THE REAL PART 5...THE SILENT KILLER AND YOU.

Hi di Ho! And off we go!

A little while back I wrote about how it seems that everyone is getting a belly, that the weight people put on seems to be concentrated around the middle. Accumulation of fat in this area has been linked to insulin resistance and T2D. It is not a good place to have extra fat as it also indicates that you might have visceral fat deposits. Visceral fat does you no good and like T2D can happen in folk who are quite slim. I have always carried most of my blubber around the waist. It was one of the things that led me to thinking about insulin resistance.

Now, there has been some really interesting research done on body fat and it blows the pants off our ideas of what fat is. I apologise if you already know this but to me it was news and I found it exciting. I will not go into it in any great detail but will point you in the right direction so that you can get more accurate and detailed information. How I viewed my spare tyre was that the fat was laid down because I had eaten excess and that it was just a store ready for a time of famine or the like. Fat was just that... fat! Like a few packs of lard kept for a rainy day. Not actually doing anything other than getting in the way when you tried to do up you shoelaces. I did believed that a certain amount of rubbish was tied up in it as a way to protect the body from toxic junk. I saw it rather like the tub of dripping that was one of the staples in every household when I was a kid and was deemed one of the major causes of heart problems when margarine was launched onto the market.

Well, it seems I was wrong on both counts. Far from being just an inert storage system, fat is a part of the endocrine system. We are talking hormones here! Production of hormones such as oestrogen, leptin and well...  go and read it for yourself, you will be amazed!  So rather than do nothing it plays an important part in our health and in sorting out T2D.
I also found out that eating fat does not make you fat and is, in fact, an absolute " must" for good health. Check out what the brain is made up of? However, all fats are not created equal. "Good" fats are needed while "bad" fats are definitely not.

Some folk say everything in moderation. This, I believe, is total rubbish and if you read the up-to-date research, so do others.

Taking responsibility for your health is a choice. There is no right or wrong in how you make this choice but it should be based on reliable facts, not down right lies and miss-information. Then armed with these facts you can choose to smoke 40 a day, do drugs or whatever turns your crank.

At this time I would just like to point you to a couple of web sites that have helped me. The first is Tom O'Bryan's.    www.thedr.com
The second is  David  Pulmutter's    www.drperlmutter.com
Then Dave Asprey's   www.bulletproofexec.com  which had some interesting stuff including Bulletproof coffee which is how I start my day. Poke around on these sites. These guys are not "lightweights" and their personal stories are very interesting.

William Davis    www.wheatbellyblog.com  He has a really easy to read book with lots of info.
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That's enough for now. Next blog will be a step by step log of what I do now, including such wonders as my own creation... "The Pufflet".
Last blood test 77 mg/dl just 1and a half hours after my main meal and a 10 minute walk....