Hi, everyone.
James Marin here, Holistic Registered Dietitian, environmental nutritionist, diabetes expert,
speaker, and author.
I'm here to tell you that November is more than the start of the holidays.
I'm here to tell you November is more than just eating a lot and desserts.
Do you know what November is?
November is National Diabetes Awareness month, but I want to make this even more of an impact.
I want to make it a global diabetes awareness month because there are some interesting and
important things you need to know about diabetes.
Share this video with people you know in your life, whether it's family, or friends, or
acquaintances, or anyone.
Just share this, because there are things you need to know about diabetes.
Are you ready?
Number one, did you know one out of 10 people have diabetes globally?
It's even worse in the United States.
One out of 10 people roughly have diabetes, and of those one out of 10, one out of every
four don't even know they have diabetes.
That is insane.
If you think that's already a lot of people, because again, it's out of 10 people you know,
one person has diabetes, out of those people, one in four don't know they have diabetes.
They're not going to the doctor, they haven't done lab work, they have no clue what's going
on in their body, but I'm guessing if it's someone like you or your friend or a family
member, I'm guess that they feel tired, maybe they're urinating a lot, they're getting headaches,
they feel dizzy, they feel faint.
They're having all these symptoms.
If it's progressed a lot, they just don't know what's going on, they may feel numbness
and tingling.
You maybe have these symptoms or you know someone with these symptoms and you don't
know what's going on, most likely, it's diabetes, given the statistics.
What's scary is that this is only going to increase if we do not take action.
If we do nothing about it, it's going to increase.
We're talking about our children, our nieces, our nephews.
All the young people you know in your life, they're growing up in this society to be a
sicker generation.
Diabetes, in the next 10 to 15 years, is expected to increased by 35 to 55%, so it ranges, but
it's going to increase by a lot.
These numbers are going to continue to increase.
We're going to look at maybe one in five, globally, will have some form of diabetes,
and it could be even one in two might not even know they have diabetes.
Statistics could increase drastically, and that is scary because the whole idea is that
when you're healthy, I'm healthy.
You're thinking, "What do you mean?
What does that even mean?"
Well, you're a part of my community.
You're a part of the globe, of the world, of the world economy.
You do something special.
Maybe you're a doctor, maybe you do plumbing, maybe you're an electrician or you're a farmer.
You're important.
Things you do are important.
If you're too sick to work or do the things you love, or more importantly, be with the
people you love, if you're too sick to play with your children, if you're not feeling
well to go on a date with your wife or your boyfriend or girlfriend or whoever, or you
can't go to school, or you have to be on disability, or you're always in the doctor's office and
you're on all these medication, so this is really serious.
Now, globally, 422 million people have diabetes, some form of diabetes: prediabetes, gestational
diabetes, Type 2 diabetes, Type 1.5, Type 1.
There are a lot of different forms of diabetes out there, and 422 million people have that.
I want to give you some context.
This is a really cool example of giving you some context, because I could throw around
yeah 422 million, and billion and trillion.
What does that mean?
Let me give you some context.
If I was to say, "Hey, let's stay in this room where I'm at for a million seconds,"
how long do you think that would be?
A million seconds, okay, in a room, so that would be 11 days.
Pretty crazy.
We can do it though, right?
We can stay in a room for 11 days, get some Netflix, put a bed in there and just kind
of relax, watch TV, hopefully have some food come in, but you can do it, right?
11 days, no problem.
What if I said let's stay in a room for 1 billion seconds, how long do you think that
will be?
What do you think?
Well, that would be 31 years.
So, there's a huge difference between one million seconds and one billion seconds, right?
31 years compared to 11 days, that is crazy.
That would be like going to prison, right?
You're trapped in a room for 31 years, you couldn't do that.
You wouldn't want to do that.
A trillion is even more insane, because if you stayed in a room for a trillion seconds,
it's impossible.
You would die, because a trillion seconds equates to 31,000 years.
31,000 years, okay?
So, even in a 100, 100, 100 lifetimes, you couldn't stay in a single room for a trillion
seconds.
That's what we're talking about.
The reason why I'm giving these examples is because 422 million people have diabetes,
so you can see how big that is.
Let's get to another big number, globally, we spend about $825 billion every year.
That's just in one year, we spend that globally on diabetes, whether that's doctor's visits,
on health insurance, medication, having a nurse come to your home, all those things
that come with being sick.
Guys, you don't want to be sick, okay?
These stats, these numbers are huge.
They affect all of us, because all that money, $825 billion could be going to help people
around the world, in our country or the country you live, education and infrastructure and
more jobs, and helping the environment, whatever you care about, that's money being taken away
from that, what you care about, and going towards helping people with diseases.
Now, that sounds great, right?
Like yeah, let's help people with disease.
Great, that's awesome.
We should be doing that.
But here's something else you probably don't know, something else that's not really told
to you by your doctor or other health professionals, other dietitians even, this is something that's
not told to you, but nine out of 10 of you most likely have Type 2 diabetes.
Whether it's your grandma or your grandpa, or your mom and dad or whomever, your friend,
most likely they have Type 2 diabetes.
Nine out of 10 people do who have diabetes, okay?
Type 2 diabetes is not only completely preventable, but depending where you are in your diabetes,
how long you've had it, the symptoms can be reversed, okay?
You don't have to have Type 2 diabetes for the rest of your life.
It does not have to be a lifelong sentence.
It can be something that you do away with, with the correct lifestyle approaches.
What can happen if you don't take action, if you do nothing, if you continue your lifestyle
the way it is, if you continue eating poorly, with what you're doing or what your friends
and family are doing, well, diabetes is now the seventh leading cause of death in our
country, in the United States, and even now globally.
With that being said, these are deaths that can be avoided, right?
It's not a fun death, right?
Death never is, but with diabetes, it's a very slow, painful, agonizing way to die.
I'm being very honest with you right, because with diabetes, it starts with some high blood
sugar.
It starts with these little symptoms of nausea or lots of urinating and feeling dizzy or
fainting, et cetera, et cetera, but then it goes to losing your sight, then it goes to
getting infections.
Then the infections can cause you to have amputations.
Then your kidney starts to give up, and your liver, and you may experience a heart attack
or a stroke.
You're going to be relying on your family.
You're going to be relying on hospital care to just do basic things, bathe yourself, get
ready.
You do not want to that.
No one wants that, right?
For those of you that maybe have family members going through that, my heart goes out for
you.
I know how painful that is and hard to see.
So, there is even hope for those people if they can better manage their diabetes, but
there's definitely hope for you and the younger generation to avoid diabetes.
That's what the awareness is about.
That's what National Diabetes Awareness is all about.
It's being aware of these hard truths and taking action.
If you have a grandparent or a parent with diabetes, you're 50% more likely to get diabetes
for a number of factors.
It is genetics, somewhat, but there's a great example, and this was given by Dr. Michael
Greger.
This is a great example of you have a gun and your genetics are the ammo, and your lifestyle
pulls the trigger.
You get what that means?
You could have the genetics.
It could run in your family, but if you're eating sugary cereals and sugary yogurts and
ice cream and cookies and cakes, and lots of processed sweets and sugar and processed
animal fats, sausages and hotdogs and lots of deep fried food, fried chicken.
If you're eating all those junk foods, then you're more likely to pull that trigger and
get diabetes.
The power is in your hands.
It's not easy, but it's a lot easier than having to go down that road of being sick
and unhealthy, and being at the doctor's all the time.
It's very important you make lifestyle changes.
We want to show you how to do that.
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What we want to do is overall tell you to avoid the processed foods, be physically active,
and we want you to eat more whole foods.
What does that mean?
Well, that means that instead of eating processed food, so what's a processed food?
Let's take corn, for example.
Let's say you want to eat an ear of corn, that's a whole food.
Great, have some corn, but what's a processed food?
Well, we look at our cereals.
If we look at a lot of cereals, what do they have in there?
Corn syrup, and then we also make high fructose corn syrup.
A lot of these processed ingredients come from whole foods.
What I challenge you to do, and share this with your friends and family, is to eat more
whole foods.
It's eating oatmeal instead of an oatmeal cookie that has maybe a little bit of oatmeal,
but it's lots of sugar and butter and eggs and all these other fatty, sugary stuff in
it.
It's eating strawberries instead of strawberry jam.
It's eating brown rice instead of white rice.
We make these choices to eat more whole foods.
Eating beans and lentils.
Get some of those good fruits and vegetables in, instead of fruit snacks or veggie chips.
Again, we don't want those extremely processed foods.
We want whole foods.
Whole foods are going to help to heal you.
Whole foods are going to help prevent diabetes symptoms, and being sick from diabetes.
Whole foods can help you better manage your diabetes, so you take less insulin, less Metformin,
less of any other medications you're on.
This is very important stuff, guys.
Very important stuff.
Again, 422 million in the world have diabetes.
That's crazy.
Almost one out of every 10 people you know has diabetes.
One in four does not know they have diabetes.
If you share this video, that might help some people go to the doctor, go see a dietitian
or nutritionist, see what's going on in your body, especially if you're feeling the symptoms
of dizziness, extreme thirst, constant urination, if you're feeling faint, low energy.
You know your body, something is feeling off, right?
You can't lose weight or you're just rapidly gaining weight, or you're very thin and you
can't seem to gain weight.
That's also a sign of diabetes.
There's a lot of things, but if you're just feeling off and you haven't been to a doctor,
go to the doctor.
Now, for those of you watching, share this, so people can get this awareness, guys.
If we catch diabetes early enough, you can reverse the symptoms, especially Type 2 diabetes,
which again nine out of 10 people who have diabetes, have Type 2 diabetes, okay?
Again, this is going to cost us $825 billion in a year.
Think of what our world could do with all that money every year, right?
The less diabetes we have, the more we can put that money to education, to infrastructure,
to important things that improve our lives, because this disease can be 100% avoided.
Guys, we care about you.
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Thank you so much.
Have a great day.
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