Get your fats straight about diabetes
17 Sep
Did you know that traditional Chinese medicine is one of the oldest medical systems in the world, and the first to study endocrinology as early as 200 BC? Resistance to insulin, a hormone that regulates our blood sugar levels, is the reason why people with diabetes see endocrinologists who specialise in hormone related disorders.
Over 85% of people diagnosed with diabetes have type 2 diabetes, which is a preventable lifestyle disease strongly associated with weight gain and obesity. Chinese medicine upholds that a healthy diet which prevents disease is better than the best medicine, so it makes sense to understand the good and bad fats in our diet.
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