Diabetic Children and Magnesium

 International Medical Veritas Association

     On Monday, November 7, 2005, The Associated Press said that “About 2 million U.S. children ages 12 to 19 have a pre-diabetic condition linked to obesity and inactivity that puts them at risk for full-blown diabetes and cardiovascular problems, government data suggest.” One in 14 boys and girls in a nationally representative sample had the condition. Among the overweight adolescents, it was one in six. The study in question appears in November's Pediatrics. It is based on data involving 915 youngsters who participated in a 1999-2000 national health survey.[i]

     The autism disaster is happening at a rate of one child in approximately 166, though if one counts all the severe learning disabilities we are also talking about one in six. What is happening to the nation’s children? The CDC does not know because it has its head stuck in the bird flu sand. And the FDA does not know because it has been too busy allowing the pharmaceutical companies to poison people.

     Dr. Teresa A. Hillier has reported, “Diabetes increased the risk of heart attack and stroke in both age groups, but the increased risk was much larger in younger people. People who had been diagnosed before age 45 were 14 times more likely to have a heart attack and 30 times more likely to have a stroke than their non-diabetic peers. In contrast, older people with diabetes were four times more likely than their peers to have a heart attack and three times more likely to have a stroke.” Hillier and a colleague, Kathryn L. Pedula, based their findings on a study of nearly 8,000 people who were newly diagnosed with type 2 diabetes.[ii]

While type 2 diabetes used to be primarily a problem
 of middle and old age, new cases of the illness among
 people 30 to 39 have risen 70 percent in the last decade.

    What’s happening to our children is an absolute disaster and no words can express the pain and agony that millions of parents are facing in the United States alone. Some day the medical authorities will be held responsible for their failure to address these issues. In the area of autism spectrum disorders the government just does not want to admit that hundreds of thousands of children have been damaged by vaccines laden with mercury. Poisoned is the word but no one at the FDA or CDC knows anything about the dangers of low level toxicity because knowledge in those areas equals guilt and criminal prosecution.  

Diabetes has risen by over 14 percent in the last two years.
 The CDC estimates that 20.8 million Americans -- 7 percent of
 the U.S. population -- have diabetes, up from 18.2 million in 2003. [iii]
                                                                          Centers for Disease Control

     Is A Lack of Magnesium Related to Type 2 Diabetes in Obese Children? Dr. Huerta and colleagues say yes in their study titled Magnesium deficiency is associated with insulin resistance in obese children.[iv] Insulin resistance occurs when the body does not use insulin, a protein made by the pancreas, to turn glucose into energy. Children who are obese (seriously overweight) are more likely to have insulin resistance. This might be because they have low magnesium levels in their blood. This study was done to see if obese children get enough magnesium in their diets and if a lack of magnesium can cause insulin resistance and eventually type 2 diabetes. This is the first study linking low magnesium levels to insulin resistance in obese children. Researchers found that 55% of obese children did not get enough magnesium from the foods they ate, compared with only 27% of lean children. Obese children had much lower magnesium levels in their blood than lean children. Children with lower magnesium levels had a higher insulin resistance.

     The results of the diet survey showed that obese children got 14.4% less magnesium from the foods they ate than lean children. An important finding was that even though obese and lean children ate about the same number of calories per day, obese children ate more calories from fatty foods than lean children. In addition to not eating enough foods that have a lot of magnesium, obese children might also have problems using magnesium from the foods they eat. Extra body fat can prevent the body’s cells from using magnesium to break down carbohydrates.

     When it comes to diabetes there is ample information pointing to magnesium deficiency and chemical poisoning converging in the young but the medical authorities would rather throw more money into diabetic agencies to do more research. It is just too difficult for them to simply address magnesium deficiencies. What would be of greater benefit to these kids’ research or nutritional action? The United States government is involved in a huge cover up of medical and pharmaceutical wrong doings and will just keep on letting things slide as hundreds of thousands of kids each year get sick.

    Average levels of bad cholesterol and blood fats called triglycerides were higher in youngsters who had the pre-diabetic condition was also found in the study done by Dr. Hillier.  One of the extremely important things about this fact is what Dr. Carolyn Dean shares about statins, magnesium and heart disease.  Most diabetics are put on statins, and this is one study which clearly states that magnesium acts as a statin.[v]  If these diabetic children were using magnesium, it would also prevent them using these pharmaceutical drugs besides decreasing their risk of CVD.  Magnesium is what they need not the medical establishment conducting more studies and research.

     Type 2 diabetes can be controlled or prevented through weight loss and by eating a healthier diet. Getting magnesium into the kids at medicinal doses though is not easily achieved. Spirulina and other super green foods like wheat grass juice are high in absorbable magnesium in the form of chlorophyll. IV and intramuscular injections are uncomfortable and expensive. Oral magnesium supplements are not easily absorbable and some are very high in lead. If we could get these magnesium levels in these young children up and prevent diabetes, and if we could raise the levels in the young who are already diagnosed diabetics we would be preventing heart disease, stroke and many other complications that all of these diabetics would eventually face. This we can easily do with magnesium chloride applied transdermally and taken orally in liquid form.

     Magnesium is a wonder drug touted by pharmaceutical companies in the emergency room and a simple element, a mineral vital to life and health. Dr. Carolyn Dean said in her book The Miracle of Magnesium, “The more I have learned about magnesium, the more convinced I am that doctors are missing a huge opportunity by not making it one of their “drugs of choice.” Because of the disaster happening with children all doctors need to become acutely aware of the great service they can do to prevent and treat diabetes with magnesium.

Mark Sircus Ac., OMD
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