Carb Syndrome News Articles
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.
Mercola: Pharmaceutical Drugs are 62,000 times more likely to kill you than supplements.
Official UK and EU data reveals that you are 900 times more likely to die from food poisoning than nutritional supplements, and compared to supplements, you’re 300,000 times more likely to die from a preventable medical injury during a hospital stay in the UK.
Adverse reactions to pharmaceutical drugs are 62,000 times more likely to kill you than food supplements, and 7,750 times more likely to kill you than herbal remedies.
Mercola reports: Known to Kill Cows, Castrate Wildlife, Induce Spontaneous Abortion in Lab Rats… And it’s Likely in Your Water
With the support of local prosecutors, Mr. Gloeckner, a German farmer who had 65 cows die after he fed them genetically modified Bt corn has filed criminal charges against the manufacturer, Syngenta, alleging that the company not only knew the corn could be lethal to livestock, but was covering up deaths that occurred during clinical trials.
Mercola reports Excess Iron May Actually Increase Senility in Many. July 19, 2012
Iron is an essential metal for your health, but too much can lead to the production of free radicals that can damage neurons in your brain, along with other tissues and organs.
Excess iron accumulation in the brain is a consistent observation in Alzheimer’s disease; a new animal study revealed that reducing iron levels in the blood triggered levels of beta-amyloid, which are associated with Alzheimer’s, to return to normal.
Mercola reports: GlaxoSmithKline: GUILTY in Largest Health Fraud Settlement in US History
British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline plead guilty to three counts of criminal misdemeanor and other civil liabilities relating to the prescription drugs Paxil, Wellbutrin and Avandia, and agreed to pay a total of $3 billion in fines. The payment is the largest fraud settlement in U.S. history, and the largest fine ever paid by a drug company.
DTC – Direct to Consumer Advertising by Big Pharma Only Legal in Two Countries and the USA is One Of Them. Dr. Mercola
Mood swings, weight gain, joint pain, tummy problems―you name the ailment, there’s a pill for it. And you, the American consumer, are helping Big Pharma sell it. Don’t believe it? Well, it’s happening right before your eyes, and believe it or not, the United States is one of only two countries in the world that allows this to happen.
A “Disgusting, Dishonorable” Way to Create Sales … Legal in Only Two Countries
Monsanto Promises Pain to the EU
The European Commission has issued a proposal to drop the policy of zero tolerance for unapproved and untested GMOs in food; the proposal suggests setting a threshold below which contaminated imports could enter Europe’s food chain.
In 2011, the EU decided to allow contamination with up to 0.1 percent of unapproved and untested GMOs in animal feed, which was previously not allowed.
Merck Accused of Lying About Vaccine Safety according to Mercola
Two virologists have filed a federal lawsuit against Merck, their former employer, alleging the vaccine maker overstated the effectiveness of their mumps vaccine, which may have cost the US government hundreds of millions of dollars over the past decade. They claim they “witnessed firsthand the improper testing and data falsification in which Merck engaged to artificially inflate the vaccine’s efficacy findings”
What Can Be Done To Slow Down the Progress of Alzheimers?
In the prevention and treatment of dementia (including Alzheimer’s type) and its associated cognitive changes, the rising star is astaxanthin due to its powerful antioxidant properties
The causes of Alzheimer’s disease are multifactorial, and the more risk factors you have, the more likely you will develop this sad, debilitating disease which has few effective treatments, making prevention extremely important.
Is Science on Toxicity of Sugar New? Not Exactly.
Since 1957, Dr. Ludkin of London showed that the consumption of sugar and refined sweeteners is closely associated with coronary heart disease and type 2 diabetes. Studies he conducted on sugars indicated that they raised blood triglycerides and insulin levels. He is lauded by Dr. Robert H. Lustig in his UCTV lecture, “Sugar: The Bitter Truth”, which may be viewed on YouTube (www.youtube.com/watch )
Does a GAPS diet prevent autism? Depends on who you ask. Dr. Mercola presents several viewpoints
Research shows that your gut flora can affect numerous processes in your body, including your metabolism, energy production, nutrition, and genetic expression
Your intestinal microflora is unique, although you will likely have one of three general “communities” of bacteria. This microbial balance is exceptionally sensitive to environmental conditions, beginning at birth.
Dr. Mercola challenges the Corn sugar marketing ploy Why Is Big Corn Continuing to Run ‘Corn Sugar’ Ads Even After FDA Denial?
Thanks Dr. Mercola for pointing out the toxic nature of excessive fructose. In my opinion this is now the number one health problem facing our country because excessive fructose is driving the epidemic increase in insulin resistance, metabolic syndrome, obesity and type II diabetes—diseases that are now ravaging our population. But wait, it gets even worse.
Dr. Wilson Bucks the Trend: counseling patients to help them eat less and exercise more has been an utter failure when it comes to obesity. That’s because these recommendations are based on flawed science.
Dr. Wilson Bucks the Trend: counseling patients to help them eat less and exercise more has been an utter failure when it comes to obesity. That’s because these recommendations are based on flawed science.
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
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.
Dr. Hyman, in Huffpo talks about our nutrient depleted industrial food supply. eek.
Why is it that we believe we can feed our bodies industrial, nutrient-depleted food-like substances empty of life and be healthy? How did we come to believe that food industry chemicals and processing could replace nature-made foods?
Thyroid Malfunction Can Affect Health and Weight
Thyroid health and support is very important here! A lot of issues, such as fibroids, thermostat regulation, dry skin, digestion, etc. all could be addressed by also looking at thyroid function. Each person should have an individualized diagnosis because causes of thyroid disfunction vary and therefore the cure would be different (even in terms of which foods to add and which to avoid.
The Shot Heard Round the Globe? Bloomberg’s Ban on Big Sodas.
Should we regulate sugar the way we regulate tobacco? Perhaps so.
Although I don’t agree with the Mayor’s proposal, I do agree with his effort to target soda and other sugary drinks and food as a major driver of many of our current health problems.
What Does Missing your Zzzzz’s Do For Your Health? You Know The Answer
I would add diet to the list of ways to optimize your sleep. I know a few things about circadian rhythms. Years ago I did research with Dr. Franz Halberg at the University of Minnesota. He is the one who started the field of chronobiology and he is still working in his 90’s!
People with low serotonin don’t sleep well because the sleep hormone melatonin is derived from serotonin. What causes low serotonin? The number one cause is a poor diet.
So What Do You Think? Is Bloomberg right? Are Big Sodas to Blame for Big New Yorkers?
Is the Big Gulp to blame for obesity in the Big Apple? New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg thinks so.
But Bloomberg’s proposal Thursday that the city prohibit restaurants, delis and movie theaters from serving large cups of sodas and other sugary drinks is a bitter twist for companies that make beverages like Coke, Dr Pepper and Pepsi. The ban, which would be the first of its kind in the nation, comes at a time when soda consumption has been declining.
Supersize Me: Portion Sizes in Restaurants continue to grow
The average restaurant meal today is more than four times larger than in the 1950s, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, which created a graphic to drive home the changes
Is Bitter Better? The Wall Street Journal Explains Why Some Get Addicted to Sugar
We are born loving sweetness, so we heap sugar into our lattes and drown our Chinese food in sweet sauces. But constantly indulging our craving for sweetness has an insidious effect. With each new overly sweet food that we consume, whether it is high in calories or not, we dull our palates to other tastes and flavors, especially those of nutritious fruits and vegetables.
Are Psychotropics overprescribed for autism? Dr. Mercola and Dr. Wilson say YES
Up to one-third of autistic children are prescribed antidepressant drugs to treat repetitive behaviors, but their benefits have been greatly overstated.
A new analysis reviewed data from five published, and one unpublished, trials and found a strong suggestion of publication bias – so strong that it could no longer be concluded that antidepressants are effective in children with autism
Dr. Mercola reports Worse than a Disease Diagnosis – This Mistake Can Land You in the E.R.
We live in an era where our medical freedom is increasingly under attack, and “healing” has been replaced with “treating” disease, most often with toxic chemicals and surgery
Conventional medical care is a leading cause of death, often causing humans to sacrifice their health instead of improving it
The drug-based medical model depends on belief that your body needs chemicals to stay well; if we all embraced our bodies’ innate healing potential, the drug-based, disease-treatment medical system would crumble
Does Food Packaging Matter? Are We Bombarding Children with Food Porn?
Childhood Obesity News has been exploring the art and science of food porn (or foodporn), including the ways in which food is visually enhanced, sometimes for the purpose of advertising, and sometimes just because. An entire enormous genre of photography is focused on the depiction of food.
Sugar Might Affect The Brain, UCLA Rat Study Reveals
from Huffington Post 05-17-12 We all know that a high-sugar diet can lead to weight gain, insulin...
Dr. Mercola tells us 9 ways to make yourself smarter as you age. Dr. Wilson says YES!
Looking for ways to boost your intellect, stave off mental aging, and maybe even live a longer life? You might be surprised to learn that not only do such strategies exist, but many are easily attainable by making simple tweaks here and there to your daily routine. Embracing the strategies that follow may give a hearty boost to your brainpower, help you keep mentally healthy and ultimately even make yourself smarter.
Is Veganism going Mainstream?
Although it may be tastier, it likely isn’t healthier. Their is no documented human population that evolved eating a vegan diet. Eating this way is a relatively new development fraught with metabolic and health landmines. For more information about the science I suggest reading Loren Cordain’s “The Paleo Answer”.
CNN says “Weight of the Nation” Declares war on Obesity. Dr. Wilson demurs.
Our current obesity epidemic is driven by the consumption of two food elements: excessive fructose mainly from sucrose (sugar) and high fructose corn syrup and high glycemic carbohydrates mainly from grains. It is now clear that excessive fructose is the primary driver of insulin resistance and central obesity. When you have insulin resistance and consume high glycemic carbohydrates your brain is subjected to magnified glucose spikes. Because high levels of glucose are toxic to nerve cells, over time these glucose spikes trigger a chronic brain disorder called Carbohydrate Associated Reversible Brain syndrome or CARB syndrome.
When the Feds Seize Small Farmers’ Bank Accounts, You Know Something Has Gone Terribly Wrong.
We’ve been living too long under the shadow of Big Agriculture and the Industrial Food Complex. The “cheap” food produced by these government-supported entities is literally killing us. When we are at our home in Greece we can still easily buy real food from local producers. When we return to the Unites States the first thing we notice is that just about everyone looks ill and is obese. Why is this so? It’s because our government supports our toxic diet. They make us sick so Big Pharma can produce more medications to keep the walking dead moving.
Dr. Mercola tells you The 6 Types of Pills Big Pharma Wants You Hooked On for Life
The use of psychotropic medications in children is one of the more egregious examples of how big Pharma has foisted a boat-load of dangerous drugs on vulnerable children. ADHD, oppositional defiant disorder, bipolar II, depression, post-traumatic stress disorder and anxiety disorders barely existed in children a generation ago but now many children have been labeled with one or more of this conditions. Children who are treated with potent medications for these disorders often have difficulty getting off the drugs as they move into adulthood.
Is healthy weight impossible for many Americans?
I disagree that there is no magic bullet. In order to conquer obesity we need to fully understand the disease that we are dealing with. Remember that obesity is defined as excessive body fat and the only way to know for sure if you have excessive fat is to measure your body composition. Medical studies that take into account body composition rather than just weight or BMI clearly show that it’s not about excessive calories or lack of exercise.
Why the Campaign to Stop America’s Obesity Crisis Keeps Failing
The nation’s most powerful anti-obesity groups are teaming up for a new HBO documentary—but it pushes the same tired advice. Gary Taubes on the research they’re ignoring.
Most of my favorite factoids about obesity are historical ones, and they don’t make it into the new, four-part HBO documentary on the subject, The Weight of the Nation. Absent, for instance, is the fact that the very first childhood-obesity clinic in the United States was founded in the late 1930s at Columbia University by a young German physician, Hilde Bruch. As Bruch later told it, her inspiration was simple: she arrived in New York in 1934 and was “startled” by the number of fat kids she saw—“really fat ones, not only in clinics, but on the streets and subways, and in schools.”
Obesity and Diabetes Afflict a New Jersey Family Fighting to Stay Fit
For two generations, obesity and its henchman diabetes have stalked Alicia Rivera’s family. They took her mother-in-law’s lower legs, which were amputated after ulcers formed that wouldn’t otherwise heal, and have consigned Alicia and her husband to daily injections and pills. The couple now lives within arm’s reach of an EpiPen—a payload of adrenaline behind a long needle—in the event of an insulin coma. All this the 46-year-old mother of three has weathered without collapse.
Sugar Consumption Increases Chances to Contract the Polio Virus
unstable glucose levels could have an influence on the risk of contracting polio. Of course we now know that excessive fructose from sugar and HFCS drives insulin resistance and when carbohydrates are consumed when you have insulin resistance, blood glucose levels rapidly rise and then crash below normal.
Humans evolved with a complex system to maintain steady glucose levels–levels that maximize neuron function.
What about those two brains? One in the head and one in the gut?
Although I believe that it’s important to maintain a healthy gut flora, I think there’s a better explanation for the connection between what’s in your gut and what happens to your brain. When you consume excessive fructose primarily from sugar and HFCS, your liver begins to fill up with fat and you end up with insulin resistance. When you have insulin resistance and consume high glycemic carbohydrates, your brain is exposed to magnified glucose spikes. Because neurons don’t have an insulin gate over time these glucose spikes lead to a diffuse brain dysfunction or “Sugar-Brain”.
Is Your Food Sourced from the Plant Equivalent of AIDS?
One of the two traits that accounts for practically all of the genetically engineered crops grown in the world today gives plants resistance to glyphosate (the active ingredient in Monsanto’s herbicide Roundup). Dr. Don Huber, a plant pathologist with 50 years experience, explains why the introduction of glyphosate-resistant genes into different crops is wreaking havoc with the environment, as well as animal, and most likely human, health Glyphosate does not affect the primary mechanism that causes death in the plant; rather it turns off the plant’s self-defense mechanism, allowing soil-borne fungi to quickly kill the plant. In essence, the plant’s immune system is dramatically impaired, much like a human AIDS patient
Get the Straight Skinny on Obesity: See this video and learn why a calorie is not just a calorie
If you care about your health and are truly working to keep your weight down, then you need to know the truth about calories as well as the substances that distort how calories work in your body.
No Easy Cure For Diabetes type II in Children
The only pill approved in the U.S. for treatment of children with type 2 diabetes is proving surprisingly ineffective, according to a new study, heightening worries about the fast-growing and largely preventable disease.
Gut Reaction: When Food Addictions and Cravings Create Problems
Gut Reaction
From: Childhood Obesity News 04/24/2012
Maybe we can get to a place where food addiction never even needs to be treated, because it won’t exist anymore. Maybe the way to prevent it lies not just in the psychological self, but also deep in the gut. Stranger things have happened, and humans don’t yet know everything. One thing we do know is, even if it turns out there is no direct link to obesity, keeping optimum intestinal health can only do a person good.
Dr. Wilson replies:
I think we are starting to understand food addiction and cravings much better. Over the years I have learned that patients with normal functioning brains never have cravings for sweets and junk food.
Exercise is Good, Unless You Sacrifice Sleep To Get There: See Dr. Mercola’s piece
Exercising is, hands-down, one of the best physical things you can do for your health.
Besides being beneficial for weight management, exercise can reduce your risk of heart disease, cancer, diabetes, and depression, and it can increase your energy levels, help you think clearer, and slow down the aging process.
Unfortunately, exercise is also one of the first things that tends to fall by the wayside. And, even with the best intentions and follow-through, progress can stall and intentions can go awry…
Tara Parker-Pope reports on the Challenge of Going Vegan in the NYTimes and Doctor Wilson replies
Is it healthy to go on a Vegan Diet? The answer depends on who you ask. Dr. Wilson, after thirty years of practicing medicine, weighs in. “Man evolved to be an omnivore. There is no healthy way to be a vegan.”
Americans Eat the Cheapest Food in the World, But What is It Really Costing?
The “faster, bigger, cheaper” approach to food production that the United States has mastered is unsustainable and is contributing to the destruction of our planet and your health.
Easy access to cheap, poor-quality food is contributing to the rising rates of obesity, type 2 diabetes, heart disease and other chronic disease
CEREALS ARE MORE DANGEROUS THEN SUGAR.
The absence of diseases of affluence is not only in HUNTER-GATHERER but also in non-agrarian HORTICULTURAL societies.
Obesity in Pregnant Women May Forecast Autism in Children
baby breastfeeding Obesity in Pregnant Women May Forecast Autism in Children New Research...
Natural is From Nature
It’s really not a minefield if you understand the true meaning of natural—made from nature without interference or manipulation by man. Genetically modified foods are obviously not natural. Cattle and chickens fattened up with corn and other grains are not natural because this is not how these creatures evolved to eat.