A while back on Maria Bartiromo’s “Mornings with Maria” show
on television, a doctor was asked, “What are the symptoms of pre-diabetes?” To
which the doctor exclaimed, “SYMPTOMS ARE TOO LATE!” Ignoring
the answer, the questioner, following a script, continued, “But can’t pre-diabetes
be reversed?” The doctor fell into line and answered, correctly, “Once you are diagnosed diabetic, you are
diabetic for life, but you CAN manage your condition.”
The doctor, however, didn’t have time to answer. He only had
time to mention that pre-diabetes, or even clinically diagnosed
type 2 diabetes, can be “reversed,” but only by and with a permanent lifestyle change.
The interview, however, was introduced with a recorded
“teaser” from the popular singer Patti LaBelle. She told how her family had
suffered terribly from type 2 diabetes and how she, who was now a diagnosed
type 2, was determined to avoid those “complications.” She said she had changed
her “way of living, eating and thinking.” She’s right, of course, but of the
three, Patti just talked about what she eats.
Ways of eating, however, are still open to many
interpretations, including ways of eating to lose weight. Arguably, there are
countless ways to lose weight, albeit not permanently. As all dieters know,
weight loss is usually followed – often quickly – by weight gain. The reason is
that the
dieter is hungry. The dieter’s body demands more energy (food in
some form) to return to energy balance. This condition, homeostasis, is metabolic
and beyond control of the dieter.
There is a way of eating, however, if adopted permanently, that will both
manage pre-diabetes and type 2 diabetes AND produce permanent weight loss. That way is Very Low
Carb (VLC). Eating VLC both enables the “dieter” to either reverse pre-diabetes
or manage type 2 diabetes and lose weight
easily and permanently…so long as you continue to eat Very Low Carb.
That’s the condition. It’s a trade-off. You get to permanently keep the weight
off, and reverse your prediabetes, that is to say, put it in “clinical remission.”
Based on the medical Standard of Care for diagnosis and treatment, a doctor
will declare you clinically “non-diabetic.” Really!
Seriously! (See Retrospective
#441).
Another huge benefit of this “win-win” outcome is that it
will cut in half your risk of cardiovascular
disease (CVD), and dying from a heart condition or stroke. These macrovascular
complications are in addition to the usual microvascular complications associated
with type 2 diabetes: blindness, amputation and end-stage kidney disease (with
dialysis). Other “Diseases of Civilization” associated with the high-processed-high-carb
diet are Alzheimer’s (type 3 diabetes) and various cancers,
particularly liver, pancreas, endometrial, colon and rectum, breast, and
bladder cancers.
The doctor on Bartiromo’s program made another good point: He
declared type 2 diabetes to be a scourge of our modern lifestyle that is “self-caused.”
He said 1) we overeat, 2) we don’t eat properly, and 3) we don’t exercise. The first two
are interrelated, with the 2nd being the cause of the 1st.
But to his point: “WE” IS THE PATIENT.
“SELF-CAUSED” means that WE
can do something about it, without intercession by our doctors.
The doctor then lost his way on the eating part. He advocated
“fruits and vegetables and lean meat” and avoiding “saturated fat and sugary
drinks.” It was essentially, the Mediterranean Diet: Eat processed vegetable
oils (PUFAs) and avoid fatty red meat (saturated fat). That’s the government’s
pitch. Sad, really sad, and too bad, but that’s still the wrong-headed position
of the medical, public health and agri-business, big pharma industrial-agricultural
complex.
For perspective, just remember that too many processed carbs
and simple sugars, and wheat, excessive
fructose and excessive linoleic acid (Omega 6s in the
polyunsaturated vegetable oils), is how we got sick and fat in the first place.
Note that, as of the 2015, THE GOVERNMENT’S DIETARY
GUIDELINES FOR AMERICANS NO LONGER LIMIT DIETARY CHOLESTEROL OR TOTAL FATS.
Did you know that? I’ll bet you don’t. They KNOW they got
it wrong from the 1960s and now they’re slowly turning it around and hoping you
don’t notice. But THEY KNOW you can eat high-cholesterol
foods and full-fat dairy and not only do-no-harm but actually improve your health
and not gain weight. Do you know it?
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