On 5/24/2014 12:57 AM, Julie Bove wrote:
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> "Paul M. Cook" > wrote in message
> ...
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>> Your individual circumstances are not indicative of the whole. We're
>> talking a national epidemic and not your story which is a statistical
>> outlier. Based on you history I would be shocked if you never did get
>> diabetes.
>
> No doubt there is a national epidemic but nobody knows why. Some people
> blame hormones in milk and meat. Others blame HFCS. But none of that
> has been proven. Nobody but you though and my husband would claim that
> anyone ate themselves into being diabetic. It just doesn't work that
> way! But diabetes in and of itself can cause a person to overeat. High
> blood sugar causes the body to essentially starve.
>
> The late Quentin Grady once explained it something like this. You are
> hungry. You order food. Food gets delivered. It is outside your door.
> You can't get it because the door is there, blocking you from getting
> it. Your blood cells are the same. They are starving for food but they
> are blocked by the sugar coating. The food can't get inside.
>
> You're still hungry. So you call and order more food. But the food
> can't get in because the door is there. Repeat, repeat, repeat. I
> think Quentin said it a lot better but I'm not going to look it up to
> quote him. At any rate, high blood sugar is like that. Your body is
> starving because your cells are glycoslated (covered in sugar). You
> feel hungry because truly you are starving. So you keep eating and
> eating but nothing gets to where it should be going.
>
> You didn't overeat and cause yourself to get diabetes. But the diabetes
> may have caused you to overeat.
That's a load of crap. People make themselves obese by making poor food
choices. Get behind a very large person at the supermarket checkout and
look at all the high-carb, high-fat foods they are checking out.
There have been several scientific studies done that prove that the
chemical that blocks insulin from acting properly resides in adipose
tissue. The more adipose tissue (fat), the more of this chemical/enzyme
whatever you want to call it, is produced. In your terms, the little
key that unlocks the door to the cells so insulin can enter is blocked
by the locks produced by fat cells.
Quentin, who was a friend of mine, may he rest in peace, was a school
teacher not an endocrinologist.
--
Janet Wilder
Way-the-heck-south Texas
Spelling doesn't count. Cooking does.
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