What If?

What if almost everything we think we know about diet, the causes of disease and putting on those pesky extra pounds is just plain wrong?

What if it's not really about obsessing over too much saturated fat and high cholesterol, consuming too many calories and exercising too little, after all? (And I'm not saying we shouldn't exercise!)

What if there's a weapon of mass destruction inside each of our bodies, waiting like a time bomb to explode into any one of the following physical or emotional disorders: type II diabetes, heart disease, Alzheimers, cancer, depression, asthma, hyperactivity, ulcerative colitis, migraine headaches, crippling arthritis, weak bones, low immune function, sleep disorders, low energy and finally, obesity?

What if every single one of the above diseases is a different manifestation of the same thing and caused by the same root culprit?

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Now Gary Taubes has come out with a book that seeks to answer these questions with a single, definitive answer. He documents that answer with over 250 years worth of scientific research that begs to differ with conventional wisdom of our post-modern world.

The answer to the question of what's the root cause of all the above diseases is: a sustained over abundance of high blood sugar in our bloodsteams. High blood sugar lingers in our bloodstreams instead of being used as energy by our bodies cells.

All this comes about because we consume high levels of simple sugars and carbohydrates, day in and day out for months, years, decades than our body's insulin supply can deal with. Our diets are using up all of our insulin and wearing out our pancreases. When our ability to make insulin decreases, or completely disappears, and we continue to eat the Standart American diet, our blood sugar stays perpetually high and we get chronically and acutely sick, over-weight or depressed. Or we get all of the above.

It's all about blood sugar and its relationship to insulin.

The book, Good Calories, Bad Calories, is a landmark study and research project taking over 7 years to meticulously research and complete, and goes back to the Middle Ages to document. It a book of major importance to anyone who's been searching for answers while their symptoms (or weight gain) or those of their loved ones have only gotten worse and harder to control.

Be aware, it goes against conventional wisdom, and the political correctness of eating and bonding with our brothers and sisters. It goes against our long-standing habits.

Most if not all manifestations of disease in our affluent society are caused by eating far, far too many sugary foods and drinks including fruit drinks, far too many wheat products and grains of all kinds, and far, far too many carbs, be they simple or complex. All these taken together are creating the perfect storm for crippling disease, lower and lower quality of life, financial decline and finally death.

And many, if most doctors don't have a clue.

There's much more to say about Taubes book, but for now, here's a little video on the place where the hormone/protein insulin is made: to handle all the high blood sugar we make.