diabetes stuff insulin resistance and fructose etc

October 31, 2009

The following is taken from:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC552336/?tool=pmcentrez

Nutrition represents a lifestyle element that can be controlled, and that can directly influence health; therefore preventative nutrition and weight control should become a main focus of consumers and prepared-food providers [29]. The Westernization of diets, with an increase in availability of high calorie foods certainly contributes to the epidemic of metabolic syndrome. In the past, physicians and scientists have made an association between dietary energy from fat and body fat. A large market has developed for the popularity and promotion of low fat diets. Interestingly, however, the decline in dietary fat consumption has not corresponded to a decrease in obesity – in fact, the opposite trend has emerged [30]. Certainly, diets high in saturated fats have been shown to induce weight gain, insulin resistance, and hyperlipidemia in humans and animals [19-22,31], but the emphasis on fat reductions has had no significant benefits relative to the obesity epidemic. More importantly, the focus on dietary fat is more likely a distraction to more significant causes of metabolic syndrome [30]. If fat is not the culprit in metabolic disorders, then what is? Increasing evidence now suggests that the rise in consumption of carbohydrates, particularly refined sugars high in fructose, appears to be at least one very important contributing factor.

THE ENTIRE ARTICLE IS WORTH CALLING UP AND READING if you truly want to understand how fructose/carbohydrates etc effect your lipid and sugar system and therefore your entire bodily heath.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC552336/?tool=pmcentrez

Keep an eye out in the medical news for the new kid on the block ADIPONECTIN. Many diet and health guru's will be writing about the advantages of getting a high(er) level of this stuff. The more you have (it seems) the more fat you naturally burn off.

http://scienceandreason.blogspot.com/2007/09/adiponectin.html

http://diabetes.webmd.com/news/20090707/study-links-a-protein-with-diabetes-risk

http://www.medpagetoday.com/Nephrology/Diabetes/14995

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/med/staff/cappuccio/publications/horm_res_met_2009_wii.pdf

http://nephropal.blogspot.com/search?q=adiponectin

Cheer's........... Clare in Taz