Wanna live longer? Banish the sweet tooth

Posted on Oct 11th 2007 8:00AM by Jacki Donaldson

Filed Under: Diet & Weight Loss, Nutrition & Supplements

Did you know worms live longer when they are unable to process the simple sugar glucose? Sure enough. And this finding, published in the October issue of Cell Metabolism, may mean for humans that glucose could have a negative effect on life span. Study of these little worms may have other human implications too.

Already, researchers think their findings cast some doubt on traditional Type 2 diabetes treatments, all of which target lowering blood levels of glucose by increasing the amount of sugar taken up by body tissues. Questions are also being raised about the widespread use of antioxidant supplements -- antioxidants and vitamins given to the worms canceled out the life-extending benefits of sugar deprivation.

While banishing refined sugar is definitely a wise idea -- surely, we all agree on that, right? -- no one recommends tossing the multivitamins just yet. I mean, we're talking worms here. Still, some good food for thought, don't you think?

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Nicholas Dynes Gracey 10-11-2007 @ 3:06PM

Hi Jacki Donaldson & Anyone seeking a cure for global 'excess warmth' or to understand that CO2 emissions are NOT the cause of 'global warming' and that 'global diabetes' is NOT a disease.

1. Urinating excess blood glucose is really a safety mechanism to stop the NEGATIVE consequences of forcing excess blood glucose into body tissues or NOT ... insulin resistance is really a safety mechanism or NOT?

2. Global warming c/o CO2 or NOT?

3. Is diabetes mellitus [aka diabetes] excess glucose fuel and/or excess external warmth and/or excess clothing [aka insulation]?

When You understand that CO2 emissions are NOT the cause of global warming You may understand that diabetes is NOT a disease.

Global warming is caused by natural solar activity ie NOT above-average carbon dioxide.

Diabetes [aka above-average blood glucose] is caused by a natural physiological activity [protecting the body from relative-HYPOglycemia] ie above-average blood glucose is NOT the cause of a disease called diabetes.

Psychologically there are CHOICES to be made eg: (a) c/o Whitey Harrell realizing that apparently ZERO supreme court law exists, since 1894, to pay any income tax on salaries & wages in 50 states of the USA @ http://www.tinyurl.com/2p63h9 especially @ 25m15s to 29m32s and 39m23s to 46m50s ... so that payment of any such income tax is VOLUNTARY; and (b) c/o Professor Joel M Kauffman realizing that global warming is a natural process linked to solar activity @ http://www.tinyurl.com/2yfpa9 so the belief that Humans can control global warming is a CHOSEN belief [rather than a belief in truth] ...; and (c) c/o the following evidence ... increasingly understanding & realizing ... that diabetes is NOT a disease ...

Diabetes is caused by eating too often.

Eating less often cures type 2 diabetes and eating less often, even more often, cures type 1 diabetes.

2 clicks away >> via this click > http://www.tinyurl.com/3y2mu4 and then first link on that page > leads to info providing a better explanation as to a possible & sustainable cure for HYPERglycemia, eg type 1 & type 2 diabetes, via 'dietary control' and ultimately choosing to be UNdrugTREATED for life.

Few type 2 Diabetics are offered the CHOICE of a possible & sustainable cure for HYPERglycemia, eg type 2 diabetes, via 'dietary control'.

Even fewer type 1 Diabetics are offered the CHOICE of a possible & sustainable cure for HYPERglycemia, eg type 1 diabetes, via 'dietary control'.

In respect of Chrissie in Belgium's comment: "... Think to be really free to eat when you want..."
www.thediabetesblog.com/2007/09/10/the-thing-that-people-with-diabetes-hate-the-most/#c7412042

BUT... Calorie / Dietary restriction mimetics studies suggest that Humans exercising the conscious choice to 'eat less often' receive substantial rewards eg...

'...dietary restriction based on reduced carbohydrate intake may be able to prevent Alzheimer's Disease...'
www.tinyurl.com/y17c3k

www.tinyurl.com/y1wtkp

www.tinyurl.com/yka94k

'Having diabetes' and utilizing tools such as urine glucose / ketone / pH measuring strips is a remarkable opportunity to train your body in the science & fine art of 'eat control' that can both increase your lifespan & prevent diseases.

The challenge with understanding how to 'give up diabetes' [HYPERglycemia] or cure diabetes is giving up on the 'mirage' that natural HYPERglycemia is anything other than a 'healing symptom' and understanding that diabetes is NOT a disease and that the diseases associated with diabetes actually arise from: (a) too rapid a DROP in blood glucose; and/or (b) too much of a DROP in blood glucose [both of which can be described by the words: "relative-HYPOglycemia"; and (c) treatment of "relative-HYPOglycemia" with carbohydrates including glucose aka 'glucose reperfusion' ...
www.tinyurl.com/ynpp4g

www.tinyurl.com/yta44e

An alternative perspective on Allison Love Beatty's diabetes blog >>> www.thediabetesblog.com/2007/09/04/when-a-child-cant-remember ...

www.tinyurl.com/3c5qyf
CONCLUSIONS: "This is the first description of MRI in determining the neurological damage in hypoglycemic coma."

OR ... Here's the MRI evidence ... BUT the term 'HYPERinsulinism' was described as early as 1924 and it has been well known for more than 80 years that hypoglycemia causes profound damage to the body including AMNESIA aka "forgetfulness or confusion". Amnesia is just one of a number of "neuropsychiatric illnesses" that have been 'treated' by means of highly questionable methods in Individuals lacking a sufficient predisposition to 'natural' hyperglycemia / diabetes mellitus as a protective adaptative 'HYPERglycemic safety' [aka diabetic] mechanism and/or barrier to repetitive "relative-HYPOglycemia" and repetitive 'treatment' with carbohydrates including glucose.
www.tinyurl.com/2albrn

Researchers RJ Wurtman and JJ Wurtman [in relation to carbohydrate treatment of neuropsychiatric illnesses] state: "...many patients learn to overeat carbohydrates (particularly snack foods, like potato chips or pastries, which are rich in carbohydrates and fats) to make themselves feel better. This tendency to use certain foods as though they were drugs is a frequent cause of weight gain, and can also be seen in patients who become fat when exposed to stress, or in women with premenstrual syndrome, or in patients with "winter depression," or in people who are attempting to give up smoking. (Nicotine, like dietary carbohydrates, increases brain serotonin secretion; nicotine withdrawal has the opposite effect.) It also occurs in patients with normal-weight bulimia...".
www.tinyurl.com/35zlxf

David Healy is one of the clearest Writers on the subject of 'non-hyperglycemic' / 'non-carbohydrate' treatment [eg via SSRIs 'selective serotonin re-uptake inhibitors'] of neuropsychiatric illnesses.
www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Healy_%28psychiatrist%29

HYPERglycemia & UNdrugTREATED diabetes protects an Individual from neuropsychiatric illnesses. ANYdrugTREATED diabetes [via HYPOglycemic drugs] and consequent HYPOglycemic events increase an Individual's predisposition to neuropsychiatric illnesses and subsequent ANYdrugTREATED means for that 'HYPOglycemia associated' neuropsychiatric illness.

Commercial production of insulin began in 1923.

Subsequently, in 1924, it appears that the first diseases associated with excess insulin aka HYPERinsulinism [leading to HYPOglycemia & relative-HYPOglycemia] appeared when...

Seale Harris published his discovery of "relative-HYPOglycemia" ["Hyperinsulinism and Disinsulinism" @ JAMA @ vol 83 @ pages 723-733 @ 1924] ... "relative-HYPOglycemia" a brain starved state associated with neuropsychiatric illnesses including: Depression, Insomnia, Anxiety, Irritability, Crying Spells, Phobias, Lack of Concentration, Forgetfulness or Confusion, Unsocial or Antisocial Behavior, Restlessness, Psychosis, Suicidal Behavior; Exhaustion or Fatigue, Sweating, Tachycardia, Anorexia, Chronic Indigestion or Bloating, Cold Hands or Feet, Joint Pains, Obesity, Abdominal Spasm; Headache, Dizziness, Tremor [inward or external], Muscle Pains & Backache, Numbness, Blurred Vision, Muscular Twitching or Cramps, Staggering, Fainting or Blackouts and also Convulsions.

Insulin resistance aka glucose-resistance apparently protects Individuals from neuropsychiatric illnesses associated with "relative-HYPOglycemia".

Prior to 1983 insulin resistance aka glucose-resistance was often associated with type 1 & type 2 Diabetics because insulin resistance aka glucose-resistance is a natural adaptative safety response to excess exogenous animal and/or excess endogenous human insulin [aka HYPERinsulinism].

Since approximately 1983 glucose-resistance associated with obese Diabetics has been diluted because GM insulins [ie it's various analog strains] have removed all traces of C-peptide together with introducing molecular designs for circumventing GM insulin resistance. As more Diabetics of all types are treated, with GM insulin, the ability to 'type a Diabetic' via resistance to insulin becomes more challenging. UNdrugTREATED type 2 Diabetics certainly are the Masters of glucose-resistance c/o their abundance of C-peptide and are all the more healthy for it ... BUT as various HYPOglycemic / ANYdrugTREATED related steps are taken which deplete C-peptide availability from all Diabetics ... other HYPOglycemic / ANYdrugTREATED creations [including pharmaco-nutrition combination methods eg including chromium & cacao liquor proanthocyanidins (CLPr)] continue to help 'force-feed' glucose aka "gavage" into cells that are already overflowing with glucose stores ... so glucose-resistance could become futile...

The fact is that type 1a, 1b, 1.5, 2 & 2.5 (pregnancy) diabetes mellitus are all manifestations of the same cure ... for a the disease of "relative-HYPOglycemia" all of which types [of diabetes] are currently being treated with GM insulin or other HYPOglycemic substances [inc one of the newer ones proposed ... "cacao liquor proanthocyanidins (CLPr)"].

Type 1a, 1b, 1.5, 2, 2.5 diabetes mellitus could / should all be graded as to the Diabetic's degree of GLUCOSE-resistance [rather than insulin resistance] eg the amount of glucose a Person can consume before their LIVEr becomes overloaded and their kidneys choose to make glucose overflow into their urine [because the GLUCOSE is being RESISTED (a protective adaptative process)].

Human Beings, including 'Diabetics' have ZERO requirement for eating GLUCOSE & glucose dense foods [aka carbohydrates] and certain Human Beings, including "type 2 Diabetics" actively demonstrate this with substantial & beneficial "GLUCOSE-RESISTANCE".

The ADA teaches: (a) that carbohydrates should form "45% to 65%" of the calories of a Diabetic's diet; and (b) "discourages low-carb diets (diets that limit carbohydrate to fewer than 130 grams per day)"; and (c) "In people with type 2 diabetes, eating protein can make the body more responsive to insulin. Thus, it can lower blood glucose levels"...
www.diabetes.org/uedocuments/DiabetesBasics0307.pdf

All 'Diabetics' have a glucose 'allergy' [aka glucose resistance] to a greater or lesser degree because the CARBOPHILIA fashion is to continue to eat glucose dense carbohydrates too often ie too often to be processed by a 'Diabetic's LIVEr' that is already 'overflowing' with glycogen / glucose stores.
www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gavage#Force-feeding_of_animals

Diabetes aka HYPERglycemia is a protective physiological response to the extraordinary dangers of relative-HYPOglycemia.
www.tinyurl.com/2e7zrq

Relative-HYPOglycemia diseases [associated with 'diabetes mellitus'] start when 'treatments' including ignoring/fighting glucose-RESISTANCE continue/increase [such as those treatments which exclude eating less often].
www.tinyurl.com/27ncjv

WHAT PREVENTS HYPERglycemia & HYPOglycemia...

Eat Less Often ... specifically ... Eat JUST clean water [zero % carbohydrate] between meals & eat ONLY when your blood glucose level, following your previous eat, has NATURALLY reduced to your chosen baseline blood glucose level [eg as related to the relative fuel demands of your particular activity level] and maintaining this habit, of 'supply & demand' glucose control, makes your prevention, of diabetes mellitus, sustainable.

REPETITION FOR EMPHASIS... Reasonably extensive research of the scientific literature suggests: (a) that Humans, including Athletes, have virtually ZERO requirements for carbohydrate because virtually all the required biochemical products of carbohydrates [with the possible exception of less than 1 gram of vitamin C per day] can be manufactured within the Human body; and (b) that only a lifetime of athletic-like activity can virtually guarantee preventing diabetes on a diet that derives "45% to 65%" of the calories from carbohydrate [ie more than 130 times the carbohydrate requirement of a Human body]; and (c) that the major contributory factor for over-consumption of HYPOglycaemic drugs is the over-consumption of carbohydrates [A Polish doctor, Jan Kwasniewski, has successfully treated type-1 Diabetics for over thirty years merely by reducing their carbohydrate intake to 'an amount dictated by the insulin-producing capacity of the sufferer']...
www.en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Optimal_Diet

WHAT CAUSES DIABETES...

Eating too often [for that particular Individual at that particular period of their life AND their particular reliance on excessive clothing insulation] causes relative HYPOglycaemia and relative HYPOglycaemia causes a reduction of beta cells/activity [especially type 1] and/or reduced insulin sensitivity aka insulin resistance [especially type 2].
www.pnas.org/cgi/content/abstract/0705863104v1

WHAT CURES DIABETES...

(A) Maintain basal insulin [eg type 1 exogenous / type 2 endogenous] to prevent ketoacidosis [pH > 7.2].
www.jped.com.br/conteudo/07-83-S11/ing.pdf

(B) Eat Less Often ... specifically ... Eat JUST clean water [zero% carbohydrate] between meals & eat ONLY when your blood glucose level, following your previous eat, has naturally reduced to your chosen baseline blood glucose level [eg as related to the relative fuel demands of your particular activity level] and consciously helping your body learn this habit, of 'supply & demand' glucose control, makes your cure sustainable.

(C) Await daily recovery, sustainable, in respect of your increased reduction of relative HYPOglycaemia ie increasingly efficient reduction of the cause ... increasingly efficiently facilitates the gradual recovery your beta cells & insulin sensitivity ... ie gradually towards the total sustainable cure [days/weeks/months for type 1a & type 1.5 ... or ... hours/days/weeks for type 1b & type 2].

...Warm thanks; Nick Gracey, BSc(Hons) Medical Biochemistry, Birmingham University, UK, WATerian c/o www.ThatsFit.com @ 18:59hrs THU.11.OCT.2007 .

ps... Diabetes Is Caused By Food And Or Drug Administration Too Much And Or Too Often.

www.thediabetesblog.com/2007/04/19/no-food-no-problem

pps... Diabetes is NOT a disease ... diabetes is the CURE [for relative-HYPOglycemia]...

www.jstage.jst.go.jp/article/bpb/24/8/950/_pdf

'Relative-HYPOglycemia As A Cause Of Neuropsychiatric Illness' @ Journal Of The National Medical Association @ Harry M Salzer MD @ January 1966 @ Vol 58 @ Number 1 @ Table 1 @ Figure 2.

ppps...FOR MORE related info on Adrenaline, Adrenalin LOVE, Chronic HYPERglycemia, Chronic Transient HYPERinsulinemia, Transient Supernormal Glycemia [TSG], Insulin Resistance [a protective adaptative process] AND Transient CARBOhydrate Overload... please follow the links via...

www.tinyurl.com/2k4n3a