Carb Syndrome Blog Articles
10 Label Claims You Need to Ignore
You’ve grabbed that box or bag of food in your grocery store and now you carefully look for hints about the positive or negative health benefits of eating that food. There are at least 10 label claims that you should learn to ignore.
Women Over Fifty Suffer a Rising Tide of Eating Disorders, Study says
Although eating disorders are typically thought of as a problem among teenage girls, many women over 50 practice unhealthy eating behaviors, a new study indicates.
An Unintended Consequence of Weight-Loss Surgery: Alcohol Abuse
Do bariatric surgery patients trade one addiction for another? Why the elevated rates of alcoholism among these surgery survivors? It’s not what you think.
Hospitalizations for children with high blood pressure have nearly doubled in recent years, according to new data.
Kids and High Blood Pressure. Hospitalizations on the rise
Why Being a Good Doctor, is Like Being Sherlock Holmes. It’s Elementary Dear Watson. You Just Have To Ask The Right Questions
During my long 12-hour days managing sick hospitalized patients I sometimes miss things that in retrospect are fairly obvious. I can usually sniff out patients with sugar-brain or CARB syndrome fairly quickly. These patients have typical brain dysfunction symptoms such as mood swings, excessive anxiety, fatigue and difficulty concentrating and focusing. They also always have excessive body fat even when their size or BMI is normal or below normal. Regardless of their size or weight they are too flabby because their body is storing too much fat. You actually need to measure body composition to document this hidden fat but after measuring the body composition of thousands of patients over the years, I am usually pretty good at seeing this hidden fat.
Six Ways to Shrink Your Belly and Five of Them Have Nothing to do With Exercise
If you’re looking to shrink and tone your belly, there’s a better way to do it than trying to do crunches. In fact, research has shown that doing abdominal exercises alone—even when performed five days a week for six weeks—has no effect at all on subcutaneous fat stores and abdominal circumference.
When the Aha Moment Comes, Do you Get It? Are You Addicted to Sugar?
-I realized just this last year that if I eat sugar and/or gluten foods I get anxiety and unfavorable personality changes. Just like a drug addiction I assume just reminding yourself of how you feel after eating sugar is not enough. To realize just how many other people also have this horrible addiction is scary. Sugar is the #1 abused drug in the world and the long term health effects from it are dire.. Drew K
Dr. Mercola Writes About the Best Way to Cure a Beer Belly
If you’ve paid any attention to the US news over the past week, you’ve surely heard that New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg has proposed a ban on the sale of sugary drinks larger than 16 ounces, in an effort to combat obesity.
From Lemonade Stand to Entrepreneur: It’s the American Way
You’ve seen the ads. Suzie starts with a single lemonade stand and then rules the world because of Verizon’s superior technology. I must admit these ads touch at my heartstrings. Susie is blond, cute and just a kid. Who wouldn’t get behind a kid who merely wants to rule the world? There’s only one problem. Suzie might as well be selling crack cocaine.
Is that mental illness or is it CARB Syndrome? Don’t ask the psychiatrists. They don’t seem to know the difference.
The American Psychiatric Association has created a real mess with their current classification of mental disorders. Grief is certainly a natural human emotion and it should not be medicalized.