Ray D. Strand
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 Obesity
All of us have heard the media and physicians claim that the reason diabetes is becoming epidemic in the United States and the industrialized world is because so many people are developing obesity. This is really not the case. The media has put the cart before the horse, so to speak. Insulin resistance (Syndrome X) leads to central obesity, not the other way around. In fact obesity is a major aspect of this syndrome.
What do I mean by central obesity? This has to do with how your weight is distributed in your body. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 In addition to the diabetes and the obesity and hypoglycemia, I also suffered from severe back pain. I'm talking about hard-core, chronic back pain here. The kind of back pain that a person who is in their twenties shouldn't be experiencing. And that's when it started with me. Maybe I was 21 or 22, but it was very early in my 20's that I started experiencing this chronic back pain.
And how bad was it? Well, it was so bad that I couldn't sit for more than a few minutes without experiencing excruciating pain. And yet, I was a writer. I used to work for a software company writing documentation. |
Ray D. Strand
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| Insulin resistance (Syndrome X) leads to central obesity, not the other way around. In fact obesity is a major aspect of this syndrome.
What do I mean by central obesity? This has to do with how your weight is distributed in your body. If it is evenly dispersed all over or you are heavy in the bottom (pear-shaped), you may need to drop some weight, but in relation to Syndrome X, you are fine. But if you have gained substantial weight around your waistline (are apple-shaped), you may be in trouble. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Adams: That's fascinating, because again that plays into the sensitivity to vitamin D, so there's a vicious cycle going on there in obesity.
Dr. Holick: Exactly.
Adams: It's going to take a lot of vitamin D, a lot of sun exposure to help break that cycle. I've got another question for you here. So if a person has all the vitamin D that their body wants, and it's stored in the fat tissues, how long can they go, is it a period of months?
Dr. Holick: Yeah, I mean if you're getting a really adequate source in the spring, summer and fall, it'll last two to three months. |
Byron J. Richards, CCN
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 Furthermore, obesity causes other diseases such as heart disease. Thus, a primary cause of the number-one killer in America is a problem in energy homeostasis. It is also clear that leptin resistance is a direct contributor to cancer, the second-largest killer in America. The leading causes of death in America are primarily the result of disruption of natural balance in the human body.
The answers to these questions about leptin resistance are not simple. |
| Problems with metabolism tend to progress towards obesity.
The Five Rules of The Leptin Diet™ are the foundation of the true path to attain and maintain optimum body weight. Implementing them in one's life requires skill. The reward of doing so is an improved and ongoing quality of health.
PART 3
Preventing Disease
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Timing, Inflammation, and Aging
~7 iming is everything. Our bodies are either regulated by a harmonic I symphony, a heavy metal tune, or somewhere in between. Biological rhythms are the guiding force of human metabolism and natural balance. |
| It has recently been proposed that obesity is an inflammatory condition. Overweight children and adults have elevated levels of C reactive protein, IL-6, and TNFa, all markers of inflammation.324 Normally, these signals rise when the body mounts a stress response for a given purpose.
In overweight individuals, these markers are stuck at higher levels due to the generation of these immune signals on a chronic basis from the extra pounds of fat. Remember, 30 percent of cells in white adipose tissue are immune cells. |
| Abdominal obesity is a primary indicator that there are disruptions between Cortisol, leptin, and neuropeptide Y. Remember that elevated NPY causes a person to be hungry all the time. Scientists have proven that these hormone imbalances are the actual cause of diseases and mortality associated with the extra abdominal fat.331
THE TRUE CAUSE OF STRESS EATING
Yes, a person can seek to manage psychological factors that relate to stress. Anything a person can do as a life strategy to feel more in control will help them release less Cortisol in response to their personal perception of stress. |
| This information creates a link between the societal trend of increased obesity and the dramatic increase in autism in infants.
SOLUTIONS FOR EATING DISORDERS
In order to solve eating disorders, it is important to know that eating correctly does not promote excess weight gain. Understanding leptin explains why this is the case.
The next issue is to get the person to eat. Once eating occurs, the problem is likely to be improved. For example, getting young women with anorexia to eat restores their leptin levels and changes their bone metabolism so that they gain bone mass instead of lose it. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Soft drinks are causing chronic obesity and diabetes even among our nation's youth. Folks, this isn't something that's really debated, not by any honest person out there. This is just something that's being defended by the last bastion of a group of well-paid nitwits who have similar ethics to tobacco company executives.
And my message to the people from the Corn Refiners Association is to quit your jobs and go find some honest work doing something that actually helps people. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 Schauss explains, "In morbid obesity—when people are so significantly overweight that it could shorten their lifespan or increase their risk of disease—there is an inverse relationship between the level of obesity and the level of zinc. The more obese they are, the less zinc they have in their body. We don't know yet whether this is cause and effect, but it's a very important observation because at the other end of the continuum, with anorexia nervosa, self-induced starvation, people are always zinc deficient. |
Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith
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 Scientists are beginning to see more cases of NASH as obesity numbers climb; in the past ten years, the rate of obesity has doubled in adults and tripled in children. This has also led some doctors to point fingers at refined sugar as if it were as bad as alcohol in its destructive behavior on the liver (not to mention other body parts and systems). The progression of NASH can take years, even decades. The process can stop and, in some cases, reverse on its own without specific therapy (but likely with some diet and lifestyle changes). |
Amarjit S. Basra
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 OBESITY
As already discussed, adult (and, worryingly, childhood) obesity is increasing, which predisposes sufferers to a whole range of health problems including diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease. obesity also affects the body more generally to cause problems with indigestion, breathing difficulty such as sleep apnea, arthritis of the spine and legs, and a general reduction in quality oflife. The appropriate management is to restrict calorie intake to less than that expended by the individual. |
Byron J. Richards, CCN
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| This means that good parenting takes on a whole new meaning, ensuring that one's child has a better chance of not becoming overweight as they grow older as well as reducing health risks for the mother.
We have known for a while that environmental programming influences how leptin is set up in an individual's metabolism. These factors come courtesy of one's parents. If parents are overweight, their children are at a higher risk for developing leptin resistance due to programming that took place while they were in the womb. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The presence of this virus is a fascinating difference between our two universes, but it helps explain why the rate of obesity among the adult population in Allopathia now exceeds 35%. Let's all hope they can find a vaccine so they can inject everyone and eradicate obesity in one massive, heroic vaccination campaign!
Now for the news in our own universe
As strange as all this news seems, I regret to inform you that I have made a mistake. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Certain environmental substances called endocrine-disrupting chemicals can change the functioning of a fetus's genes, altering a baby's metabolic system and predisposing him or her to obesity. This individual could eat the same thing and exercise the same amount as someone with a normal metabolic system, but he or she would become obese, while the other person remained thin. This is a serious problem because obesity puts people at risk for other problems, including cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular disease and hypertension," von Saal said. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The invention of the microwave and its mass adoption by the population coincides with the onset of obesity in developed nations around the world. Not only did the microwave make it convenient to eat more obesity-promoting foods, it also destroyed much of the nutritional content of those foods, leaving consumers in an ongoing state of malnourished overfeeding. In other words, people eat too many calories but not enough real nutrition. The result is, of course, what we see today: Epidemic rates of diabetes, cancer, heart disease, depression, kidney failure, liver disorders and much more. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 When future historians examine today's epidemics of obesity and diabetes, they will no doubt scrutinize the role of companies like PepsiCo and Coca-Cola, both of which are partly to blame for modern disease epidemics. Both companies, by the way, continue to engage in routine marketing of junk foods and sodas to children.
Pepsico is a corporation that won't even list the acrylamide content in their fried foods. Nor will it publicly admit that high-fructose corn syrup has any link whatsoever to obesity. |
Melody Petersen
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 But the pills are not the quick fix the industry says they are. obesity can take more than a decade off a person's life span. Researchers reported in 2005 that the nation's growing epidemic of obesity may soon cause life expectancies to decline.
Or are the nation's disappointing expectancy rankings due in part to the deaths and serious injuries caused by the increasing number of prescription pills we take?
With the drug companies now controlling medical science, it can take decades before the truth is revealed about how their products may cause an early death. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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 They've speculated that genistein may also help to reduce the risk of obesity in humans, perhaps even helping to explain why Asian rates of obesity are comparatively low. But again, their speculation is tempered with a note of caution. Dana Dolinoy, one of the study's authors, said:
What is good in small amounts could be harmful in large amounts. We simply don't know the effects of literally hundreds of compounds that we intentionally or inadvertently ingest or encounter each day. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Saying that high-fructose corn syrup causes diabetes and obesity takes about as much of a leap of faith as saying one plus one equals two. This is well proven. Heck, we even have doctors from Yale University Center backing this study and saying, yep, this is an obvious conclusion. We've got guys from the Harvard School of Public Health saying, yep, this study proves it and people shouldn't be consuming these beverages. We have literally thousands of nutritionists and the better educated doctors from around the world standing up and saying soft drinks need to be banned from vending machines. |
Amarjit S. Basra
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| OBESITY
As already discussed, adult (and, worryingly, childhood) obesity is increasing, which predisposes sufferers to a whole range of health problems including diabetes, hypertension, and heart disease. obesity also affects the body more generally to cause problems with indigestion, breathing difficulty such as sleep apnea, arthritis of the spine and legs, and a general reduction in quality oflife. The appropriate management is to restrict calorie intake to less than that expended by the individual. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| When you understand how blood sugar is regulated in the human body, how the pancreas works, and how the digestive system converts dietary sugars into blood glucose, it's blatantly obvious that candy bars and soft drinks are foods and drinks that promote both obesity and diabetes. |
| They're afraid that junk food companies and fast-food companies (and especially soft drink manufacturers) are going to be blamed for the nation's obesity crisis in the same way big tobacco companies are blamed for lung cancer.
And it's sort of hard to tell where most doctors are going to fall on this issue. It wasn't too long ago when doctors were being paid by cigarette companies to actually endorse cigarettes. |
| But, more importantly, this study is confirming what informed nutritionists have known for years, which is that high-fructose corn syrup promotes diabetes and obesity.
In a hilarious side note, by the way, I've been contacted by a couple of people from the Corn Refiners Association in Washington, D.C., who don't seem to appreciate the fact that I'm pointing out high-fructose corn syrup promotes diabetes. This CRA group, of course, represents corn growers, and corn growers depend on the revenues from high-fructose corn syrup so they can grow and sell their corn. |
| For someone to drink these drinks and not be at higher risk of diabetes and obesity, they would have to be either some sort of freak of nature that violated the laws of the universe or they would have to be so incredibly athletic and so genetically gifted that somehow these dietary sugars had no effect on their physiology. Now, there may be extremely rare people like that, and maybe the Corn Refiners Association can find one or two such people, but by and large, the average person doesn't have anything close to that sort of physiology. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| In Allopathia, obesity isn't caused by eating too much, avoiding exercise and consuming lots of processed sugars; it's actually caused by a virus! You read that right: It's a tiny packet of DNA that invades the bodies of Allopathia citizens and magically causes them to gain weight, completely beyond their control. The presence of this virus is a fascinating difference between our two universes, but it helps explain why the rate of obesity among the adult population in Allopathia now exceeds 35%. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 For those of you paying attention to the way the world really works, you've probably already figured out the scam behind this virus explanation for obesity. It goes like this: If obesity is caused by a virus, then drug companies can invent a vaccine for obesity!
Ah, you knew that one was coming, didn't ya? There's a vaccine for everything, apparently, but there is no cure for just plain stupidity. There is, however, plenty of entertainment to go 'round. The drug companies, the researchers, the journalists and the chickens are all racing each other to the world record for low IQ scores. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Soon, they will suffer from American diseases: Cancer, diabetes, depression, osteoporosis, heart disease, obesity and violent, psychotic behavior. In fact, we're already seeing it: Countries like Thailand and Japan are witnessing unprecedented obesity for the first time in history, and diseases like diabetes and depression are only a few years away from becoming pandemic throughout Asia. This is almost entirely from their adoption of western diets and medical practices. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 That was one of the characteristics of this type of obesity. It's very difficult to exercise the weight off and almost impossible to diet it off. The appetite is out of control, but the metabolism is also out of control. They have metabolic syndrome on top of obesity, and so then you have a leptin insensitivity. In terms of obesity, they have a leptin insensitivity. It has been shown that you can produce leptin insensitivity very easily with MSG.
Mike: Is there any hope, in your view, that the world may wake up to this, and some day these ingredients may be banned?
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