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"Obesity The obesity effect of MSG in animals requires evaluation since unexplained obesity is increasing in our population, along with hypertension and diabetes. MSG-induced obesity in animals may carry long-term significance for humans.20 21 22 Particularly disturbing is the later obesity after MSG exposure during the neonatal and infant period even after only a short or limited exposure.23 Atrial Fibrillation The neuroexcitatory relationship of MSG and the heart has been noted for 30 years. Atrial fibrillation as a distinct symptom of MSG toxicity became clear with Dr." - George R. Schwartz, In Bad Taste: The Msg Symptom Complex : How Monosodium Glutamate Is a Major Cause of Treatable and Preventable Illnesses, Such As Headaches, Asthma, Epilepsy, heart (Get the book.)

"Since research has defined a relationship between cancer formation in the body and obesity, I am sure you want to know how could dehydration cause cancer in the body. The answer is simple. Dehydration causes a multifaceted disturbance in the normal physiological functions in the body, which allows cancer to develop. What the New York Times reported did not surprise me in the least. I explained this relationship in 1987 as the guest lecturer at an international cancer conference when I identified pain as a manifestation of dehydration that would lead to many diseases, including cancer." - Fereydoon Batmanghelidj, Obesity Cancer & Depression: Their Common Cause & Natural Cure (Get the book.) "The Washington Post of Sunday, May 30, 2004, reveals that obesity has doubled in adults and kids between 8 and 11 years of age and has tripled in adolescents. This finding confirms what I published several years ago in my book Your Body's Many Cries for Water. It is also interesting to note that the increased consumption of sodas by children younger than five years probably explains why the rate of asthma occurrence in that age group tripled between 1980 and 1994." - Fereydoon Batmanghelidj, Obesity Cancer & Depression: Their Common Cause & Natural Cure (Get the book.) "Occurrence of asthma in children tripled between 1980 and 1994, and obesity in children has now become a national crisis—another impact of excessive soda consumption in this sector of society. Caffeine, one of the main components of most sodas, is a drug. It has addictive properties because of its direct action on the brain. It also acts on the kidneys and causes increased urine production. Caffeine has diuretic properties. It is physiologically a dehydrating agent. This is the main reason why a person can drink many cans of soda every day and never be satisfied." - Fereydoon Batmanghelidj, Obesity Cancer & Depression: Their Common Cause & Natural Cure (Get the book.) "Those suffering from obesity, depression, or cancer should make sure to drink two glasses. During that half hour, the water is absorbed into the system and is once again secreted into the stomach, preparing it to receive solid foods. When you drink water before food, you avoid many problems of the gastrointestinal tract, including bloating, heartburn, colitis, constipation, diverticulitis, Crohn's disease, hiatal hernia, cancers of intestinal tract, and of course weight gain." - Fereydoon Batmanghelidj, Obesity Cancer & Depression: Their Common Cause & Natural Cure (Get the book.)

"But the pills are not the quick fix the industry says they are. obesity can take more than a decade off a person's life span. Researchers reported in 2005 that the nation's growing epidemic of obesity may soon cause life expectancies to decline. Or are the nation's disappointing expectancy rankings due in part to the deaths and serious injuries caused by the increasing number of prescription pills we take? With the drug companies now controlling medical science, it can take decades before the truth is revealed about how their products may cause an early death." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"Obesity The obesity effect of MSG in animals requires evaluation since unexplained obesity is increasing in our population, along with hypertension and diabetes. MSG-induced obesity in animals may carry long-term significance for humans.20 21 22 Particularly disturbing is the later obesity after MSG exposure during the neonatal and infant period even after only a short or limited exposure.23 Atrial Fibrillation The neuroexcitatory relationship of MSG and the heart has been noted for 30 years. Atrial fibrillation as a distinct symptom of MSG toxicity became clear with Dr." - George R. Schwartz, In Bad Taste: The Msg Symptom Complex : How Monosodium Glutamate Is a Major Cause of Treatable and Preventable Illnesses, Such As Headaches, Asthma, Epilepsy, heart (Get the book.)

"One can only wonder if the large number of people having difficulty with obesity in the United States is related to early exposure to food additive excitotoxins since this obesity is one of the most consistent features of the syndrome. One characteristic of the obesity induced by excitotoxins is that it doesn't appear to depend on food intake126 This could explain why some people cannot diet away their obesity. It is ironic that so many people drink soft drinks sweetened with NutraSweer® when aspartate can produce the exact same lesions as glutamate, resulting in gross obesity." - Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills (Get the book.)

"Insulin resistance (Syndrome X) leads to central obesity, not the other way around. In fact obesity is a major aspect of this syndrome. What do I mean by central obesity? This has to do with how your weight is distributed in your body. If it is evenly dispersed all over or you are heavy in the bottom (pear-shaped), you may need to drop some weight, but in relation to Syndrome X, you are fine. But if you have gained substantial weight around your waistline (are apple-shaped), you may be in trouble." - Ray D. Strand, What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutritional Medicine May Be Killing You (Get the book.)

"This information creates a link between the societal trend of increased obesity and the dramatic increase in autism in infants. SOLUTIONS FOR EATING DISORDERS In order to solve eating disorders, it is important to know that eating correctly does not promote excess weight gain. Understanding leptin explains why this is the case. The next issue is to get the person to eat. Once eating occurs, the problem is likely to be improved. For example, getting young women with anorexia to eat restores their leptin levels and changes their bone metabolism so that they gain bone mass instead of lose it." - Byron J. Richards, CCN, Mastering Leptin: The Leptin Diet, Solving obesity and Preventing Disease, Second Edition (Get the book.) "This is another tool to help reduce abdominal obesity. SUMMARY Too many Americans are sleep deprived. It is difficult to compensate for a lack of sleep. A lack of sleep accelerates wear and tear and pushes the body out of natural balance and rhythm. In addition to not enough sleep, many individuals have trouble getting quality sleep. It is not possible to separate daytime energy regulation, blood sugar, eating patterns, eating habits, exercise, and stress from sleep issues. Central to sleep problems are fluctuating blood-sugar levels, both hyperglycemia and hypoglycemia." - Byron J. Richards, CCN, Mastering Leptin: The Leptin Diet, Solving obesity and Preventing Disease, Second Edition (Get the book.) "If the message does not get written in the first few hours following birth, then appetite control is dysregulated and a person is destined to struggle with excess food cravings, hibernation metabolism, and high risk for obesity later in life.108109110 If you are wondering where a surge of leptin comes from for human babies just born, the answer is the first milk colostrum of the mother.111112113 Ensuring an infant receives this first milk colostrum within the first six hours of life is a time critical and extremely important event." - Byron J. Richards, CCN, Mastering Leptin: The Leptin Diet, Solving obesity and Preventing Disease, Second Edition (Get the book.)

"Laying the Groundwork Mothers with health problems—particularly obesity, diabetes, and hypertension—are more likely to have children with health problems. Fathers' health can also play a crucial role in the outcome of a pregnancy. Though this subject hasn't yet received enough attention, we do know that fathers with certain industrial and agricultural occupations are more likely to have children with neurocognitive problems. So from the very beginning, get your partner involved in the greening process. Give up smoking as a team, and take turns cooking healthier recipes." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Additional chronic conditions included heart disease with pacemaker, hypertension, obesity, and stroke. This client came to the Tree of Life with a history of blood sugar levels near 500, and at the start of the program his blood sugar before lunch on the 14th of January was 330. Within a few days of officially beginning the program, on the 22nd of January, his FBS had already dropped to 123, and by the 27th, just five days later, he reached an FBS of 88, close to a normal, nondiabetic FBS. When he began the program, his weight was 288; one month later he was down to 256." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) "Since up to 90 percent of diabetics are overweight, and diabetes is related to obesity, the natural weight loss down to optimal weight on a live-food diet in this context is a powerful plus. A live-food diet creates just the opposite effect of the high-refined-sugar, high-cooked-animal-fat, low-fiber diet that is creating the pandemic today. The pandemic gets worse as we go more into industrialized foods. A 100 percent live-food Phase 1.0 diet combined with green juice fasting is the most powerful way to upgrade the phenotypic expression and turn off the diabetic genes. A Phase 1." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.) "The researchers concluded that caffeine consumption is associated with a substantial reduction in insulin-mediated glucose uptake independent of obesity, Type-2 diabetes, and chronic exercise.72 40 r Pre Post Pre Post Pre Post Lean Obese T2D Insulin sensitivity in the lean, obese, and type 2 diabetic (T2D) groups before and after 3 months of exercise. Insulin sensitivity Is expressed as the ratio of the amount of glucose metabolized to the prevailing plasma insulin levels {M (mg - kgSM-1 ?min-1 )/l (uU/ml) x 100} during the lost 30 min of the eugiycemk clamp, ?" - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"Given that more and more children and adolescents are overweight and obese, these findings are a warning that the combination of obesity and metabolic syndrome will continue to be a serious problem unless we take action. As a mother, father, or other individual who is responsible for a child's health and welfare, you need to help protect and preserve the future health of your child. THE BOTTOM LINE An understanding of insulin resistance is important if you are to successfully prevent, reverse, or treat the conditions it causes." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.) "Experimental studies in both animals and humans show that DHEA supplementation improves insulin sensitivity and reduces obesity, while other animal studies indicate that DHEA increases beta-cell mass and improves glucose-dependent insulin secretion in aging. Published study data indicate that testosterone improves insulin sensitivity in men. This suggests that DHEA's conversion into testosterone may be at least partly responsible for the beneficial effects it has on insulin function." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"Hypothyroid is associated with raised serum cholesterol and tends to create fatigue and obesity.x27>28,29 This further encourages and enhances a diabetogenic reality. Isoflavones decrease the good cholesterol (HDL), thus contributing to heart disease, the number one killer of diabetics.30,31 Soy may also be connected with Alzheimer's disease, now thought to be a complication of hyperglycemia and diabetes. In a major ongoing study involving 3,734 elderly Japanese American men, those who ate the most tofu during midlife had up to 2.4 times the risk of later developing Alzheimer's disease." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"That couch-potato kid is more likely to become overweight, therefore more likely to come down with all the adulthood health problems that result from obesity. If you do suspect that your child might be asthmatic—and almost 80 percent of childhood asthma cases are diagnosed before the age of five—take her to see her pediatrician right away. Have a long talk with your doctor about how to recognize and control the symptoms of asthma, and make sure that you pass on this information to your child and other family members. If left unchecked, asthma can wreak havoc on every aspect of a child's life." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"Numerous studies also point to a greater likelihood of obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes, heart attacks, and strokes if you eat a diet low in omega-3 fatty acids and magnesium. SHARON'S WEIGHT GAIN AND PAIN When Sharon, forty-five, came to see me, she told me that she'd had three years of pain and stiffness in her knees, shoulders, and hands. One doctor had told her she had osteoarthritis in her knees and treated her with several nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs), such as ibuprofen, but since she had stopped taking Vioxx, her pain had increased." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"We're also seeing epidemic increases in rates of diabetes and obesity among kids today—does that all just boil down to better diagnoses as well? Were doctors just "missing" all of those children, too? I've also heard that the recently broadened definition of "autism spectrum disorders" brings far more children under an umbrella once reserved for autistic disorder alone. "One worry," said autism researcher and director of Pieta Research Dr." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) "Environmental Triggers Researchers have linked environmental exposures to a jaw-dropping number of health problems: learning disabilities, hyperactivity, headaches, asthma, allergies, obesity, diabetes, autism, eye damage, pediatric cancer, and even rheumatoid arthritis. In its 2006 environmental health report, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) found that "avoidable environmental exposures" are responsible for as much as 24 percent of all global diseases and more than 33 percent of diseases in children under the age of five." - Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.)

"The other health issues that are most closely associated with the 4-A epidemics, and that are most threatening and disruptive, are: (1) childhood cancers, (2) diabetes, (3) obesity, and (4) learning disabilities. For the most part, these problems revolve around the same essential issues as the 4-A disorders: toxicity, nutritional deficiencies, immune dysfunction, metabolic imbalance, and failure to adequately detoxify." - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.) "Each new day now, she was treating members of a generation of children who were suffering from horrendous new onslaughts of autism, ADHD, asthma, allergies, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, childhood cancers, Type 1 and Type 2 diabetes, and obesity. Every day she was trying to repair the bodies of kids who suffered from toxicity, brain inflammation, skewed immunity, depleted neurotransmitters, nutrient deficiencies, and inflamed bowels. Why was all of this happening? Why wasn't anyone in a position of power rising up to defend America's children?" - Kenneth Bock, Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders (Get the book.)

"Basu R et al. obesity and type 2 diabetes impair insulin-induced suppression of glycogenolysis as well as gluconeogenesis. Diabetes 2005 Jul; 54(7):1942-48. Belobrajdic DP et al. A high-whey-protein diet reduces body weight gain and alters insulin sensitivity relative to red meat in Wi-star rats. J Nutr 2004 Jun; 134(6): 1454-58. Best L et al. Curcumin induces electrical activity in rat pancreatic beta-cells by activating the volume regulated anion channel. Biochem Pharmacol2007; 73:1768-75. Boudou P et al." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"They come from a family that has diabetes, obesity, or alcoholism. Generally, they're boys. Their teachers say they're in trouble. An especially important point is that they are usually okay one to one with their mother or father at home alone, but in a class of 30 other kids they cannot function. These children do better in small groups or one-on-one situations. That is ideal for them. "Drug therapy helps them disregard unimportant stimuli." - Gary Null and Amy McDonald, The Food-Mood Connection: Nutrition-based and Environmental Approaches to Mental Health and Physical Wellbeing (Get the book.)

"Okinawa now has Japan's highest rate of obesity, and, among middle-aged men, one of the highest rates of premature deaths from cardiovascular diseases. While Okinawan women are still among the longest-lived people on earth, men are dragging down the region's average life expectancy. Formerly the longevity leaders (and still the leaders in remaining life expectancy at age 65), by the year 2000, Okinawan men had dropped to the middle of the pack, sitting in 26th place among 47 prefectures in life expectancy at birth." - Dan Buettner, The Blue Zones: Lessons for Living Longer From the People Who've Lived the Longest (Get the book.)

"The result of this toxic overload is inflammation, which leads to chronic conditions such as heart disease, diabetes, obesity, cancer, Alzheimer's, Parkinsonism, and autoimmune diseases. In other words, chronic low-grade systemic inflammation is likely the foundation of most all diseases. Because toxins are foreign substances, the body will try to erect a barrier between them and its own cells, organs, and tissues. This barrier is inflammation, the body's attempt to protect itself from these toxic foreign substances. Inflammation can occur anywhere in the body where toxins are present." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.) "Schlosser gives an incisive history of the development of American fast food, drawing alarming conclusions about how we have come to face epidemic obesity and toxic, sometimes lethal, food sources, and generally how the fast food industry has changed the landscape of how Americans eat and live. On any given day, one out of four Americans opts for a quick and inexpensive meal at a fast food restaurant, without giving either its speed or its thriftiness a second thought. According to Time magazine, 70 percent of kids ages six to eight think fast food is healthier than home food." - Brenda Watson and Leonard Smith, The Detox Strategy: Vibrant Health in 5 Easy Steps (Get the book.)

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