Posted on 10/04/2021 6:47:27 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
An international panel of experts from four renowned diabetes research centers, including UT Southwestern Medical Center, has reviewed current literature and is recommending a pivotal change in treatment of Type 2 diabetes to focus on obesity first and glucose control second.
The researchers state that dropping 15% or more of body weight can have a disease-modifying effect in Type 2 diabetes, an outcome that is unattainable by any other glucose-lowering intervention. The new focus would require updating current treatment guidelines and providing significant provider education, they note. The panel's recommendations are published in The Lancet and were presented at the European Association for the Study of Diabetes conference.
The current approach to diabetes treatment relies on clinical studies from the 1980s, which found that lowering blood sugar results in fewer complications from the disease. These early results supported treating blood glucose as the key target, said Dr. Lingvay.
"The problem with this approach is that it doesn't address the core problem and does not offer an opportunity to reverse the disease," said Dr. Lingvay, who leads an active clinical research program in the Division of Endocrinology at UT Southwestern. "We propose using a proactive approach. Let's address the cause of the disease -- obesity."
According to the American Diabetes Association, Type 2 diabetes is a progressive disease caused by obesity or by abnormalities in metabolism. More than 10% of the U.S. population has been diagnosed with diabetes, and 1.5 million more are diagnosed each year.
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There are two parts to the issue. One is with the individual and learning how to change their behavior with food. Both my wife and I are at our lifetime weights with weight watchers. I lost 60 lbs to return to my high school football weight and have maintained that for 8 years. It requires learning, discipline, and behavior modification. It is really just too hard for most as their eating addiction is too strong.
The second part is that Big Ag (growing modified crap food), Big Food (processing it into poison), and Big Gov (subsidies) combined with marketing want you to be fat. Most people don't stand a chance against that onslaught.
Except for grains, we grow our own food, wife is a gourmet cook. Retired but were doing it when working 60+ hours a week jobs. Haven't owned a TV in 30 years. And probably the key, we are not lazy.
Yes. I started seeing an endocrinologist and she put me on the keto diet. It’s tough. I’m always hungry. It’s a high fat low carb diet. I’ve lost 8 lbs in the 1st month and my A1C has dropped to 5.9 from 6.8 in the first month, plus I’m off all my metformin on day 1.
Think for a moment about the economic impact of Americans en masse dedicated to losing 15% (or more really) of their weight as recommended in the article above. That’s a lot of Fat, a lot of tubbies who would in theory be cutting back on Chips, Soda, Pizza, and other really crap garbage “food”. That is big business. Really really big business. They charge $5 for a tiny bag of chips - cost virtually nothing, mostly in packaging and transportation costs. And there’s the “Food Stamp” angle, too. Billions of dollars are spent on things that nobody would buy, if they had to spend their own money, they couldn’t afford it.
The conspiratorial side of me says the last thing they want is everybody going on a health kick. It would crater their profits.
They charge $5 for a tiny bag of chips - cost virtually nothing, mostly in packaging and transportation costs.
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Indeed. Same with soft drinks. Mainly water, flavoring, and sugar. And it’s usually the cheapest type of sugar, high-fructose corn syrup.
# Indeed. Same with soft drinks. Mainly water, flavoring, and sugar. And it’s usually the cheapest type of sugar, high-fructose corn syrup.
One of the things that I have always thought was bizarre is that a bottle of water, from the same folks who make these soft drinks costs more than the soft drinks themselves. Makes no sense at all.
Insidious plot by the ‘elite’ to cause people to get sick so they die quicker thus never collecting benefits they are entitled to while also no longer consuming resources. Democrats are revealing themselves and folks need to pay attention, almost as if your life and rights depended on it. I read an article of them violating the ‘right to privacy’ intentionally, “‘Feminist’ Website Jezebel Calls For ‘Bullying’ of Sen. Kyrsten Sinema”, and you can give that a look at SummitNews. Nobody wants to live in a world where it is only safe to use the bathroom at home. Old rule of thumb, if your grandma couldn’t pronounce it then don’t consume it.
A calorie is a calorie is a calorie. Look at the guy who did the beer diet or the guy who did the snack cake diet for proof. They determine calories, by the way, by burning a food item.
There was no profit in it. Just as there is no profit in Hydroxychloroquine or Ivermectin.
Agreed on the medical community giving up, but part of the problem is they don’t give good advice on how to fix it. The dietary recommendations are too skewed towards carbs, grains and fruits for people to effectively get control, get healthy and lose weight.
When my weight and blood pressure were climbing and lipids were out of whack all the doctor had to give me were medications. I did my own research, went 180degrees opposite the dietary recommendations and fixed my weight gain, blood pressure and triglycerides without pills. I am within ten pounds of my high school weight, but am also quite a bit stronger and more muscular than I was so my fat % is lower.
I wish there was a way to get government out of the food subsidy and marketing business. So much of our national health problems come from lobbyist driven bureaucrats promoting bad advice that is taken by doctors and fed to their patients. The poor have it worst because they are ignorant, get bad advice, and the cheapest foods are the most processed and designed to be addictive. The poor are often that way because of poor diet causing them to be unhealthy and low productivity so it turns into a death spiral.
Yup.
Money is the driving factor in the medical profession and pharm industry.
There are indeed individuals who are an exception to that, but they are too few and far between.
Bull$#!t. What matters is how your body processes the food and how much energy is derived from the food.
The body does not burn food like a bomb calorimeter. Carbs and starches have a very high efficiency calorie to calorie conversion in the body while fiber and protein do not. Processing of foods makes calories much more available so the body takes in and stores many more of them.
Also how long it takes the body to break down the food and how it responds to food affect satiety which helps control calorie intake. Fiber and fat help greatly with satiety and both have been stripped out of the modern diet of processed foods. A big salad doused in olive oil is going to hold you many hours longer that number of calories in cereal or potato chips.
Protein, fat, and fiber all help regulate carb digestion and sugar absorption.
I read the book The Zone many years ago and what he said made sense and works and provides a nutritious diet.
They help with sugar and carb absorption, but really you can be perfectly healthy eating a diet strictly composed of protein, fat and fiber. The dirty secret of the food industry is you don’t need dietary carbs, especially sugar, and most people are actually consuming a toxic level.
Absolutely.
But the government’s dietary guidelines, which people obey religiously, say otherwise.
And we’re supposed to trust them with advice about COVID and their vax when they can’t even give people decent advice on how to eat?
Carbohydrate, even refined carbs like sugar have a place in extreme exertion as it can be used immediately by the body for energy. But it’s sort of like rocket fuel, but most people aren’t aiming for the stars, they are sitting on their ass all day. It’s basically poison in the doses consumed, no doubt about that.
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