Diabetes can be a preventable disease. This is not a disease in which the body fails to make insulin but rather the body makes too much insulin. Diabetes is often caused by many years of eating a diet that is too high in refined carbohydrate foods and a diet which is lacking in trace minerals which can impact the way insulin functions. Low levels of Chromium and Vanadium set the stage for insulin resistance and when the body can no longer compensate Diabetes will be born. If you tend to gain weight very easily, especially around your middle, you will be at greater risk for the onset of Diabetes. Diet balance plays a huge role in preventing and reversing Diabetes and as one famous doctor once said in jest: "Diabetes is so inherited that even adopted children get it!" Your diet, environment and your lifestyle choices play a key role in preventing this disease.

Insulin resistance is now being seen in overweight children; teenagers are now developing Diabetes, commonly know as Diabetes type3. This is a new phenomenon, totally unheard of just a decade ago; a disease that once mostly affected people over the age of 55years is now being seen in 15 year olds. Our children are aging rapidly and too early and this can all be prevented. The greatest gift you can give your child is teaching him / her how to establish a harmonious and healthy lifestyle and how to eat a healthy diet for a lifetime. This vital information is often most neglected in our children’s education for life skills.

Other risk factors include stress, obesity, eating too many refined and processed foods which have little to no nutrient value but are very high in calories; a lack of regular exercise; frequent episodes of hypoglycemia and insulin resistance syndrome. A family history is important to know BUT diet balance and exercise are the two most important things you can do to prevent the disease in the first place.