Based on today’s prevalence of diabetes mellitus in the population, your body may be developing the disease before you and your doctor realize. The course of losing the mass of pancreatic beta cells is ongoing in the environment of hyperglycemia. By the time when diagnosis of diabetes mellitus is made, the mass of beta cells…
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Carbohydrate-restricted Diet Is More Effective Than Statins For Children’s Atherosclerosis
Recently, Pfizer was reportedly granted by the European Union to produce chewable form of Lipitor, a cholesterol-lowering drug. The chewable Lipitor is for children who are 10 years old and over and have high levels of LDLs and triglycerides, supposedly an inherited disease or familial hypercholesterolemia. [1] In 2002, Pfizer won approval of using Lipitor…
An Overview of Dieting for Health: The Diets
Contentious debates on dietary styles have been going on for a few decades, particularly during the recent years. Often, in the debates, these diets are referred as “low” or “high” one of the macronutrients, this article prefers “restricted” or “rich” for each macronutrient in their references. Under this premises and based on the principles of…
An Overview of Dieting for Health: The Principles
Witnessing the rising trends in obesity and diseases of both the US and global populations, epidemiological studies have found a significant relationship between the changes in the diet of the populations and the deterioration in their health during the past 50 to 60 years. Consequently, changing the individual’s dietary style is the top priority for…
A Special Edition: “Do All Fats And Proteins Result In Glucose? NO!”
In the graph of the metabolism of glucose, protein, and fat on the left, you will find all three nutrients are connected to each other in some forms and biochemical reactions. After absorbed by the small intestine, fats (triglycerids, diglycerides, momoglycerides, fatty acids, and cholesterol) are sent to fatty tissue and others where they are…
Carbohydrate-rich Diet Is The Likely Culprit For Insulin Resistance.
Insulin resistance is a situation when the body, or more specifically, the cell, has built up resistance to the (endogenous) insulin produced by its pancreas, and cannot use the endogenous insulin for taking up and metabolizing the circulating glucose to produce energy, metabolites of glucose, glycogen, and fats. At the same time, the patient with…
Last Call: You Should Speak Out Now!
Since three weeks ago, when MY BLOG told you about the report of the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee on Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2010, many people including those of you who are concerned about the grave impacts on their health by these ill advices have responded by writing to the USDA and HHS, and demanding…
The Dietary Guidelines 2010 Must Do No Harm Or Be Overhauled.
The report of Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee on the Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2010, has stirred up a national controversy and is facing a wave of fierce objections from the public and many health and nutritional experts outside the US Government and the special interest groups. The controversy is centered on the soundness of these…
Non-alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease and Carbohydrate-rich Diet: An Epidemic Involves Both Adults and Children.
Fatty liver disease, by its name, is a disease with excess fat accumulated inside the liver, and has been commonly observed in the cases related to alcohol use. However, there is another type of fatty liver disease, which is found in cases related to little or no alcohol use, thus, called non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH.) NASH…
The Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee Should Be Held Accountable
By taking a quick glance, the proposed Dietary Guidelines for Americans, 2010 [1] are nothing new but a worse copy of their predecessors. Aside the possible conspiracy that involves politics and favoritism, the guidelines reflect the irresponsibility and naivety of their authors, the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee. Based on the decades old concepts that carbohydrates…