The news about how to cure diabetes will come as a shock to the medical Establishment. But the science is now in after years of denial. Medicine has supported low-fat eating for decades, but we realize now that it did not work:
* people just got fatter and fatter
* people became fatter at an ever-quickening pace
* carbs became the nutritional darling of all the so-called “experts”
You heard it here first — fat and cholesterol were never the cause of diabetes and obesity. It was carbohydrates that were doing the damage. This statement will rattle the entrenched dogma. Why did all the brainiacs not know this? Because belief systems drive medicine. It tells us that facts do, but that is patently false.
Why did the Establishment believe that fat was bad? It’s a long, sad story, but it has a lot to do with bias and self-promotion in medicine and science. It felt that the fat you ate became the fat that damaged body tissues and then stored as fat. However, the facts of biochemistry tell another story — it’s actually carbs that the body converts to fat!
Do these new insights rock you? The public has been blind-sided because no one took the time to go to the medical library and do a little research. That would have shown that by 1950 the biochemists knew that the body converts carbohydrates to fat and the fat we eat does not become the fat in and on our bodies.
Starting during the early 2000’s explosion of interest in low-carb, young, unbiased researchers set up some very good experiments to study the diet. What was the outcome? The results disproved all the negative statements that had been made during the last four decades:
* fast reduction in body weight and body fat
* sugar in the blood dropped whereas there was no change in the low-fat diet group
* fat levels in the blood dropped because of low-carb eating
* low-carb simply whipped low-fat!
The low-carb diet is just what a diabetic needs to solve this disease. And changes happen rapidly when you decrease carbohydrate intake. Fat-burning increases and sugar use drops while blood sugar drops dramatically. Just what the doctor should be ordering.
Associated with diabetes and obesity is Metabolic Syndrome which is characterized by:
* too much body fat, overweight, and obesity
* blood sugar abnormalities that lead to diabetes
* cardiovascular disease
* high blood pressure
It turns out that carbohydrate restriction may be the most logical approach in Metabolic Syndrome and diabetes and should be considered as the “default” dietary choice. It’s likely the most effective approach in normal weight people who have Metabolic Syndrome and who do not want to follow a drug-based protocol.
The research is clear: the health-touting benefits of a low-fat diet were downright wrong and the science now stands behind this statement. The low-fat diet that was high in carbohydrates elevated blood fats and blood sugar leading to deadly changes in the health of the public.
Eating carbs and fat together is a prescription for disaster yet this is the way most people eat — a balanced diet the “experts” call it. Wrong. Switch to low-carbohydrate but don’t follow either the Atkins’s diet or South Beach Diet. Atkins’s plan if full of flaws and South Beach isn’t even a low-carb diet.
