Today, two-thirds of Americans are overweight or obese due to a sedentary lifestyle and excessive consumption of highly processed foods (and similar figures for most Western countries). This has major ripple effects on health.
90% of Americans in middle age will develop high blood pressure and 40% will develop metabolic syndrome; symptoms of metabolic syndrome include high blood pressure, high blood sugar, excess body fat in the abdomen, and abnormal cholesterol and triglycerides ester index.
Over 60 years old, the proportion of metabolic syndrome will increase to 50%! Obesity is closely related to type 2 diabetes, so as Americans' waistlines grow rapidly, so does the rate of type 2 diabetes.
American doctor of natural medicine, consultant of the four major professional sports teams in North America, Mark. Barbers noted that, by some estimates, .
"Heart disease is currently the number one cause of death in the United States, accounting for 41% of all deaths." Mark. Barbers said the worse the blood sugar control, the greater the risk of cardiovascular disease.
Would it matter if you were neither overweight nor obese? Amazingly,,. As you age, blood sugar becomes more important because blood sugar, blood pressure, resting heart rate, cholesterol, and triglycerides typically rise with age.
This relationship was first discovered in a 22-year study. The study showed that if the fasting blood sugar exceeds 85 mg/kgCombined (4.3 micromoles/liter), the risk of cardiovascular disease increases by 40% (this is the number obtained after adjusting for all variables, otherwise it is not only).
The "Whitehall Study" investigated the relationship between fasting blood sugar and health. The results also found that the highest fasting blood sugar value was associated with an increased risk of cardiovascular disease, and with the increase in fasting blood sugar Worsening and progressively increasing (strongest association in men aged 40 to 49).
Other researchers replicated these results and found that the relationship persisted after adjusting for variables such as age, cholesterol, systolic blood pressure, obesity and smoking. . Medicines, surgeries and technology are advancing rapidly, but the problem is getting worse.
One thing to keep in mind: Glycemic dysfunction is a spectrum with optimal health on one end and insulin resistance on the other. .
In the early 2000s, Dr. Gerald Reaven, a professor emeritus at Stanford Medical School, conducted groundbreaking research. He and his team directly measured insulin sensitivity in people who were fit and overweight (but didn't have diabetes or cardiovascular disease) to try to predict the risk of chronic disease.
Over the next 5 years, they looked at which people were more likely (or less likely) to develop clinical conditions. As a result, what did they find?
Dr. Raven said: "PancreaticAbout 1 in 3 healthy individuals in the first tertile of the insulin resistance benchmark have an age-related clinical event... This should strongly motivate us to include insulin resistance as an age-related disease one of the factors. "
This amazing discovery points out,. It is also interesting and interesting to note the shared characteristics of the most insulin-sensitive people. Let's do a quick summary: These people typically have lower body fat, more frequent exercise, lower blood pressure, and higher levels of the protective HDL cholesterol.
Raven concluded in the study: "Only insulin resistance was an independent predictor of age-related clinical events." In a nutshell.
To achieve ideal blood sugar control, there is a big obstacle, that is, our current standard for healthy blood sugar is poorly defined and "unfounded". For example, prediabetes can only be loosely defined as: fasting blood sugar level Over 100 to 110 mg/kg.
Mark. Barbers pointed to a recent prospective cohort study published in Diabetes Care, including 12.8 million people, that sought to examine the relationship between fasting blood sugar and death. The results showed that fasting blood glucose values between 80 and 94 mg/kg had the lowest mortality rate, regardless of age and gender. They also found a clear association between blood glucose levels of 100 mg/kg or more and higher mortality. It seems that.
However, our current food environment appears to be incompatible with healthy glycemic control.The system is the opposite. Evolution pushes our brains to crave calorie-rich foods to ensure survival, which happens to coincide with overly processed foods, combined with the sedentary and stressful lifestyles common in modern culture, to create a persistent mouth The perfect combination for cravings, weight gain, glycemic insufficiency and poor health.
Mark. Barbers said that throughout human history, there has been a correlation between eating (calorie intake) and foraging activities (calorie consumption) such as hunting, gathering, and scavenging.
Biology has the so-called optimal foraging theory, which can be used to predict the foraging behavior of animals. When animals hunt and pick up, they tend to spend the least cost (energy expended) for the greatest benefit (food), maximizing the chance of survival.
You don't spend hours chasing a squirrel that doesn't provide much energy, but you choose to wait for a bigger animal to show up and bring you more money. Throughout evolutionary history, if you don't want to move, you don't have to eat.
Today, the situation is completely reversed, you don't need to move at all, just use a delivery app and someone will deliver food to your door, no matter how many calories you want!
Our food environment is filled with processed convenience snacks and calorie-rich foods. The convenience of a modern society has many benefits, but our health suffers because we completely cut the link between energy consumption and food acquisition.
“Convenience is great, but now it's taking a heavy toll on our health. "mark. In a modern setting, Barbers said. This has nothing to do with willpower, because willpower is limited, but the processed food environment seems to have no limits.
◎ This article is excerpted from / "Sports and Health Book: Four Principles, Thirty Keys, Effectively Improve Physical Fitness Results with Scientific Methods" Mark. By Barbers ◎ Image source/Provided by Dazhi Image/shutterstock
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