another brother wrote:Watched "What the Health". Strong case for plant-based diet, not sure I could go cold turkey (so to speak) but certainly will start by cutting down on meat and dairy and learning about alternative choices. (I do make a mean red beans and rice.)
What I didn't catch is why eating sugar is good. Personally, and any disease aside, my body reacts to sugar as though its an addictive toxin. I can feel it affecting me and am likely to wind up passed out after consuming even a moderate amount.
Great question! I happen to have been first educated by the second book in the Medical Medium series, just before seeing WTH? I was just getting over the shock of the medical medium saying, "avoid eggs, butter, in fact all dairy, and especially fat." When WTH? starts by saying, 'sugar doesn't cause diabetes' I immediately resonated, and both sources came together.
Sugar as glucose is like gasoline for your car engine. It is the prime nutrient to power cells.
Many things are sweetened with high FRUCTOSE corn syrup, and it is not wrong to consider HFCS (High Fructose Corn Syrup) a poison.
Fructose sounds good, right, but the new knowledge is that both the liver and brain require GLUCOSE, and in fact the brain, contrary to popular belief is mostly carbohydrate.
Eating fat causes the liver to produce bile, the more fat, the more bile which is necessary to keep the fat from completely clogging your blood vessels.
This is the essence of the why and how fat stresses the liver, and then the body.
When there is fat in the blood stream, its like slime, lets think of pouring oil into the gas tank. It clogs the entry of glucose by blocking it, as the WTH? film clearly illustrated.
I now literally feel the fat I eat blocking sugar getting into cells, and I can monitor it on my Libre. The more FAT I eat, the harder sugar is to control, while glucose/sugar does not cause a problem. Yes more insulin is required the more sugar, but as you will learn, when glucose is DRIVEN into cells (presumably by insulin the book doesn't get to that level of detail.) the other nutrients around or with the glucose are also driven into cells. Ergo, fat in the bloodstream blocking glucose is also blocking nutrients.
Now that the stage is set..
another brother wrote:Watched "What the Health". Strong case for plant-based diet, not sure I could go cold turkey (so to speak) but certainly will start by cutting down on meat and dairy and learning about alternative choices. (I do make a mean red beans and rice.)
Your sister-in-law, and I had been doing Jason Fung's intermittent fasting, eating the main meal in a short interval, i.e., only eating between 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. daily.
With the new Medical Medium Inspired grazing routine - a fruit and vegetable every 2 hours - we are eating instead of fasting
No fat most of the day.What I didn't catch is why eating sugar is good. Personally, and any disease aside, my body reacts to sugar as though its an addictive toxin. I can feel it affecting me and am likely to wind up passed out after consuming even a moderate amount.
Me too, so remember, that most products are sweetened with High Fructose Corn Syrup, which is NOT the gasoline that your cells require to function.
Eating GLUCOSE is good, as you will read, particularly in the first book chapters on Autism and PTSD.
Ordinary sugar isn't bad, lets say, even if you are diabetic, so long as you a) are producing insulin, and b) taking nutrients (think eating fruits) with the sugar, and c) limit fat (sludge) to 10% of calories.
As strange as it seems, at least to me, a diabetic needs glucose as much as anyone. Few people know that it is the fat they eat, which blocks their cells from getting the glucose they need, leading to amputations, blindness. etc. In a way, eating fat is a lot like not making insulin.
