Endocrinologist Robert Lustig: “We volunteer to feed our children junk!” This is a planetary problem...

The habit of being healthy has long been out of fashion. Paradoxically, over the past 15 years, the number of obese It was 30% more than the hungry. These are statistics not for an individual country, but for the whole world. The problem is gaining momentum - the number of registered endocrine diseases has doubled!





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These are not fake numbers to attract attention. These are facts from a real study by a professor at the University of California, San Francisco. Roberta Lustig. Perhaps he is the most popular doctor in the United States, as well as the author of the video lectures “Fat Chance” and “Sugar: The Bitter Truth”.





Last year, Lustig's team published a powerful Food Industry Market Research. The results are shocking! It turns out that at the heart of the epidemic of diabetes and obesity is a pernicious eating habit, which is supported and sponsored by edibles.

I don't think it's a conspiracy theory. Every argument the professor backs up proven scientific data of recent years. Today, 5% of the population on the planet already has diabetes, and this number is increasing every year.





The world picture is terrifying. According to statistics, the number of people with obesity will increase by 42% by 2030. This is not just about America and Mexico. You ask, what does obesity have to do with diabetes? The connection is obvious - often it's two. concomitant.





Due to insulin, excess fat accumulates in the human body, and at the same time this hormone does not allow it to be broken down. The more adipose tissue in the patient's body, the higher his insulin resistance, and the more hormone in the blood, the more obesity is observed. It turns out a vicious circle, then ordinary food. Increases human blood sugarAnd there is diabetes (the second type).

Obesity leads to the statement that we try to follow: to be healthy, you need to eat less and move more. You need a minimum of food and a maximum of physical activity. If you don't, it's nobody's fault, you're responsible.

Eating a minimum of calories, we do not consider their origin and likely benefits. Take a look at your diet. middle-school - there's often no use! Different foods are absorbed differently. It turns out that far more dangerous for a person is not fatty food, but sweet.

Few people know that healthy fat is necessary for proper metabolism. No regular exercise will not bring results if there are problems with nutrition.

Energy bars and low-fat yogurts are self-deception that hurts. Even more dangerous is fast food, in which oil, salt and sugar are stuffed with a soul. In the human brain there are no mechanisms that cause addiction to fats and salt. But you can get used to sweets, there is such a mechanism.





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Sugar works on the same principle as hard drugs. Moreover, the reward system in the brain is arranged in such a way that, while developing addiction to one drug, a person simultaneously develops addiction to others, which he has not seen in his life, but which trigger the same biochemical processes. So it turns out that a human being, sweetenedAlready predisposed to alcoholism and drug addiction!

Food manufacturers pretend that this is fiction and another conspiracy. But from the TV screens only pours advertising of sweet soda, bars and glazed cereals, which will replace a full meal. It's mind-playDirect introduction to your products! With sugar, of course.





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Show me a list of stores that don't have sugar. Vegetables, fruits and cereals do not count. It is everywhere, starting with bread and yogurt. Baking and sweets are a separate conversation, but getting to use in baby food is a crime!

In just seven years, from 2000 to 2007, the global diabetes rate rose from 5.5 to 7 percent. Of all the variety of factors, sugar and other carbohydrate-rich foods play a direct role. Calorie, which is interesting, in itself is not so important: if you eat 150 kilocalories more per day, then the probability of diabetes increases by only 0.1 percent. However, if you get these 150 calories with the help of sweet soda, the probability of earning the disease increases by 11 times.

About a quarter of all diabetes cases in the world are caused not by heredity, abstract malnutrition or overeating, but entirely and exclusively by sugar.

Sugar is the best engine of trade. 80% of the food on the market contains it. The formula for the success of delicious food "from the manufacturer" is very simple - as much as possible to plant a person on sugar. We find ourselves defenseless, involving children in sugar-drug And we don't notice the growing epidemic of related diseases.





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Now I'm going to be attacked by the defenders of sweet and will talk about the importance of glucose in the body, what is the point? sugar and things like that. In this article, we tried to reveal one side of sugar addiction, which is completely supported by the food industry.

Personally, I'm against refined sugar and sand and I don't see anything good in it. Stopping sugar, I got rid of many health problems, constant fatigue and irritability. Even lost weight without special physical exertion. It's hard, but it's worth it!





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Editorial Board I suggest you familiarize yourself with healthy-life rules From pediatric endocrinologist Robert Lustig.

  1. Take the sugar out of your breakfast forever. Eat porridge, whole grain bread, eggs, vegetables and fruits.
  2. Don't fool yourself! Forget about synthetic and natural sweeteners. All of them have side effects and can cause harm to health.
  3. Enrich your diet with fiber. Limit the use of grapes, try not to turn food into juice.
  4. Eat more natural foods. Remember, the treatment of diabetes is many times more expensive than healthy food. Go for semi-finished products on rare occasions.
  5. Do not buy low-fat products, they are useless.
  6. Eat food that enhances your health. serotonin levels: fish, meat, legumes, seafood, nuts, mushrooms, oats, buckwheat, dates, dairy products, sesame, pumpkin seeds.
  7. Cook your own food and reduce the amount of sugar in homemade meals. Believe me, it is possible to make a delicious cake or cookie with a minimum amount of sweetener.


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