If you gain weight easily or if diabetes or heart disease “runs in your family,” you must pay particular attention to your carbohydrate intake. People who consume more carbohydrate than their metabolism can handle are at risk of developing pre-diabetes, vascular injury, and a cluster of related heart disease risk factors Dr. Reaven referred to as Syndrome X (now officiallyMetabolic Syndrome).
Metabolic Syndrome is a consequence of over-consuming carbohydrates and is remedied by – you guessed it – carbohydrate restriction. Metabolic Syndrome is chronic high sugar and high insulin. Today’s headlines confirm that Dr. Reaven was correct: 25 percent of Americans are diabetic or pre-diabetic and heart disease expenditures are projected to triple in the next 20 years.
In most of us – and in my cousin Bob’s case – excess bread, breakfast bars, boxed cereals, cookies, doughnuts, muffins, pasta and soft drinks raise glucose and insulin to unhealthy levels. In the carbohydrate sensitive, even healthy-sounding foods like beans and whole grains – which are carbohydrate dense – set the stage for insulin resistance.
As we know, blood clots – with or without blockage – cause 80 or 90 percent of all heart attacks. The first order of business: Stop the blood sugar roller coaster and plaque-build up by switching to a high natural fat, whole foods, carbohydrate-restricted diet – what George and Martha Washington ate at Mt Vernon.
On the contrary, diabetics like cousin Bob are prescribed a high carbohydrate, fat-restricted diet!
Below is Bob’s breakfast order dated 09/15/2007. Please note that cousin Bob cannot have eggs for breakfast – doctors orders! Apparently Bob doesn’t need gold standard complete protein. Instead, why not give him blood-sugar-raising apple juice, cheap, heat-damaged blood-sugar-raising box cereal, a donut (trans fat and all), fat-free yogurt (more sugar), stewed prunes (a laxative for the harsh drugs he is taking), and a bit of margarine. Not even butter! Cousin Bob doesn’t need Vitamin A rich butter – margarine is good enough for him.
As you may know, the American Diabetes Association high carbohydrate diet – a primary treatment for type II diabetes – was highly likely to kill Bob Watson – and it did.
Read the full story here and you will understand why millions go to an early grave.
Thanks for sending this article to us Geoff.
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