Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| Please look at the possibility that Type 2 diabetics become overweight not because they are slovenly, but because they have the genetic predisposition for Type 2 diabetes. The fact might be that the genetic predisposition results in the overweight condition. An analogous comparison can be made to alcoholism: of all the people in the world who consume alcoholic beverages, only a certain percentage — those with a genetic predisposition—become alcoholic. In a world where there is a large percentage of overweight people, only 30% of this group ever develop Type 2 diabetes. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 Of all children age six through nineteen, 31% were overweight.19
Suffice it to say: obesity, particularly morbid obesity, is associated with cardiovascular disease, cancer, and type 2 diabetes. A longitudinal study of more than a half million adults aged fifty to seventy, sponsored jointly by the NIH and AARP, found that overweight and obesity were associated with higher death rates for all demographic categories. Increased risk was highest for those who never smoked: death rates were
20-40 percent higher for the overweight, and two to three times higher for the obese. |
| In all, two of every three Americans were defined as "overweight" in 2002. Of all children age six through nineteen, 31% were overweight.19
Suffice it to say: obesity, particularly morbid obesity, is associated with cardiovascular disease, cancer, and type 2 diabetes. A longitudinal study of more than a half million adults aged fifty to seventy, sponsored jointly by the NIH and AARP, found that overweight and obesity were associated with higher death rates for all demographic categories. |
Bill Sardi
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 Mammogram films of breasts with higher density are harder to read and interpret than those of less dense breasts. overweight women tend to have fatty breasts, which decreases density. An overweight woman with dense breasts in connective tissue is nine times more likely to have breast cancer.
One major study of 61,844 women followed for three years, found that the risk of breast cancer associated with extremely dense breasts, compared with entirely fatty breasts, was 4.6 times greater for premenopausal women and 3.9 times greater for postmenopausal women. |
Andreas Moritz
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 Over 60 percent of the American population is overweight or obese. Men, women, and children in this condition suffer mainly from fluid retention (with relatively minor fat accumulation). The retained fluids help trap and neutralize noxious substances that the liver can no longer remove from the body. This helps the overweight or obese person to survive a major, possibly fatal, toxicity crisis such as a heart attack, septic poisoning, or massive infection. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| A great many overweight people live in this world who are not diabetic. If the ADA wants to tell the truth, instead of pushing pills, promoting tight control, hyping the merits of "human" insulin, and hawking special diabusiness foods, they could truthfully explain that the best results for treating Type 2 diabetes is a lifestyle change that encompasses better diet and exercise management. Please look at the possibility that Type 2 diabetics become overweight not because they are slovenly, but because they have the genetic predisposition for Type 2 diabetes. |
| The fact might be that the genetic predisposition results in the overweight condition. An analogous comparison can be made to alcoholism: of all the people in the world who consume alcoholic beverages, only a certain percentage — those with a genetic predisposition—become alcoholic. In a world where there is a large percentage of overweight people, only 30% of this group ever develop Type 2 diabetes. (After numerous investigative reports were broadcast on TV stations in the U.S. |
Herbert Ross, DC with Keri Brenner, L.Ac.
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 While poor diet and lack of exercise undoubtedly play a role, the sheer number of people who are overweight suggest there may be other factors at work. All of us have heard overweight people say things like "I just can't stop eating the wrong foods," "I'm out of control. I can't resist my cravings for fat and sugar," or "I diet and exercise, but I still can't lose weight." Many of these people have repeatedly sought help without success, but all too often they're condemned for lack of discipline or not trying. |
Bill Sardi
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| Overweight women tend to have fatty breasts, which decreases density. An overweight woman with dense breasts in connective tissue is nine times more likely to have breast cancer.
One major study of 61,844 women followed for three years, found that the risk of breast cancer associated with extremely dense breasts, compared with entirely fatty breasts, was 4.6 times greater for premenopausal women and 3.9 times greater for postmenopausal women. |
C. W. Randolph, M.D.
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 Question 2: How Long Have You Been overweight?
If you have been ten pounds overweight for a year or more, you are most likely caught in the cycle of increasing estrogen dominance. As described in Chapter 1, high estrogen levels cause you to develop more fatty tissue in your body, which in turn produces more estrogen in your body.
Question 3: Do You Have Symptoms of Estrogen Dominance?
Weight gain is only one symptom of an underlying hormone imbalance. |
Tom Bohager
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 If you are overweight, it is wise to be concerned about your health and important to learn healthy and proper ways to lose weight. The health risks associated with being overweight include increased risks of Type 2 diabetes, heart disease and stroke, osteoarthritis (arthritis), gallbladder disease, high blood pressure (hypertension), sleep apnea, gout, pulmonary problems, and gastroesophageal reflux disease.
The most effective and long-lasting ways to lose body fat require time and effort, but the benefits are numerous. (See also exercise, athletic performance, and energy/endurance. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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 Feeding your genes what they want is how you remained trapped in your overweight or poorly functioning body. Feeding them what is good for you and eliminating what is bad for you will get them on your team. In the next chapters, I'm going to teach you how to align your genes' purposes with your own.
THE SEDUCTIVE WESTERN DIET
When a primitive culture adopts the Western diet, and particularly refined carbohydrates, within one generation its people begin to experience the typical diseases of the civilized world. |
| Another study of 500,000 "healthy" nonsmoking people aged 50 to 70 over a ten-year period recently found a direct correlation between the degree of overweight and early death, with the more excess pounds, the sooner the grim reaper appears. That's right: That internal calorie counter we all carry in our genetic programming activates the killer genes. In other words, death and disease are your genes' way of saying you're being voted off the island.
I WAS NOT A KEEPER
You may now be beginning to suspect why elite athletes often die young. |
| LESSONS IN THE WILD
With the exception of animals that hibernate or anticipate periods of starvation during the winter, there simply are no overweight wild animals. An individual animal's genetic code won't allow obesity to occur because, when adequate stores of fat are present, a sophisticated system of monitoring cells produce hormones that shut off hunger signals. Also, as just discussed, quite possibly the micronutrients in the foods in an animal's habitat act as a satiety switch. Change in the amount of daylight is another likely satiety switch. |
John A. McDougall
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 Weight is also a risk factor for gallstone formation. overweight people consume more food and cholesterol. Their bodies also make
49 more cholesterol. The more overweight the individual, the greater the amount of cholesterol that is secreted into the bile. And finally, aging also results in increased cholesterol secretion by the liver, supersaturating the bile, which explains why gallstones occur four to ten times more frequently in older populations.
Despite the prevalence of gallbladder disease, few people know much about this tiny organ—how it functions or how to keep it healthy. |
Bottom Line Health
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| Gentle yoga is a great way to ease into an active life, especially since overweight people are already less likely to exercise because it hurts," she says.
I ~Q For more information on yoga and other — natural healing techniques, visit the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine Web site at http://nccam.nih.gov.
Chitosan Not Effective for Weight Loss
Marketers say that chitosan, which is made from shellfish, has fat-burning properties. However, in order to lose 1 kilogram (approximately 2. |
| They may clinically look like they have type 2 —be overweight and maybe have a family history of type 2—but then [their blood tests] come back positive" for type 1, Kaufman says.
Diabetes has been undertreated and undermanaged. Now we have good tools to manage it.
Stuart Weiss, MD
Alternatively, other young patients, who have had type 1 since childhood, become obese in adolescence "and then begin to look like they have elements of type 2 diabetes," Kaufman explains. "They are becoming more and more insulin-resistant. |
Michael Pollan
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 Nurses' Health Study population could be described as following a "low risk" diet and lifestyle, which he defines as follows: nonsmoker, body-mass index (BMI) below 25 (the threshold for overweight), thirty minutes of exercise a day, and a diet characterized by low intake of trans fat; high ratio of polyunsaturated to saturated fats; high whole-grain intake; two servings of fish a week; recommended daily allowance of folic acid and at least five grams of alcohol a day. |
Bottom Line Health
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| If you are overweight, bring your weight down by 5% to 10%. Ideally, your weight should be brought down to the normal range, which means a body mass index (BMI), a ratio of weight to height, of 18.5 to 24.9. To find your BMI, use the free calculator at the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute Web site at http://nhlbisupport.com/bmi. Or use the formula (weight in pounds x 703) * height in inches squared. |
| One reason doctors have been reluctant in the past to check the testosterone levels of male patients who are depressed, overweight or lacking in energy is that they had no good tools for treating low testosterone. One older treatment, injection therapy, requires frequent visits to the doctor for shots and produces uneven testosterone levels, which spike drastically after injection, and then decline steadily afterward. Testosterone pills carry a high risk of liver damage because of the strain put on the liver as it breaks down the testosterone. |
| THE STUDY
The study looked at 31 overweight or obese men between the ages of 46 and 76. Of these, 15 (48%) were diagnosed with metabolic syndrome —a collection of health risk factors including excess fat, high cholesterol, high blood pressure and insulin resistance. All of the 31 volunteers had at least one of these risk factors. In addition, 13 (42%) of the men had type 2 diabetes.
For three weeks, the men took part in a residential diet and exercise program. |
| Christian Roberts, PhD
The men lost approximately two to three pounds during each week of the study, but they still remained overweight or obese at the end of the three-week period.
The researchers measured blood levels of cholesterol, insulin and markers of inflammation both before and after the study. Although 48% of the men had metabolic syndrome at the start of the study, just 19% still did after three weeks. At the start of the study, 42% of the men had diabetes, but only 23% did at the end. And the average low-density lipoprotein (LDL), or "bad," cholesterol reading decreased 25%. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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| When you nosh on foods high in sugar and starches, you, too, activate insulin resistance, but continue and you become overweight, which your genes perceive as threatening the food supply of others. Likewise, as your muscle mass decreases with age, if you continue to eat like a teenager but are inactive, your genes assume that you're taking more than your share without contributing to defense or food collection. In either case, your behavior unwittingly activates killer genes. |
| I'm going to prove to you that you're in poor health and overweight because you're feeding your genes exactly what they want. Let me assure you, your genes are using you for their health and longevity, not yours. In fact, your longevity stands in their way. So sit back, open your mind, and be willing to suspend everything you've ever known about yourself. But first let's get down to basics.
GENES AS MICROCOMPUTERS
I've found that it helps to think of genes as tiny computer programs. On your computer, the letter A, for example, is "coded" as 1000001. |
| Why some people like Michelle seem to have sipped from the fountain of youth even as they near the century mark, while most of us are wrinkled, arthritic, overweight, and plagued with complaints by the time we're eligible for AARP membership, has long been a mystery. Is it luck? Good genes? Over the last five years I have unraveled much of that mystery. Yes, our genes play a major role, but not in the way we have been led to believe. Michelle did not inherit "good genes." Quite the opposite: since her life-changing encounter 75 years ago, she has been instructing her genes to "be good"! |
Michael Pollan
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| At a health clinic in Oakland, California, doctors report seeing overweight children suffering from old-time deficiency diseases such as rickets, long thought to have been consigned to history's dustheap in the developed
*These are USDA statistics from FoodReview, Vol. 25, Issue 3, a publication of the Economic Research Service at the USDA. world. But when children subsist on fast food rather than fresh fruits and vegetables and drink more soda than milk, the old deficiency diseases return—now even in the obese. |
| II
THE WESTERN DIET AND THE DISEASES OF CIVILIZATION one a THE ABORIGINE IN ALL OF US
In the summer of 1982, a group of ten middle-aged, overweight, and diabetic Aborigines living in settlements near the town of Derby, Western Australia, agreed to participate in an experiment to see if temporarily reversing the process of westernization they had undergone might also reverse their health problems. |
| Because a faster metabolism increases the need for food and therefore the possibility of hunger, she suggests, which is a much less agreeable condition than being overweight. This might help explain why so many groups have adopted Western diets as soon as they get the chance.
It should be said that researchers working on omega-3 s can sound a bit like Dr. Casaubon in Middlemarch, hard at work on his "Key to all Mythologies." Likewise, omega-3 researchers seem to be in possession of a Theory of Everything, including happiness. |
| Eat less" is the most unwelcome advice of all, but in fact the scientific case for eating a lot less than we presently do is compelling, whether or not you are overweight. Calorie restriction has repeatedly been shown to slow aging and prolong lifespan in animals, and some researchers believe it is the single strongest link between a change in the diet and the prevention of cancer. Put simply: Overeating promotes cell division, and promotes it most dramatically in cancer cells; cutting back on calories slows cell division. |
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