I once read the definition of disaster is when a series of small little insignificant events converge at single moment in time and a system failure results.Metabolic Syndrome is growing disaster in America. People developing this disease are at risk for hypertension, heart disease, stroke and diabetes and 27 other diseases. Are you at risk?
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Metabolic syndrome is a silent disease and expensive disease.
The average cost is more than $4000 dollars a year. This is for times more than average medical costs. 20th Century medicine has allowed people to cheat nature, treat our ills and fight off death. But death comes to everyone. Some faster than others.
The baby boomers are aging, their metabolisms are slow down and insist on getting medical care but the All- America diet of a burger, fries and soda is turning on a genetic switch in people's bodies to make people age prematurely. We have plague of chronic disease upon our houses. And if we don't soon act may God have mercy on us all.
Genetics loads the gun but our environment (diet and behavior) pulls the trigger- George Bray
I have been researching obesity for four months. And the more I dig into the story the worse it gets. We have two food economies and two health educational systems in America. One food economy is dominated by market based desires. And the other food economy is the organic food's reaction to food science run amok. Let's face regardless of right and wrong American medicine and our economy is driven by supply economics, flies in face of common sense and is unsustainable.
Our population supplies the sick and medicine provides the cures but with metabolic syndrome there is only cost, more suffering and death. Insulin pumps and stem cells provide hope but are economically of outreach for so many. Is it morally right to fuel an health epidemic and provide treatment to only those who can afford it? What about education?
Prevention saves money but provides no profit unless you work for the diet industry or write a book.
There no major scientific differences between the South Beach Diet, You on a Diet and Ultrametabolism. All 3 three work. The best diet is one you live to be old with. All this sounds like another study I know of that compaired Ornish, Atkins, Weight Watchers and the Zone.
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They have some things in common:
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When one eats simple sugars and carbohydrates the pancreas reacts quickly to metabolize the food. Look at the fast food diet of meat on refined bread, fries and soda and you will see a diet designed cause insulin spikes and add body fat.
Most fast food sandwiches are refined flour with a meat patty. This sugar and fat to your body with no fiber. French fries are starch. Starch transforms into sugar. French fries are starch fried in fat. I like think of them as small fried Twinkies! I confess I eat french fries. I never touch my next my topic- HFCS soda.
The soda is two liquid monosaccharide sugars in carbonated water: fructose and glucose. In nature fructose usually comes with fiber. Fiber slows the absorption of sugar and fat in our diet. Glucose is easily regulated by insulin from the pancreas. Glucose becomes energy in muscles, stored as fat or is passed out of body but if glucose is either not detected or utilized by insulin then blood sugar levels can rise.
As I understand it together these two sugars without any fiber pack a double punch. The fructose bypasses the pancreas and makes a fast track for the liver. The liver, a major control center of our body’s metabolism makes a decision to turn the fructose into fat or let it pass out of the body. Fructose has been shown to increase triglycerides.
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There is less clear evidence with the lowering of HDL and HFCS.
Most of the time fructose becomes fat in the fatty organ tissue called the omentum. The omentum loves insulin, will soak it up and rob the body of needed insulin. Insulin has a lock and key relationship with glucose. When the pancreas can’t detect the glucose or the body does not enough insulin is made it is called impaired fasting glucose (IFG) and when insulin can’t work it is called insulin resistance or insulin glucose tolerance (IGT). When insulin and glucose are out balance you are in BIG trouble. The IGT and IFG are metabolic sydrome in action. Either your body or your diet will have to quit this violent cycle because after IGT and IFG you have Type 2 diabetes.
I am not trying to be a food Nazi as much as I am trying to give people informed choice before their bodies force an expensive choice on them and my fellow citizens. If I am a food Nazi then what are my critics? Food Communists? It looks like it to me.
Metabolic syndrome is very expensive. With Iowa government is debating universal health care coverage. America needs universal health care but I don’t feel right paying for a stem cell treatment so someone can eat at McDonalds three times day for several years. Stem cell treatments will be rare gift like organ transplants if you misuse your life-saving gift then people's sacrifice to give that gift are dishonored.
You can’t make a mistake with diabetes and heart disease. Good health education is the only cost effective and moral answer.