rate despite the fact it has always been accepted that juvenile diabetes (type 1) is a genetic disease. But the increases of diagnosis in children under the age of 5 years has ballooned to a five-fold increase. Even older children from early school to teen years are doubling in occurrence within this past decade.

How Can It Be Genetics When Showing Such High Increases

Doctors everywhere are looking for other factors which can be attributed to this shift in momentum. Environmental toxins seems to be one of the most prevalent concerns today.

Treating Type 1 Diabetes in Children
With Alternative Therapy

Five Steps To Success

• Watch The Diet
  An anti-inflammatory diet is a critical first step to reduce the inflammation in the cells. To re-build healthy cells for the body's benefit, eliminate all processed foods, packaged foods, sugars -both natural and artificial sweeteners - and reduce your dependency on many of the common food allergens such as wheat (gluten), dairy, dyes and preservatives.

  Work on changing over your child's diet to an all-natural fresh foods diet. Include selections such as fruits and vegetables, fresh from the market - or preferably from your organic backyard garden, organic meats and protein sources, whey (milk) products from the goat, and virgin coconut oil. Try adding some fresh or dried ginger, oregano, cinnamon and tumeric to every meal as much as possible as these spices are known healing compounds to reduce cell inflammation.

• Vitamin D
  Vitamin D's advantages is all over the news these days. This is because recent studies is showing over 85% of newborns are Vitamin D deficient at birth.

  Vitamin D is needed by every single cell in the human body. With depleted levels, degenerative diseases of the bones, brain and the pancreas (the problem organ in any diabetic) are especially common. Check with your practitioner for their recommended levels but increasing your vitamin D3 levels to 60-100Ng/ml is being offered by many pediatric specialists as an easy deterrent to prevent type 1 diabetes in children.

• Get Plenty of Sunshine daily. Ten to fifteen minutes minimum of exposure directly onto your skin's surface is enough to aid in your body's ability to manufacture its own optimal Vitamin D levels.

• Fresh cow's milk but preferably fresh goat's milk direct from an organic farmer is the safest and best source of dairy products now available to the human body.

  Pasteurized milk, found in all grocery stores is showing a strong correlation to the increase in auto-immune disorders (allergies, hyperactive behavior disorders etc.) The pasteurization process itself produces a strong reaction in many people's immune system by itself. Ultimately, the pancreas loses its ability of producing insulin because of the damaged beta cells. Also, high concentrations of pesticides and herbicides (from feed and grain) and antibiotics (bovine growth hormone plus others) are an additional burden on an already stressed immune system. The stage has now been set for an immune system disorder, type 1 diabetes being one of the most common.

• Be sure to find your child some type of medical identification and confirm they wear it daily. This valuable piece of jewelry can save your child's life during an emergency because a caregiver knows immediately what they are treating for.

So current type 1 research is now trying to differentiate all the possible factors which may be attributing to this steep rise in type 1 diabetes in children. Although a healthy diet and thus a healthier lifestyle is no guarantee of avoiding this disease, promising indicators have been shown to delay the onset or even reduce the severity of the disease in many continuous studies.

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