Carb Syndrome Blog Articles
You Are What You Eat—And Drink
A recent issue of the New England Journal of medicine contained a triple-header of articles demonstrating the adverse effects of sugar-sweetened beverages on weight and fat accumulation in children. The first article "Sugar-Sweetened Beverages and Genetic Obesity...
Do Fat Kids Really Eat Less Than Their Normal Weight Peers?
A recently published article in Pediatrics titled “Self-Reported Energy Intake by Age in Overweight and Healthy-Weight Children in NHANES, 2001–2008” reported some rather startling findings. They used questionnaires to monitor the food intake of children from ages 1...
Why Your Diet May Be Frying Your Brain — And What To Do About It
After treating thousands of patients over the past few decades, it became obvious to me that poor dietary choices can adversely affect brain function, leading to a disease that I call Carbohydrate Associated Reversible Brain syndrome or CARB syndrome. When I talk to...
Why You Get Fat and Depressed–And What to do About It
Over the years many clinical studies have shown that obesity and depression tend to be co-morbid. That means that they tend to occur together without necessarily having a cause and effect relationship. When conditions tend to occur together, scientists naturally want...
How Similar are Toxic Sugar and Alcohol
Dr. Mercola had a nice article recently focusing on the adverse effects of fructose. It is really well written. Below are thoughts on this article: Yes indeed, fructose does seem to be one of the most potent toxins in our modern environment. With tobacco and alcohol...
Monkeys on a High Carbohydrate, Low Fat Diet
A recent letter in the Journal Nature outlined the results of a long-term study on the effects of calorie restriction (CR) on longevity in rhesus monkeys. Click to read. You have probably already heard about the supposed benefits of restricting calories on length of...
Sugars Impact on Brain Function
Dr. Mercola recently published an article on Why Half of America May Have Impaired Brain Function by 2030. The following are my thoughts on this subject: Although we don’t fully understand how excessive fructose and high levels of glucose harm the brain, it is clear...
Pregnancy and CARB Syndrome
Dr. Mecola has recently written about how the microbes in a woman's "gut" changing during each trimester. He discusses the following: [framed_box] [list style="star"] Your Gut Microbes Change During Each Pregnancy Trimester to Support Fetal Growth Mom’s Gut Bacteria...
Vitamin D and CARB Syndrome
Just about everyone now knows about the important role that vitamin D plays in our overall health and wellbeing. Vitamin D has been in the headlines for years for good reasons. Vitamin D is critical for bone health and there is emerging evidence that vitamin D helps to prevent various cancers and common chronic diseases. It also helps to reduce the risk of insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, obesity and type II diabetes. That’s a lot of work for a simple vitamin!
Dr. Mercola: Viruses aren’t always in the health field
“When Eugene Kaspersky, the founder of Europe’s largest antivirus company, discovered the Flame virus that is afflicting computers in Iran and the Middle East, he recognized it as a technologically sophisticated virus that only a government could create.
He also recognized that the virus, which he compares to the Stuxnet virus built by programmers employed by the United States and Israel, adds weight to his warnings of the grave dangers posed by governments that manufacture and release viruses on the internet.