These People Have One Of The Highest Rates Of Diabetes On The Planet

and I’ll just add a little bit about the Marshall Islands experience and first in answer to your question I I don’t know of any country right now that is really promoting a plant-based diet for their entire population I do know that in Israel I believe they have the highest percentage of five and a half oh yeah so they’re they’re increasing their interest quite dramatically there but in the Marshall Islands the Marshall Islands are islands that are in the in the Pacific between Hawaii and Australia about 2,300 miles southwest of Hawaii and so they’re very very remote and you know a hundred years ago there there was no absolutely zero diabetes and and they lived off the land of course as as most Pacific Islanders did at one time and so for many generations all they ate was the plants that they could collect from the island and the fish that they could catch with their Spears or whatever from from the sea from the ocean and and so what happened was as they’re the main islands became overpopulated so for example the main island Morrow has 30,000 people on it it’s 3.7 square miles in area and it might sustain 500 or a thousand people at most if they were living off the land but now there are so many people there they have to import foods and because they’re there’s almost no economy there there are very few jobs people don’t have a lot of money so as you can imagine what they’re importing is the cheapest food that they can bring in so it’s ramen noodles cheap white rice and spam they drink high fructose corn syrup the number one drink is is called luau and the number one ingredient is high fructose corn syrup and and and if that isn’t you know hard enough to hear the children their favorite snack is dry ramen noodles so you know ramen are these white flour noodles deep-fried with about 1,800 milligrams of sodium per package and they take these ramen noodles and to flavor them up but they eat them raw but they sprinkle kool-aid powder on top before it feels like my old diet yeah man I I remember standing with a marshalese person looking at this little little person eating these ramen noodles and after they sprinkled the kool-aid powder they sprinkled on this white powder I’m thinking what in the heck are they put sugar salt and I said what are they putting on the ramen noodles in there and oh that’s a st. Emoto well as seen Emoto of course is pure msg so so you know the people in the Marshall Islands really couldn’t have adopted a diet that would be more efficient at inducing diabetes than the diet they’ve adopted and now they have one of the highest rates of diabetes on the planet and so when when I mean honestly I would guess you know well over 50% of the adults have type-2 diabetes the you know well it’s a I shouldn’t say that over 50% of the adults over 35 have type-2 diabetes the children Arlene is can be there there’s very little obesity among the children because they’re so active but as soon as they hit there at all years they become overweight and probably close to 75 80 percent are overweight and and so what we did when we went in is introduced a plant-based diet and they can consume some fish if they could because it’s you know they’re on a little island and that’s their their cultural food is coconut and fish right so but we tell them if they do consume fish it needs to be boiled or cooked in some way where they’re not frying it and and so otherwise at the clinic where we’re treating them it’s a hundred percent plant-based and so what we saw is is a dramatic shift in in blood sugars and in Diane we had several people reverse their diabetes completely of course and so the government started to get quite interested and so I’ve been going back I started in 2006 and this year I went back just a couple of months ago and what I was invited to do was go there for three weeks and create a curriculum for grades kindergarten to six and trained every teacher in the public schools to teach nutrition to the children and so it’s it’s you know it’s encouraging thank you very much it’s encouraging to see the interest and in as a matter of fact they have just created a policy where it will be illegal to sell sweet drinks and fried snack foods within a certain parameter of any school and the teachers who bring this stuff to sell to the students are no longer allowed to do that so we’re really starting to see change and and so I I really believe that that you know we’re we I don’t know if we’re quite at the tipping point but we’re sure getting close and I think people are starting to catch on so that’s very last year we hit the top of the peak we’re heading yeah we should start a political party

my question is does veganism or raw food diets help reverse osteoporosis and are there certain foods that are better had or not had regarding vegan diets help osteoporosis in one specific way you take away the animal food that has three basic bone and cell eroding assets in it but really what reverses osteoporosis is weight lifting if you’re not willing to weight lift I don’t care what you eat you’re not going to get well so I’ve worked with thousands of people who’ve reversed osteoporosis and didn’t worse do it and it was about weight lifting at the end of the day not calcium right I have my Wellness Center we have a program for people for women who have osteoporosis and we have even have equipment in the office we have equipment for heavy weight lifting that enables even for people who are frail to be able to support heavy weight on their body or safely and we have a we have some vibration training machine so we absolutely agree 100% and the idea and when the point that I’m making additional point I’m making is that your bones and muscles grow simultaneously your muscles your bones don’t get weak unless your muscles are also weak and when you strengthen your muscles you simultaneous simultaneously strengthen your bones and that osteoporosis and osteopenia is grossly over diagnosed anyway and a lot of theater is created that’s needless and you don’t you know but basically obviously people get weaker as they age and they should be more patient if they eat healthy and they age slower because we talked about aging slower maintaining youthful vigor and being healthier your muscles and bones stay stronger and you can stay more active as you get older and it all works synergistically and just to recognize that you know a lot of people think osteoporosis is a dairy deficiency disease you know it I would because you know I like consuming enough milk but what you need to understand is that osteoporosis is a multifactorial disease and I couldn’t agree more with exercise the only people I’ve seen actually increased bone density as they get older are people that have increased physical activity but what you do need to know is if you’re becoming vegan and you’re eliminating sort of our traditional calcium sources and traditional vitamin D sources you need to be consuming a diet that provides the nutrients that do help to build strong bones so you need enough calcium in in the epic Oxford study they found that vegans that consumed under five hundred twenty-five milligrams of calcium a day had over thirty percent more an increased risk of a fracture in the Adventist Health Study to the Adventists are consuming over 900 the Adventists vegans are consuming over 900 milligrams of calcium a day so their bone density there there’s not a lot of difference between them and the meat-eaters now the other thing you need to know is that we years ago people used to say more protein means that you’re going to urinate more calcium out of your Joran and increase your risk of fractures well what we’ve learned since is that yes it’s true that that protein does increase urinary calcium excretion but it also helps with calcium absorption it helps you build stronger bones and it’s part of the bone matrix so people eating plant-based diets need to get enough protein to keep their bones strong and so this the thinking of you know really limiting protein intake as a definitely as a meat-eater but as a plant-based eater you actually need to make sure you get enough protein so there was a study again the Adventist health studies showing that women who consumed the most legumes had I think it was 63% reduced risk of fractures so it’s it’s important to make sure your diet is well balanced you’ve got a source of vitamin D you’ve got your calcium you’ve got your magnesium potassium all of these nutrients that contribute to building strong bones and then of course weight-bearing exercise on the other thing I’d like to mention is my mom was always she grew up on a farm she was always a fairly big dairy consumer and but always physically active when she was 50 years old she developed osteoporosis and she’s been very good about her exercise and so she’s been maintaining her bone density reasonably well but when I hit it was just around I think 49 years of age or so about ten years ago I was my doctor said you know you’ve been vegan for over 20 years your your mom has osteoporosis you are a slim Caucasian female you’re at high risk you don’t you know you’re not you you know your diet may be low and so anyway he said let’s do bone density and my bone density came back when I went to his office to get my results he opened my chart and his jaw dropped he said your bone density in your femur is two and a half standard deviations above norm for your age they couldn’t plot it on the chart there was an arrow at the top of the chart and and and I think one other spot spine or whatever it was two standard deviations above norm for my age and he said I don’t know what you’re doing but what ever you’re doing your bones are made of steel just keep doing it and and what I’m doing is exercise from the time I was a teenager has always been a very significant part of my life so I you know to me it’s like eating sleeping going to the bathroom you need to keep moving and keep physically active every day of your life that you’re able to do that and so I mean even when I the day I delivered my my my children are thirty three and thirty years of age but the day I delivered my children the day had delivered my son I swam a mile before I delivered him so he wanted to come out after that you know you know what the lifeguards the lifeguards were so scared that baby was gonna pop out in the water but anyway and I think that that what I’m trying to say is just because you’re vegan doesn’t mean you’re at higher risk for osteoporosis there are so many factors that come together to help you build strong and that’s and I’m really this is a great conversation and I agreeing and it brings to the point to make the good point that not all vegan diets are created a new bet and there are some diets that are proposed these super low fats call high starch carbohydrate diets like macrobiotic type diets or potato based diets that people aren’t getting adequate calcium they’re not taking in enough green vegetables not getting adequate protein but the beans and the hemp seeds in them and then all the other things we eat the broccoli in the that are that are giving us out of a protein and as we age our ability to assimilate calcium and protein go down whereas that’s where I think that we’re on the same page here that we’re eating diet that’s high in vegetables we’re using beans we’re using seeds we’re using things that supply us with what we need and we’re getting a variety of nutrients a good range of nutrients humans need and we’re also getting the necessary minerals and a necessary proteins we need especially as we age on this type on this type of diet which I have Coyle call a nutria terian diet which is essentially what we’re all at what we’re advocating here I’m just calling it something different but it’s a similar you know so don’t hang your hat on medications like Fosamax remember when that first came out all the women all the older women especially at our gym they said heck with this after and for half an hour and I have so much pain I can’t take it so they’d rather go to the gym and lift weights and and keep themselves strong that way and I did deliver in water I had water yeah so now the thing is of course we keep ourselves with a high protein this is the highest protein diet that you can find the highest nutritious diet so but you can add protein no way in a way okay the way it spikes your insulin even more than me it’s you know what way is right yeah way protein so you shoot some good sprouted proteins fermented rice protein and so on and you can substitute that you can have that with your exercise if you want to pump up a little more the Hippocrates the Hippocrates diet is really the incredibly high protein diet just sprouts alone it had been broken down from complex proteins to amino acids that are usable by the body when I was a macrobiotic and I helped me she oku she write the macrobiotic way book around the same time I was really I think that’s probably why I learned as much as I did Harvard did a study on the Mac robotics they went in wanted advocacy from Harvard and they found out that they had a much higher incidence of osteoporosis tooth decay etc because of what Joel just said that these incredibly high carbohydrate diets with very low protein and very low calcium the only greens they had they cooked to death in that day and remember they discovered originally calcium where green leafy vegetables