Posted on 09/10/2015 12:54:24 PM PDT by Rusty0604
Laugh at the messenger.
His hypothesis doesn’t bother me because I came to the same conclusions some years ago. I stopped listening to my doctors and stopped eating the low-fat diet they recommended. Within a week of going on a version of a low-carb diet, my supposedly incurable autoimmune disease began to subside. Within two weeks the symptoms disappeared and they have never returned.
I struggled for years following the advice of physicians. The only thing they ever did was subject me to inhuman testing and prescribe steroids that made me feel lousy. At one point I was so sick I was unable to work regularly for close to a year. When they finally offered to cut out offending body parts I ran from them and took matters into my own hands. Soon thereafter I started a high fat low carbohydrate diet and it probably saved my life. It for sure drastically improved my quality of life and overall health.
With nearly 10 percent of the U.S. population fighting diabetes, researchers are learning more about how quickly a person can start to exhibit the warning signs of Type 2 diabetes.Researchers based at Temple University in Philadelphia have discovered it’s possible to develop troubling signs that could lead to diabetes after just a few days of a high-calorie diet. The small study was aimed at finding out how the body reacts when a healthy person starts to overeat.
Six male subjects were put on bed rest and fed a daily high-carb, 6,000 calorie diet and then studied to see how their bodies reacted.
The scientists looked for specific markers to see how the high-calorie diet was affecting biological processes in the body of the subjects. They found that those on the high-calorie diet developed insulin resistance, where the body's insulin does not work as well and the pancreas has to crank up insulin production.
It can lead to Type 2 diabetes and other health problems down the line.
Type 2 diabetes is characterized by high blood-sugar levels caused by either a lack of insulin or the body's inefficient use of insulin. It usually strikes middle-aged or older adults, according to the National Institutes of Health.
They also found that the high-calorie diet affected the subjects’ cells as the mitochonrdia in the cell were unable to handle the high number of calories and started to release chemicals that can be harmful, a process called oxidative stress.
“Mitochondria are energy engines and when they’re flooded with calories they become leaky and release [chemicals] and cause oxidative stress,” Dr. Kevin Niswender, associated professor of medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical School in Nashville, Tennessee, explained to ABC News.
Niswender said the high number of subjects undergoing oxidative stress was worrying because it can lead to inflammation and other problems down the line.
Dr. Guenther Boden, the lead author of the study and a professor of medicine at Temple University School of Medicine, said it’s possible that the oxidative stress affects certain proteins that can lead to insulin resistance and that they are studying that data now.
“These changes produced by overeating, we have not [yet] shown that it made the molecules dysfunctional,” leading to insulin resistance, Boden said. ”We’re working on that.”
Boden said it’s key to understand how the body IMMEDIATELY reacts to large changes in diet and exercise.
That’s true. I have had high cholesterol all my life but try to make it better through diet. I believe the drug companies are pushing the statin drugs on people and the side effects are worse.
And I'll bet you didn't do a single pushup.
I know what the lie is, and understand that it is a lie. Really, think it through. Do 2 out of every 5 people YOU know have diabetes or pre-diabetes? No, of course not.
There isn’t nearly as much diabetes as people want you to think. And what we have is primarily driven by something very simple: the human body evolved in a world that was unstable. It learned to eat as much as possible whenever possible because you had no idea when the next meal would come. Fat was necessary for survival, that’s what was getting you through between meals which could be days a part. Subsequently the human body loves fat and sugar and all those other things that help you pack on pounds so you can make it through the next week without food. That’s why eating these food trigger the pleasure center of your brain, that’s your body saying “YES, more of that please”. But we no longer live in that unstable world, for most of us our next meal is coming when we decide to have another meal. But our body hasn’t caught up, it still thinks this meal is it for the next few days, eat it all, get some fat, so we can survive.
Our instinct is to build fat, and our opulence let’s us do it very well. And carbs ARE good for you, so long as you’re going to use them.
Here’s my hypothesis: Most people don’t read beyond the headline & spoil their preconceived notions.
The link states “Almost 40 percent have pre-diabetes, meaning elevated blood sugar levels that could lead to full-fledged disease.”
Any diet high in Carbs/Sugar (typical American diet) will elevate blood sugar. Doesn’t mean all become diabetic, but look around you. we are a nation of fat asses. Look at pictures from the past. Public places were not filled with chairbusters up into the 70’s.
Don’t mind if I do.
Same with me. I’m about the only one in my family that has not gotten diabetes and I believe it is because of my diet. My digestive system doesn’t like a lot of soft carbs so I never ate them a lot. Same with fats; I figure humanity survived eating animal fats for centuries, and they are at least not man-made, so nothing wrong with them in moderation.
I know I feel awful after those few occasions when I totally pig out on sweets and/or carbs.
Exactly. What were our ancestors eating a few hundred years ago? Probably pretty basic stuff and maybe even a little spoiled or maybe a lot more ripened.
That is what our bodies have been designed for.
Also, the body is designed to tune down its metabolism if it thinks that it is being starved. For times when food wasn’t as plentiful and survival necessary.
As a matter of fact I would say more than 2 out of 5 people I know have diabetes. Some carbs are good for you, but not pasta, cereal, white bread, etc.
I don’t go there for dietary advice either, but I also know Denninger was one of the fatasses until a couple years ago when he lost 60-80 lbs on no carb.
I do go there for his commentary on the current BS economy. Eat carbs & buy stocks.
I look around me and see a vastly different group. Really it all depends on where you are. Get to the fresh vegetable section of the grocery store instead of the Doritos section and the people around magically drop pounds.
And yeah, public places had just as many “chairbusters” in the 70s. We just didn’t whine about it as much. Back in the 70s we didn’t think every hiccup in life was a crisis. There were fat people, there were skinny people, we moved on in our life. Maybe one of the biggest differences is unattractive (which includes fat) people were more likely to wind up on your TV and movie screens. So when you rant into them in real life they weren’t as jarring. Watch some Rockford Files or Kojak or Kolchack, you’ll see fat people all over your screen; in about the same percentage you saw them away from the screen then and now.
Pasta cereal and white bread are fine for you IF you’ll use them. Carbs are nothing more than energy. Consume a lot of energy and do nothing with it you get fat, consume a lot of energy and go do some farm work you’ll stay skinny.
We have left margarine and gone back to butter and coconut oil instead of veggie oil. Lots of lean steak, chicken, veggies and fresh pineapple. We eat almost no fried food and no soda.
Getting 5 hens this month as soon as Mr. GG2 finishes the coop so we will have the organic eggs. And 5 new pets to name. :-)
PS: We are not giving up wine. :-)
Go back a few decades further then. They existed, but not in current ratios.
I also think the problem is more about easily prepared pre-packaged foods loaded with both cheap carbs & corn fructose.
Go to the health food store and get some Alpiste (Canary seed) powder and start drinking it in a glass of water every evening. It will lower your blood sugar so fast you won’t believe it. Its supposed to actually cure Type II. It also causes you to lose weight and flushes cholesterol out of your system. We swear by it. You can Google it and read up.
Of the 6 guys I grew up with, five of us have diabetes.
I am the *ONLY* one who has taken the diagnosis seriously, having lost 90 lbs, running and lifting weights every day and eating a very very strict diet.
Still, no shortage of chuckleheaded morons who think they can eat at 50 like they did at 30 and poo-poo the doctor when he says that you need to get 50 or 60 lbs off.
as with pretty much everything else in life - it is largely in your control, but as I get up at 4:30 AM to run, eat like a zen monk while my buddies chow down on burgers and lift weights seriously I don’t feel the slightest obligation to have any sympathy for fat slobs with 38 inch waists and no willpower.
It’s just like some of the people I know who don’t want to work and then bitch because they don’t have nice things. It ain’t the fault of the food industry, is isn’t some cabal of drug companies and doctors, it’s not the MSM- it’s just a lack of willpower.
If you’re fat, it’s YOUR fault. if you lose body parts to diabetes because you got fat instead of pushing away from the table don’t blame someone else. Yeah, there are a few exceptions, such as people so disabled they can’t work out hard, but they can eat less.
I actually going an argument with a moron who said they couldn’t lose weight no matter how little they ate, and only a idiot would believe that; you can no more NOT lose weight if you consume fewer calories than you burn than you could levitate a big rig 20 feet in the air with your mind.
It’s just another symptom of the entitled ‘me’ generation. Nothing other than a lack of willpower.
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