When Not to Do What the Doctor Orders

In the 20 years that I’ve been practicing medicine, diabetes has gone up every year.
It looks like it will keep getting worse, because medicine is still not focusing on the real solution.
Diabetes is a problem with diet, and the solution must come from food, not drugs.
Yet, new drugs are used in ever-greater numbers.
The new diabetic drugs Avandia and Actos increase a woman’s chance of breaking a bone by 50 percent. If you’re over 65 years old, your chances jump to 70 percent.1
And broken bones aren’t the only problem.
Avandia is linked to over 83,000 heart attacks between 1999 and 2007. If you take Avandia, you have a 43 percent greater chance of having a heart attack. And your risk of dying from a heart attack increases by 65 percent…