If you eat 3000 calories of Baked Cheetos, you would also be consuming 430gr of carbs and 187gr of fat. The carbs will send your blood glucose readings through the roof and the fat will get stored in the fat cells, contributing to additional weight gain. With your weight (350 lbs), a gallon of water still isn’t enough.

So, the answer to your question is no, you won’t be healthy.

In this scenario, you aren’t getting enough water to start with. So, your body will have to get the remaining water it needs from the Cheetos. This means there won’t be enough water to digest the food properly, causing your health problems to worsen.

The rule of thumb on how much water a person needs is to divide their body weight in half and this is the amount of water, in ounces, you should be drinking per day. As you can see, the gallon of water you’re drinking falls short by 47 ounces.

Unfortunately, you’re incorrect about diabetes being related to malnutrition. Diabetes is the result of dehydration.

The reason yours was helped by eating was because when we don’t drink enough water, the body takes the water it needs from the food we eat – you ate more food and your body benefited.

When we get to the point that our body has to draw its main water supply from the food we eat, then the problem becomes one of chronic dehydration.

The truth is, a doctor named Fereydoon Batmanghelidj, M.D did over 20 years of research in the curing power of water. He found that dehydration is the underlying culprit behind many of the diseases that plague mankind, including such “incurable” diseases such as cancer, diabetes and a long list of others.

The medical community doesn’t profit from prescribing water to its patients and the pharmaceutical companies can’t sell drugs when their customers are healing themselves with water.

A very, very interesting website to consider is http://www.watercure.com.

It’s important to acknowledge that the blood sugar level is a symptom of the disease, but not the disease itself. While medications can reduce your blood sugar levels, they do absolutely nothing to address the cause of the increased levels.

My own experience shows that Type II diabetes is a disease of malnutrition. The “convenient” foods we eat are largely stripped of nutrients, and loaded with bad carbs and processed sugars. Even supposedly healthy offerings can be unhealthy. I was using Slim Fast to lose weight, but it was like eating a candy bar, loaded with carbs and sugar. My recommendation to address the cause of the higher blood sugar levels is:

1. Take nutritional supplements, a full range vitamin mineral source with a high absorption (90% + ). Take them every day, and stick to it.
2. Incorporate exercise. You don’t have to train for the Olympics…but moderate exercise enables your body to process the nutrients it takes in. Go for a walk, do some light calisthenics, etc. and stick to it. Make it a habit.
3. Change your diet to lower carb / sugar content foods. There’s lots of foods that qualify, so it isn’t a painful diet, but some foods must go. Look at the nutrition information on the food you buy, and look up restaurant web sites for their product nutrition info. You’ll be surprised at the content of some of the things you’ve been eating, as was I. You parents out there also need to look at the food you give to your kids. Way, way to many teens are being diagnosed with diabetes as a result of their convenient and sweet diets.
4. Look for some specific herbs further improve your diabetes reversal. I use Bitter Melon, Nopal cactus, Chromium, Gymnema Sylvestra, Cinnamon, and Pancreas Tonic. I also use Ginger to reduce the need to urinate (I urinate the same now as I did before the diabetes), and “Circulegs” for controlling neurapathy pain.
5. Proceed with extreme caution on any prescriptions your doctor gives you. Your doctor only goes by what his pharmaceutical salesman tells him. Look up as much information as possible regarding the prescriptions your given. Many have significant side effects, which they try to claim as the exception, but they’re usually the rule.

I had ketoacidosis, and suffered a kidney stone during my initial diagnosis. My fasting blood sugar levels were at 340, and I tested at 560 after a meal. I was put on insulin, and told I would be on medication the rest of my life. I was off medication in 6 weeks, and have been doing well the past 10 years. I’m still dealing with some of the challenges of diabetes, but I’m healthier than the vast majority of non-diabetics my age. My blood sugar levels run between 130 – 200, but I don’t have any of the symptoms that I had when I was first having problems. I’m coming off a dog bite infection that has had my blood sugars between 200-280 for the past 2 months, but I still have seen only minor changes in vision as a result, but none of the other symptoms (and, of course, I’m focusing on bringing the levels down as I recover.)

Do you drink diet soda? If so, I recommend stopping it immediately. I stopped drinking diet soda and my sugars went down from that alone. The Aspartame mimmics diabetes complications from what I have read.

Do you have a sedintary job? I personally sit at a desk for almost 9 hours a day. Because of that, I work out high intensity for 45 minutes 3 days a week and moderate intensity two days a week with 2 days to recover. If you are overweight (I am 365 right now and was 450 at my heaviest) you will see your sugars drop gradually from weight loss also.

Don’t eat refined sugars, no corn syrups, and no artificial sweetners. Do not eat bleached flours and minimize your carb intake but do not stop eating carbs. Eat veggies that are high in fiber, I myself, I am going to try a vegetarian/vegan style diet and see if that helps.

Does anyone have a One Touch Select meter they can let go of pretty cheap?

I purchased 200 One Touch Select test strips to use in my Ultra Mini meter thinking that being of the same brand they were compatible.

Unfortunately, I later learned that the One Touch Select meter was a discontinued model. For some reason, Life Scan (the makers of One Touch products) chose to continue marketing the test strips instead of phasing them out. There is nowhere on the packaging (or anywhere else that I can find) that warns of incompatibility between the models.

My advice to everyone who purchases One Touch products is “Buyer Beware”.

In the meantime, I am on indefinite layoff, on unemployment. If anyone has upgraded to a newer meter and is willing to part with their Select meter, I have a throw-away email:
peoria_mail@yahoo.com.

Thanks.