Los Angeles, Ca (PRWEB) May 09, 2013
In a new study, recently published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Internal Medicine, 1 researchers analyzed the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey and found a 46 percent increase in type 2 diabetes, a 38 percent increase in hypertension and a 10 percent increase in obesity with baby boomers (individuals born during the post WWII boom between 1946 and 1964), compared to their parents generation.
Commenting in review of this study, Carolyn Dean, MD, ND, and Medical Advisory Board member of the Nutritional Magnesium Association (NMA), at http://www.nutritionalmagnesium.org, stated: Due to modern farming methods and processing of foods, our agricultural soils and the food grown on them are depleted of vital nutrients and minerals. One of those vital nutrientsmagnesiumhelps prevent type 2 diabetes, obesity and high blood pressure and is deficient in more than 75 percent of Americans.
Dr. Dean added, Magnesium plays a pivotal role in the secretion and function of insulin; without it, type 2 diabetes is inevitable. Magnesium helps the body digest, absorb and utilize proteins, fats and carbohydrates and enables insulin to open cell membranes for glucose.2
Measurable magnesium deficiency is common in type 2 diabetes, as it is in high blood pressure and heart disease. When the treatment of diabetes, heart disease and high blood pressure includes magnesium, these problems are prevented or minimized.3, 4
Encouraging more exercise is important, but its important to note that exercise further depletes the body of magnesium stores. So exercise alone is not the solution; its vital to supplement ones diet with magnesium while also increasing exercise.
Director of the Integrative Health Center and NMA member Dr. Reuven M. Rosenberg concluded, Its really about metabolism. Magnesium is a part of over 300-plus enzymatic reactions. Metabolism is the set of life-sustaining chemical transformations within the cells of living organisms. These are enzyme-catalyzed reactions, and magnesium is a part of many of these. If you dont have the raw materials in the body to work with, youre not going to get the chemical transformation or youll get a weak one, which will result in disease, obesity, type 2 diabetes, high blood pressure and general ill health.
There are three proactive things that baby boomers can do right away that can improve their quality of life and reverse their declining health statistics:
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