Why We Get Fat 10/15/16--a simplified explanation and
a list of the best YouTube documentaries and lectures explaining the same. This is an introductory explanation of a broken bodily regulatory system based
on solid scientific evidence, and its fix.
You need to know the basics because business and science don’t mix. Terms: IR = Insulin Resistance; NAFLD = Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease; T2D = Type-2 Diabetes;) for similar paper with definitions
and custom diets based on goals http://healthfully.org/rc/id23.html & radi/id1
All mammals
have a complex regulatory system for appetite, metabolism, and fat storage. There
are over eighty hormones involved in those systems. The Western diet is high
in the carbs fructose and glucose. Fructose damages the liver which mucks-up
the regulatory systems leading to the IR, & that to obesity, T2D, and age related diseases. Allow me to explain why fat people must eat more calories than they metabolize (burn). Causes: fructose (1/2 of table sugar,
sucrose) is a net 15 times more reactive than glucose. Fructose randomly attaches to protein throughout the body and hinders their functions in a process called glycation—a very bad thing. Since over 98% of fructose
is metabolized in the liver, thus it accumulates in the liver, especially when eating a high carb meal. There it reacts with proteins to damage the liver tissue more
than other tissues. Among the liver functions is that of reducing blood glucose
through its conversion into the storage form glycogen. Thus fructose cases a
higher than normal level of blood glucose. The pancreas then releases even more insulin to lower the high blood glucose. The higher than normal level of insulin per unit of glucose is termed insulin resistance (IR). IR is a bad thing because insulin as a regulatory hormone: it has cells throughout
the body absorb and burn glucose and thus not burn fat, but rather store fat. Having high insulin causes the body to gradually gain weight. One place is in the liver which gradually gains
2 to 3 pounds of fat. This is a clinical condition called non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD).
It is estimated in the NHANES study that over 30% of American have
NAFLD—I think that number is much higher.
NAFLD causes liver inflammation which accelerates weight gain. A sign of NAFLD is abdominal fat. The hormone leptin secreted by adipose (fat) tissue plays
key roles in the rate of metabolism and appetite. For those who have gained weight
and kept it on for a couple of years, this regulatory hormone now also functions to maintain the current level of fat, and
when on a calorie-restricted die, at about 2 months will lower metabolism up typically 25% or more and increase appetite,
both occur to restore fat to it old level. Leptin is the main reason, along with
IR as to why for the long-term overweight it is so difficult to lose weight and
keep it off. Thus 95% of obese dieters will eventually regain their lost weight. The way to prevent this regain of weight is to metabolize the excess fat in the liver;
this will fix the regulatory system, it will correct IR and T2D. There are four ways to do this: starvation, bariatric surgery (they fast after the operation), fasting,
and short-term fasting with very low carbs. Those with T2D have stored excess fat in the pancreas, enough to compromise the function of the beta cells. Their blood sugar rises. Drugs don’t fix fatty liver
or fatty pancreas, fasting does.
Fasting works because the body has two main metabolic system, metabolizing fat or glucose. During the day because
of carbs with the meals, the body stays in the glucose- burning mode. But at
night after the excess glucose is metabolized, the body switches to fat burning. There
are two ways to stay in the fat burning mode, a very low carb (Atkins type, ketogenic) diet or fast. Doing both is the best. This is because of the incretin hormones which are released in response to proteins in the stomach and intestines. Incretins cause the release of insulin, thus eating a meal with protein or carbs causes the release of
insulin—see insulin index. Fish
and beef cause more insulin than pasta. Short-term fasting, not eating breakfast,
or alternate day fasting will cleanse the liver and pancreas of excess fat and thereby avoid the drop in metabolism caused
by incretin on an energy restricted diet with low sugar. For most they will also
need the low carb diet also. Fasting is easier than avoiding carbs or restricting
calories. This is my experience and the experience of others.
The best source on what to eat for health, for diet, and related topics is at Concise. In the rh section are articles which lay out the evidence for what is found there and dja has journal articles on rancid fats, diet, etc. Important are
Part 5 on supplements,
Part 6 which
covers many of the topics here, and Part 10 on the New Atkins diet. The large Videos
library with brief descriptions has links to YouTube. It confirms the claims here--and other major health topic. The links to ABC, CBC, and BBC national networks expose what U.S. corporate media hides about diet. Knowledge is part of the cure.
***** Why We Get Fat
3 min, 1,455,000 views,
clips from movie Fat Head. The best explanation on the process of accumulation
of fat, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mNYlIcXynwE a good foundation WATCH
***** The Secrets of Sugar 45 min, 484,000 views, CBC (Canadian Broadcast Corp) program; starts with a young family and show
that at the heart of the weight problem with impending health consequences lies high sugar diet. It also shows experiments on college students, uses interviews to drive home the point that sugar is the
health issue, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDaYa0AB8TQ most entertaining, SECOND CHOICE
***** Sugar White Poison: an amazing expose on this toxic stuff 18 min, 141,800
views, Australian Broadcast Corp,
the condensed, plain language, account of how the refined carbs & fructose are at the heart of the obesity, diabetes pandemics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xBp_dMIMryM FIRST CHOICE
***** Low carb diet:
Fat or Friction 29 min, 357,600 views, Australian Broadcast
Corp (ABC), for large audience, on how the low carb diet (thus high-fat diet) prevents and cures obesity and type-2-diabetes—the
New Atkins diet (below). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RNUh7P3TrAE THIRD CHOICE excellent
***** Heart of the Matter Part 1 Dietary Villains, 29 min, 52,000 views, Australian Broadcast Company (ABC), the saturated fat-cholesterol myth
causes heart disease https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGIGXfIDaJo Heart of the Matter,
Part 2 29 min 22,000 views. Show that statins don’t save lives and how
pharma gets away with the biggest of heists. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AY4eTGMe-EY Fifth, both are excellent
*****Reversing Type 2 diabetes starts ignoring the guidelines 18 min, 912,000 views, by Sarah Hallberg MD, TEDx PurdueU, passionate on treating diabetes
and insulin resistance with low-carb high-fat diet, and on the viscous cycle of taking medications which require carbs to
prevent the side effects with hypoglycemia, high carbs is strongly associated with heart attacks https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=da1vvigy5tQ excellent
***** How to Reverse Diabetes
Naturally, 35 min, 306,000 views, Dr. Jason Fung, on treating the symptom high
sugar instead of the disease insulin resistance. Very important way to break the reliance on drugs with diet and exercise,
with testimonials, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAwgdX5VxGc excellent
***** The Aetiology
of Obesity, the Fast Food Solution (Part 4 of 6): 84 min, 76,000 views,
Dr. Fung’s biology behind obesity and the biology behind fasting at 51 minutes,
which is a sure way to cure type-2 diabetes
and obesity. Explains it’s parallel to bariatric surgery cure. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pG89j432w-Y Excellent
*****
Enjoy Eating Saturated Fats: They’re
Good for You
53 min, 262,000 views. Prof. Donald Miller, surgery, cardiothoracic division, University of Washington. Clear well organized college lecture with graphics and lots of information, given
to audience of physicians, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRe9z32NZHY 8th,
very good
***** President’s Lecture Series 2009-2010, 78 min, 27,600 views MD. Marcia Angell PhD Harvard, based on her best-selling book, “The Truth About Drug Companies and how they deceive us”
You must know that the information system is broken https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDbQNBla6aU Highly
recommended
***** Making a Killing, the Untold Story of Psychotropic Drugs 95 min 669,000 views, on how psychiatrists have become
drug pushers all major aspects. Shows how pharma has taken over the information
system and its consequence, they are pushing tranquillizers. A point by point
analysis of a broken system; a blueprint on how pharma does business—helped by the FDA.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rk-ryvdWPgw excellent
