Glucose, when there is too much of it, causes diabetes. Granted, this is not new, and it is supported by plenty of epidemiological evidence. But still people think glucose is just a harmless nutrient. Here I am providing reasoning based on advances of modern biological science to support the simple idea that it is glucose that causes diabetes.
Copyright © 2021 All rights reserved.
There is a best diet is for everyone because we are all built in the same way. This diet can reverse hypertension, fatty liver, obesity, diabetes and many other problems. Losing weight isn’t easy, but just don’t do that bariatric surgery yet. There is a better alternative. Don’t believe the hype that diet do not work–you just have to do it the right way. I have done it myself. I lost 25 lbs in 6 months and have kept it for 6 months. And I plan to keep it forever.
Carbohydrate foods are appetite inducing and nutrient poor. People gets addicted to sugary and carbohydrate foods. The ingestion of carbohydrate foods unleash a metabolic tidal wave. What happens is that the digestion of carbohydrates elevates blood glucose level, which elicit insulin secretion. Insulin is a powerful anabolic hormone that promote weight gain and metabolic diseases.
A low carb diet is followed by lower levels of insulin, which is followed by minimal amount of fatting activities. Instead, the nutrients from the ingested food are slowly burned off to satisfy our daily energy need. Protein foods provides much more essential nutrients without the bad metabolic effects. Fatty foods are energy dense and appetite suppressing. A low-carb diet is a diet that restricts carbohydrates, such as those found in sugary foods, pasta and bread. It is high in protein, fat and healthy vegetables.
Eat: Meat, fish, eggs, vegetables, fruit, nuts, seeds, high-fat dairy, fats, healthy oils and maybe even some tubers and non-gluten grains.
Don’t eat: Sugar, HFCS, wheat, seed oils, trans fats, “diet” and low-fat products and highly processed foods.
You should avoid these six food groups and nutrients, in order of importance:
Sugar: Soft drinks, fruit juices, agave, candy, ice cream and many other products that contain added sugar.
Refined grains: Wheat, rice, barley and rye, as well as bread, cereal and pasta.
Trans fats: Hydrogenated or partially hydrogenated oils.
Diet and low-fat products: Many dairy products, cereals or crackers are fat-reduced, but contain added sugar.
Highly processed foods: If it looks like it was made in a factory, don’t eat it.
Starchy vegetables: It’s best to limit starchy vegetables in your diet if you’re following a very low-carb diet.
You should base your diet on these real, unprocessed, low-carb foods.
Meat: Beef, lamb, pork, chicken and others; grass-fed is best.
Fish: Salmon, trout, haddock and many others; wild-caught fish is best.
Eggs: Omega-3-enriched or pastured eggs are best.
Vegetables: Spinach, broccoli, cauliflower, carrots and many others.
Fruits: Apples, oranges, pears, blueberries, strawberries.
Nuts and seeds: Almonds, walnuts, sunflower seeds, etc.
High-fat dairy: Cheese, butter, heavy cream, yogurt.
Fats and oils: Coconut oil, butter, lard, olive oil and fish oil.
If you need to lose weight, be careful with cheese and nuts, as it’s easy to overeat on them. Don’t eat more than one piece of fruit per day. But make sure you replenish vitamins and minerals with bone broth and multivitamin daily.
Eat until you are satisfied, but not stuffed. Eating plenty of protein helps to avoid ketosis. Eating plenty of vegetables is essential to avoid constipation.
Copyright © 2019 All rights reserved.
To keep stress in check, you should of course be eating healthfully, exercising regularly, and getting enough sleep to improve your mood, emotions, and cognition. But those are just the basics—and they’re not always easy to accomplish, especially when life is throwing lots of tension your way. Here are four of brain-focused, research-based strategies that work in just minutes a day.
Give your brain some RUM
That stands for Rest, Uplifting emotions, and Motivation. You need all three to help energize your brain and head off fatigue. So when you’re engaged in a task, take three to five minutes every couple of hours (or sooner, if you start getting fidgety) and pause for RUM.
How-to: Get up from your computer, or stop what you’re doing, and look at photos of your kids or of your favorite vacation spot, read inspiring quotes, text or call a friend, or watch a happy short video. Choose an activity that makes you feel good and is motivating.
Begin a morning gratitude practice
Take control of your brain before it gets hijacked by the day’s concerns and greet the morning in a happier, more connected frame of mind.
How-to: When you first wake up, before you get out of bed, spend a few minutes thinking of some people who care about you and silently send them your gratitude. Another reason it’s a good idea: A recent study found that anticipating a stressful day when you first wake up affects your working memory later that day—even if nothing stressful actually happens. (Working memory is what helps you learn things and retain them even when you’re distracted.)
Be mindfully present
Meditation is a great stress reliever, but not everyone can sit still, looking inward, for 20-plus minutes. Good news for the fidgety: Research has shown that focusing your attention outward engages the same brain network, so you can get similar stress-easing benefits by consciously giving the world your attention.
How-to: Challenge yourself to be curious and notice details—the color of the barista’s
eyes at the coffee shop, the pattern of your boss’s necktie, which flowers are blooming in your neighborhood. Curiosity feeds the brain’s reward network, which makes
you feel good; it also augments memory and learning.
Focus on kindness
Even the nicest among us are quick to judge others, especially if they’re different from us (thank the amygdala, a region of the brain that interprets difference as a threat).
How-to: To calm the amygdala, focus on two things when you’re feeling judgy about someone: that every person is special, and that everyone has struggles. Start a practice of sending silent good wishes to people you pass on the street or in the halls at work. The benefits for you: Your oxytocin, the hormone of connectedness, rises; your heart rate slows; and you feel more benevolent. All of which makes you healthier and happier.
https://www.fastcompany.com/90274251/song-reduces-anxiety-neuroscience
Five years ago, I was beginning to have hypertension. But I was not fat, my BMI was 23. I started dieting anyways. First, I tried skipping a meal a day. It helped initially for some time. Then I started to gain weight again, even when I have stuck to only two meals a day.
I stumbled on the low-carb diet a year ago and it was so effective! I lost 20 pounds within 6 months. But there are more benefits from the low carb diet.
With carb restriction, I fixed my acne, alopecia areata, eczema, canker sore, gout, hyperhidrosis, hives (dermatographic urticaria), hay fever, hypertension, migraine, periodontitis, prostatitis, rheumatoid arthritis, tooth decay, turbid urine.
Here is the most recent science:
According to Philips annual global sleep survey, three quarters of adults around the world experience at least one of the following conditions that impact their sleep: insomnia, snoring, shift work sleep disorder, chronic pain, sleep apnea, restless leg syndrome and narcolepsy.” Both physical and mental health problems can make getting that deepest stage of sleep difficult, but since this all goes on at night, you may struggle pinpointing what’s going on.
“Snoring is another common cause that impacts sleep with 29 percent of global adults reporting they experience this condition,” Dr. Lee-Chiong says. “[… And] snoring can be a manifestation of an underlying sleep apnea disorder.”
Six in 10 global adults experience daytime sleepiness at least twice per week,” Dr. Lee-Chiong says. “People who do not obtain optimal deep sleep at night often feel tired throughout the day, which may impact their energy levels and productivity.”
Depression is a disease that has a metabolic root. Chronic stress is a hallmark of either depression or anxiety. The chronic inflammatory state in these people sustain the chronic stress to prevent recovery. We know that obesity is associated with chronic inflammation. A carbohydrate rich diet causes carbohydrate intolerance or hyperinsulinemia to lead to chronic inflammation.
We know that there are other causes to depression. However, to get out of it we have to ensure the physiology allow it to happen–which means that we have to adopt the low carb diet.
Here is a website with lots of very good information:
https://www.verywellmind.com/theories-of-motivation-2795720
|
Copyright © 2019 All rights reserved.
|
1. What’s the effects on blood sugar of dietary carbohydrate, protein, and fat?
Blood glucose responds very differently to dietary carbohydrate, protein, and fat. Carbohydrates cause it to increase a lot, protein and fat do not.
2. A carbohydrate rich diet cause hyperinsulinemia
Type 2 diabetes is a disease of high blood sugar. It is caused by carbohydrate intolerance or hyperinsulinemia. That means when someone with type 2 diabetes eats carbohydrates, it causes their blood sugar to rise above a healthy level.
The average human has 4.5 g of sugar in the blood, but there are 45 g in a cup of cooked white rice.
The excess glucose in the blood causes the secretion of the hormone insulin from the pancreas. Insulin stimulate our body tissues to absorb glucose from the blood to lower blood glucose concentration.
In type 2 diabetes, both blood sugar levels and insulin levels are high due to their intolerance to carbohydrates.
3. Hyperinsulinemia causes diabetes
52% of US adults have either diabetes or prediabetes. What do they eat? Starchy foods? Eating too much carbohydrates causes hyperinsulinemia, which leads to diabetes.
4. Is diabetes reversible?
Metformin, sulfonylureas, insulin are some of the most used medications for diabetic patients. But the medication approach focuses on management of diabetes, not reversal. Taking medications for type 2 diabetes combats the end result, which is rising blood sugar, but does not address the root causes—hyperinsulinemia and carbohydrate intolerance.
Shifting the paradigm to diabetes reversal, however, means addressing the root causes of type 2 diabetes.
Most lifestyle interventions focus on eating less and exercising more. But many patients have tried this and have seen minimal results, which makes them ultimately resorting to medications. However, a low-carb, high fat diet can help keep your blood sugar and insulin levels down.
5. Is low carb diet safe?
Humans have evolved to eat a low carb diet for 2 million years. The high carb diet was only made available 10000 years ago when agriculture started. The low carb diet was then popularized by Banting 150 years ago. It is picked up again by Dr. Atkins in the 1970s, popularized again in the new century. Millions of people are using the low carb diet to lose weight effectively right now.
6. Low carb diet reverses diabetes
Before insulin was discovered, a low carb diet was the only option for people with diabetes. A low-carb, high fat diet is significantly more effective than programs that encourage you to eat less and exercise more.
7. Sample meal plan for a day
Breakfast. Scrambled eggs with cheese and sausage; bacon and fried eggs cooked in butter.
What is the best diet for humans? People prefer the low fat diet because they think they’ll become fat if they eat fat. Sadly this natural logic is incorrect and it puzzles people and destroys their health. Fortunately not all people get stuck with the misleading idea. In 1863, William Banting published a low carb diet after successfully using it to lose weight. In the 1970s, we had the Atkins diet. In the new century we have the ketogenic diet. However, only a minority of people are convinced and people are still struggling and puzzling and dying of obesity.
Why is the low fat diet bad?
The low fat diet is very fattening because it contains mostly carbohydrates which are the biological signals for our body to store fat. A high fat diet has the opposite effects, because ingested fats in our body act as inhibitors of fat synthesis.
Carbohydrates are broken down to glucose after digestion. Glucose is the signal of energy abundance for the body. This signal elicit the secretion of insulin, a powerful anabolic hormone. We all know that insulin works to lower blood glucose, which is a good thing. But insulin also does bad things—for those of you who have metabolic diseases. For example, if you have too much fat, it’s because of insulin. Insulin also stimulate the immune cells and the cancer cells to cause us all kinds of metabolic problems.
Carbohydrate foods are appetite inducing and nutrient poor. People gets addicted to sugary and carbohydrate foods. The ingestion of carbohydrate foods unleash a metabolic tidal wave. What happens is that the digestion of carbohydrates elevates blood glucose level, which elicit insulin secretion. Insulin is a powerful anabolic hormone that promote weight gain and metabolic diseases.
People discuss about carb or sugar addiction. It’s true. The carbohydrates act as powerful drugs. Carbohydrate consumption causes our body to produce insulin. And too much insulin causes obesity, diabetes, stroke, heart attack and cancer.
Obesity is not caused by the brain, it is caused by the body. It is not caused by overeating, It is caused by too much insulin. In other words, insulin is the deciding factor for growth, but nothing else.
So is a high fat diet like the ketogenic diet the best? It definitely works quite well for obese people to lose weight—just look at the crowd of followers.
Obesity is harmful. But even without obesity, we are getting diseases like, stroke, diabetes and cancer. There are certainly other factors than diet that contribute to the diseases. However, a healthy diet is the least we can do to help mitigate the bad effects. A healthy diet is not just for weight reduction, it is for good health. But what is a healthy diet? A healthy diet is one that removes carbohydrates, but keep everything else. Carbohydrate restriction reduce insulin and contribute to optimal hormonal balance to reduce stress and inflammation.
Low-carb diet improve concentration, the sleepiness or lethargy after a meal is gone, and reduce hunger, increase focus in addition to weight loss.
Copyright © 2019 All rights reserved.
Mindfulness meditation has two key parts: (1) paying attention to and being aware of the present moment; and (2) being willing to experience your thoughts and feelings without judging them.
The relaxation response is a physical state of deep rest that changes a person’s physical and emotional responses to stress. You can elicit the relaxation responses by practicing the following relaxation methods:
