Diabetes and Exercise

People who exercise look healthier and younger. Exercise has anti-aging properties: Anti-Aging Treatment: High Levels Of Exercise Increase Lifespan Up To 9 Years.

For type 1 diabetics, you still need to control blood sugar with insulin injections. Exercise will not help as much in blood sugar control, as it does with type 2 diabetics. For both diabetics, exercise has many beneficial effects:

How to Reverse Type 2 Diabetes Naturally - Jason Fung

Dr Jason Fung: How to Reverse Type 2 Diabetes Naturally



Great, easy-to-understand presentation on how to reverse type 2 diabetes.

Diabetes is a problem of insulin resistance. If we treat diabetic patients with insulin, they develop even more insulin resistance, it will make their diabetes worse over time.

Diabetes is a dietary disease, and it should be treated with dietary intervention and not medicine.

For more, check out Jason Fung's blog: Intensive Dietary Management.

Salt

It is very important to consume adequate amounts of salt. So, how to know the right amount of salt we should eat. The best way to measure it, is to listen to your taste buds:

Carbohydrate Tolerance

We are all different and our tolerance to carbohydrates also differs depending on:

• the quantity of carbohydrates consumed
• the quality of these carbohydrates
• the amount of time we've been consuming these different types of carbohydrates
• the genetic profile of the individual.

Metabolic Syndrome

Great summary from the book Fat Chance (Robert H. Lustig) about the development of Metabolic Syndrome (in bold):

Video Presentation: Fat Chance

Recently I've been quoting a lot from the book Fat Chance, by Robert H. Lustig (I borrowed it from the library), and here's the easy-to-understand presentation. If you watch this video, you don't even need to read the book.

Enjoy!

VIDEO: Dr Jeff Volek about Low-Carb Diet

This is a video about going from a high-carbohydrate to a low-carbohydrate diet. Here are a few notes:

"Sweden has become the first Western nation to develop national dietary guidelines that reject the popular low-fat diet dogma in favor of low-carb high-fat nutrition advice."

The Effects of Fructose

I recently received a little present from Hungary: a chocolate bar. I was very surprised to read on the packaging: “Suitable for diabetics”. I checked the ingredients behind, it listed 35% fructose!

Brain - Cancer and Alzheimer's

Article Number 1:

When it Comes to Brain Cancer, Let's Look Beyond Chemo

In cancer research, it is very important to understand how cancer cells work, what they need to thrive and multiply, in other words their metabolism. As I've mentioned before, sugar (glucose) is an important "food" for cancer cells, as they generate energy by fermentation (Sugar and Cancer and Starving Cancer Cells). They are unable to survive in an oxygen rich environment and without sugar.

Fertility Problems

More and more women today suffer from PCOS (Polycystic ovary syndrome), a condition associated with infertility, and usually requiring medical intervention in the form of hormonal therapy. It is indeed an endocrine disorder (hormonal problem).