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By: Bert

Bert — Wed, 17 Nov 2010 18:53:49 +0000

Truly obesity and overweight is environmental in nature. And of course lifestyle. While the community and environment produces more food with more carbohydrates then people simply tend to eat them and more of them and thus making them obese. The right education that would educate society and the market in general will help individuals overcome obesity.

By: mreades

mreades — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 16:20:53 +0000

I’ve been planning on doing just what you suggest at some point. Maybe you’ll be the inspiration for me to get it done.

By: Zach

Zach — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:03:17 +0000

This is a magnificent post and glad it was linked from… I think Hyperlipid, I can’t remember. I’m glad I discovered it. There are more than a few posts that you have dating back to 2008 and earlier that simply cover a very pertinent issue from every angle, and would be submitted as evidence in a trial to find the real culprit/cause of obesity, if one ever does take place. This piece is definitely one of them.

Other than comb through all of your archives, please allow me to ask you to consider perhaps doing a post of links for blasts from the past posts to catch up some of your newer readers… maybe when you’re busy with your other projects when you know you’ll be out on the road for a few weeks? I’ve been reading your work well over a year, and am still finding new things here that stand alone and tie back into points made in Protein Power Life Plan. Muchos danka, have a great day.

By: Tom Corbo

Tom Corbo — Mon, 11 May 2009 13:47:03 +0000

Why does nicotine gum cessation cause weight gain when my diet hasn’t changed.?

Because nicotine is a stimulant. Whenever you take away a stimulant, your metabolic rate falls. When your metabolic rate falls, you gain weight on the same amount of food. That’s why people gain weight when they stop smoking.

By: Trinkwasser

Trinkwasser — Sat, 09 May 2009 12:49:10 +0000

“I posted on this very subject a long while ago.”

So sue me, I’m a slow reader, haven’t gotten back to 2005 yet (grins)

That’s an excellent post, now added to my list of cites for newbie diabetics.

Glad you enjoyed it.

By: Steve LaCroix

Steve LaCroix — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 01:55:34 +0000

Dr. Eades, I am a devoted reader of your blogs and books and I can't tell you how much I appreciate all I've learned from you and your wife. Now that I've buttered you up, a question. I live in NYC, and as I'm sure you know there is a fair amount of panic here over the swine flu. If you were living in the blast zone, what precautions might you take? Thanks. S.L. I think the panic is a little overkill. Events like these always remind me of the great quote from H.L. Mencken:
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
The same applies to the media. This really gives them something to get their teeth into. But I think a recent headline from the BBC says it all:
The first Britons confirmed to have caught swine flu have been discharged from hospital after recovering.
If you're concerned, keep protein and fat intake up since those are the substrate of your immune system. And make sure to take at least 5,000 IU of vitamin D3 per day. That's how I'm dealing with it. I probably should put up a post about this.

By: Trinkwasser

Trinkwasser — Sat, 25 Apr 2009 12:34:18 +0000

Agree with David, also it seems to vary in intensity between individuals probably depending on their carb intolerance at the time (insulin resistance) and is very likely associated with running high BG over a period of time as many Type 2s do before diagnosis: the body panics when BG drops to a normal level, and panics more until it works out how to generate glucose from protein and run on ketones instead. After that all settles down, well I've noticed a major improvement in endurance and while I still carry sweets and other carbs as hypostop for emergencies I haven't needed to hit them for ages now, and my snacking has reduced severely. Occasionally I will need to stuff some carbs after relatively high intensity exercise, but in general my pancreas and liver now work cooperatively. It's worth pointing out something you may not realise (I didn't until it was pointed out to me, so I'm passing it along): the total blood volume only contains around 5g glucose at any one time, so there's major work going on in the background stashing dietary glucose into store and retrieving it into the blood on demand, one system is the pancreatic beta cells producing insulin, the other is the pancreatic alpha cells generating glucagon. There only needs to be a 5g glucose disparity between these systems for your BG to double. Food for thought! I posted on this very subject a long while ago.

By: David

David — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 23:04:27 +0000

I’m pretty sure that the “induction flu” being discussed is nothing more than another name for the bad feeling at the beginning of a low-carb diet when the body is switching over (but not yet fully acclimated) to a fat metabolism. This is just kind of a weak, worn down (and temporary!) feeling that nearly everyone I know who has gone on a low-carb diet experiences from one degree to another.

By: Trinkwasser

Trinkwasser — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:29:46 +0000

Anna, are we related? (grins) we have several people in the family that have the markers for obesity (lipids, BG, blood pressure) while remaining skinny, it appears to be insulin resistance behind this but somehow unrelated to weight gain. Lipids may be a clue, especially trigs/HDL ratio.

I probably never had a proper Phase 1 response since childhood but 50 years later my Phase 2 can still drop my BG like a stone if I let it go high in the first place, and it’s the rate of change that brings on the hypo symptoms.

Agree on the testing, this was my paradigm

http://loraldiabetes.blogspot.com/2009/04/test-test-test.html

except it may help to start 1/2 hour postprandial and go out to three or four hours to see the full peak to peak swing.

I seem to be well able to run on ketones and generate all the glucose I need from protein without the peaks and dips caused by trying to bolus carbs. High protein moderate fat and low carbs for breakfast, and probably higher fat during the rest of the day seems to keep me most even with more energy – and keeps the lipids normalised no matter that it freaks out my GP