The news about how to cure diabetes will come as a shock to the medical Establishment. But the science is now in after years of denial. Medicine has supported low-fat eating for decades, but we realize now that it did not work:

* people just got fatter and fatter

* diabetes rates climbed along with obesity -- they're usually coupled

* carbohydrates were considered innocuous and all the blame for disease fell on fat

Wow, cholesterol and fat were not the cause of diabetes. That's what I'm telling you. The research is just now coming in and the story is that it always was our much-loved carbohydrates that were doing the damage. And just not sugar, but fruits, and grains, and many vegetables. The low-fat dogma blinded otherwise brilliant people and blinded them.

How did it turn out that fat got blamed? There was one major bogus study published in 1953 that implicated fat and then that idea steam-rolled everyone and became the entrenched dogma. It's still believed here in 2009. But... fat was not the culprit and the evidence began to shake out by the mid-1980's that it was blood glucose arising from carbohydrates that was the villain.

Are you shocked? We've all been deluded because no one took the time to understand the basics. It was known by 1950 that the body aggressively converted carbohydrates to fat.

Starting during the early 2000's explosion of interest in low-carb, young, unbiased researchers set up some very good experiments to study the diet. What was the outcome? The results disproved all the negative statements that had been made during the last four decades:

* the low-carb diet out-performed the low-fat diet and the Mediterranean diet in weight loss and fat loss

* blood sugar levels, the main culprit in diabetes, plummeted

* fat levels in the blood dropped because of low-carb eating

* low-carb simply whipped low-fat!

The low-carb diet is just what a diabetic needs to solve this disease. And changes happen rapidly when you decrease carbohydrate intake. Fat-burning increases and sugar use drops while blood sugar drops dramatically. Just what the doctor should be ordering.

Syndrome X, also known as Metabolic Syndrome, is a constellation of symptoms indicating serious disturbances in health:

* too much body fat, overweight, and obesity

* disturbances in both fat and sugar metabolism that cause diabetes

* heart and vascular diseases

* elevated blood pressure

Recent studies show that carbohydrate-restriction might sensibly be the "default" diet to be tried FIRST for patients with Metabolic Syndrome. In the case of normal weight people with this condition, carbohydrate restriction may be the only effective non-drug approach for treating it.

The research is clear: the health-touting benefits of a low-fat diet were downright wrong and the science now stands behind this statement. The low-fat diet that was high in carbohydrates elevated blood fats and blood sugar leading to deadly changes in the health of the public.

Eating carbs and fat together is a prescription for disaster yet this is the way most people eat -- a balanced diet the "experts" call it. Wrong. Switch to low-carbohydrate but don't follow either the Atkins's diet or South Beach Diet. Atkins's plan if full of flaws and South Beach isn't even a low-carb diet.

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