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Modern wheat is a “perfect, chronic poison”

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STOP EATING WHEAT!  Yet another article supporting my stance that wheat is one of the root problems leading to poor health.  Please read and share!

(CBS News) Modern wheat is a “perfect, chronic poison,” according to Dr. William Davis, a cardiologist who has published a book all about the world’s most popular grain.

Davis said that the wheat we eat these days isn’t the wheat your grandma had: “It’s an 18-inch tall plant created by genetic research in the ’60s and ’70s,” he said on “CBS This Morning.” “This thing has many new features nobody told you about, such as there’s a new protein in this thing called gliadin. It’s not gluten. I’m not addressing people with gluten sensitivities and celiac disease. I’m talking about everybody else because everybody else is susceptible to the gliadin protein that is an opiate. This thing binds into the opiate receptors in your brain and in most people stimulates appetite, such that we consume 440 more calories per day, 365 days per year.”

Asked if the farming industry could change back to the grain it formerly produced, Davis said it could, but it would not be economically feasible because it yields less per acre. However, Davis said a movement has begun with people turning away from wheat – and dropping substantial weight.

“If three people lost eight pounds, big deal,” he said. “But we’re seeing hundreds of thousands of people losing 30, 80, 150 pounds. Diabetics become no longer diabetic; people with arthritis having dramatic relief. People losing leg swelling, acid reflux, irritable bowel syndrome, depression, and on and on every day.”

To avoid these wheat-oriented products, Davis suggests eating “real food,” such as avocados, olives, olive oil, meats, and vegetables. “(It’s) the stuff that is least likely to have been changed by agribusiness,” he said. “Certainly not grains. When I say grains, of course, over 90 percent of all grains we eat will be wheat, it’s not barley… or flax. It’s going to be wheat.

“It’s really a wheat issue.”

Some health resources, such as the Mayo Clinic, advocate a more balanced diet that does include wheat. But Davis said on “CTM” they’re just offering a poor alternative.

“All that literature says is to replace something bad, white enriched products with something less bad, whole grains, and there’s an apparent health benefit – ‘Let’s eat a whole bunch of less bad things.’ So I take…unfiltered cigarettes and replace with Salem filtered cigarettes, you should smoke the Salems. That’s the logic of nutrition, it’s a deeply flawed logic. What if I take it to the next level, and we say, ‘Let’s eliminate all grains,’ what happens then?

“That’s when you see, not improvements in health, that’s when you see transformations in health.”

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Health and Happiness,

Jay

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The Power of Coconut Oil

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Nearly 50 percent of the fat in coconut oil is of a type rarely found in nature called lauric acid, a “miracle” compound because of its unique health promoting properties. Your body converts lauric acid into monolaurin, which has anti-viral, anti-bacterial and anti-protozoa properties.

Coconut oil is also nature’s richest source of medium-chain fatty acids (MCFAs), also called medium-chain triglycerides or MCTs. By contrast, most common vegetable or seed oils are comprised of long chain fatty acids (LCFAs), also known as long-chain triglycerides or LCTs.

LCTs are large molecules, so they are difficult for your body to break down and are predominantly stored as fat.

But MCTs, being smaller, are easily digested and immediately burned by your liver for energy — like carbohydrates, but without the insulin spike. MCTs actually boost your metabolism and help your body use fat for energy, as opposed to storing it, so it can actually help you become leaner.

Health Benefits of Coconut Oil Include:

  • Promoting your heart health
  • Promoting weight loss when and if you need it
  • Supporting your immune system health
  • Supporting a healthy metabolism
  • Providing you with an immediate energy source
  • Helping to keep your skin healthy & youthful looking
  • Supporting proper functioning of your thyroid gland

Make sure you are purchasing Organic Extra Virgin Coconut Oil! The only ingredient it should contain is Coconut Oil, nothing else!

I personally eat 1 to 2 tablespoons per day. (1 tbsp. with my morning meal and 1 tbsp. with my afternoon meal)
Health and Happiness,
Jay

P.S. You can’t out exercise a bad diet!

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“Why We Over Eat”

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What Happens When Your Brain Can’t Hear Leptin’s Signals …

Leptin is a hormone produced by fat tissue, which relays important messages such as whether you should:

  • Be hungry, eat and make more fat
  • Reproduce and make babies
  • “Hunker down” and work overtime to maintain and repair yourself

Although most think of their brain as being “top of the food chain” in terms of making decisions to keep your body functioning, your brain actually depends on your fat to “speak” to it and tell it how much energy your body has available, and then what to do with it.

Growing evidence shows that leptin may influence areas of your brain that control the intensity of your desire to eat. It has also been found that leptin not only changes brain chemistry, but can also “rewire” the very important areas of your brain that control hunger and metabolism. The way your body stores fat is a carefully regulated process that is controlled, primarily, by leptin. If you gain excess weight, the additional fat produces extra leptin that should alert your brain that your body should stop creating and storing more fat and start burning the accumulated excess.

To do this, signals are sent to your brain to stop being hungry and to stop eating. It is very important that your brain is able to accurately “hear” the messages leptin sends it, as otherwise your brain thinks you’re depleted and will continue to feel hungry, even starving. If your brain does not respond appropriately to leptin, you will likely continue to eat and store more fat.

So why then, if your body has an innate system, honed by eons of trial and error to regulate your fat stores to perfection, is the United States and many other countries facing an obesity epidemic of unprecedented scale?

Because many people have become “leptin resistant.”

Leptin resistance occurs when your body is unable to properly hear leptin’s signals. How does this happen? By overexposure to high levels of the hormone, caused by eating too much sugar.

You may be familiar with this process occurring with the hormone insulin. High blood sugar levels cause repeated surges in insulin and this causes your cells to become “insulin-resistant,” which leads to the production of even higher levels of insulin, eventually leading to type 2 diabetes. It is much the same as being in a room with a strong odor for a period of time. Eventually, you stop being able to smell it, because the signal no longer gets through.

The same process also occurs with leptin. It has been shown that as sugar gets metabolized and stored as triglycerides in fat cells, the fat cells release surges of leptin and those surges result in leptin-resistance, just as it results in insulin-resistance. When you become leptin-resistant, your body can no longer hear the messages telling it to stop eating and burn fat — so it remains hungry and stores more fat.

This will not only contribute to weight gain, but also increase your risk of many chronic illnesses, as leptin plays a significant, if not primary, role in heart disease, obesity, diabetes, osteoporosis, autoimmune diseases, reproductive disorders, and perhaps the rate of aging itself.

 

Too Much Sugar Overstimulates Your Brain’s Pleasure Center, Leading to Addiction

When you eat sugar it triggers the production of your brain’s natural opioids — a key initiator of the addiction process. Your brain essentially becomes addicted to stimulating the release of its own opioids. The intensity of this effect is experienced on the same level as morphine or heroin.

Researchers have speculated that the sweet receptors (two protein receptors located on your tongue), which evolved in ancestral times when the diet was very low in sugar, have not adapted to the seemingly unlimited access to a cheap and omnipresent sugar supply in the modern diet. Therefore, the abnormally high stimulation of these receptors by our sugar-rich diets generates excessive reward signals in your brain, which have the potential to override normal self-control mechanisms, create tolerance and withdrawal symptoms, thus leading to addiction.

According to Dr. Lustig, it is virtually impossible to exert enough cognitive willpower to overcome this 24/7 biochemical drive! He states in The Atlantic:i

“The brain’s pleasure center, called the nucleus accumbens, is essential for our survival as a species… Turn off pleasure, and you turn off the will to live… But long-term stimulation of the pleasure center drives the process of addiction… When you consume any substance of abuse, including sugar, the nucleus accumbens receives a dopamine signal, from which you experience pleasure. And so you consume more. The problem is that with prolonged exposure, the signal attenuates, gets weaker. So you have to consume more to get the same effect — tolerance.

And if you pull back on the substance, you go into withdrawal. Tolerance and withdrawal constitute addiction. And make no mistake, sugar is addictive.”

Tolerance and withdrawal are the hallmarks of addiction – they occur with alcohol, nicotine, cocaine, morphine, cannabis and every drug of abuse … and also with sugar. Like many types of addictions, sugar addiction can in fact be deadly. Evidence is mounting that sugar is a primary contributing factor in obesity and diabetes, but other chronic and lethal diseases.

There’s really no doubt anymore that sugar is indeed toxic to your body, and it’s only a matter of time before it will be commonly accepted as a causative factor in most cancer, in the same way that now we accept without question that smoking and alcohol abuse are direct causes of lung cancer and cirrhosis of the liver, respectively.

The Average American Consumes 12 Teaspoons of Sugar a Day

… This amounts to about two TONS of sugar during a lifetime. While it may offer a fleeting feeling of pleasure when it passes through your lips, the more you eat the more you’ll crave – and ultimately the more you’ll need to eat to get those same pleasurable feelings. This sugar addiction can actually re-wire your brain, not to mention make you very sick …

Of all the molecules capable of inflicting damage in your body, sugar molecules are probably the most damaging.

Fructose, in particular, is an extremely potent pro-inflammatory agent that creates harmful advanced glycation end products (AGEs) and speeds up the aging process. It also promotes the kind of dangerous growth of fat cells around your vital organs (visceral fat) that are the hallmark of diabetes and heart disease. As mentioned, sugar/fructose also increases your insulin and leptin levels and decrease the receptor sensitivity for both of these vital hormones, and these hormonal abnormalities are a major factor in premature aging and age-related chronic degenerative diseases such as heart disease.

Keep in mind that while it’s perfectly normal for your blood sugar levels to rise slightly after every meal,

However, it is not natural or healthy when your blood sugar levels become excessively elevated and stay that way — which is exactly what will happen if you’re eating like the typical American, who consumes on average a staggering 2.5 pounds of sugar a week! And when you add in other low-quality carbohydrate-rich foods such as white bread, sugar, pasta, pastries, cookies, and candy, which also break down to sugar (starch is broken down into glucose) in your body and often contain added sugar as well, it’s not so difficult to see why so many Americans are in such poor health.

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“1 in 5 US Young People will be Obese by 2020″

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In order for the nation to achieve goals set by the federal government for reducing obesity rates by 2020, children in the United States would need to eliminate an average of 64 excess calories per day, researchers calculated in a new study published in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. This reduction could be achieved by decreasing calorie intake, increasing physical activity, or both. Without this reduction, the authors predict that the average U.S. youth would be nearly four pounds heavier than a child or teen of the same age was in 2007-2008, and more than 20% of young people would be obese, up from 16.9% today.

“Sixty-four calories may not sound like much individually, but it’s quite a consequential number at the population level, and children at greatest risk for obesity face an even larger barrier,” says Y. Claire Wang, MD, ScD, assistant professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health and lead author of the study. “Closing this gap between how many calories young people are consuming and how many they are expending will take substantial, comprehensive efforts.”

The daily difference between how many calories young people consume and how many they expend through normal growth, body function and physical activity is known as the energy gap. The 64-calorie difference between consumption and expenditure is an average for the population. Dr. Wang and her colleagues note it is not intended to represent a change for any individual young person, and that many young people would need to see even greater reductions.

In particular, children and teens who currently have higher obesity rates would require larger energy gap reductions to reach the obesity rate goal. For instance, based on their current obesity rates, white youths would need a 46-calorie reduction, on average, in their energy gap to reach the goals. But given their higher obesity rates in 2008-2010, the average reduction needed to close the energy gap for Mexican-American youths is 91 calories and, for black youths, it is 138 calories. Youths in lower-income communities also need greater reductions than their peers in higher-income areas, again due to higher rates of obesity. Additionally, an earlier study by several of the same researchers found that the problem is especially acute for teens who are already overweight.

In order to project how many young people would be obese in 2020, Dr. Wang and her colleagues analyzed decades of data on obesity rates. Height and weight among U.S. youths ages 2-19 were taken from National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys from 1971 to 2008. Based on the trends, the authors projected that the childhood obesity rate would be about 21% in 2020, up from 16.9% now.

Dr. Wang and her colleagues then compared the projected rate of 21% to the goal of 14.6% set by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in a 2010 report titled Healthy People 2020 and calculated how much of a daily energy gap the average youth would need to close in order to achieve that goal. A childhood obesity rate of 14.6% has not been seen since 2002.

“Reaching the 2020 goal will require significant changes to calories consumed and expended,” said C. Tracy Orleans, PhD, co-author of the study and senior scientist at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. “Because we know that children and teens who already are overweight or obese will need larger reductions, and that preventing obesity will be more effective than treating it, we must focus our attention on the policy and environmental changes likely to have early, broad, and sustainable impacts.”

The authors outline several policy strategies that could help to close the daily energy gap for American youths. For instance, they point to research showing that:

  • replacing all sugar-sweetened beverages in school with water and not consuming any additional sugary beverages outside of school could reduce the energy gap by 12 calories per day;
  • participating in a comprehensive physical education program could eliminate 19 calories per day among children ages 9-11; and
  • engaging in an after-school activity program for children in grades K-5 results in an additional 25 calories expended per day.

In a commentary accompanying the study, William H. Dietz, MD, PhD, director of the Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, writes that the research “provides important data that highlight the promise of prevention and raise the challenge of treatment in children and adolescents.”

Steven L. Gortmaker, PhD, Professor of the Practice of Health Sociology at Harvard School of Public Health was senior author of the study. Funding for the study was provided by grants from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U48/DP00064-00S1) and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

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Build Your Muscles to Boost Insulin Response!

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Increasing lean muscle mass—already known to be important to fight frailty with aging (a condition called sarcopenia)—may also help protect against diabetes. A new study reports that every additional 10% of skeletal muscle mass was associated with an 11% reduction in insulin resistance and a 12% lower risk of transitional, prediabetes or diabetes.

“While we knew there was a relationship between metabolic disorders and very low muscle mass,” says lead researcher Preethi Srikanthan, MD, of the University of California-Los Angeles, “we were surprised to find that this relationship was preserved across the range of muscle mass.”

Dr. Srikanthan and colleagues examined data on 13,644 participants in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) III, from 1988 to 1994. When researchers compared the one-quarter of participants with the most muscle mass with those at the bottom of the spectrum, those with the greatest muscle mass were 63% less prone to diabetes.

When the results were adjusted to omit people already suffering from diabetes, the association between muscle mass and improved insulin resistance was even stronger. The benefits of increasing muscle mass went beyond countering the metabolic effects of sarcopenia: “Increases in muscle mass above even average levels were associated with additional protection against insulin resistance and prediabetes.”

Insulin resistance is a condition in which the body’s muscle, fat and liver cells don’t respond properly to insulin, a hormone made by the pancreas that helps cells take in and use glucose. As a result, excess glucose—a form of sugar that’s the body’s main source of energy—builds up in the bloodstream, setting the stage for diabetes.

According to Dr. Srikanthan, “Our findings suggest that beyond focusing on losing weight to improve metabolic health, there may be a role for maintaining fitness and building muscle mass. This is a welcome message for many overweight patients who experience difficulty in achieving weight loss, as any effort to get moving and keep fit should be seen as laudable and contributing to metabolic change.”

The study was cross-sectional rather than interventional, so the researchers can’t say for certain that increasing your muscle mass will lower your risk of developing insulin resistance or pre-diabetes.
Source of information:  Tufts University Health and Nutrition Letter

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Detoxifying GREEN Juice Recipe

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This amazing Green Juice concoction is Body Fat Detox Approved!

Jay’s Super Green Juice:

2 Cups of Spinach
1 Cup of Kale
1 Celery Stalks
1 Medium Cucumber
1 Lemon (peeled)
1 Piece of Ginger (about the size of your thumb)

You can use a juicer or a Vitamix to make this juice.  I have a Jack Lalanne Juicer that works great.  If you decide to use the Vitamix I recommend adding about a 1/2 cup of cold water.

Jay’s Super Green Juice is perfect for anyone on the Body Fat Detox program.  It will enhance your body’s natural immune response and maximize the detoxification process.

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What is the Body Fat Detox

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Jay Nixon creator of the Body Fat Detox system explains the details and benefits of the Body Fat Detox system. If you want to lose BODY FAT, have more energy, look better and be in the best shape of your life then the Body Fat Detox is perfect for you.

The Body Fat Detox is a 30 day program. You receive a 30 page guide that includes:
●Detox Food Guide
●Detox Portion Guide
●Detox Menu Guide
●Detox Supplement Guide
●Detox Supplement System
●Detox Journal
●Detox Recipe Guide

The Detox Supplement system consists of:

Detox Nutrients Packets (Promotes the metabolism of toxins)
It seems that toxic chemical exposure is everywhere – in our food, air, water, and even in the tissues of every person. Bioaccumulation of these compounds in some individuals can lead to a variety of metabolic dysfunctions, particularly to the immune, neurological, and endocrine systems of the body. Toxicity in these systems can lead to a decrease in the overall health of the system, as well as causing specific adverse effects on individual health and well-being.

Detox Nutrients Packets offer a simple and effective way to ensure your patients get the proper nutrients they need each day to help the body’s detoxification mechanisms run optimally. Detox Nutrients Packets are ideal for anyone undergoing a cleansing program. In addition, individuals on a weight-loss program, undergoing sauna therapy, or engaging in strenuous exercise can benefit from these convenient packets.

Each packet contains two capsules of the following special Thorne formulas:
Liver Cleanse is a potent combination of herbs that work synergistically to enhance the function of the liver and is specifically helpful during a comprehensive detoxification program.  The herbs in this formula enhance the production and flow of bile, which helps to optimize metabolism and the excretion of substances detoxified by the liver. Several of these herbs also provide support for the kidneys.

Toxic Relief Booster provides nutrients and botanicals for general detoxification support. This formula promotes the metabolism of toxins previously stored in fat that have been released into the bloodstream due to above activities. Toxic Relief Booster can be used alone or in conjunction with other components of a detoxification protocol.
Solvent Remover contains amino acids that support the specific liver detoxification pathways involved in solvent elimination, as well as antioxidant nutrients to help protect nerves from solvent damage. The amino acids glycine, L-glutamine, and taurine enhance the function of the liver pathways involved in solvent detoxification.  N-acetylcysteine increases the production of glutathione, an antioxidant that promotes detoxification.  Alpha-lipoic acid also increases glutathione and is neuroprotective.

Medibulk® (Important soluble fiber for a healthy GI tract)
Colonic bacteria utilize soluble fiber and other undigested carbohydrates as food and subsequently create short-chain fatty acids, which are used by the colonic mucosal cells as fuel. In turn, the short-chain fatty acids liberated by these bacteria can lower colonic pH and shorten transit time in the gastrointestinal tract, which enhances detoxification and reduces the toxic burden on the liver.  Medibulk contains psyllium, pectin, and prune powder as sources of soluble fiber.

Anaerobic fermentation of the soluble non-starch polysaccharides in psyllium results in the production of important short-chain fatty acids in the intestines. One of these fatty acids, butyric acid, is the preferred fuel for colonocytes (mucosal cells of the colon) and provides important support for a healthy colon.* In one study, subjects supplemented with 20 grams of psyllium seed daily for three months exhibited an average increase of butyric acid production of 42 percent, which decreased to pretreatment levels within two months of stopping supplementation.

Soluble fiber also has a positive impact in supporting the metabolism of cholesterol and maintaining already healthy blood sugar levels.  Other indications for supplementing with Medibulk include occasional constipation or diarrhea, the need for colon detoxification, soothing of hemorrhoids, appetite control, and support of colon health.
Prior to embarking on a detoxification program it is important to achieve optimal bowel function. Medibulk can speed transit time in the bowel and bind toxins released into the intestines from the liver, preventing their reabsorption.

VegaLite™ Protein Powder (vegan-friendly proprietary pea/rice protein blend)
VegaLite is a non-whey, vegetable-based protein powder that is low in sugar, calories, and fat. VegaLite is ideal for vegans and vegetarians, dairy-sensitive individuals, and for anyone requiring additional protein in their daily diet.  VegaLite is safe to use with children and the elderly.

VegaLite provides 23 grams of protein per serving, from an easily assimilated proprietary blend of pea and rice protein – a welcome alternative to more allergenic casein-, soy-, or egg-based protein sources.

VegaLite is available in great-tasting chocolate and vanilla flavors. VegaLite can be mixed with water, with your beverage of choice, or blended as part of a smoothie or shake.

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Obesity and Diabetes Pose 1-2 Threat to Young Americans!

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“They could be first generation to not live as long as their parents”

Doctors have long been concerned that increasing rates of childhood obesity could fuel a diabetes epidemic.

Study results have now underscored that fear.

Researchers have found that the length of time a person carries excess weight directly contributes to an increased risk for type 2 diabetes.

In other words, because today’s children are expected to receive a larger lifetime “dose” of obesity, their chances of developing diabetes at some point in their lives will be greater.

Dr. John E. Anderson, vice president of medicine and science for the American Diabetes Association, said that the findings reflect what is already happening in society, with more young children and teenagers diagnosed with type 2 diabetes than ever before.

“A disease that used to be confined to older people is creeping into high schools,” Anderson said. “At best, this is alarming. This obesity epidemic we have is fueling an epidemic of diabetes in young people.”

Obesity among children and adolescents has almost tripled since 1980, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Today, nearly one in five American kids ages 2 to 19 — or about 12.5 million — are obese.

Obesity has long been linked with the development of type 2 diabetes, which occurs when the body gradually loses its ability to properly use insulin to convert blood sugar into fuel, a condition known as insulin resistance.

“Extra weight gets in the way of the ability of tissues to absorb insulin and use it to convert glucose,” Anderson said. “The more obese you are, the more insulin resistant you can become.”

But researchers now are finding that the time spent carrying extra weight matters as much as the amount of extra weight itself.

A research team at the University of Michigan that studied the health records of about 8,000 teens and young adults found that those with a body mass index (BMI) indicating overweight or obesity for a greater length of time had a higher risk for diabetes.

For example, the researchers found that a person who carried a BMI of 35 for 10 years — a BMI of 30 or above is considered obese — could be considered to have the equivalent of 100 years of excess BMI.

The findings, published in the Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, jibe with projections that show diabetes rates exploding as more people spend more of their lives either overweight or obese.

“If you’re born in the year 2000 and the current trends continue unchecked, you will have a one in three chance of developing type 2 diabetes,” Anderson said. That risk increases for certain ethnic minorities, including African Americans, Native Americans and Hispanics.

Diabetes is a systemic disease, and by its nature can affect almost every part of a person’s body. Someone with diabetes has a shorter life expectancy, and on any given day has twice the risk for dying as a person of similar age without diabetes, according to the CDC.

“We worry this will be the first generation of Americans who don’t live as long as their parents did,” Anderson said.

What can be done to alter the potentially grim outlook? To start losing weight, kids need to adopt a set of healthy living skills that become part of their daily routine, said Sheri Colberg-Ochs, an exercise science professor at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va., who works with the American Diabetes Association.

“It’s not just the weight, per se,” Colberg-Ochs said. “It’s the lifestyle they’ve developed that caused them to gain the extra weight.”

First, kids need to be taught to eat healthy foods and to avoid foods that are fatty, sugar-packed or heavily processed, she said.

“When food is a lot more refined, it’s lacking in a lot of vitamins and minerals that are essential to your effective metabolic function,” she said. “Kids eat empty calories, and those calories go straight to weight gain.”

But they also need to become more physically active, she said. Exercise has been shown to both battle obesity and help better control blood glucose levels in the body.

“Those two things alone would probably solve the problem of childhood obesity, were society to pursue them vigorously,” Colberg-Ochs said.

By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
Link to the story:  Industry Science Journal

SOURCES: John E. Anderson, M.D., vice president, medicine and science, American Diabetes Association; Sheri Colberg-Ochs, Ph.D., professor, exercise science, Old Dominion University, Norfolk, Va., and adjunct professor, internal medicine, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, Va.

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Maryland woman has her type 2 diabetes under control at 38, and her future is brighter!

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A Life-Saving Lesson That Took Decades to Learn.  Maryland woman has her type 2 diabetes under control at 38, and her future is brighter

Doctors diagnosed Ronda Keys with type 2 diabetes when she was 19 years old and a student at the University of Maryland.

Now 38 and living in Montgomery Village, Md., Keys had been suffering the classic symptoms before her diagnosis — fatigue, extreme thirst, frequent urination. “That prompted me to just go to the doctor,” she recalled. “That’s when I found out.”

But the news wasn’t completely out of left field. Her father was diabetic, as were her  grandmother and several aunts and uncles.

“There’s a long line of it in my family,” Keys said. “It wasn’t really a surprise once I was told that I had it, but I guess I had never thought of myself as getting it, especially that young.”

Nonetheless, Keys admits, she took the diagnosis with a small amount of resentment. “I was a little taken aback,” she said. “I didn’t do anything to go out and get this. I thought it was kind of unfair. You’re just told you have this, and oh, by the way, there’s no cure.”

Keys’s doctor put her on oral medication and encouraged her to exercise more and eat a healthy diet. But she was young and at college and found it hard to reconcile her diabetes treatment with her lifestyle.

“The issue for me was just being different from my friends,” she said. “I didn’t want to be the odd ball out. I just wanted to fit in with everyone else.”

Those college years established a pattern for Keys. She would half-heartedly pursue self-treatment for her diabetes, and then get serious about it when she began to feel really sick. “I would try for a while, and then I would fall off the wagon and stay off,” she said.

Things continued that way until three years ago, when Keys was hospitalized with a serious infection. Her body didn’t respond to treatment, which she was told was due to her diabetes.

“My blood sugar was fighting against the medicines the doctors were giving me,” she said. “I was very, very sick. As a result, I had to go on insulin, which I had been fighting.”

Keys was hospitalized for 14 days. The insulin helped save her life, but she hated having to resort to it. “It just felt like failure,” she said. “Insulin equals failure. You didn’t do what you were supposed to do, and now you have to take insulin.”

That feeling didn’t last long, though.

“I found out it was the best thing that could have happened to me,” Keys said. “I love to travel, and I’m very active, and I didn’t feel well. I was getting sick. I was having trouble with my kidneys. After going on insulin, it was an immediate turnaround for me.”

Since then, Keys also has become more serious about her exercise and diet, getting to the gym three times a week and practicing moderation when she eats.

“I’m doing a lot better than three years ago,” she said. “I feel better. I’m able to do everything I want to do. I’m very active. Diabetes is not stopping me now.”

By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter
Story Link:  HEALTHDAY

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Healthy Ways to Post-Holiday Detox with Nutrition Guru Jay Nixon

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“CBS News Story on Healthy Ways to Detox from the Holiday Splurge with Nutrition Guru Jay Nixon”

If the holiday celebrations are leaving you feeling a little bloated, tired, and heavier than usual, you’re not alone. We tend to over-indulge in sweets, carbs, and alcohol. But before you go on that crash diet or hit the gym for hours, there’s a healthy way to accomplish a post-holiday detox.

According to nutrition and health expert Jay Nixon, there are four-billion pounds of toxins in our bodies, accumulated from the environment, chemicals, and medications.

“All of those toxins are just stored in our body fat and that makes us lethargic, we’re not thinking as clearly, we don’t have as much energy, it makes us gain weight. And if your trying to lose weight it actually inhibits or slows down that process, and it makes you not lose the amount of weight you would be able to if you were actually able to detoxify. ” Nixon said.

Nixon says a few simple steps can help you get back to your pre-holiday self.

Start with getting rid of sugar, dairy, and starch, such as potatoes, and incorporate more fruits and vegetables.

“all those things can cause us to really get backed up and kind of hold onto the toxins,” Nixon says “Broccoli is great, cauliflower, spinach, kale, all of those things are really great for detoxifying, because they contain a lot of fiber, so they’ll help you cleanse.”

Prepare yourself mentally. Sugars are like an addiction. Your body will crave it, but being prepared is key.

“I always recommend planning. Planning out your meals, planning out your snacks, and just getting yourself on paper and this will make a big difference and you’ll be less likely to cheat,” Nixon added.

Make water your best friend. Hydration is the name of the game.

“You definitely need to be consuming you know eight 8 ounce glasses of water is a pretty good number,” Nixon said

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Sarah’s Weight Loss Journey – “Catching Up”

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Today is World Diabetes Day!  It is reported that the number of adults with Diabetes will DOUBLE by the year 2030.  This would mean 552 Million people would be diagnosed with diabetes.  This doesn’t count the massive numbers that go undiagnosed. 

Read Sarah’s blog below and support her and the millions of others who are fight to get the weight under control.

“Catching up.”

Most blogs are written about what is going on ‘today’.  This one is going to be a little different for a while until I can catch you up to current day.  I will talk first about my experience up TO this point with my lap band surgery.  But since I also have another surgery coming up in just over a week (Nov.22nd), I will also add a small “At The Present Time” section at the end of each post to keep you up to date with other and then I will just post about what is currently going on.   Those that know me will not be surprised. I could never do things the easy way. 

Lap Band:  So as I mentioned before, it was in the fall of 2008 when I decided that I really had no choice about losing weight.  It was do or die, literally. Having tried unsuccessfully at every diet plan out there, and being too big to really be able to exercise, I started looking online at the bariatric surgery options.  I was horrified with the description of the by-pass, but the newest and greatest thing at the time was the Lap-band.  So I spent many hours researching the procedure online and talking to as many people as I could find who had gone through this, and decided that this was the thing that was going to change my life.  Next step…funding.  At the time, this surgery was a little higher than it is now.  Most places in the Dallas area were charging well over $16,000 for self-pay, and the doctors here in Abilene were a little less than that, although not much.  I knew Blue Cross, my insurance carrier from the college, would not pay for it regardless how unhealthy you were or how many obesity-related issues you had.  I could blog for days ranting about how dumb this is!!!  But as luck would have it, my husband was currently active duty army so we were also covered under the Tricare insurance policy.  I found out that if you had a BMI of 40, Tricare would pay 100% of this surgery.  So, I called up Dr. Einspanier’s office here in Abilene and made the most important appointment of my life!  I was beyond excited!!  Cut to my first appointment. Imagine my disappointment when the doctor tells me that I am not big ENOUGH for this surgery.  Really???  My BMI was a 43.  But apparently Tricare felt that with a BMI of 43, you should have at least a few other health problems, and I did not.  So my sweet doctor told me that unless I had 15 grand to shell out, I needed to gain about 10 pounds.  I can’t say I was too upset.  Tell a fat girl to go eat cookies and ice cream for a few weeks?  No problem!  And I must admit, out of the three years of this whole ordeal, THAT was the easiest three weeks of the whole experience. It didn’t take long at all.  Cake, ice cream, Starbucks mocha lattes, Little Debbies… my last blow out only took about two weeks and I had hit my all-time high of 304 miserable pounds.  NOW it was time to start heading the other direction.  So I waddled, literally, back in to the good doc’s office and was finally scheduled for surgery on December 14th, 2008.  I had to wait until my Christmas break to ensure enough recovery time before going back to work.  My family gave me their full support and I was super excited.  I would soon be on my way to a new me.

At the present time:  I am currently scheduled for a lap-band to sleeve revision surgery on November 22nd.  My lap band has quit working.  I will tell you more about that in future blogs.  I had lost a total of 140 pounds over two years with the lap band, but in the last 12 months I have gained 40 of that back.  My new doctor believes that although my BMI is at 31, I still qualify for the revision surgery.  I am required to quit smoking, again, and also to start an all liquid diet for a week before surgery.  So this will start in a couple of days.  I will post more about this experience when I jump on the liquid band wagon. 

Sarah

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Omega-3 Fatty Acids May Help Prevent Obesity Related Disease!

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Obesity is defined as weight that exceeds 15 percent of normal weight for height and body type. “Morbid” obesity exceeds 20 percent of optimum weight. The long-term health implications are well known, in fact, obesity is considered an outright disease. Life expectancy may be decreased in overweight and obese individuals. An obese or overweight person is at high risk for a number of serious health problems, including heart disease, high blood pressure, stroke, varicose veins, dementia, psychological stress, depression, osteoarthritis, high cholesterol, allergies, psoriatic arthritis, and diabetes.

Omega-3 is an essential fatty acid that is deficient in the diets of many Americans. In the late 1970s, scientists learned that the native Inuits in Greenland, who consumed a diet very high in omega-3 fatty acids, had surprisingly low rates of heart attacks. Since that time, more than 4,500 studies have been conducted in an attempt to understand the beneficial roles that the omega-3 fatty acids play in human metabolism and health.

Scientists from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the University of Alaska-Fairbanks performed a study to examine whether high eicosapentaenoic (EPA) and docosahexaenoic (DHA) acid intakes could modify associations of obesity with chronic disease risk. This cross-sectional study involved 330 Yup’ik Eskimos with an average age of 45 years and that 70 percent of them were overweight or obese. Red blood cell fatty acids were measured and found increases in C-reactive protein (CRP) and triglyceride levels in obese Eskimos with low omega-3 blood levels while such increased levels were not observed in people with high blood levels of EPA and DHA. The researchers commented “Our findings may have important clinical relevance for the prevention of some obesity-related diseases. Obesity prevalence in the US and worldwide has been increasing over the past decades, with subsequent increases in rates of diabetes and other obesity-associated diseases. It is likely that these associations are partly mediated by the positive associations of obesity with triglycerides and CRP, two biomarkers that strongly and independently predict risks of CVD and possibly diabetes.”1

1 Makhoul Z, Kristal AR, Gulati R, et al. Makhoul Associations of obesity with triglycerides and C-reactive protein are attenuated in adults with high red blood cell eicosapentaenoic and docosahexaenoic acids. Eur J Clin Nutr. Mar2011.

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