Posted on 03/07/2013 2:18:50 PM PST by neverdem
Sorry, but I don’t trust anything about of California liberal bastions.
Sounds like they are laying the ground work for massive lawsuits against Big sugar and to impose taxes to help fund socialist medicine.
There is the answer ....high-fructose corn syrup.
Yet all these many years I thought people were being scolded to and actually WERE attempting to “eat healthy”. I find this hard to believe. Lord knows that’s 1 of the big propaganda things of the last 20+ years, and indoctrination of kids hoping somehow they’ll actually think celery tastes better than Oreos.
Poorly refined Carbohydrates are the real problem.
“..high-fructose corn syrup. “
That’s what my doc said did it to me. I’ve controlled it with my diet, which has always been pretty good. But,,,, I don’t like soda pop, so I’d buy and drink fruit juices by the half gallon, thinking, “Hey! It’s fruit juice! It’s gotta be good for me!” Unfortunately, I didn’t realize the High Frucktose Corn Syrup was bad ju ju. I cut that cr@p out, and with my Asian-style diet, I’m only slightly above high normal, and don’t have to take meds.
I suspect the truth is a bit more round about. That is, while sugar may indeed be to blame, it is because the gut bacteria that prosper most on sugar is a genus called enterobacter, whose toxin *causes* weight gain directly.
That is, if you had a better combination of gut bacteria, you could eat a lot more sugar without ill effects, your metabolism adjusting to it, except you would make your gut environment such that it favored enterobacter.
It has been shown in recent experiments that morbidly obese people had, instead of 30-40 primary dominant types of gut bacteria, almost 1/3rd of their gut bacteria was enterobacter. And when enterobacter toxin was injected into mice they bloated up in short order on the same diet.
Then they took morbidly obese people and put them on an anti-enterobacter diet, with *no* exercise, and they shed about 1/3rd of their overweight with no decrease in total calories.
What is an anti-enterobacter diet?
Good questions.
High refined, I think you mean. Anything that causes insulin spikes I suspect.. I hesitate to separate one substance and demonize it (like HFCS), because then we stop paying attention to the others that might be doing harm as well. So I think its all the cheap and easy carbs we are eating that is the carbs.
For the vast majority of human history, carbs used to have a large cost. They were difficult to digest, and or difficult to come by (fruits). Now, they are cheap and easy, both digestively and economically.
I stumbled into that second link doing a search about tetracycline antibiotics and the immune system.
FReepmail me if you want on or off the diabetes ping list.
So the cause is not global warming?
Unfortunately the original paper just specified “whole grains and Chinese herbs”, along with probiotics.
(*) Indicates enterobacter genus:
There are related diets for species of genus enterobacter, however, such as a low starch diet against the Klebsiella enterobacter(*), found in abundance with those who have ankylosing spondylitis. A “low starch diet” involving a reduced intake of “bread, potatoes, cakes and pasta”.
Grapefruit Seed Extract (GSE). Lab testing has shown it to be effective against a long list of microorganisms including Giardia lamblia, Proteus vulgaris(*), E.coli(*), Aspergillus parasiticus, Salmonella typhi(*) and Staphylococcus aureus.
GSE is especially useful where infecting microbe cannot be determined as it is effective against such a wide range of pathogens. Another advantage is that it is effective for controlling diarrhea. GSE generally comes in either capsules, good if you can’t stand the taste) or in liquid concentrate form. As low a dose as 2-4 drops in 4oz water or juice twice daily can be effective.
Studies have found garlic to be effective in combatiing infections with bacillus, brucella, citrobacter(*), E.coli(*), hafnia(*), klebsiella(*), Salmonella typhi(*), shigella(*), Vibrio cholerae and various species of staph and strep.
Research has shown that ginger possesses inhibitory action against a variety of pathogenic bacteria including Staphylococcus aureus, E.coli(*), Salmonella(*) and Steptococcus viridans. Also of benefit in treating bacterial dysbiosis is the fact that ginger acts as a prebiotic, encouraging the growth of friendly bacteria like Lactobacilli sp.
Thanks again!
and then there is 70...... the age factor
The ordinary watching carbohydrates and sweets, exercise and weight loss........ no longer obese, don’t seem to control the A1C at a physician acceptable level.
I am now to take metformin after years of non drug control
Diabetes is up since they lowered the threshold.
The natural health people have been saying this for decades now and it goes to prove that although they are poo-pooed by the medical community, as they almost always are, they are right again, as they almost always are.
At the very least, they have a better track record than the medical community.
Actually, this ‘finding’ is known to be wrong!
The largest contribution to type 2 diabetes is artificial fats like margarine, and polyunsaturated fats.
These fats, when used by our cells to form the cell membrane, result in a cell that cannot admit sugar to be metabolized, thus leaving the sugar in the blood stream to be converted to fat and stored in the upper body.
The most noticeable result of all this is weight gain, but it also over-works the pancreas to produce excess insulin, and may be a factor in cancer of the pancreas and liver.
More information on this can be found at http://www.cancertutor.com/Diabetes/Diabetes_Type_II.htm
Not that all the sugar we consume is a good thing, since it will feed any malignant cells that may be in our bodies, and contributes to low blood ph, which also contributes to cancer.
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