Daily Mail prints something sensible - Shock!

[graj0]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/a...carbs-fuelling-obesity-diabetes-epidemic.html

 

[CollieBoy]

I know!
Someone will wake me up or tell me I had some bad drugs!

 

[Giverny]

Yet since it's on the daily mail this will likely have very little impact

 

[dawnmc]

Turn up for the book, excellent stuff.

 

[Squire Fulwood]

You don't normally expect this sort of thing of the Daily Mail especially on a wet Friday. Pity about the typo in the blood pressure part.

 

[Squire Fulwood]

'Two-thirds of the population are insulin resistant, Dr Deakin explained.'

That's a high figure.

Dr Kendrick has a different take on that and it makes sense to me.

"Imagine, if you will, a body with full sugar stores* – this would be most people, most of the time. You eat carbohydrate a.k.a. proto-sugar. With sugar stores full, there is nowhere for this excess sugar to go, so the liver converts it all into fat a.k.a. triglycerides. The liver tries to stick this excess triglyceride into a lipoprotein called a VLDL (Very Low Density Lipoprotein). However, this process is complex, so the liver starts to fill up with fat."

I read this as the sugar backs up since it has nowhere to go, causes the production of more insulin and this helps to put the triglycerides into fat cells.

It's more like sugar resistance really.

 

[Squire Fulwood]

Tempted to debate it but I would be arguing Dr. Kendrick's corner and he is big enough to do that himself.

That quote was from his blog.

http://drmalcolmkendrick.org/2013/08/09/the-most-unutterable-balls/

 

[Bluetit1802]

There is another thread about this. http://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/threads/now-the-x-pert-advice-is-low-carb-high-fat.70271/

 

[Lamont D]

I would be really interested in why I flush insulin as the description says if you are diabetic you produce more than you need hence storing fat becomes inevitable.

 

[nancyb]

Great to see this report, but I wouldn't want to eat 80% fat.

 

[Brunneria]

I read a couple of sources, way back in the 90s (Montignac, Atkins) who claimed that without insulin resistance, a person does not become over weight.

I've never checked their sources, but it seems a perfectly reasonable theory, to me.
And IF it is correct, then the 2/3 overweight would naturally match the 2/3 with insulin resistance.