Carb Syndrome News Articles
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”.