I was pleased to hear an aging medical doctor speak on the tragedy of the health status of our country. He noted a major battle waged in the fields of clinical and epidemiologic nutrition, and investigational and clinical endocrinology.
Dr George Lundberg states, “ During the week of August 20, 2018, I tossed (and took) a figurative grenade at virtually the entire medical and scientific establishment, confessing my complicity and laying out the case that "it's not the fat"—dietary saturated and unsaturated fats (possibly excluding trans fats) and cholesterol—that’s the principal causative factor in the pathogenesis of arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease, stroke, and myocardial infarction.”
How refreshing to hear a doctor from the established medical community make this kind of statement. He goes on to state that many will disagree and adhere to their institutionalized dogma, blaming dietary fat.
The next big battle is over diabetes, insulin resistance, and obesity. How can the tidal wave of these issues be stopped, and prevented from worsening, costing millions of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars in health care cost?
In the sixties, McDonalds and all its competitors began to flood the market with cheap foods, heavily laden with salt and sugar. With an increase in two income families, the fast and processed foods became the answer to too little time for proper food preparation.
With the Changes in food quality and selection, the average American now leads the world in sugar consumption at more than 120 grams a day, or more than 100 pounds a year. The sugared breakfast cereals have become the norm for American kids. Sugar-loaded fruit juices were pushed as healthy and necessary every morning, joining the ubiquitous sugared sodas.
Mandatory physical education has disappeared from schools meaning that the increase in carbohydrate intake is far exceeding the body’s ability to clear sugars. Oral antibiotics for just about every little infection, or suspected infection, has changed the gut microbiome dramatically. Add to that, the massive use of antibiotics in livestock, and it’s a wonder any of us have a normal bowel.
Dr Lundberg goes on further, “In addition to all that gemisch, various groups look at this conundrum in greatly disparate ways. One holds that obesity and diabetes are so intertwined that, since insulin is obviously tied to diabetes and since insulin is a hormone, they must together be an endocrinologic disorder. But if that is true, why haven't the endocrinologists figured it out? Could it be because they have been so busy reaping the financial rewards of caring for a bonanza of diabetic patients as well as chasing incidental thyroid nodules? Or does Big Pharma love profiting from the many expensive new diabetes drugs—and crave new obesity drugs?”
Stopping this downward spiral will never occur through repeated attempts to create new drugs, but will only come about one person at a time, taking responsibility for their own health and the health of their families. Educating ourselves and our kids on health and nutrition has to be louder and more convincing than the multitude of commercials which are trying to convince us that sugar frosted flakes (or some other refined food product) is part of a healthy breakfast.
Food industries hire chemists who are adept at creating flavors which addict the public into purchasing their product. They know that if enough of a chemical is consumed long enough, the taste buds will adapt, eventually being desensitized to the point where more and more of the sugar, salt and the many chemicals has to be consumed to get any taste at all.
Going from a refined food diet to a whole food diet can seem like a tasteless since it takes time to restore taste buds to normal. Over time, our senses can become dulled from repeated exposure to various elements. I remember as a child, before scrubbers were required for paper mills, that when we drove through Tacoma we would look at each other to see who passed gas. The strong sulfur smell was awful. To those who lived there, it was hardly noticeable. Over time, sensory accommodation occurs. This can be for any of our senses.
Constant exposure to salt and sugar eventually dulls taste bud sensitivity, requiring more and more to get any kind of response. Removing a person from the constant stimuli eventually will restore ability to taste. Your kids may rebel, going to a diet with less salt and sugar, but eventually the commercial offerings can be overwhelming to them. Getting there can be fun and easy if you begin to experiment with various spices. In many instances, spices have great medicinal advantages.
Yes, this takes time and effort. If you’re expecting your doctor to do it for you, I’m sorry. My job involves assisting people in finding what’s wrong, and assisting them in correcting the imbalance. I can provide nutritional support and sound education, but the ultimate change rests with them.
Dr George Lundberg states, “ During the week of August 20, 2018, I tossed (and took) a figurative grenade at virtually the entire medical and scientific establishment, confessing my complicity and laying out the case that "it's not the fat"—dietary saturated and unsaturated fats (possibly excluding trans fats) and cholesterol—that’s the principal causative factor in the pathogenesis of arteriosclerotic cardiovascular disease, stroke, and myocardial infarction.”
How refreshing to hear a doctor from the established medical community make this kind of statement. He goes on to state that many will disagree and adhere to their institutionalized dogma, blaming dietary fat.
The next big battle is over diabetes, insulin resistance, and obesity. How can the tidal wave of these issues be stopped, and prevented from worsening, costing millions of lives and hundreds of billions of dollars in health care cost?
In the sixties, McDonalds and all its competitors began to flood the market with cheap foods, heavily laden with salt and sugar. With an increase in two income families, the fast and processed foods became the answer to too little time for proper food preparation.
With the Changes in food quality and selection, the average American now leads the world in sugar consumption at more than 120 grams a day, or more than 100 pounds a year. The sugared breakfast cereals have become the norm for American kids. Sugar-loaded fruit juices were pushed as healthy and necessary every morning, joining the ubiquitous sugared sodas.
Mandatory physical education has disappeared from schools meaning that the increase in carbohydrate intake is far exceeding the body’s ability to clear sugars. Oral antibiotics for just about every little infection, or suspected infection, has changed the gut microbiome dramatically. Add to that, the massive use of antibiotics in livestock, and it’s a wonder any of us have a normal bowel.
Dr Lundberg goes on further, “In addition to all that gemisch, various groups look at this conundrum in greatly disparate ways. One holds that obesity and diabetes are so intertwined that, since insulin is obviously tied to diabetes and since insulin is a hormone, they must together be an endocrinologic disorder. But if that is true, why haven't the endocrinologists figured it out? Could it be because they have been so busy reaping the financial rewards of caring for a bonanza of diabetic patients as well as chasing incidental thyroid nodules? Or does Big Pharma love profiting from the many expensive new diabetes drugs—and crave new obesity drugs?”
Stopping this downward spiral will never occur through repeated attempts to create new drugs, but will only come about one person at a time, taking responsibility for their own health and the health of their families. Educating ourselves and our kids on health and nutrition has to be louder and more convincing than the multitude of commercials which are trying to convince us that sugar frosted flakes (or some other refined food product) is part of a healthy breakfast.
Food industries hire chemists who are adept at creating flavors which addict the public into purchasing their product. They know that if enough of a chemical is consumed long enough, the taste buds will adapt, eventually being desensitized to the point where more and more of the sugar, salt and the many chemicals has to be consumed to get any taste at all.
Going from a refined food diet to a whole food diet can seem like a tasteless since it takes time to restore taste buds to normal. Over time, our senses can become dulled from repeated exposure to various elements. I remember as a child, before scrubbers were required for paper mills, that when we drove through Tacoma we would look at each other to see who passed gas. The strong sulfur smell was awful. To those who lived there, it was hardly noticeable. Over time, sensory accommodation occurs. This can be for any of our senses.
Constant exposure to salt and sugar eventually dulls taste bud sensitivity, requiring more and more to get any kind of response. Removing a person from the constant stimuli eventually will restore ability to taste. Your kids may rebel, going to a diet with less salt and sugar, but eventually the commercial offerings can be overwhelming to them. Getting there can be fun and easy if you begin to experiment with various spices. In many instances, spices have great medicinal advantages.
Yes, this takes time and effort. If you’re expecting your doctor to do it for you, I’m sorry. My job involves assisting people in finding what’s wrong, and assisting them in correcting the imbalance. I can provide nutritional support and sound education, but the ultimate change rests with them.
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