Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports on new research showing that beyond weight gain, sugar can take a serious toll on your health, worsening conditions ranging from heart disease to cancer. http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7403942n
THE EFFECTS OF DRINKING SODA: Soda drinks are very acidic and the "brown-colored" ones are the most acidic (root beer, Dr. Pepper, Coca Cola and Pepsi). These drinks range from 3.2-2.5 on the pH scale and will have a very negative effect of acid/base balance.
Recall that the stimulus for the parietal cells' production of HCl/bicarbonate is the raising of the gastric pH to approximately 4.5 (coupled with the mechanical distention of the stomach wall). If the patient has a "Diet Coke" or 2 with a meal (pH 2.5), the production of HCl/bicarbonate will be severly compromised. Now here's the problem, when all of the acid from the soda enters the duodenum, the pancreas must neutralize it with bicarbonate, releasing acid into the blood as a consequence. But if the patient made very little, if any, bicarbonate during the stomach's phase of the digestive process, we will now have a large amount of "unopposed acid" entering the blood stream (a negative bicarbonate balance) and the pH of the blood will begin to fall requiring the body to resort to another means of correcting the balance.
Sugary Drinks Tied to More Heart Attacks By Todd Neale, Senior Staff Writer, MedPage Today Published: March 12, 2012 Action Points •This study found that men participating in the Health Professionals Follow-up Study had a significantly higher risk of a myocardial infarction if they consumed more sugar-sweetened beverages. •The same risk was not apparent for artificially sweetened beverages. Men who frequently drink sodas and other sugar-sweetened beverages may be putting themselves at risk of a heart attack, an observational study showed. In a study of male healthcare professionals, those who consumed the most sugary drinks -- a median of 6.5 per week -- were 20% more likely to have a myocardial infarction (MI) during follow-up than those who never drank them (RR 1.20, 95% CI 1.09 to 1.33), according to Frank Hu, MD, PhD, of the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, and colleagues. A similar relationship was not seen for consumption of artificially sweetened diet beverages, they reported online in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association. "These results, as well as those from other observational studies and trials, support recommendations to reduce the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages in order to prevent cardiovascular disease," the authors wrote. Sugar-sweetened beverages have been associated with weight gain and type 2 diabetes, but few studies have examined the relationship between the sugary drinks and coronary heart disease. Hu and colleagues looked at data from the Health Professionals Follow-Up study, a prospective cohort study of mostly white men who were ages 40 to 75 at baseline in 1986. The current analysis included 42,883 participants after excluding those with type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, or cancer at baseline. The men reported their consumption of sugar-sweetened and artificially sweetened beverages at baseline and every four years using a food frequency questionnaire. At baseline, the average intake was 2.5 sugar-sweetened beverages and 3.4 artificially sweetened beverages each week. Over 22 years of follow-up, there were 3,683 incident coronary heart disease cases, defined as fatal or nonfatal MIs. Further adjustment for self-reported high cholesterol, triglycerides, and blood pressure, as well as diagnosed type 2 diabetes, only slightly weakened the association. "This suggests that sugar-sweetened beverages may impact on coronary heart disease risk above and beyond traditional risk factors," the authors wrote. When treated as a continuous variable, each additional serving per day of sugar-sweetened beverages was associated with a 19% greater relative risk of coronary heart disease (P<0.01). That is consistent with a previous analysis of women participating in the Nurses' Health Study, which showed that each serving increase was associated with a 15% greater risk. Hu and colleagues also examined the relationship between consuming sugary drinks and various biomarkers, finding an association between greater consumption and adverse effects on triglycerides, C-reactive protein, interleukin-6, tumor necrosis factors 1 and 2, HDL cholesterol, lipoprotein(a), and leptin (P¡Ü0.02 for all). Referring to the inflammatory markers, they noted that "inflammation is a key factor in the pathogenesis of cardiovascular disease and cardiometabolic disease, and could represent an additional pathway by which sugar-sweetened beverages influence risk." The study, according to the authors, was limited by some error in measuring dietary intakes, the uncertain generalizability of the findings beyond the study population, the possibility of unmeasured and residual confounding, and the large number of comparisons that were made.
The Ideal Protein protocol puts an emphasis on regulating our insulin levels by restricting our simple and complex carbohydrate intake for a long period of time and reintroducing them gradually once our goal is achieved. In doing this we are preventing our bad food combinations (fat & carbs) to have the ability to be stored in our fat cells. No new fat cells, less visible cellulite.
When we restrict our carbohydrate intake we are also forcing our bodies to turn to our lipid (fat) and protein reserve for energy. Because we are incorporating high biological protein isolates into our diet, we will never lose our muscle mass and bodies have no choice but to exhaust the adipocytes (fat cells). Reduction of fat cells results in REDUCTION OF CELLULITE.
Dr. Sanjay Gupta reports on new research showing that beyond weight gain, sugar can take a serious toll on your health, worsening conditions ranging from heart disease to cancer.
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THE EFFECTS OF DRINKING SODA:
ReplyDeleteSoda drinks are very acidic and the "brown-colored" ones are the most acidic (root beer, Dr. Pepper, Coca Cola and Pepsi). These drinks range from 3.2-2.5 on the pH scale and will have a very negative effect of acid/base balance.
Recall that the stimulus for the parietal cells' production of HCl/bicarbonate is the raising of the gastric pH to approximately 4.5 (coupled with the mechanical distention of the stomach wall). If the patient has a "Diet Coke" or 2 with a meal (pH 2.5), the production of HCl/bicarbonate will be severly compromised. Now here's the problem, when all of the acid from the soda enters the duodenum, the pancreas must neutralize it with bicarbonate, releasing acid into the blood as a consequence. But if the patient made very little, if any, bicarbonate during the stomach's phase of the digestive process, we will now have a large amount of "unopposed acid" entering the blood stream (a negative bicarbonate balance) and the pH of the blood will begin to fall requiring the body to resort to another means of correcting the balance.
Here's a great article that supports the importance of cutting back on sugar consumption. (http://abcn.ws/HFgwgw)
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Sugary Drinks Tied to More Heart Attacks
ReplyDeleteBy Todd Neale, Senior Staff Writer, MedPage Today
Published: March 12, 2012
Action Points
•This study found that men participating in the Health Professionals Follow-up Study had a significantly higher risk of a myocardial infarction if they consumed more sugar-sweetened beverages.
•The same risk was not apparent for artificially sweetened beverages.
Men who frequently drink sodas and other sugar-sweetened beverages may be putting themselves at risk of a heart attack, an observational study showed.
In a study of male healthcare professionals, those who consumed the most sugary drinks -- a median of 6.5 per week -- were 20% more likely to have a myocardial infarction (MI) during follow-up than those who never drank them (RR 1.20, 95% CI 1.09 to 1.33), according to Frank Hu, MD, PhD, of the Harvard School of Public Health in Boston, and colleagues.
A similar relationship was not seen for consumption of artificially sweetened diet beverages, they reported online in Circulation: Journal of the American Heart Association.
"These results, as well as those from other observational studies and trials, support recommendations to reduce the consumption of sugar-sweetened beverages in order to prevent cardiovascular disease," the authors wrote.
Sugar-sweetened beverages have been associated with weight gain and type 2 diabetes, but few studies have examined the relationship between the sugary drinks and coronary heart disease.
Hu and colleagues looked at data from the Health Professionals Follow-Up study, a prospective cohort study of mostly white men who were ages 40 to 75 at baseline in 1986.
The current analysis included 42,883 participants after excluding those with type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, or cancer at baseline.
The men reported their consumption of sugar-sweetened and artificially sweetened beverages at baseline and every four years using a food frequency questionnaire. At baseline, the average intake was 2.5 sugar-sweetened beverages and 3.4 artificially sweetened beverages each week.
Over 22 years of follow-up, there were 3,683 incident coronary heart disease cases, defined as fatal or nonfatal MIs.
Further adjustment for self-reported high cholesterol, triglycerides, and blood pressure, as well as diagnosed type 2 diabetes, only slightly weakened the association.
"This suggests that sugar-sweetened beverages may impact on coronary heart disease risk above and beyond traditional risk factors," the authors wrote.
When treated as a continuous variable, each additional serving per day of sugar-sweetened beverages was associated with a 19% greater relative risk of coronary heart disease (P<0.01). That is consistent with a previous analysis of women participating in the Nurses' Health Study, which showed that each serving increase was associated with a 15% greater risk.
Hu and colleagues also examined the relationship between consuming sugary drinks and various biomarkers, finding an association between greater consumption and adverse effects on triglycerides, C-reactive protein, interleukin-6, tumor necrosis factors 1 and 2, HDL cholesterol, lipoprotein(a), and leptin (P¡Ü0.02 for all).
Referring to the inflammatory markers, they noted that "inflammation is a key factor in the pathogenesis of cardiovascular disease and cardiometabolic disease, and could represent an additional pathway by which sugar-sweetened beverages influence risk."
The study, according to the authors, was limited by some error in measuring dietary intakes, the uncertain generalizability of the findings beyond the study population, the possibility of unmeasured and residual confounding, and the large number of comparisons that were made.
CELLULITE DEPLETION
ReplyDeleteThe Ideal Protein protocol puts an emphasis on regulating our insulin levels by restricting our simple and complex carbohydrate intake for a long period of time and reintroducing them gradually once our goal is achieved. In doing this we are preventing our bad food combinations (fat & carbs) to have the ability to be stored in our fat cells. No new fat cells, less visible cellulite.
When we restrict our carbohydrate intake we are also forcing our bodies to turn to our lipid (fat) and protein reserve for energy. Because we are incorporating high biological protein isolates into our diet, we will never lose our muscle mass and bodies have no choice but to exhaust the adipocytes (fat cells). Reduction of fat cells results in REDUCTION OF CELLULITE.