How do we create diabetes in non-Western culture? It only takes one generation of eating a diet high in refined sugar and flour to develop diabetes. This is true of people around the world. And as I say here, from the Inuit in Alaska, to the Indian continent people, when they change their diets, start developing diabetes. So the immediate advice given to a newly diagnosed diabetic is to stop eating sugar and other refined carbs. So it's only commonsense that avoiding these unhealthy non-foods preventively can reduce the risk of diabetes. And I know immediately of someone who is at risk when I see what they eat and also what they weigh. If someone is eating a lot of sugar, a lot of carbs, and they are 30 pounds overweight, there at risk for developing insulin resistance and future diabetes. Go ahead. Now, this was interesting. This just came out in the March Science Daily. Researchers are in quandary, very tongue-in-cheek here, they are in quandary about the increased incidence of Type 2 diabetes in India. And my sidebar here is urbanized parts of the world, they are havens for fast food chains.So what's happening in New Delhi, my second sidebar, it has the highest rate of increase from the incidence of diabetes. And this has happened with the advent of outsourcing American jobs, lifestyle, and foods to India. What the researchers are saying though that maybe it has something to do with weight, maybe there is something genetic, and they are predicting an estimated 32 million Asian Indians have been diagnosed with this condition, and it could double over the next 30 years.Now, I have a note here about a Guyana story. In New York I was working with a group of Asian Indians who had lived in Guyana. There is a huge Indian population in Guyana. And within about 5-10 years from immigrating to New York, most of these individuals are developing obesity, diabetes, and heart disease, and suffering heart attacks. And it's from a change of diet. In Guyana, they had a government there that didn't allow junk food or sugar for quite a long time. So when they came to New York, it was quite a novelty, but immediately they started experiencing the negative health effects. Diabesity is a new term for the combination of weight and blood sugar imbalance. The steady consumption of refined sugar for 10-15 years can lead to diabetes, and we see this in the children. With some children it only takes about five years. Being 20-30 pounds overweight for over ten years is strongly associated with diabetes, sugar consumption below 35 pounds per person per year, and less than 20% of the daily calories, and a person can stay moderately healthy. But once you go above 70 pounds per person per year, this leads to chronic disease, not just diabetes, but chronic disease in the entire population. It's estimated that in North America we get about 35% of our daily calories from refined sugar, and our annual intake has now reached 150 pounds per person.Now, I don't eat any of this sugar. So someone out there is eating 300 pounds a year to make up for what I am not ingesting. Now, what's happening with sugar is, there is a big war on, because you would hope that some of this information would be more public, but that's not happening, and I will explain why with this story about the UN Food and Agriculture Association's major health report, diet, nutrition, and the prevention of chronic disease. They acknowledge that chronic disease presents this tremendous burden to society, and they have recommended a diet low in salt and sugars and saturated fats. They wanted a diet no more than 10% of added sugars. And this was a big change from previous policy. However, as you see down in the fourth paragraph, the US National Soft Drink Association demanded that the 10% limit should not be included in the WHO plan. And the sugar industry lobbied the U.S. Government to withhold its funding. And the sugar industry won and the recommendation was removed. So at the top, we are still at the 35% added sugars, and even our medical institutes advice 25% of calories from added sugar, a quarter of the diet. Diabesity in children. Adults continue to allow children to eat all the sugar they want thinking that there is not a problem with it, because they are not being told there is a problem. This creates early puberty. In girls, puberty is a weight, not an age. So when a child of age reaches 100 pounds, then they can start having their menarche. And they can start developing secondary sexual characteristics, and causes great trauma to themselves and their family. In the last decade, soft drink consumption almost doubled among kids, adding an average 15-20 extra teaspoons of sugar a day. One can of soda has 10 teaspoons. And what we know about the blood sugar is that there is only one or two teaspoons of sugar in our bloodstream that any one time, and this is where the stock of added sugars comes to the body, when you consume that much extra sugar.In 2001, Lancet Study talked about this, an additional soft drink gives a child 60% greater chance of becoming obese, and they said it was the first study of its kind. It's appalling that we waited until 2001 to start finding out about sugar. Obese children. These are just statistics about the incredible rise in obesity and diabetes in children. Symptoms of diabetes: excessive thirst, excessive urination, and excessive eating. And it's incredibly important for people to understand these symptoms, and if you or a family member are experiencing these symptoms, then you really must do something about it. I have heard too many stories of people who are having these symptoms, they haven't got a clue what it is. They wait far too long to see the doctor, and by the time they see the doctor, I have heard a very serious, serious health consequences of having your blood sugar rise into the thousands, where it's supposed to be around the 100 milligrams percent. So the signs of diabetes: overweight. Excess urination is carrying out sugar and magnesium and other minerals that causes weakness, but you feel like you are starving at the same time, because your cells are still demanding the sugar, but they are not getting it. The sugar is staying in your blood. As the sugar is being excreted through the urine and sweat, you can develop skin rashes, yeast vaginitis, yeast discharges.