In reading Barry Groves' book yesterday "Natural Health & Weight Loss", I saw an item of interest in his chapter for diabetics:
"People who are overweight often go on to develop type-2 diabetes. For this reason, the accepted wisdom is that diabetes is caused by obesity. It isn't. Both obesity and diabetes are caused by the same thing: a low-fat, high-carb, 'healthy' diet. The only reason that diabetes appears to follow obesity is that obesity is more easily detected."
I know that not everyone who has diabetes is overweight, but the above description fits me to a T.
Full Version: Barry Groves on diabetes
Eye-opening! THANKS for sharing, Karen.
Karen, that chapter resonated with me as well. I am not diabetic, but it runs in my family. Thanks for sharing that with everyone else. Barry has a great way of getting at the truth brilliantly and simplistically.
| QUOTE (Karen19 @ Sep 30 2007, 02:06 PM) |
| In reading Barry Groves' book yesterday "Natural Health & Weight Loss", I saw an item of interest in his chapter for diabetics: "People who are overweight often go on to develop type-2 diabetes. For this reason, the accepted wisdom is that diabetes is caused by obesity. It isn't. Both obesity and diabetes are caused by the same thing: a low-fat, high-carb, 'healthy' diet. The only reason that diabetes appears to follow obesity is that obesity is more easily detected." I know that not everyone who has diabetes is overweight, but the above description fits me to a T. |
Karen, thanks for chiming in and posting this. Type 2 diabetes is caused by insulin resistance. The cells become less sensitive to the effects of insulin, so the pancreas pumps out more insulin to lower blood glucose. It just keeps building -- more and more insulin is required to do the job.
It should be a no-brainer that those high insulin levels store fat, as well as cause havoc in your body. That makes it easy to gain, and hard to lose. I've been there and I know. Insulin resistance and excess body fat are so interwined, it's hard to say which causes what.
The no-brainer solution is to reduce insulin demands through low carb. The problem is that the medical establishment folks have lost their brains.
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