tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13260386.post5129585266529915264..comments2024-03-13T06:54:20.063-05:00Comments on Weight of the Evidence: Estimated 10% of Teens in US Have Metabolic Syndrome!Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13260386.post-24296698475205525882008-02-06T08:38:00.000-06:002008-02-06T08:38:00.000-06:00I really wish the officials would get it into thei...I really wish the officials would get it into their heads that obesity is not a cause of MetS - it is a symptom. Treating the symptom won't make the problem go away.<BR/><BR/>As for plastics - I was born in 1969, and I ate a terrible diet going up - lots of starch, lots of sugar, and refined/hydrogenated vegetable oils everywhere. But I didn't start getting fat until my 20s. I have always attributed that to the fact that my mother did not attempt to limit fat (and therefore, protein) in our diets until my late teens, when the lowfat vogue really started to catch on! So I ate a fair amount of fat and protein with all that starch and sugar until around 1984 or 1985. By the mid-nineties, I was showing signs of disordered BG, including hypoglycemia and weight gain of nearly 10 lbs a year.<BR/><BR/>Nowadays, the official guidelines are that children should be fed a low-fat diet starting at age 2. Surely that's at least as likely a culprit as environmental contamination?<BR/><BR/>So I don't really know what to make of Jenny's hypothesis, except to caution against fatalism. Ridding our world of plastics will be so difficult that most people will thow up their hands and say, "Guess I'm stuck with diabetes." But whatever the <I>causes</I> of diabetes, we know the most effective means to delay its progression - carbohydrate avoidance.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13260386.post-32083626825670605312008-02-05T17:02:00.000-06:002008-02-05T17:02:00.000-06:00Plastic is probably IMO contributing to an already...Plastic is probably IMO contributing to an already existing problem of excessive carbohydrate in our diet. Long before plastics we had T2 diabetes, heart disease and the various disorders now considered metabolic syndrome clustering in humans. <BR/><BR/>I do believe that much of the "acceleration" we're seeing today - in younger and younger individuals presenting with MetS, pre-diabetes, T2 and such - is due largely to our dependance on highly refined carbohydrate as the mainstay of our diet, and even excessive levels of carbohydrate overall, even when someone is choosing the "whole grain" options claimed to be healthful.<BR/><BR/>Carbohydrate per se is not problematic IMO when it is contextually in a diet rich with nutrients and not an excessive source of calories each day....the type of diet we begin even infants on in this country is truly deplorable - refined cereals as the first food? Talk about loading the deck against the metabolism from the start!<BR/><BR/>But, yes, I do think in some way much of the chemical assaults also play a role somewhere - be it plastics disrupting endocrine function or pesticides interrupting the CNS....diet is one part, our environment and exposure another. I just don't think the plastics are greater than the diet IMO..https://www.blogger.com/profile/09224160356421549054noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-13260386.post-19221500556132287502008-02-05T15:29:00.000-06:002008-02-05T15:29:00.000-06:00Regina,It is just as likely that it is the plastic...Regina,<BR/><BR/>It is just as likely that it is the plastics that have been in the bloodstreams of these teens since birth which has caused the damage that makes their bodies unable to handle carbs. <BR/><BR/>If you haven't seen it, do check out this article <A HREF="http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20080202/food.asp" REL="nofollow"> How Plastic We've Become"</A> in Science News and then look at the report about plastics recently found in baby's bloodstream.<BR/><BR/>These chemicals seem to disrupt the normal carbohydrate metabolic pathways which is why carbs become a problem. For a person with a truly normal metabolism, eating carbs is not the problem it is for people who have sustained damage.<BR/><BR/>Unfortunately, with the rising levels of plastic poisoning in our society over the past decades, the damage now extends to a lot of us.Jennyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17384082448952856117noreply@blogger.com