From the Wall Street Journal, April 30, 2012
By Ron Winslow
diabetes pills and injections
The research, reported Sunday, is one of the first long-term studies to test the effectiveness of drugs for diabetic children—estimated in the U.S. to number in the tens of thousands. It tested three different drug-based regimens aimed at controlling the disease and found that only about half the participants successfully controlled their blood sugar—despite relatively good compliance…
Dr. Wilson replies:
I don’t agree with Dr. Allen that living in a less active and calorie-laden environment is the cause of childhood obesity and type II diabetes. It is clear from recent research that it’s not just about calories.
We now know that fructose, mainly from sucrose and HFCS, is the driving force behind insulin resistance and central obesity. When someone with insulin resistance consumes highly refined carbohydrates, especially from grains, their brain is subjected to magnified glucose spikes. Because neurons don’t have an insulin gate, over time these magnified glucose spikes seem to disrupt the brains ability to control both appetite and total body fat storage. Healthy brains seem to play a key role in auto-regulating fat stores over a broad range of caloric intake.
We now call this food-induced brain dysfunction Carbohydrate Associated Reversible Brain syndrome or CARB syndrome. In addition to obesity and type II diabetes, CARB syndrome also seems to be driving the increased incidence of common problems in children including depression (weight gain type), ADHD, autism, eating disorders, anxiety disorders, obsessive-compulsive disorder and bipolar II.
If you want to prevent obesity and diabetes in children, don’t focus on calories. To be successful they must reduce their intake of sugar, HFCS and high glycemic carbohydrates. As a family, go back to eating real food, not fake food.
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