Dietary Enigmas
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Archive for January, 2008
LOW GI eating - Now helping with inflammation - what next
Rarely do I hear or read something from the Medical world that elicits a large YES - maybe they have got the message. Eating LOW GI is the only way eat long term. Doing anything else is plain stupid and will shorten your life and damage your health. Just to hear ‘authors recommend a diet rich in minimally processed, high-fibre, plant-based foods, including vegetables and fruits, whole grains, legumes, and nuts’ is great news and in the next sentence to hear the talking about every meal having small servings of lean protein - oh boy have they heard the message - i hope so. I’ve been saying this for 8 years now and I’m encouraged. To hear them openly talk about high Glucose levels effectively triggering oxidative stress is another milestone.
Read the entire article below and let it sink in.
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January 23, 2008 — Dietary and lifestyle strategies for improving postprandial glucose, lipid profile, markers of inflammation, and cardiovascular health are reviewed in a state-of-the-art paper reported in the January 22 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology.“The highly processed, calorie-dense, nutrient-depleted diet favored in the current American culture frequently leads to exaggerated supraphysiological post-prandial spikes in blood glucose and lipids,” write James H. O’Keefe, MD, from the Mid America Heart Institute and University of Missouri–Kansas City, and colleagues. “This state, called post-prandial dysmetabolism, induces immediate oxidant stress, which increases in direct proportion to the increases in glucose and triglycerides after a meal. The transient increase in free radicals acutely triggers atherogenic changes including inflammation, endothelial dysfunction, hypercoagulability, and sympathetic hyperactivity.”
Even in individuals without diabetes, postprandial dysmetabolism independently predicts future cardiovascular events. Dietary improvements are associated with dramatic and immediate benefits in postprandial dysmetabolism.
To attenuate the increase in glucose, triglycerides, and inflammation after a meal, the review authors recommend a diet rich in minimally processed, high-fiber, plant-based foods, including vegetables and fruits, whole grains, legumes, and nuts. Other dietary interventions that can significantly ameliorate postprandial dysmetabolism include intake of lean protein, vinegar, fish oil, tea, and cinnamon. Additional benefits may result from calorie restriction, weight loss, exercise, and low-dose to moderate-dose alcohol.
The Greatest Tragedy of All Time
This video is the work of Healthy Mentors and Tubnuts Media princesstubnuts@hotmail.co.uk and depicts the Greatest Tragedy of all time in that a population the size of Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland are lost every 10 years through maladministered and adverse drug reactions. We can and have to do better.
Artificial Sweeteners - Multiple Sclerosis
Hi - if you follow my ramblings then you’ll know that i have a real concern over family instances of Diabetes and several years ago i picked up a thread that got me wondering if MS was caused by the overuse of sugar/simple starch and i still have the feeling that i may be proved right in time. However, the evidence for the effects of an artificial sweetener are overwhelming in my opinion. This is not a post on the theme ‘knowck the chemical companies’ but more of public service announcement - if you drink or eat anything that is labeled:
- diet
- low sugar
- no sugar
- low calorie
- low fat
then i’d put money on that you’d find Aspartame in some form on the label and without putting any airs and graces on it - IT IS KILLING YOU. Stop it please - read the labels.
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Trehalose - the safe sugarRead this you will never “drink diet” again.
Never again will I drink diet soda or eat anything with Aspartame.
SWEET POISON –A MUST READ
In October of 2001, my sister started getting very sick. She had stomach spasms and she was having a hard time getting around. Walking was a major chore. It took everything she had just to get out of bed; she was in so much pain.
By March 2002, she had undergone several tissue and muscle biopsies and was on 24 various prescription medications. The doctors could not determine what was wrong with her. She was in so much pain, and so sick. she just knew she was dying. She put her house, bank accounts, life insurance, etc., in her oldest daughter’s name, and made sure that her younger children were to be taken care of. She also wanted her last hooray, so she planned a trip to
Hair Loss - Low GI Diet?
Hi I’m a great devotee of the Low GI diet and have been for years - it is one of our threads in our quest to stay healthy. I was surprised when i read that a Low GI diet not only helps keep weight in the normal range but may also aid hair restoration. But once again when i read about what sucrose does to the body in my last post i realised that it also affects the hormonal system - hence the link with hair loss. Want to keep your hair - go Low GI, want to get pregnant - go Low GI, want to lose weight - go low GI. In fact if you want to live long and prosper - go Low GI
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Trehalose - the safe sugarHow can I prevent hair loss?
Thinning hair isn’t just a problem for men—like many women, Kristin is experiencing hair loss. “I want to know how to slow it down, how to prevent it, and what are my options to try to get the thickness back,” she says.
Dr. Northrup says that Kristin’s thinning hair may be a result of a hormonal imbalance. “You can get it back by eating a low-glycemic diet, making sure that you are on supplements,” she says.
According to Dr. Northrup, glycemic foods can cause dramatic changes in the body. “One of the things that often happens in mid-life to people is if they have a lot of stress hormones in their system and they’re eating a high-glycemic diet, and the high insulin is in their blood from the high sugar … that actually changes the way hormones are metabolized. So you actually begin to shoot your estrogen and progesterone into androgen-like substances that produce male pattern baldness in women. Have you seen this—where [women] start to get a beard and they get thinning of the hair at the temples and so on?”
Other than a low-glycemic diet, Dr. Northrup has one other recommendation for thinning hair. “Acupuncture can be very, very helpful for it,” she says.
Sugar and Refined Carbohydrates - make us infertile?
OK - the headline may be a bit extreme but in reading the article below i realised that the truth about sucrose and refined carbohydrate being nutritionally empty is a little short of the mark. It seems that everywhere i turn there are growing bodies of opinion that sucrose or refined carbohydrates are actively damaging our health. One of the areas i have specialised in for 8 years is the nutritional relationship between being able to conceive and being infertile.
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Xylitol and Insulin Resistance, Diabetes Hypertension and Hormonal ImbalancesConsuming sugar and other refined carbohydrates results in the rapid release of glucose, or blood sugar. In response, the pancreas secretes insulin to usher glucose into the cells, where it is burned for energy. Excess glucose stresses the system, and over time the cells become less responsive to insulin. This condition, known as insulin resistance, is a huge health problem and it is estimated to affect half the American population. Insulin resistance is associated with abnormalities in cholesterol and triglyceride levels, hypertension, increased risk of heart disease and diabetes (and much more - read on)
(more…)Drug interactions hidden or Unknown?
Hi its Monday morning and a quick trawl through the news brings up this article which seems to point to the fact that drug interactions are indeed harming our health. Thats no surprise to many of the people who read this blog but what was more interesting is that the negative evidence around the Cholesterol lowering drugs is growing. For someone who was told 15 years ago that i’d have to be on Zocor for the rest of my life and that once on the drug could never come off - hoggwash. I’m now off the dru, have been for 10 years and my cholesterol is lower than its been in 20 years. Please don’t always believe what the drug companies say. If you want to find out what i did and do today just email or Skype me.
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January 17, 2008
Major Heart and Mood Drugs Take Huge Credibility Hits
Cholesterol drug enlarges artery clogs; Makers of major anti-depressants hid studies with inconveniently negative outcomes
by Craig WeatherbyAmerica’s biggest prescription drugs, and the patients taking them, were reeling today after reading headlines about the second of two disturbing medical reports to appear this week.
We hope that these findings prove decisive in energizing the public to insist that legislators enact urgent data-disclosure reforms.
(more…)Fructose - Glucose - Sucrose = Villains?
Hi – if you are a regular reader of this blog you’ll know that one of my over riding themes is diabetes and poor understanding of the causes. Occasionally you get one of those ‘aha moments’ which just suggest further linkage. This article discusses the fructose-diabetes-High Fructose Corn Syrup-Sucrose linkage and surprisingly comes up with another item I’ve talked about Nitric Oxide (NO) and blood circulation. It would appear that NO and Diabetes are linked by the thread – Fructose leads to increased Uric Acid – high levels of Uric Acid – reduce Nitric Oxide levels – low levels of Nitric Oxide reduce the effectiveness of Insulin – and that leads to Insulin resistance and Metabolic Syndrome. OK – why is this interesting? I’ve just had a blood test with high levels of uric acid –in fact my Dr thinks it is why I’m getting some joint pain like Gout. I have been looking at ways of reducing the Uric acid levels by diet but never linked up all the above. Increase the NO levels in the blood by diet (see my article on NO and L-Arginnine), decrease the levels of high fructose corn syrup and decrease the amounts of glucose – see the article on Trehalose. Boy is this interesting. If you want an alternative to Glucose, Sucrose and Fructose - try Trehalose
This is so interesting I need to make a short video of the linkages.
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Trehalose - the safe sugarJanuary 17, 2008
Fructose Called Most Dangerous Sugar
Corn syrup is Americans’ major dietary source; Findings add evidence to indictment of excess intake of all forms of sugar
by Craig WeatherbyALL JACKED UP: Food processing
I’ve just been made aware of a new film, All Jacked Up, all about food and the truth about how it is processed. This film comes with a stern warning - please don’t let children under the age of 10 or 11 or of a nervous disposition - some of the scenes involving animals can be quite disturbing.
Click here to order the DVD at a 20% discount
If our country’s health authorities had any brains, they’d air this film on national television every week for a year, just to educate and inform people about how to avoid the things that destroy their health. But alas, our nation’s health authorities are little more than puppets, owned and controlled by the very corporations manufacturing and selling the junk products that are destroying the health of an entire generation. There’s no way they would let this documentary make it to prime-time television. This is the movie they desperately hope you never see.
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Trehalose - the safe sugarThe Greatest Tragedy of All Time
This film was a personal response to our over reliance on the established medical treatments and it expresses some of my personal views. If you want to see more please go to website www.squidoo.com/greatesttragedye mail me
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Trehalose - the safe sugarOmega 3, Omega 6 and Allergies
Found this article very interesting - there has been an ongoing debate about Omega 6 and the concensus is now that we have too much in our diets and shouldn’t supplement it at all. Omega 3 are a different afair and we need them but even then its not always clear - plant based Omega 3 is not well used by the body so my preference is to use a product called Omega 3 From Nordic naturals - available from the best site on the web.
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Trehalose - the safe sugarJanuary 14, 2008
Omega-3s Cut Child Allergies in Clinical Trial
Swedish study finds that higher maternal omega-3 intake reduces infants’ allergy risks
by Craig WeatherbyThe human immune system uses the omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids in cell membranes to make messenger chemicals called eicosanoids.
Eicosanoids, which were made famous by Barry Sears’ Zone diet books, give orders to immune cells: orders that can start inflammation, control how fiery it will be, and end it.
The omega-6 fatty acids in which American diets are overloaded are used to make eicosanoids that prompt inflammation, while the eicosanoids made from omega-3s are either moderately inflammatory or anti-inflammatory.
And recent studies revealed a novel group of immune-system mediators made from omega-3s (resolvins, docosatrienes, and neuroprotectins), which exert independent anti-inflammatory effects.
In short, omega-3s tend to moderate inflammation in the body, while omega-6s tend to promote and extend inflammation.
What does this have to do with allergies?