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WSJ article: name 1 improvement we can adopt to what we eat

7/5/2013

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The Wall Street Journal asked several healthcare experts what is one change we could make to what we eat to improve our health, just one. 

While nutritionists and dietitians should have been on this panel of experts, I feel they would agree with the most common "one change" advice: (1) eat smaller portions, (2) cut "foods" that have added sugars, and (3) eat real foods (fruits, nuts, vegetables, beans, seeds, and spices). 

The same rules applied to Indian food makes it much better, tastier and healthier. Read the article here, but for now here are my favorite entries (click "read more"):

The most important single dietary change I'd recommend to my patients (family and friends, too, if they'd ask :-)) and the guideline I adhere to myself, is this: Stick to moderate portions of real and unprocessed foods (without added sugars), mostly plant-based (fruits, vegetables, nuts, beans, seeds, spices), covering all colors of the rainbow, in order to get the full spectrum of micronutrients and fiber you need.

- Marisa Weiss, physician and founder of Breastcancer.org

A major study by researchers at Imperial College London and the InterAct Consortium, released last month, of 350,000 individuals in eight European countries showed near-identical findings to earlier to North American studies. The Imperial study found that the risk for Type 2 diabetes is increased by 22% with the daily consumption of one typical 12 oz. soft drink and an additional 22% for those who had two such drinks per day. In a February 2012 "Nature" article, "The Toxic Truth About Sugar," the authors state that attention should be turned to foods with "added sugar," defined as any sweetener containing the molecule fructose that is added to food in processing. They declared a linkage between sugar and "all of the diseases associated with metabolic syndrome," including hypertension, high triglycerides and insulin resistance; diabetes from increased liver glucose production combined with insulin resistance; and the aging process. Even the World Health Organization found that high blood glucose ranked third after high blood pressure and tobacco use in its report on mortality and burden of disease.

- Charles Denham, physician & found of Texas Medical Institute of Technology

Obesity and associated chronic diseases stem from eating unhealthy food and eating too much of it. We have not made much headway curtailing the former, so I would shift gears and focus on the latter with the following message: Eat whatever you normally do, but eat less of it.

To get someone to change the message has to be simple. Keeping track of food groups, nutrient content and calories per meal is complicated. Trying to stick to one simple rule—whenever I'm eating, I'll eat less—is crystal clear, taxes less of the brain's limited self-control and feels less restrictive.

Change sticks when the environment makes it easy to do the right thing. At home, use smaller plates and bowls. At restaurants, order the smaller option. People and restaurants don't want their food options limited ("you can't have/sell that"), but it's less of an affront to personal freedom and the free market to say "eat/serve whatever you want, just dial it down." For many people, ordering the small buttered popcorn at the theater, getting the regular-sized specialty coffee at the cafe and not supersizing at their favorite fast-food restaurant would be major step in the right direction.

-Gupreet Dhaliwal, physician & director of internal medicine clerkships at San Francisco VA Medical Center
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sandhu
7/7/2013 02:23:23 am

I think we should first diagnose ourselves whether we are suffering from this disease or not.Check out these symptoms:Very thirsty,urinating very often,feeling very hungry or tired,loosing weight without trying,having slowly healing sores,dry itching skin,numbness or tingling sensation in limbs and having blurry eyesight and a test report confirming that you are diabetic.Persons having any or all the above symptoms may be suffering from diabetes.It is of two types Type I - Infantile and Type 2 - non-insulin dependent diabetes mellitus which sets in adults generally over 35 years of age.The normal levels are 80(fasting) and 120(after food intake).T Diabetes is the condition when a person does not produce enough of insulin (produced by Pancrea) or is unable to use it effectively.In today's world whatever we eat or drink is polluted in one way or the other.Chiefly three life giving things Air,Water and Food are all polluted.Organic agriculture is at its infant level and we all know the maximum use of pesticides and herbicides.Air is polluted all around us and water too is contaminated,so all these factors and present life style contribute greatly to this disease.And this way Toxin level increases in our body causing different ailments and organ failure.Pancreas is the gland which produces insulin.Type 2 is the most common form of diabetes.It is a metabolic disorder due to deficiency of insulin,a hormone produced by the pancreas.Either sufficient insulin is not produced or the body does not use it properly,resulting in high blood sugar levels.When this condition persists,diabetes sets in.Obesity,lack of exercise and improper diet contribute greatly to the development of diabetes.
Proper diet and exercise play a vital role in the management of diabetes.Eating whole grains is beneficial.Avoid refined wheat flour and polishes rice.Brown rice or boiled rice is beneficial while polished rice is more harmful than eating sugar.Increase the intake of vegetables and fruits.Avoid fatty food and all the so called junk food.Exercise is equal to a dose of insulin.
It is important to note that insulin resistance develops first which later develops into diabetes.Insulin resistance can be controlled and corrected by proper diet,exercise and correct supplements.You can contact on my email Tauras.deep@hotmail.com for a further suggestions on a natural way(herbal treatment) and correct use of supplements by which you can overpower this problem in a healthy way.

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7/22/2013 07:08:06 pm

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