Dr. Mark Hyman has produced a series of YouTube videos that are collected here for your convenience.  Everyone should watch these whether diabetic or not.  Dr. Hyman dispels the myths about the disease and how to handle it by a healthy lifestyle that everyone can benefit from.

Part 1: Mark Hyman, M.D. explains how diabesity (diabetes + obesity) is not something we are doomed to get based on our genetics — it’s completely under our control and Dr. Hyman shows you how.

Part 2: Watch as Dr. Hyman explores how toxins hidden inside your body can wreak havoc on your metabolism and trigger diabesity (diabetes + obesity).

Part 3: Want a quick, easy, surprisingly refreshing way to help rebalance your insulin levels and overcome diabesity? The solution is simple: Just learn to relax! Stress makes you fat and contributes to the development of diabesity. Listen as Dr. Hyman explores the connection between stress a diabesity (diabetes + obesity).

Part 4: How can a fork help you prevent, treat, and even reverse diabesity and let you re-gain control of your life? Listen in as Dr. Hyman will also explain the four simple nutritional principles that govern the entire dietary program his patients follow to prevent and reverse diabesity. Follow those four rules and you will go a long way toward recovering from diabesity.

Part 5: Watch as Dr. Hyman reviews how medications do not treat the causes of your diabesity, they just mask the symptoms. While they may be a necessary bridge for some (there are two that Dr. Hyman sometimes find helpful), the only way you are going to heal from diabesity is if you treat the underlying dietary, lifestyle, and environmental causes that are driving your condition.

Mark Hyman, MD: The Diabesity Epidemic

The US is the ONLY country that uses HFCS as the main sweetener in it’s food supply, the incidence of Obesity and Diabetes has NOT increased in other countries like it has here. Your body will thank you with weight loss once you stop …

Sugar substitutes contribute to obesity in children

Sugar substitutes contribute to obesity in children. December 17, 2009 – 11:00 pm. Sugar substitutes contribute to obesity in children. Fructose may increase the risk of diabetes and obesity in children.

Growing Obesity Epidemic Will Double Diabetes Population

And diabetes and obesity will lead the way in driving the country into a total financial wipeout. It doesn’t have to be this way, however. Diabetes costs don’t have to triple. We can turn this whole thing around with some simple, diet changes.

Morbid Obesity on the Rise in Type 2 Diabetes

Morbid Obesity on the Rise in Type 2 Diabetes.

School dinner cuts could lead to diabetes

“There has been a rise in the number of teenagers getting type 2 diabetes and it’s mostly because of obesity. And I can see what will happen if prices go up: children stop buying nutritious food from the school and end up walking out to fast food restaurants.

Other related articles on Diabetes from the web

• A New Treatment Now Available for Type 2 Diabetes (prweb.com)
• Type 2 diabetes cures (doctorrw.blogspot.com)
• Really?: The Claim: Vinegar Can Help Lower Blood Sugar Levels. (nytimes.com)
• Diabetes and Immunity (Immune Causes) (healthhype.com)
• 8 basic diabetes questions answered (cnn.com)