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The #1 Cause of Obesity: Insulin | DietDoctor.com Oh my god. This 3rd episode of “The Skinny on Obesity” may be the best short video on obesity I’ve seen. Not because dr Robert Lustig tells me something I didn’t already know, but because he explains it so crystal clear that a kid will understand. Do you want people to understand the reason behind perhaps 90 percent of obesity epidemic? Spread this video. It needs to be seen by as many people as possible. More Part 1 Part 2 – Sickeningly Sweet Trailer for part 4 – Sugar, A Sweet Addiction The bottom line is that the cause of garden-variety obesity is relatively simple:  Excess (processed) carbs increases insulin which increases fat storage . Some bloggers on the internet have objections to this, but that does not change the facts .

[Evaluation of biological and clinical ... [Rocz Panstw Zakl Hig. 2012] - PubMed - NCBI [Evaluation of biological and clinical potential of paleolithic diet]. [Article in Polish] Kowalski LM, Bujko J. Source Wydział Nauk o Zywieniu Człowieka i Konsumpcji Szkoła Główna Gospodarstwa Wiejskiego, Warszawa. lukasz_kowalski@sggw.pl Abstract Accumulating evidences suggest that foods that were regularly consumed during the human primates and evolution, in particular during the Paleolithic era (2.6-0.01 x 10(6) years ago), may be optimal for the prevention and treatment of some chronic diseases. It has been postulated that fundamental changes in the diet and other lifestyle conditions that occurred after the Neolithic Revolution, and more recently with the beginning of the Industrial Revolution are too recent taking into account the evolutionary time scale for the human genome to have completely adjust. In contemporary Western populations at least 70% of daily energy intake is provide...

Winning the Battle of the Bulge: We're a Scrimmage Closer to Victory | Saint Louis University April 27, 2004 Winning the Battle of the Bulge: We're a Scrimmage Closer to Victory "We feel that we now understand what part of the system is broken -- why leptin isn't working." -- William A. Banks, M.D. ST. LOUIS -- Saint Louis University researchers believe they've won a major skirmish in the battle of the bulge, and their findings are published in the May issue of Diabetes. "We figured out how obesity occurs," says William A. Banks, M.D., professor of geriatrics in the department of internal medicine and professor of pharmacological and physiological science at Saint Louis University School of Medicine. "The next step is coming up with the solution." The scientists used mice to look at how leptin, a hormone secreted by fat cells that tells us to stop eating, gets into the brain. They found that in obese mice, high triglycerides, a t...

Decreased absorption of calcium, magnesium, zinc and ... [J Nutr. 1976] - PubMed - NCBI J Nutr. 1976 Apr;106(4):493-503. Decreased absorption of calcium, magnesium, zinc and phosphorus by humans due to increased fiber and phosphorus consumption as wheat bread. Reinhold JG, Faradji B, Abadi P, Ismail-Beigi F. Abstract During a 20 day period of high fiber consumption in the form of bread made partly from wheaten wholemeal, two men developed negative balances of calcium, magnesium, zinc and phosphorus due to increased fecal excretion of each element. The fecal losses correlated closely with fecal dry matter and phosphorus. Fecal dry matter, in turn, was directly proportional to fecal fiber excretion. Balances of nitrogen remained positive. Mineral elements were well-utilized by the same subjects during a 20-day period of white bread consumption. Whole wheat bread causes mineral deficiencies? But the "Government Plate" tells me whole wheat foods are a health food? I'...

Intracellular magnesium and insulin resistance. [Magnes Res. 2004] - PubMed - NCBI Intracellular magnesium and insulin resistance. Takaya J, Higashino H, Kobayashi Y. Source Department of Pediatrics, Kansai Medical University, Moriguchi, Osaka 570-8506, Japan. takaya@takii.kmu.ac.jp Abstract Magnesium, the second most abundant intracellular divalent cation, is a cofactor of many enzymes involved in glucose metabolism. Magnesium has an important role in insulin action, and insulin stimulates magnesium uptake in insulin-sensitive tissues. Impaired biological responses to insulin is referred to as insulin resistance. This review was designed to reach a better understanding of the mechanism involved in the correlation between magnesium and insulin resistance. Intracellular magnesium concentration is low in type 2 diabetes mellitus and in hypertensive patients. In patients with type 2 diabetes an inverse association exists between the plasma magnesium and insulin resistance due to ...