Many of these people have heard their doctor's advice, have spoken with a nutritionist and are looking for alternative remedies to those prescribed by traditional health experts.

One of the most commonly noted non-medical 'experts' diabetics turn to for advice is Kevin Trudeau. Author of the Natural Cures book series, this best-selling author can be found round the clock on your local television channel, an evangelist for alternative health treatment.

He's controversial and has been attacked by the traditional medical industry. But, his popularity is strong, making him a best seller with a following of holistic believers.

Both traditional medical practitioners and secularists, such as Trudeau agree on several things. One of them is that what a diabetic eats has a major impact on their diabetic condition.

These two disparate groups would probably also agree that non-fresh foods and artificial ingredients can cause, trigger, aggravate or heighten diabetic conditions such as high blood sugar levels and an overweight or obese state.

Trudeau lists 14 ingredients that diabetics and everyone else should avoid to keep weight and blood sugar down, and improve overall health. At the end of this list, we'll tell you, based on a growing body of scientific evidence, the single most toxic ingredient on the entire list:

1."Anything You Can't Pronounce. If you can't pronounce the word…don't buy it - it's a chemical"
2."Monosodium Glutantate. It is dangerous and deadly"
3."Aspartame. It makes you fat , it makes you hungry. It makes you depressed."
4."High Fructose Corn Syrup. Highly chemically and physically addictive, and makes you fat."
5."Hydrogenated Oil. It's deadly, it causes heart disease, makes you fat."
6."Sugar. This should be avoided at all costs."
7."Natural and Artificial Flavors. …make you hungry…makes you physically addicted and fat."
8."Spices. Man-made, deadly chemicals."
9."Artificial Colors. Simply chemical poisons."
10."Palm Oil. Deadly…causes all sorts of physical problems."
11."Dextrose, Sucrose, Fructose. Chemically mad sweeteners. Stay away."
12."Splenda. Deadly, poisonous, makes you fat."
13."Enriched wheat and bleached white flour. Has many of the same properties as drugs."
14."Soy Protein Isolate. Hexane is often used (in processing) which is a petroleum solvent similar to gasoline."

These fourteen food and beverage ingredients are, in varying degrees, toxic at worst, or benign at best, lacking nutritional value or benefit.

But the single most deadly toxin on this list of usual suspects is number 4 - high fructose corn syrup.

Found in just about every, single processed food and beverage, this poisonous ingredient is more calorie dense than sugar, as bad as that is, but it gets worse.

High fructose corn syrup or HFCS is also found to drain chromium from your body. Chromium is a trace mineral, found in minute amounts in your system, but its impact is huge.

Based on research, chromium helps your body control healthy blood sugar. When you eat or drink products with HFCS, it sucks blood sugar regulating chromium from you, robbing your body of normal, healthy blood levels.

This double threat of weight gain and blood sugar de-stabilizer is fast being fingered as a leading trigger of Type 2 diabetes.

Of all the deadly Kevin Trudeau ingredients, high fructose corn syrup is the worst, demanding remedying with chromium enhanced foods or supplements (preferably niacin-bound chromium).