Wednesday, August 30, 2006

A reply back from a recent Blog... Had to share.

This is an e-mail response I got from the recent blog I did on Why type 2 diabetes has increased 50% in 30 years... What we eat can have big effects on our health...
I would love to get other testimonials from any of you out there that have them.

http://cwiechert.blogspot.com/2006/08/why-type-2-diabetes-has-increased-50.html

Hi Christopher,

I just wanted to let you know that this was an extremely timely blog, especially since our doctor made an interesting remark about my husband's health during his physical last week.

He told him that he has never seen a person as sick as my husband make such a dramatic turnaround in his asthma to the point that he is now considered cured. 20 years ago, he was so sick that his doctors had told me to prepare to be a widow. They warned me that if he caught a cold, he would end up with pneumonia and die because his lungs were in such bad shape.

At that time, he was taking an every other day dose of 60mg. of prednisone to keep him breathing. When asthmatics are in such condition, it is usually a last resort and there is no improvement. Period. Such a huge dose causes the adrenal glands to shrink and quit producing adrenaline altogether. When I was able to pinpoint corn and hfcs in particular as the cause of his asthma, we made radical changes to his diet and were able to reduce his prednisone intake to 0mg.

Of course, it took several years to accomplish this, requiring eliminating every prepackaged food on the grocery shelves. Nowadays, dextrose (corn-based) is found in practically everything, including salt. We eat organic food, kosher or sea salt, and cook everything from scratch. His health isn't great because of allergies and gout, but it's so much better than it was and he is still alive and functional.

I am encouraging my doctor to do some writing for the medical journals since he specializes in bariatric patients and has noticed that some of his patients admit to drinking 5 or 6 2-liter bottles of soda daily. Because it doesn't inform the brain of satiation, it actually causes hunger messages to be sent and encourages overeating.

Keep up the good work and try to get out the word about corn. It hides under many names: starch, modified food starch, xanthan gum, zein, glucose, dextrose, and of course, fructose.

When is the medical profession going to get the message that corn is not only an unrecognized and potent food allergy but it also one that the government is actively subsidizing and pushing on the American people?

We had an enormous fight in the ER years ago when a doctor ordered Aminophyllin in dextrose for an IV to combat a severe asthma attack. He refused to believe us that it would kill my husband, and then had a horrible time trying to resuscitate him when he himself started the IV and immediately sent him into anaphyllactic shock. Since then, I've learned to be very assertive and loud when it comes to protecting him from ignorance and bullheadedness.

Anyway, thanks for what you do. It's been a stressful year, but we're surviving and looking forward to life improvements.

V M


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Monday, August 28, 2006

Why type 2 diabetes has increased 50% in 30 years...

Incidence of type 2 diabetes doubled in last 30 years

FRAMINGHAM, MASSACHUSETTS. The incidence of type 2 diabetes, or rate of new cases over a time period, is less clearly understood than its prevalence (how widespread it is). Researchers from the US National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute took data from the Framingham Heart Study covering the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. A group of 3,104 men and women without diabetes, aged 44 to 55 years (mean 47 years), were examined and then followed for eight years. A diagnosis of diabetes was made if fasting plasma glucose was 7.0 mmol per liter (125 mg/dL) or insulin treatment was given.
The researchers found that the overall 8-year risk of developing diabetes nearly doubled between the 1970s and 1990s. For women, it was 2.0 per cent in the 1970s, 3.0 per cent in the 1980s, and 3.7 per cent in the 1990s. For men, the figures were 2.7 per cent, 3.6 per cent, and 5.8 per cent. Obesity is driving the so-called "epidemic" of diabetes, explain the researchers. Significantly more cases of diabetes developed among those with a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or above, than any other category.
However, analysis indicated that BMI did not fully account for the rise in diabetes incidence.
The researchers believe that lifestyle changes over recent decades also play a role. They highlight a recent review of cardiovascular risk factors which found a rise in all the measured risk factors over the last 40 years. Physical activity has declined over time, and changes in dietary composition may be important, they write, pointing to corn syrup and sugar-sweetened drinks in particular as potentially harmful. The authors conclude that the study shows a doubling in the incidence of type 2 diabetes over the last 30 years, and call for careful monitoring of future trends in the incidence of diabetes, a disease which can produce complications such as heart disease, blindness, and damage to the nerves and kidneys.
Fox, C. S. et al. Trends in the Incidence of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus From the 1970s to the 1990s The Framingham Heart Study. Circulation, Vol. 113, June 27.

It's not a coincidence that the 1970's started this epidemic...Read below...

Why the Current US Dietary Guidelines Are Making Americans Fat
By Mary G. Enig, PhD

The McGovern Committee Senate Hearings, held in the 1970s, grew out of the ideas for developing nutrition policy that were put forth at the 1969 White House Conference on Foods and Nutrition. Some of the recommendations that came out of the White House conference were orchestrated by lawyers and lobbyists from the food industry. The McGovern Committee originally planned to hold hearings on heart disease and diet, but evidently changed to hearings on all the "killer diseases" and their nutritional causes, although the major emphasis still came from the National Heart and Lung Institute (as it was called at that time) and the American Heart Association, with much testimony orchestrated by the American Health Foundation. Behind the scenes, the edible oil industry and the Grocery Manufacturers of America played a major role in lobbying efforts.
The McGovern Select Committee heard erroneous testimony from various research "scientists," most of whom had particular biases against animal fat and meat. For example, Dr. Gio B. Gori from the National Cancer Institute and Dr. David M. Hegsted from Harvard School of Public Health testified that there was "a direct relationship between dietary intake and forms of cancer and that it was their recommendation that Americans should cut down on the amount of food they eat, and specifically, eat less meat and fats" (Congressional Record 9/16/76 p S15993-4). The animal fat and cancer connection was first introduced by Dr. Ernst Wynder from the American Health Foundation using processed vegetable fat data mistakenly labeled animal fat. Colon cancer was also tied to beef in an erroneous interpretation of the National Cancer Institute Japanese-Hawaiian study which actually showed macaroni, green beans and peas to have higher risk associated with colon cancer than beef or lamb.1
Committee members ignored testimony debunking the anti-animal fat agenda even though the testimony defending meat and animal fat was supported by science and came from highly qualified researchers. The meat and dairy lobbies were very ineffective in defending their products.
The Select Committee produced a report that called for the decrease in consumption of animal fat, dairy fat and eggs. If you decrease the amount of fat in the diet, something has to increase to take its place and that something was to be the carbohydrates.
Once mandated, no government employee or government-funded researcher could contradict the US Dietary Goals. All the research from that point on had to be geared to creating educational material to match the US Dietary Goals and to produce a science to support them. If a researcher wanted another grant, the results he or she came up with would have to fit the guidelines.
Even though these goals/guidelines originally had no science to back them up, and still have no clear science to support them, they have become the law of the land.
Thus the Senate, with the help of the food industry and the complicity of a major part of the nutrition community, came up with a low-fat, high-carbohydrate Rx that produced profound changes in the way Americans ate. Vegetable oil and carbohydrate (mostly refined carbohydrate) calories replaced animal fat calories resulting in massive obesity in the populace. The US government is now proposing more of the same to combat. . . the massive obesity epidemic among Americans!

About the AuthorMary G. Enig, PhD is the author of Know Your Fats: The Complete Primer for Understanding the Nutrition of Fats, Oils, and Cholesterol, Bethesda Press, May 2000. Order your copy here: www.enig.com/trans.html.


Christopher Wiechert, C.N.C.


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Sunday, August 27, 2006

The D in the TV show The D Life, stands for DUD...

Many of you have most likely seen or browsed through the TV show, The D Life. It's a cable show devoted to addressing the needs of people with diabetes. Unfortunately, the show focuses on how to live with the disease, instead of helping people learn how to reverse it. The show is developed and supported by drug manufacturers and companies that make glucose testing products. Type 2 diabetes is now at epidemic levels. The reason is we consume too much sugar, refined carbs, high fructose corn syrup, as well as high glycemic vegetables like corn, potatoes, rice etc. We are designed to eat a Hunter-Gatherer type diet. If you change the way you eat, you can in most cases, reduce or reverse type 2 diabetes, and reduce or eliminate the drugs recommended for treatment. If your goal is to LIVE WITH the DISEASE, then I recommend you watch that show, but if your goal is to DEFEAT IT, then I recommend you read the books, The Schwarzbein Principle, by Diana Schwarzbein M.D. and the book Life Without Bread, by Wolfgang Lutz, M.D. Also, my website has resources on the underlying cause of many diseases like type 2 diabetes, please review that information as well. Especially the information on Hyperinsulinemia.

www.cwiechert.com



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Thursday, August 24, 2006

Exercise may be especially helpful in reducing the size of fat cells around the waistline -- more so than diet alone, a study suggests. That's important, because fat specifically in the abdomen has been linked to the risk of heart disease and diabetes.

Exercise shrinks abdominal fat cells


Fatty acids, which are found in fish, can help in weight loss when combined with moderate exercise, an Australian study found.

Australian study finds fish oil helps weight loss


Coffee good, coffee bad, coffee good, coffee bad... Here is a good one...
Three cups of coffee a day could slow the loss of mental function in men, says a European study.

Coffee could slow mental decline in old men


Eating curry or taking curcumin may boost the brain and stave off Alzheimer's disease, according to the latest research.

A taste for curry could delay onset of senility



Products I recommend that are focused in this blog...

NSI - Curcumin - 120 capsules

NSI - Omega 3 EFA - 240 capsules



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Thursday, August 10, 2006

3 Important articles this week on Obesity...

3 news articles came out this week on issues of Obesity and what may be influencing it. Obesity is a complicated problem and has many facets that effect Americans in different ways, please review these...


Baby's getting fatter and proves the U.S. has an Obesity Epidemic going on.


Mom's dieting habits can have a bad influence on the children.


Americans have sipped and slurped their way to fatness by drinking far more soda and other sugary drinks over the last four decades, a new scientific review concludes.


Understand the Glycemic Index... and how to use it.


Christopher Wiechert, C.N.C.


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Tuesday, August 01, 2006

Omega-3 fatty acids reduce prostate cancer growth

Last week I got an e-mail update from the Life Extension Foundation, entitled "Omega-3 fatty acids reduce prostate cancer growth".

It came from the August issue of the journal
Clinical Cancer Research as they published the finding of researchers at UCLA. The study reinforces the concept I have stated for over 4 years. That the ratio between Omega 6 to Omega 3 Fatty Acids, is responsible for increased inflammation in the body which increases our chances of developing issues such as heart disease, arthritis and cancer.

This study showed that a greater ratio of omega-3 to omega-6 fatty acids in the diet was associated with a reduction in prostate tumor growth rates and prostate-specific antigen (PSA) levels in a mouse model of hormone-sensitive prostate cancer. Omega-3 fatty acids consist of EPA and DHA, and are found in oily fish and ALA, found in flax and other plants. Omega-6 fatty acids are found mainly in vegetable oils such as those derived from corn and safflower, and are also found in red meat.

By increasing the ratio of Omega 3 to Omega 6 fatty acids, the research team found a 22 percent average reduction in tumor cell growth rates and 77 percent lower PSA levels among mice who received the omega-3 fatty acids compared to animals whose dietary fats were predominantly omega-6. Omega 6 fatty acids are pro-inflammatory and Omega 3's are anti-inflammatory.


The LEF stated that the study is among the first to demonstrate the effect of reducing a prostate cancer- promoting inflammatory response via the diet. Dr Aronson commented, "Corn oil is the backbone of the American diet. We consume up to 20 times more omega-6 fatty acids in our diet compared to omega-3 acids. This study strongly suggests that eating a healthier ratio of these two types of fatty acids may make a difference in reducing prostate cancer growth, but studies need to be conducted in humans before any clinical recommendations can be made."

"We may be able to use EPA and DHA supplements while also reducing omega-6 fatty acids in the diet as a cancer prevention tool or possibly to reduce progression in men with prostate cancer," Dr Aronson added.

We thank LEF for sharing this information with us.

NSI Omega 3 Fatty Acids



Christopher Wiechert, C.N.C.



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