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Weight Loss Archives - Reversing Diabetes
December 03, 2019
Does Sugar Consumption Cause Obesity?
Sugar has been vilified over the years with claims of its disastrous effects on our health. Are these claims true? Does taken a soda a day guarantee one ill health? What of the effects of excess sugar on obesity? In this article, we will explore these claims and determine whether indeed excessive sugar intake leads
August 15, 2019
Dual Burden of Malnutrition Obesity Starvation
It is estimated that by 2020, two-thirds of the global burden of disease will be due to chronic non-communicable diseases, most of which are associated with diet. While hunger is a tremendous global health concern that cannot be minimized, overnutrition should similarly be given concentrated attention. Malnutrition affects up-to 1 billion people. Even though undernutrition
August 08, 2019
Inflammation and Its Outcomes
Despite it being an essential response to infection and tissue injury, inflammation has also been associated with several pathological processes. Excessive acute inflammation causes tissue damage and non- resolving inflammation leads to chronic tissue malfunction, suggesting a delicate balance between the rapid and effective response to distresses in tissue homeostasis and the collateral damage on
August 06, 2019
Atherosclerosis or Atheroscleritis
Heart disease is currently one of the major causes of morbidity and correlates closely with global incidence of obesity and type 2 diabetes. Recently, there is an increasing focus on metainflammation as the primary pathophysiology. Recent studies implicate early metabolic abnormalities (weight gain, insulin resistance, and prehypertension and irregular blood lipid levels). A basic description
August 05, 2019
Chronic Inflammation Metabolic Overfeed Hyperinsulinemia
Despite it being an essential response to infection and tissue injury, inflammation has also been associated with several pathological processes. Excessive acute inflammation causes tissue damage and non- resolving inflammation leads to chronic tissue malfunction, suggesting a delicate balance between the rapid and effective response to distresses in tissue homeostasis and the collateral damage on
August 04, 2019
Obesity: Low Grade Chronic State of Inflammation Proinflammatory Cytokines (TNF-α, IL-6 and CRP)
Obesity is characterized by a low grade chronic state of inflammation in which the level of pro inflammatory cytokines such as TNF-α, IL-6 and CRP are increased. It is a state in which there is an over-accumulation of subcutaneous and/or abdominal adipose tissue. This adipose tissue is no longer considered inert and mainly devoted to
July 30, 2019
About Complex System Failure
The failure of the to develop a “magic bullet” drug that safely promotes weight loss is evidence that a reductionist single biologic mechanism is unlikely to account for the obesity epidemic. We have conquered most of the communicable diseases, the next phase of medicine needs a systems approach. About complex system failure: Complex systems are
July 26, 2019
Is Your Healthcare Provider (Physician, Dietitian, Practitioner) Overweight??
Overweight or obese physicians were less likely to discuss weight loss with heavy patients: only 18% of these doctors discussed losing weight with their patients while 30% of normal weight physicians did. More interestingly, 93% of doctors diagnosed obesity in their patients only if they believed their own weight was equal to or less than
July 22, 2019
Sugar vs. Fat
In the 1960s, the sugar industry paid three Harvard scientists to publish a review of research on sugar vs. fat and their effects on heart disease. The Sugar Association paid the scientists the equivalent of about $50,000 today, cherry picked the research included in the review; resulting in a biased article published in the New
July 19, 2019
Weight Watchers Eyes A New Clientele: Children
So this is where we are headed... while I applaud the attention we must all place on this urgent issue, as a species we have gone from food scarcity and malnutrition to food excess and the malnutrition of overconsumption, in less than 30 years out of a 2-3 million year history. Maybe it’s not an