Simon the chef part 2
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I’ve been watching the rest of a video on youtube narrated by a chef called Simon who lives and works in New Zealand and describes his diagnosis of having type 2 diabetes and how ultra processed food is killing us.
Its called How Ultra-Processed Food is Slowly Killing Us | ENDEVR Documentary and is on the Endevr documentary channel - 2 Nov 2022
Here are some of my notes from the rest of the video.
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A new piece of the puzzle was here revealed to me, that of leptin resistance.
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Leptin is the hormone responsible for telling the brain that you have had enough to eat however when there are high amounts of insulin,, leptin is not able to do its job and so you keep eating.
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This explains why, chemically, I have never had good control over my apetite. There were other psyconological factors at play too that I know of in my case but this is a new one on me.
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As far as the liver is concerned, the video went on to confirm my understanding in that it can become overloaded with fructose which it then exports it as fat or it just holds onto it and this is how we get fatty liver disease.
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I had read about the 7 countries study - Ancel Keys - who charts 6 countries and makes a correlation between fat and heart disease but he picked countries that fitted his theory and ignored those that didn’t.
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The British studies by Yudkin and others were ignored.
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The food industry then started to make low fat foods but they add sugar to increase their palatability and thus sales.
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Grain foods were the recommended foods to eat but no stipulation was made as to what kind of grains and subsequently those that have high glycemic index were supplied, marketed and sold to a compliant public.
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It is interesting here for me to see people that are not type 2 being tested for their glucose and for them to have levels similar to mine when I used to eat carbohydrates.
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Cells that are responsible for insulin can become exhausted and die due to over consumption of carbohydrates and this is the trigger point for type 2 diabetes.
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The American heart association however have been recommending a high carb diet for years but they are not going to admit they have been wrong to do so now as 50 years have elapsed since them starting to do so.
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Processed foods now take up 80% of supermarket foods. Many of these have no significant nutritional value.
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Vegetable oil is cheap to produce and corn syrup is a by product of excess corn production.
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So we are eating bi-products that are cheap to produce and have no meaningful nutritional value.
and then it finishes at the point of Simon going off to do something for 3 months.
There are more episodes on the channel which I have not yet watched however I can make some conclusions based on my own experience and having reversed and gone into remission from type 2 diabetes.
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Weight loss is key to reducing blood sugar and even visceral fat.
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Fatty liver can be reversed by cutting out sugar and carbohydrates in fact you may be able to reach this point without losing all of your target weight as the liver can sort itself out quite quickly.
This does not mean you can stop there though as further complications due to type 2 and simply being over weight can still occur. However making the changes now to your life can significantly reduce blood sugar in even 3 months.
I took over a year to get into remission although reversal came earlier than that and I had to stop taking drugs for the condition before they robbed me of what glucose I had in my blood and so that normal cycles of glucose / insulin and I guess now leptin could take place.
The Endeavour channel documentary would seem to confirm everything I have so far been reading and viewing on fat and how it has been demonized and how sugar has been falsely promoted as a healthy alternative.