Re: Carbs and Cancer

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CARBOHYDRATES CAUSE DISEASE

Scientific Proof Carbohydrates Cause Disease

By Kent Rieske

Carbohydrates cause nearly all age-related diseases. Age-related

diseases are thought of as unavoidable. Many people consider it

normal to get one or more of these diseases as they age. They

rationalize that they are simply unlucky or that others have

" better

genes, " neither of which is true. Their health problems are

most likely caused by their belief in the many popular myths and

distortions about nutrition. Most likely they got hooked by the

low-fat, high-carbohydrate diet craze and are now suffering as

a result.

The most common excuse used instead of identifying the real

culprit,

carbohydrates, is heredity. People flippantly say, " It runs

in my family, " or " My mother also had diabetes, "

or " My father also had high blood pressure and heart disease. "

Age-related diseases could best be described as " Excessive

Carbohydrate Consumption Syndrome. "

The scientific evidence is clear. Carbohydrates are a sinister,

sly food category that has been getting away with murder.

Carbohydrates

have powerful allies. They grow, manufacture and market

thousands

of different carbohydrate products made from fruit, grains and

starchy-vegetables. The supermarket floor space allotted to

these

manufactured carbohydrate foods is about 80 percent of the

store,

and yet the scientific minimum requirement for carbohydrates in

the diet is ZERO.

Carbohydrates are not an essential element for health. In fact,

optimal health lies in keeping the amount of carbohydrates in

the diet to a minimum. The supermarket departments that contain

the healthy essential proteins and essential fats are the fresh

meats, fresh fish and seafood, dairy and non-starchy vegetables.

Everything else in the store is very high in carbohydrates,

which

turn to glucose, hype the metabolism and trigger the release of

disease-causing hormones like insulin, cortisol and adrenaline.

A low metabolism is ideal for long life and good health. A high

metabolism excites hormones in the body that eventually cause

age-related diseases. A low metabolism is analogous to diesel

engines that are known for longevity and high mileage without

a breakdown. Diesel fuel is an oil that the engine uses for

energy

similar to fats in the diet. A high metabolism is analogous to

a nitro-methane drag racer that gives a tremendous burst of

energy

but explodes after a few races. The nitro-methane fuel is fast

burning similarly to sugar in the diet.

The pathogenic effects of carbohydrates are slow but sure. The

" 20-year rule " was coined to describe the length of

time between the start of the high-carbohydrate diet and the

onset

of disease. The number of diseases, severity and time to develop

are directly related to the percentage of carbohydrates in the

diet. In the advanced stage many diseases are prevalent in the

sufferer before death occurs.

Carbohydrates displace essential protein and essential fats in

the diet to cause a double health reversal. The carbohydrates

themselves cause disease, and the deficiency of protein and fats

contribute or cause other diseases.

The consumption of carbohydrates generally begins showing the

disease effects in either one of two directions.

Body fat accumulation leads to obesity, diabetes,

heart disease, cancer, gallbladder disease, degenerative bone

diseases and many others.

Damage to the intestinal tract leads to leaky

gut syndrome, inflammatory bowel diseases and a medical

textbook

listing of autoimmune diseases. These illnesses generally make

the sufferer underweight and deficient in vitamins and

minerals

caused by poor digestion.

The primary high-carbohydrate foods to avoid are sugars, honey,

flour, grains, legumes, fruit, milk and starchy-vegetables.

Whole grains cause disease in both humans and animals. Whole

grain breads and bagels are not the healthy food as people are

lead to believe. All grains have a very high level of omega-6

fatty acids, which are pro-inflammatory. Grains are a poor

source

of protein. Grains are the most allergenic of all foods.

Multiple

sclerosis, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis are rare in

populations

where no grain products are consumed such as the Paleolithic

(hunter-gatherer)

diet.

The Awful Truth About Eating Grains

Grain fed to feedlot steers makes them fat and causes intestinal

diseases. The feedlot diet given to steers is almost identical

to the USDA Food Guide Pyramid. Both diets are very high in

grains.

The feedlot operator is deliberately making the steers fat.

Fatty

beef is given higher grading, receives the best price and has

the best flavor. The time in the feedlot is short and the steer

is sent to slaughter prior to developing any serious health

problem.

People get fat and develop disease for the very same reasons.

Grains are worse for humans because we are omnivores. Steers are

herbivores, but the grains still make them fat and give them

diseases.

Primitive cultures that primarily ate meat from the hunt lived

in relative good health. Those people who switched to a

grain-based

diet obtained from the cultivation of grains suffered poor

health,

diseases and a smaller stature.

Fruit is Not as Healthy as Many Claim

Fruit is not the healthy food many claim. Fruit is mostly fructose

sugar with some vitamins, minerals and other nutrients. Those

vitamins and nutrients are easily obtained from meat and

non-starchy

vegetables without the fructose. The body processes fructose

from

fruit in the same way as it processes fructose from soft drinks.

There is no difference. Fructose is fructose no matter what the

source. Fructose causes insulin resistance as proven in

scientific

tests. Fructose is highly addictive and most people simply

refuse

to give up fruit no matter how sick they become.This is

identical

to lung cancer patients who continue to smoke cigarettes. See

links below for more information:

Fructose,

weight gain, and the insulin resistance syndrome.

Tissue-specific

impairment of insulin signaling in fructose-fed rats.

Carbohydrates Trigger Disease-Causing Hormones

The hormones involved in the carbohydrate disease loop are not

the sex hormones but rather metabolism hormones. The process

starts

when carbohydrates are eaten in the form of sugars such as

sucrose,

fructose, lactose and others. Simple carbohydrates are molecules

made by chains of glucose that are short. Longer glucose chains

form carbohydrates that are classified as complex. The body

breaks

the chains apart until individual molecules of glucose are

released

into the blood stream. Then the problems start. The body is very

sensitive to the amount of glucose in the blood, commonly called

blood sugar. A small part of the brain called the midbrain that

is about 1 inch (25 mm) long and red blood cells require glucose

as they lack mitochondria (powerhouse of the cell) and cannot

use fatty acids for fuel.

The lack of glucose (hypoglycemia) as energy for the brain can

cause symptoms ranging from headache, mild confusion and

abnormal

behavior, to loss of consciousness, seizure, coma and death. The

body can maintain an ideal level of glucose by creating it in

the liver from amino acids derived from protein and/or from

triglyceride

fatty acids in a process called gluconeogenesis. The

low-carbohydrate

diet results in a perfectly controlled and stable blood glucose

level in this way. On the other hand, the high-carbohydrate diet

results in the body's constant attempt to prevent blood glucose

swings both to the low-side (hypoglycemia)

or the high-side (hyperglycemia).

This control is regulated by the hormone insulin to reduce the

glucose level and the hormone adrenaline to act as an emergency

method of raising the glucose level.

Hypoglycemia is the train whistle signaling the diabetes train

is coming down the track. The diabetes engine is powered by

carbohydrates

and gaining speed. Nibbling complex carbohydrates throughout the

day to control the blood sugar swings will do nothing more than

slow the train a year or two. The diabetes train can be stopped

dead on the tracks only by avoiding all carbohydrates. The

condition

of uncontrolled blood sugar swings is called diabetes mellitus,

or type 2 diabetes, and has become epidemic in all

English-speaking

countries. It will soon become a catastrophe. (Experts:

World Facing Diabetes Catastrophe.)

Younger people appear to handle carbohydrates without a problem

because the cells of the younger body readily accept the glucose

with a small insulin response and turn the glucose into energy.

However, the cells get resistant to this constant bombardment

of glucose, and increasing levels of insulin are necessary to

maintain a normal blood glucose level. As the cells become

resistant,

the insulin assists in the conversion of the extra glucose into

triglycerides, which raise the triglyceride level in the blood

and are deposited as body fat. Carbohydrates cause obesity, not

fat. The high carbohydrate diet is a natural killer for many

reasons.

Insulin is a Disease-Causing Hormone

Insulin is a hormone made by the beta cells in the islets of

langerhans in the pancreas. Body cells require insulin in order

to use blood glucose.

A high level of blood insulin causes many unhealthy body

reactions,

which eventually lead to diseases of all types. Glucose from the

excessive consumption of carbohydrates is turned to body fat by

the high insulin level and is also deposited in the arteries and

organs causing arterial diseases, heart disease, strokes, blood

clots and other diseases. High blood glucose signals increasing

insulin production until the pancreas becomes fatigued after

many

years, making the disease seem age-related. Glucose rises

uncontrollably

when insulin production drops. The result causes diseases of the

eyes, kidneys, blood vessels and nerves.

Carbohydrates drive insulin production that causes cardiovascular

heart disease (CHD). Many heart attack patients first learn they

are diabetic in the hospital emergency room, but they may not

be told about the close relationship between their two

conditions.

Blood insulin reaches high levels and remains high as one

progresses

from hypoglycemia to Type II diabetes where insulin production

collapses. Insulin is a very strong anabolic hormone. It pushes

blood glucose into cells. It turns blood glucose into

triglycerides

and stores them as body fat. This sudden appearance of heart

disease

has been described by the author as the " Instant Atherosclerosis

Cycle " (IAC).

Insulin also pushes small dense LDL molecules into the artery

wall to start the atherosclerosis process. Animal research with

insulin has proven many years ago that the artery will plug with

atherosclerosis just downstream from the point of injection.

Carbohydrates cause the LDL molecules to be the unhealthy small,

dense variety. The high-fat, low-carbohydrates diet causes the

LDL molecules to the safe large fluffy light density variety.

Higher LDL blood levels on the low-carbohydrate diet do not

present

the same CHD risk as do LDL levels on the USDA Food Guide

Pyramid

diet of 60 percent carbohydrates.

High-Insulin (Hyperinsulinemia) Increases Cancer Risks

High-Carbohydrate Diet Implicated in Pancreatic Cancer

Low-Fat, High-Carbohydrate Diets Contribute to

Hyperinsulinemia

and Hypertriglyceridemia

Diet

and Colorectal Cancer: The Possible Role of Insulin Resistance

Fasting

Insulin and Outcome of Early-Stage Breast Cancer

Diet,

Lifestyle, and Colorectal Cancer: Is Hyperinsulinemia the

Missing

Link?

Carbohydrates drive blood insulin production that causes cancer.

There are strong associations between a high-carbohydrate diet

and many diseases that present a secondary cancer risk. Cancer

risks are greatly increased with diabetes, inflammatory bowel

disease and many other unhealthy conditions caused by the

high-blood

glucose and high-blood insulin levels.

High-Insulin (Hyperinsulinemia) Increases Cardiovascular Disease

Risks

Insulin

Resistance is an Important Determinant of Left Ventricular

Mass

in the Obese

Insulin Resistance Syndrome Predicts the Risk of Coronary

Heart

Disease and Stroke

Coronary

Heart Disease Mortality Risk: Plasma Insulin Level Is a More

Sensitive Marker Than Hypertension or Abnormal Glucose

Tolerance

Hyperinsulinemia as an Independent Risk Factor for Ischemic

Heart Disease

The only way to prevent diseases caused by insulin spikes and

plunges is to eat a low-carbohydrate diet. Many primitive

societies

have lived with very few carbohydrates in the diet and have

proven

diabetes and all the diseases of consequence do not exist. A

great

example is the Eskimos of the far north prior to the

introduction

of white-man food.

The bad effects of insulin do not end here. High insulin spikes

signal the body to release cortisol and adrenaline hormones,

which

also contribute to disease.

Cortisol is a Disease-Causing Hormone

Cortisol is the major stress hormone of the natural glucocorticoid

family, which regulates metabolism and provides resistance to

stress. Glucocorticoids are made in the outside portion (the

cortex)

of the adrenal gland and are chemically classified as steroids.

Glucocorticoids increase the rate at which proteins are

catabolized

(broken down) and amino acids are removed from cells, primarily

muscle fiber, and transported to the liver.

Glucocorticoids cause amino acids to be synthesized into new

proteins, such as enzymes. They also raise blood pressure by

constricting

vessels, which is a benefit in case of injury. They are also

anti-inflammatory.

All of this is well and good in a healthy individual with normal

glucose and insulin levels. Unfortunately, high cortisol levels

cause many unhealthy reactions.

Understanding

Adrenal Function

" An excessive ratio of carbohydrates to protein results

in excess secretion of insulin, which often leads to intervals

of hypoglycemia. The body, in an attempt to normalize blood

sugar,

initiates a counter-regulatory process during which the adrenals

are stimulated to secrete increased levels of cortisol and

adrenalin.

It follows that an excessive intake of carbohydrates often leads

to excessive secretion of cortisol. "

Excess cortisol:

Diminishes cellular utilization of glucose

Increases blood sugar levels

Decreases protein synthesis

Increases protein breakdown that can lead to

muscle wasting

Causes demineralization of bone that can lead

to osteoporosis

Interferes with skin regeneration and healing

Causes shrinking of lymphatic tissue

Diminishes lymphocyte numbers and functions

Lessens SIgA (secretory antibody productions).

This immune system suppression may lead to increased

susceptibility

to allergies, infections, and degenerative disease

High-cortisol levels caused by excessive carbohydrate consumption

and high-insulin levels cause the body to extract high-tensile

strength

collagen protein fibers from bones, remove the mineral matrix by

demineralization and weaken connective tissue at the joints. The

protein loss is accelerated by a low-protein diet, and the bone

minerals are lost in the urine. One is literally peeing his/her

bones away. The result is a rapid and shocking diagnosis of

osteoporosis

and degenerative disk disease where the spine can lose as much as

one inch (25 mm) in height in as little as one year. Bones

fracture

more easily, and the dreaded hip fracture is much more likely to

occur.

Women are told to drink lots of milk and eat plenty of yogurt

to get additional calcium with the promise it will prevent bone

loss, but the advice is based on faulty logic. The additional

lactose in the milk and yogurt plus the additional sugar and

fruit

added to yogurt only serve to increase the dietary carbohydrate

load. The net result is harmful to the bones as many are

discovering.

All of this can be prevented by eating a high-protein, high-fat,

low-carbohydrate diet.

Adrenaline is a Disease-Causing Hormone

Adrenaline (epinephrine) is the " fight-or-flight " stress

hormone. Epinephrine is a neurotransmitter secreted by the

adrenal

gland that is associated with sympathetic nervous system

activity.

It prolongs and intensifies the following effects of the

sympathetic

nervous system.

Causes the pupils of the eyes to dilate

Increases the heart rate, force of contraction,

and blood pressure

Constricts the blood vessels of nonessential

organs such as the skin

Dilates blood vessels to increase blood flow

to organs involved in exercise or fighting off danger,

skeletal

muscles, cardiac muscle, liver, and adipose tissue

Increases the rate and depth of breathing and dilates the

bronchioles

to allow faster movement of air in and out of the lungs

Raises blood sugar as the liver glycogen is converted

to glucose

Slows down or even stops processes that are not

essential for meeting the stress situation, such as muscular

movements of the gastrointestinal tract and digestive

secretions

All of these effects are great if one is being chased by a lion

or attacked by an intruder into the home. However, these effects

are unhealthy to a person sitting in an office, watching a

football

game or simply going about his everyday life.

The last item on the above list is very disruptive to the

intestinal

tract and leads to intestinal diseases. People are advised to

eat more high-fiber whole grains and high-fiber fruit to

overcome

the constipation resulting from this slow down of the intestinal

system, but this advice is backward. These are very

high-carbohydrate

foods, which cause a surge in insulin and adrenaline that shut

down the digestive processes. (Bowel

Diseases and Candida--News You Can Use.)

High-insulin and hypoglycemia (low-blood sugar) cause adrenaline

to increase when no fight-or-flight stress situation exists and

thereby causes unhealthy body changes. The helpful body

responses

to adrenaline become a health hazard when adrenaline is elevated

over a period of time. The long-term elevation of adrenaline is

very unhealthy and leads to many diseases.

These changes include effects to the cardiovascular system that

increase the risk of coronary heart disease. The low-fat,

high-carbohydrate

diet as recommended by the USDA Food Guide Pyramid is disease

causing because it promotes hypoglycemia, hyperinsulinemia,

hypertriglyceridemia

and hyperadrenalemia. Prolonged elevated adrenaline has the

following

effects on the cardiovascular system:

Increases in the production of blood cholesterol,

especially the undesirable LDL

Decreases the body's ability to remove cholesterol

Increases the blood's tendency to clot

Increases the deposits of plaque on the walls

of the arteries

Adrenaline addiction is very common. Type-A personalities become

addicted to their excessive activity by the stimulation and

arousal

of adrenaline. People who are constantly angry, fearful, guilty,

or worrisome arouse their adrenaline hormone even though they

may sit around doing nothing else. People who are excessive in

their participation in jogging, exercise, bodybuilding,

aerobics,

sports, skiing, mountain climbing, car racing or flying aerobic

airplanes become addicted because of the adrenaline rush from

their activity. They describe the " rush " they get from

their activity and feel depressed when they can't participate

for some unexpected reason.

F. Fixx was addicted to running and wrote the famous

jogger's

book, The

Complete Book of Running. He was a marathon runner and

vegetarian

on a diet of high-carbohydrates and low-protein. These were a

perfect setup to arouse and maintain a high level of adrenaline.

He died on his daily run of a massive heart attack proving to

the world that exercise does NOT prevent coronary heart disease.

Fixx admitted in his book that his own research showed the

athletes

from his university alumni had a shorter life span than the

" couch

potato " students. This difference may have been caused by

the difference in adrenaline between the two groups.

Hypoglycemia

and stress are a deadly combination.

[Guest guest]

don't believe a word of this, am vegetarian, not about to put dead animals

in my body just because of a low carb myth.

[Guest guest]

I disagree. I think *refined* carbs are the problem, not necessarily

properly-prepared whole grains. Insulin is not evil. In fact, it saves your life

when you eat too much protein or a very low-carb diet. When you eat too much

protein or protein by itself, it causes an adrenaline rush, which feeds glucose

into your brain. Insulin comes in to stop too much glucose from entering your

brain (which would cause cell death) by putting the glucose into your body

tissues.

After reading The Schwarzbein Principle II: The Transition, I'm really starting

to feel that our high-stress lifestyles are the current key difference between

us now and native peoples then, regarding health. Our hormones are all out of

whack, and we have to balance them (insulin, adrenaline, cortisol) by eating

balanced meals.

Here's Matt Stone's recent post, " The Low-Carb Oops. "

http://180degreehealth.blogspot.com/2009/07/low-carb-oops.html

[Guest guest]

You know plants are living conscious beings too.  It's sad that people and

animals murder them everyday.  They do have complex thought?  They just don't

express themselves like us mobile creatures.  I don't mind eating those

murderous herbivores we call cows.  Serves them right.  Plants are the most

peaceful creatures on the planet.  They never go out of there way to kill

anything.

From: alia robinson <aliar4@...>

Subject: Re: Carbs and Cancer

Date: Sunday, July 26, 2009, 7:06 PM

 

don't believe a word of this, am vegetarian, not about to put

dead animals

in my body just because of a low carb myth.

[Guest guest]

I just read an interesting book about vegetable child prodigies.

> You know plants are living conscious beings too. It's sad that

> people and animals murder them everyday. They do have complex

> thought? They just don't express themselves like us mobile

> creatures. I don't mind eating those murderous herbivores we call

> cows. Serves them right. Plants are the most peaceful creatures on

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[Guest guest]

Alia,

> don't believe a word of this, am vegetarian, not about to put dead animals

> in my body just because of a low carb myth.

If you are still here, are you a vegan or vegetarian? And why would

you join a group that is big on eating dead animals?

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