Today, I spent much of my day reading Protein Power by the Drs. Eades. I’d never read it before, and it really highlighted not only how much we rely on prescription drugs to treat diseases that are caused by lifestyle, but just how much prescription drugs actually make lifestyle diseases worse. Example: you eat a lot of carb, your insulin levels go up, causing you to retain water. Your blood pressure goes up. Your doctor prescribes a beta blocker and a diuretic, which get your blood pressure somewhat under control, but also raise your insulin levels further, causing you to gain weight. Your blood lipids go up, so the doctor prescribes a statin, which causes your insulin to go up, and the next thing you know, you’re a Type II diabetic, and you’re lucky if your doctor even knows how to treat Type II correctly. (Should you get insulin? Metformin? What diet should you follow? The answers to these questions depend in part on whether your body can actually still produce insulin, but judging from the experience of friends, it can be very hard to get a 5-hour GTT, and when you do get it, half the time the techs don’t measure your insulin levels.)
So I was quite delighted to find a link to this video in my inbox. I’ve often remarked that the only two reliable news sources in America are The Onion and Jon Stewart. Why is it, anyway, that only comedians can tell the truth in our world? Is it because that bit of laughter is the sugar-coating (whoops! I mean “pat of butter”) that makes the bitter truth go down better?
Oh, and add to my previous list of things we can all agree on: fried Coke is bad.
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