Lots of diaries about Obamacare and healthcare costs lately. There was also a diary about how Republicans claim Obamacare causes diabetes. Well, what if I told you that a condition called Metabolic Syndrome is responsible for most of the ailments affecting Americans today including Type II diabetes?? Type II diabetes, heart disease, arthritis, ADHD, Parkinsons, Alzhiemers ( now called type III diabetes), cancers, gastro reflux, joint pain all are on the rise. All those diseases have been associated with inflammation which is a factor in metabolic syndrome. What if I also told you that if America changed they way they ate, most of these diseases would plummet to levels not seen since the caveman walked the planet. What if I told you that the inflammation I'm talking about is caused by excess carbohydrates in the Western diet. Wikipedia's definition of Metabolic Syndrome includes:
It is generally accepted that the current food environment contributes to the development of metabolic syndrome: our diet is mismatched with our biochemistry.
Because of this , Sweden's government has officially issued new national dietary guidlines:
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You'd almost have to be brain dead not notice an increase in the diseases affecting America starting with the rise in Type 2 diabetes in both children AND adults to the rise in a multitude of diseases affecting American adults especially Alzheimers which is now being called Type III diabetes. Everywhere you look there's someone else added to the list of sufferers from the above mentioned diseases while every label analyzed in the grocery store reveals High Fructose Corn Syrup. Take a look in the shopping carts of fellow shoppers and see the processed food and carbohydrate packed foods people are buying. Some of it has to do with finances, carbs are cheap, but most of it has to do with the addiction people have to carbs caused by the lowering of blood sugar when insulin is secreted. It's the insulin roller coaster most Americans are on. The more carbs you eat the more carbs your gonna eat 3 hrs later to raise your blood sugar back up. It's an endless cycle which eventually leads to insulin resistance which leads to the diseases mentioned above.
Here are 2 videos that provides explanations in layman terms of the whole problem that Sweden is addressing at the national level.
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What would happen if all Americans heeded the Swedish advice on dietary guidelines?