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The top American killers like dementia, cancer, heart disease, and diabetes seem to be unrelated. There are entirely different conditions that are treated differently. Perhaps surprisingly, there is a chance to avoid ALL these medical concerns by addressing one problem: insulin resistance (IR). This process happens when your diet is too high in carbohydrates/sugar for your body, and blood sugar levels stay elevated over time despite the high levels of insulin trying to signal for blood sugar storage.
Ben Bikman, Ph.D., an insulin researcher, made a nice graph outlining this overlapping issue with all the conditions he believes stem from IR.
The connection between chronic conditions and insulin resistance (IR) is not to be underestimated. Heart disease, a leading cause of death, often stems from high blood pressure and inflammation triggered by chronically elevated blood sugar levels. Dementia, now referred to as Type 3 Diabetes, is also strongly associated with IR. Even cancer is not exempt, as it thrives on sugar rather than ketones for growth. Elevated blood sugar levels can also impair the immune system and autophagy, further underscoring the critical importance of managing IR.
According to the CDC, 97.6 million people in the United States aged 18 and older have prediabetes (the start of IR), which is 38% of the adult population. This includes 27.2 million people aged 65 and older, which is 48.8% of that age group. Prediabetes is a serious condition that occurs when blood sugar levels are higher than usual but not high enough to be diagnosed as type 2 diabetes. Also, according to the CDC, more than 80% of people with prediabetes don't know they have it.
Eating a diet high in animal-based protein and fat, vegetables, and fruit generally keeps prediabetes away. The best way to check for IR is to get a fasted insulin, which ideally is under 5 uIU/ml. Otherwise, standard testing can give you an insight: fasting glucose in the 80s, an A1C well below 5.7%, and a triglyceride to HDL ratio under 2 are good signs you are insulin sensitive and your diet is currently suitable for you!
✌🏻and ribeyes,
Miranda Ebner MS, LN and The Yes2Meat Team
📰 News & 🔬 Research
🧈 A new study answers some fundamentally, important questions about how, and why the body gets fat. By comparing two diets that are equally matched in being high in calories, this study finds that the diet that lowers insulin, the most, namely, a diet that is lower in carbohydrates, results in actual fat loss, rather than fat gain. Remember, this is despite having elevated calories overall.
🥤 Kombucha microbes break down fat stores like fasting – without the effort. While the study was conducted on the model worm C. elegans – a microscopic nematode that, admittedly, doesn't have quite the same fat-storage concerns that we do – the researchers believe the kombucha metabolic effects will likely be observed in humans. "We were surprised to find that animals consuming a diet consisting of the probiotic microbes found in kombucha tea displayed reduced fat accumulation, lower triglyceride levels, and smaller lipid droplets – an organelle that stores the cell's lipids – when compared to other diets," the researchers noted. "These findings suggest that the microbes in kombucha tea trigger a 'fasting-like' state in the host even in the presence of sufficient nutrients."
💔 8-hour time-restricted eating linked to a 91% higher risk of cardiovascular death. This is from the American Heart Association and it’s all garbage! None of this is from an actual published scientific paper, and none of it has undergone peer review. Shame on them for spreading this headline like wildfire.
🍳 Eggs aren’t bad for heart health. A new study presented at the American College of Cardiology's Annual Scientific Session suggests that eating eggs—even up to 12 per week—doesn’t negatively impact cholesterol levels or other key markers of cardiovascular health. The researchers found that in a group of 140 patients at high risk for heart disease, those who ate fortified eggs most days of the week had similar "bad" LDL and "good" HDL cholesterol levels after four months compared to the control group. Moreover, the egg eaters showed potential benefits like reduced insulin resistance and heart damage markers.
🙈 Big Food is pushing anti-diet rhetoric. Dieticians paid by Big Food to peddle junk apparently have a new tactic: they’re using language to shame people from dieting, along with hashtags such as #NoBadFoods, #FoodFreedom and #DitchTheDiet. The goal is to convey the message that there’s no such thing as good and bad foods–and that thinking otherwise is to participate in shameful diet culture. These findings are the result of an investigation published this week in the Washington Post (working with The Examination, a non-profit newsroom covering public health), which analyzed the social media posts of 68 registered dietitians, each with more than 10,000 followers. Forty percent of them, according to the Post, with altogether more than 9 million followers, repeatedly used this same “anti-diet language.” As the Post reported, the food industry pays these influential social media dietitians to co-opt the “health at every size” messaging to convince people that trying to lose weight is a fool’s game, perpetrating the “cycle of shame” with few health benefits.
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I get so frustrated with Big Food paying off dietician influencers to relay the no ‘bad food’ message. When we know there are bad foods out there that are causing major health issues.
This post has lots of great content; however, I wonder why the word "fruit" appears in the following sentence: "Eating a diet high in animal-based protein and fat, vegetables, and fruit generally keeps prediabetes away."