While we are witnessing a rising trend of overweight/obesity, diabetes mellitus, arteriosclerosis and atherosclerosis, hypertension and coronary heart disease, Alzheimer’s disease, cancers, and many other diseases in the population, the mainstream medicine has yet to understand the cause(s) of these diseases. Also, while we have linked diabetes mellitus to the risks of many diseases including…
The Therapeutic Paradigm For Preventing And Managing Diabetes Mellitus (2)
Finally, we developed a noble idea of controlling the blood glucose supply from the small intestine. The chemicals, alpha-glucosidase inhibitors, prevent some of the enzymes, which are produced by the pancreas, from converting or splitting polysaccharides (sugars with more than two simple sugar molecules) and disaccharides (sugars with two simple sugars) into monosaccharides (simple sugars…
The Therapeutic Paradigm For Preventing And Managing Diabetes Mellitus (1)
I am glad that a recent article independently concurs part of the conclusion I drew in my literature review. That concerns the potential damages to the body by repeated postprandial hyperglycemia (high blood sugar level after meal.) The one by Koichi Node and Teruo Inoue, “Postprandial hyperglycemia as an etiological factor in vascular failure.” Cardiovascular…
Strengthen Our Immune System In The Epidemic Of Swine Flu
In our lifetime, we all have often encountered epidemics, from a common seasonal influenza, toxic contamination to the much serious viral and bacterial infections. In cases of viral and bacterial infections, the public health agencies and epidemiologists would be busy to identify the strain of each offending organism and seek the effective vaccine(s) for preventing…
What If Diabetes Mellitus Could Be Prevented And No One Knew?
On August 30, 2009, I posted a video online titled, “What If Diabetes Mellitus Could Be Prevented And No One Knew?” The video has been gaining the attention. I received a comment that there was no way to prevent Type 1 diabetes mellitus. Also, someone pressed me to provide the distinction between Type 2 diabetes…
Physician, Heal Thyself
Dr. Joseph Alpert, Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Medicine and Professor of Medicine, University of Arizona, published an article in two parts, “Common Sense Is Not So Common” (What We All Need To Remember.) The American Journal of Medicine. August and September 2009. http://download.journals.elsevierhealth.com/pdfs/journals/0002-9343/PIIS0002934309002228.pdf He cited 15 rules in total, including 8 for part…
Childbearing Women And Carbohydrate-restricted Diet
In the September 1, 2009 issue of Weekly World News, Malleka Spriggs reported a rare case of ectopia cordis in India. In addition to having his heart outside the body, this newborn boy was suffering from infection to all his body parts. http://weeklyworldnews.com/mutants/11420/ectopia-cordis/ Later, he was reported to have his heart relocated inside his body….
The First Baby Step By The American Heart Association
On August 24, 2009, the American Heart Association published its new scientific statement that recommends Americans to reduce their intake of added sugar. This statement was written by its lead author, Rachel K. Johnson, Dean and Professor of Nutrition, The University of Vermont; Senior Nutrition Advisor, Eating Well Magazine, VT. It was drafted based on…
A Series of Blood Glucose Tests
On January 25, 2009, I gave a presentation. The topic was “Diabetes Mellitus: Prevention and Management By Dieting.” At the beginning of the presentation, I had four volunteers to take blood glucose tests for the baseline BG level. Then, each of them took one of four foods, including 25 grams table sugar in 8 ounces…
Unqualified Advice Complicates Preventive Medicine
I read two pieces of news articles last week that exposed why we have had a difficult time in preventive medicine. One of them reported Dr. Jason Newsome, Chief of the Bay County Health Department, Florida, was forced to resign after he tried to educate the county citizens against obesity. He displayed signs: “Sweet Tea…
My Comments on “Failing Grades in The Adoption of Healthy Lifestyle Choice.” (2)
Below is my follow-up comments regarding satiety, fat, and dieting. If you would let me add my comment, I want to point out that overweight/obesity is not only a result of eating more calories but also a consequence of consuming many more carbohydrates. I want to caution the people of eating fried potatoes not…
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'For a long time, we had falsely believed that carbohydrate was our best energy source because it neither was greasy nor caused us fat, and that we could not live without it...
Now, we have known that carbohydrate can harm our health and develop diseases such as morbid obesity, diabetes mellitus, cardiovascular diseases, cancer, Alzheimer’s disease, and many more.'
- Robert Su, M.D. Author, Carbohydrates Can Kill
