The Cause of Diabetes is Carbohydrate Over-Consumption
January 28, 2009 by Dr. Greg Ellis
Filed under Carbohydrates, Cause of Diabetes, Diabetes, Low-Carbohydrate Diet
Now, that’s an Earth-Shattering Statement that’ll Rock the Medical Establishment
What’s the cause of diabetes?
It’s still a seeming mystery even eighty years after insulin was discovered.
Diabetes is characterized by a physiological state in which the body’s whole metabolism becomes deranged and out of control. Researchers still grapple with the enormous complexity of this disease.
Obesity and diabetes are tightly associated and obesity is just as complex in it’s causes as is diabetes. But, obesity has only one cause and the solution is a simple one. Does that mean that the solution to the cause of diabetes may also be simple?
Hmm….
The Primary Fuels for the Body’s Cells are Sugar and Fat
Is the Use of These Fuels Related in the Cause of Diabetes?
Blood sugar (glucose) control has been and is the primary medical treatment for the cause of diabetes. The use of blood sugar lowering drugs is the focal point of diabetic control.
High blood sugar is what leads to a diagnosis of Type 2 diabetes.
What has also been known is that there’s a serious disturbance in the body’s handling of fat:
- free fatty acid levels increase
- triglyceride levels increase
- there’s an excessive increase in body fat accumulation in various tissues including muscle
What’s unclear is whether the breakdown in the body’s handling of fat is a result of the diabetic state OR is it actually a primary cause of diabetes?
Improper Fat Handling is Actually the Cause of Diabetes
Why? A diet high in carbohydrates (typical diet for most of us) profoundly disturbs the way the body handles its fat fuel!
Since the 2002 explosion in interest about the low-carbohydrate diet (by the people and by scientists) amazing new information has evolved over the healthful effects of carbohydrate restriction.
It was always just stated that fat was bad and carbohydrates were good. Believe it or not, few ever relied on the scientific facts when making this statement.
Although the medical establishment continues to condemn the low-carbohydrate diet, the cracks in the dam are going to make their position obsolete.
Researchers have found that:
- the low-carbohydrate diet improves sugar control and fat control even if no weight loss occurs — that’s crazy
- risk factors for heart disease and other diseases decrease better on a low-carb diet than a low-fat diet — that’s crazier yet!
- but you can lose weight more easily with low-carb because this diet style causes people to automatically eat 500-1,000 less calories each day with no effort on their part — how crazy is that?
Here’s Why the Magic of the Low-Carbohydrate Diet Works
When cell enzymes, which process fuel, are exposed to carbohydrates, there are several major changes that occur:
- the primary enzyme responsible for converting carbohydrate into fat (did you know that carbohydrates convert to fat?) increases in quantity and in its rate of action
- it converts carbohydrates into fat and this new fat stores in the body’s fat tissues and in muscle as well
- carbohydrates derange the action of many fuel use-based enzymes and fat-handling breaks down and sugar control gets all whacked out
- the sugar problem, then, comes after fat metabolism breaks down
- this is the primary breakdown arising from eating a high-carb diet
- unfortunately, there are very few researchers and far fewer medical clinicians who understand these biochemical pathways
What’s Causing the Rapid Rate of Increase in Type 2 Diabetes?
Our modern diet of a high intake in carbohydrates and our inactive lifestyle work in combo to drive the ever-increasing rise of obesity and type 2 diabetes.
If people would eat fewer calories and increase their physical activity level, this could lead to a reversal of some of the damaging events.
Compliance to this combination has proven to be extremely difficult:
- eating high-carbohydrate diets turns on fat-making from carbohydrates
- fuel levels in the blood decrease and as this new fat stores then hunger sets it because there’s little fuel in the blood
- insulin’s primary job is to control the release of fat from the fat cell
- carbohydrates increase insulin release and two things happen: 1) more fat is made from carbohydrates and 2) fat stays locked in the fat cells
- this deadly scenario plays around the clock as the body is driven into a storage mode
- there’s only one way out: carbohydrate restriction
There’s One Researcher Who Understands the Facts Described Above — In Fact, He Discovered Them But, He Advocates the Use of Drugs to Increase Fat-Burning in the Body’s Tissues
The belief that fat is bad and carbohydrates are good taints the research projects of most scientists. That’s what happened to the man who was a leading diabetes worker, Dr. J. Denis McGarry.
He found that it was the inability to burn fat that was leading to the diabetes epidemic. But he died before he had a chance to really figure out that the diet approach was the way to increase fat-burning, not drugs.
Because our researchers have been held captive by their love of and their passion for what they believe is the health-giving nature of carbohydrates (and the supposed hazards of fat), the vast majority have never studied fat metabolism.
I did, in fact I got a PhD in fuel metabolism.
Now, I know when you eat more fat and restrict carbohydrates, fat-burning increases within a matter of hours in all the body’s tissues.
In fact, in about two weeks, the brain and central nervous system will receive 75% of their fuel from a form of fat called ketone bodies.
This is just what we want — no drugs involved:
- you’ll lose weight
- your health will improve
- your energy will go through the roof because fat is the body’s primary fuel
- you’ll exercise more using a variety of styles including walking, resistance training, and the newest and one of the most powerful forms of exercise — vibration training
- what I’m teaching you are the Ultimate Diet Secrets
So, I’ve now shown that the primary cause of diabetes is a too high intake of carbohydrates which is also responsible for causing you to eat too many calories.
My Ultimate Diet Secrets lite book teaches the whole process of weight control including diet and my Net Carb Scam is a book about diet — everything you need to know about what food to eat — nothing else out there has ever looked at the science of eating as this book does. You’ll realize that when you see the science references I list (if references float your boat).
















