Nip Diabetes in the Bud

Breast-feed your baby, especially during the first several months, and hopefully even longer. If breast-feeding is not possible, alternatives to cow’s milk formulas should be found.

Diabetes is far more common than it should be. Undoubtedly, the trend toward more refined fast foods is contributing to the problem. Most adult forms of diabetes can be controlled through proper diet and weight loss. As adults, we can choose whether the convenience of fast foods and a poor diet is worth the high price of jeopardizing our health. Children aren’t as lucky. They don’t have the opportunity to make those choices. By choosing the convenience of cow’s milk formulas over breast-feeding, mothers may be subjecting their children to a lifelong fight with diabetes.

Review your family health history. It is one method of determining if there is an increased risk of developing diabetes. Another method is to have a blood-screening test.
If you are at risk of developing type 1 diabetes (the type where your pancreas isn’t functioning properly) or if you’ve already been diagnosed as having the disease, I would strongly suggest the use of niacinamide.

Research has shown that niacinamide works best either before or during the initial phases of the disease (generally the first five years). The daily therapeutic dosages have varied somewhat in the different studies (anywhere from 4 mg to 45 mg of niacinamide for every kilogram of body weight). The latest dosage recommendations, however, have been roughly 25 mg of niacinamide for every kilogram or 2.2 pounds of body weight.

At this daily dosage level a person weighing 150 pounds would need in the neighborhood of 1.7 grams (1,700 milligrams)
150 lbs. divided by 2.2 pounds = 68 kg
68 kg multiplied by 25 mg = 1,700 mg

With the exception of one case of diarrhea, studies uncovered no side effects from niacinamide use. Dosages of up to 3 grams daily for six months were given with no problems.

Niacinamide therapy is very inexpensive. At a dosage of 2 grams a day (2,000 mg) the cost would be less than $10 a month. Good quality niacinamide is available in every health food store.

Although it wasn’t given in the above studies, I would recommend a B-complex supplement in addition to the niacinamide. This will ensure that no deficiencies of other B-vitamins are created with these larger therapeutic doses.

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