- A lot of obesity seems to hinge on this idea that we're overeating these hyper
palatable, really delicious foods that are constantly available to us. At the
end of the day, doesn't it come down to if we eat too much, we're going to gain
weight no matter no matter what the food is?
So this lends itself to this notion that a calorie is a calorie, that it's all
about the calories. You eat too much, you exercise too little. Therefore it's about
two behaviors. Gluttony and sloth. Therefore if you're fat, it's your fault.
Therefore it's not the company's fault, it's yours. That's where this comes from.
The question is, Is it true that a calorie is a calorie?. There are many reasons to think
that that's not the case. Number one, obesity and diabetes are not
the same. Turns out there are countries that are obese without being diabetic,
such as Iceland, Mongolia, Micronesia. And there are countries that are diabetic
without being obese such as India, Pakistan, and China. In America, we are the
most obese nation. We only have a nine point three percent diabetes prevalence.
India and China are thinner than us but they have an 11 percent diabetes
prevalence. If obesity is the problem, if calories are the problem, then how do you
explain that they have a higher diabetes prevalence than we do? In addition, if you
look at the rate of increase of diabetes in America, turns out that the rate of
increase for the obese population is exactly the same as the rate of increase
for the normal weight population. If it were about obesity wouldn't you expect
the obese to be increasing their prevalence at a greater rate? And then
when you look at years of life lost, it turns out that the years of life lost in
the normal weight population due to sugar consumption are just as great as
the years of life lost in the obese population due to sugar consumption. If
it were about obesity you would expect it to be worse for the obese
population. Bottom line, it's not about obesity, and we now have the data that
shows why that's true. Why it's not about calories. Because a calorie is not a
calorie. Because it's about insulin and insulin resistance.
Insulin resistance being the phenomenon where your insulin doesn't work well so
your pancreas has to make more. And insulin drives all of those chronic
metabolic diseases. The reason sugar is so pernicious and
such a problem is not because the whole body metabolizes sugar, it's because the
liver metabolizes sugar, and all of the sugar that you consume goes to the liver.
And the liver has no choice but to turn that excess into liver fat. And it is
that liver fat that causes the liver to not work well, to become insulin
resistant. Then the pancreas to make extra insulin to make the liver do its
job, and that increased level of insulin drives the heart disease, ultimately
burns out the pancreas, causes the hypertension, and now we believe also
drives cells to divide potentially promoting cancer, and also has effects on
the brain that we think lead to dementia. So, in fact, it's not about the calories.
It's about the insulin response that those calories cause, and the insulin
response is very specific to the food consumed. Processed food, because it's
refined carbohydrate, because it's sugar laden is the most egregious in terms of
driving insulin, insulin resistance, and all of these chronic metabolic diseases.
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