insulin resistance

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In a message dated 4/4/02 9:56:00 PM, writes:

<< Is it possible that insulin resistance can be *turned on and off*

(in so

> many words) in response to the amount of glucose that enters the

blood >>

TS Wiley in Lights Out- Sleep, Sugar and Survival -- suggests that we are

wired to eat sugar (carbos to you and me) when it was available -- in the

real world that we evolved in that would have only been a few months at most

(yes, even in Africa there are fruiting and non-fruiting seasons) -- eating

carbos made us become 'insulin resistant' (relative degree) in order to lay

down a fat pad and increase our cholesterol to see us through the coming

'winter' -- but now that we have sugar available 24/7, 365 days a year -- we

never burn down that fat pad -- and eventually become morbidly insulin

resistant and eventually diabetic -- her analysis is a lot more complex and

has much to say about food as information about the orbit of sun and the

seasons etc. I highly recommend her book. She too suggests that we eat a

low-carb diet, especially during the Fall/ Winter months.

Namaste, Liz