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Open Future HealthMetabolic Syndrome

Credited to Prof. Gerald Reaven, endocrinologist at Stanford.

Good News: About 50% of us suffer from Metabolic Syndrome, and it's not necessary. Change what you know. Then you can change what you do.

Ketogenic Diets

If you are getting the symptoms of metabolic syndrome, the quicker you act the better. The less advanced your carbohydrate intolerance, the more future options you will have in your diet.

Local FileJeff Volek's laboratory at Ohio State University, recruited 16 obese adults who were not yet type 2 diabetic. Over three weeks they were introduced to nutritional ketosis as a diet. Then they were fed carefully regulated meals from the laboratory kitchen for 18 weeks.

Local FileOn a low-carbohydrate high-fat diet, all 16 moved their markers of metabolic syndrome in a favourable direction. The amount of carbohydrate one can eat before fat starts to be stored depends on the individual. "People vary widely in their tolerance of carbohydrates," said Dr Volek.

Six metabolic disorders with a single common cause

Doctors are still treating people with metabolic syndrome "diseases" as though they have six different medical problems. Prof. Gerald Reaven, makes the point that there is one problem, your diet. Local FileThe Banting Diet, promoted by this site and WWW LinkThe Real Meal Revolution, is a solution to how you should change your diet. Local FileStart slowly if you like.

Obesity

Metabolic SyndromeIt's well known, that in older people at least, it's very hard Local Fileto lose weight on the recommended low-fat diet. Apparently over time, when high daily carbohydrate supply is good (excessive?), our metabolism changes and Local Filewe become carbohydrate intolerant.

When you have insulin as the dominant hormone, any excess glucose (or carbohydrate that is turned into glucose) will be converted into stored fat. Your control over insulin, is in choosing what to eat. No sugar, and no carbohydrate in the diet, turns off the demand for insulin.

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