I recently purchased and watched a movie called…“Simply Raw-Reversing Diabetes in 30 days.” They took 7 people, who has moderate to severe diabetes and had been on insulin for years, to a raw food retreat in Arizona where each person ate only a 100% raw foods diet for 30 days. Within 2 weeks, all but 1 person is COMPLETELY off their insulin. Within a month, the 1 person that never fully got off his insulin, had lowered the amount he was using by more than half. This really is a MUST SEE movie.
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I’m in the brown jacket with the short hair. I’m about 15 lbs. overweight here. |
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This is after I had 2 kids. Notice I’ve put on more weight |
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The day before I delivered out 1st son, Dean |
Chris and I on our wedding day |
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Just barely pregnant with our 2nd. The edema isn’t so severe yet. |
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Notice the swollen ankles and feet. Ouch! |
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Just a month or so before delivery. Notice the swollen neck and face |
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Not sure why I had such a BAD haircut! |
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A few month before getting pregnant with our 3rd daughter, Millie |
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Millie’s Blessing Day-a month after delivery |
My 2 youngest, Pratt and Mabel, helping to make our morning juice |
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2 weeks before delivery with our 5th child, Mabel |
I still got my usual morning sickness but it wasn’t near as bad as it had been with my other kids. It was over sooner than with my other children. Plus, I was able to still exercise some during that time where in my last pregnancy, I usually took the first 3 months off from exercising because I feel so gross.
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1 week before delivery of our 5th child, Mabel |
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Beginnings of Active Labor with Mabel |
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An hour before delivery of Mabel |
There are dozens of free health related movies on Netflix, along with the 100’s of blog posts and studies online about health, nutrition, diet and exercise. There really are NO excuses as to why women aren’t taking the necessary steps FOR THEIR BABIES to take care of themselves.
Please know, I don’t mean to sound harsh here. I just have a POWERFUL belief that women are STRONG! That women are able to make any changes that will benefit them and their babies life long health and well being. That when women choose to find the JOY and BLISS that pregnancy offers, they will do ANYTHING to get it.
We’ve come to terms with what we think pregnancy is. We share our stories about how awful our pregnancies and birth was and then we BELIEVE these stories enough to create the same in our own lives. We’ve become complacent in it by not moving forward through exercise and diet to be healthy and happy. I say its time to change that! Its time to let ourselves feel our own POWER to make change. I promise you, you won’t regret it! And neither will your baby!
Unborn Babies Treated for Obesity in Womb
Apr 02, 2012
While the researchers argue that they’re trying to protect the future health of children, the trial—the first of its kind in the world—has sparked unease about resorting to drugs during pregnancy for a problem that could be safely treated with diet and exercise. What’s more, if this strategy succeeds, detractors worry the treatment could become widespread within five years and cause tens of thousands of overweight, but otherwise healthy, moms-to-be around the world to want the treatment.
Soaring Rates of “Sumo Babies”
The trial is part of a hotly debated National Health Service trial, launched in an attempt to curb the obesity epidemic, after a 50 percent rise in births of so-called “sumo babies” (newborns weighing more than 11 pounds) during the past four years in the UK. These large babies have double the risk of becoming overweight as adults.
There’s also a growing trend of big babies in the U.S., with a spate of such births recently making headlines. A California newborn tipped the scales at nearly 14 pounds last month and a Texas woman delivered a 16-pound boy in July, CBS News reports. While those babies entered the world by C-section, an astonishingly stoic Iowa woman gave birth to 13-pound, 13-ounce boy in January without surgery or painkillers.
Preventing Large Babies by Reducing Blood Sugar
In the trial, researchers from the University of Edinburgh will give 400 obese expectant moms the oral diabetes drug metformin (Glucophage). The idea is to cut blood sugar levels because obese women are often insulin-resistant, a prediabetic condition in which the body becomes insensitive to the insulin produced by the pancreas. If untreated, this may lead to a rise in blood sugar and ultimately to type 2 diabetes.
Overweight and obese women are at higher risk for developing gestational diabetes, which can result in jumbo babies because the main nutrient that fuels a baby’s growth in the womb is sugar. If untreated, this temporary form of diabetes that occurs during pregnancy can have lasting effects on the baby, as kids born to women with the blood disorder have double the risk for obesity.
Read about the history of type 2 diabetes.
The #1 Pregnancy Danger
As I reported last year, a recent study shows that obesity—not the mom’s age—is the leading threat to a healthy pregnancy. A British study recently reported that maternal obesity has doubled during the past 20 years, with one in six pregnant women in the UK facing extra health hazards, including heart disease and increased risk for birth defects and stillbirths.
In the U.S., where one in three women is obese, there are now medical centers specializing in caring for morbidly obese pregnant women, with such equipment as larger, sturdier operating tables. These patients are more likely to require a C-section, often due to large babies, who can face a wide range of health risks, including nerve damage, broken bones, or even brain damage during a difficult vaginal birth.
Is Diabetes Medication Risky for Obese Moms-to-Be?
“Metformin is a drug already taken by women during pregnancy if they have diabetes, so we know that it is safe,” said Dr. Fiona Denison, of the Queen’s Medical Research Institute in Edinburgh. One of the most commonly prescribed diabetes drugs in the world, it’s approved in both the U.S. and U.K., and falls into the FDA’s pregnancy category B (not expected to be harmful to an unborn baby).
However, in rare cases, the drug can cause a serious or even fatal condition called lactic acidosis, in which lactic acid builds up in the bloodstream. It is more likely to strike people who have liver or kidney disease, congestive heart failure, dehydration or a severe infection. Less serious metformin side effects include headache, muscle pain, weakness, vomiting, diarrhea, and belly pain.
What’s the Safest Way to Prevent Obesity in Babies?
While it may be tempting for women who are already overweight to turn couch potato as their baby bump starts expanding, a recent study shows that regular, moderate-intensity aerobic exercise during pregnancy can modestly reduce the birth weight of a baby—without medication.
In the study, researches randomly placed 84 first-time expectant mothers in one of two groups. One group worked out five times a week in 40-minute sessions on a stationary bike; the other group did not exercise at all. The babies of the women who exercised were on average 5 ounces lighter. “Given that large birth size is associated with an increased risk of obesity, a modest reduction in birth weight may have long-term health benefits for offspring by lowering this risk in later life,” said the study’s authors.
Pumping up fiber intake also helps reduce risk for gestational diabetes, according to a study published in Diabetes Care. This pregnancy complication was rarest among women who ate an average of 26 grams of fiber daily. That’s because high-fiber foods, such as fruits and vegetables, are absorbed slowly, helping keep blood sugar on an even keel during pregnancy.
Link to the article above is…HERE!
Thanks for sharing the post.