obesity. what is it and how do you measure it?
Recently we began to offer the e-book “Sugar-Brain Digest—Obesity” for sale on this web site. This is the first e-book in a series that will outline in detail the concepts of sugar-brain and CARB syndrome. If you have spent some time on this site then you probably already know that the majority of adults and many children in modern societies already have symptoms of the condition we call sugar-brain. Sugar-brain is a type of food-induced brain dysfunction triggered by long-term exposure to sugar, high fructose corn syrup and rapidly absorbed carbohydrates, especially from grains.
For the first time in history we are proposing that these food elements have a direct toxic affect on brain function, driving many common diseases including obesity. I encourage you to purchase and download this remarkable book. At the present time it is the only source of information on how you can protect you and your family from these potentially serious medical conditions. It also will provide you with by far the most effective treatment for obesity.
In case you’re not into reading food labels, sugar, HFCS and rapidly absorbed carbohydrates are the key ingredients in many processed foods. In fact, they are found in 80% of the processed foods for sale according to Dr. Robert Lustig.
Both sucrose (sugar) and HFCS contain large amount of fructose, the same simple sugar found naturally in fruit and honey. When you consume more than 25 grams of fructose daily—about the amount in three apples, much of it is converted to problematic substances such as triglycerides and uric acid.
Triglycerides are a basic unit of fat and when you consume too much fructose you start to fill your liver up with fat triggering a condition called insulin resistance where it takes more insulin to move glucose inside the cells in your body. Eventually insulin resistance can lead to type II diabetes, a condition with almost endless adverse health consequences. For the first time in history children and young adults are now developing type II diabetes, an extremely ominous development. Excessive uric acid tends to raise blood pressure and damage the lining of your arteries, eventually leading to heart attacks and strokes.
Thus when you eat that candy bar loaded with sugar and then make up for it by eating an apple, you are actually increasing your fructose load and making the situation much worse. That’s why it’s important that you completely eliminate sugar and HFCS from your diet. Both are now known to be chronic toxins akin to cigarette smoking—you can consume them for years with no obvious adverse affects and then suddenly the wheels fall off.
When you have insulin resistance from consuming too much fructose and then you throw rapidly absorbed carbohydrates into the mix, your brain is subjected to magnified glucose spikes. Although nerve cells rely almost completely on glucose for their energy needs, too much glucose can damage nerve cells. Over time these brain-frying glucose spikes can trigger a condition we call sugar-brain. Sugar-brain is characterized by subtle brain dysfunction symptoms that sneak up on you so slowly that you think these symptoms are normal. The most prominent symptom is craving for sweet or starchy food pushing you to consume more of the very food that is frying your brain.
It is now clear that carbohydrate cravings are always pathological and people with normal brain function never have such cravings. In this book you will learn about highly effective methods to suppress these cravings, a key to maintaining normal brain function and health.
People with sugar-brain often have other mild brain dysfunction symptoms such as fatigue, excessive anxiety, mood swings, difficulty concentrating and focusing and poor impulse control. Despite these symptoms they are usually able to function reasonably well in most settings. Because the brain plays a key role in regulating how much fat your body stores, when you have sugar-brain your brain starts to push you to store too much body fat even when you aren’t overeating. Your body also becomes subtly flabbier even as you exercise in an attempt to lose weight.
This whole scenario would be nothing more than an interesting footnote if sugar-brain were the whole story. After all, who cares about carbohydrate cravings and a few brain dysfunction symptoms if you can still function reasonably well? Unfortunately many people with sugar-brain get trapped in a vicious cycle where then end up transitioning to a serious medical illness called Carbohydrate Associated Reversible Brain syndrome or CARB syndrome.
CARB syndrome is characterized by up to 22 brain dysfunction symptoms that interfere with your ability to function in multiple settings. You start to have trouble functioning at work, in social settings and at home. Your life starts to slowly unravel. No matter how hard you try your ability to function slowly ebbs away. Your brain also gets stuck in a permanent fat storage mode where you start to store extra fat at virtually any caloric intake. If you eat a lot of food you end up storing a lot of fat and become visually obese. If you under-eat in an attempt to “lose weight” you end up storing a smaller amount of extra fat and you become a thin obese person.
I know all this may seem confusing to you because it doesn’t fit the standard view of obesity. After all, the experts have been telling us for years that all we need to do to reverse obesity is to consume fewer calories and increase our level of physical activity. Unfortunately this is like Nero fiddling while Rome burned—it has had absolutely no impact on our exploding obesity epidemic. When our current theory about the cause of obesity isn’t working, trying harder and doing the same thing may not be the wisest choice. Perhaps it’s time to find a new explanation for our obesity epidemic.
My new book “Sugar-Brain Digest—Obesity” outlines a radical new view of obesity based on the adverse affects of processed foods on brain function. The book outlines in detail the pathological process that leads to sugar-brain and CARB syndrome and it gives you the tools you will need to make a self-diagnosis of these conditions. The reason you need to make a self-diagnosis is because at the present time most healthcare providers are unaware of this concept. Don’t worry because unlike many diseases where blood tests or x-rays are needed to make a diagnosis of a disease, diagnosing sugar-brain and CARB syndrome is based on a list of easy to identify brain dysfunction symptoms. In this book you will learn in detail about the typical symptoms of sugar-brain and the 22 brain dysfunction symptoms of CARB syndrome.
These conditions are really a continuous spectrum of food-induced brain dysfunction. Like other brain disorders, the difference between sugar-brain and CARB syndrome is based on the severity of your symptoms and your ability to function in multiple settings. The same spectrum occurs with other brain disorders. For example dysthymia is a mild form of depression characterized by low moods that don’t interfere with your ability to function whereas major depression disorder (MDD) is a serious medical condition where you ability to function is significantly impaired.
A diagnosis won’t do you much good without effective treatment. This book also outlines a simple and straightforward treatment program to prevent or reverse sugar-brain and CARB syndrome that you can institute on your own without the direct involvement of a healthcare provider. In the future we hope to get the medical profession up to speed but until then this book is the only place where you can learn about these exciting and highly effective treatment protocols.
When you purchase and download the book, please feel free to write to me with any suggestions or questions. Our goal is to give you the tools you will need to stay healthy in an environment loaded with toxic food. Good luck and stay healthy!