Eating Too Much-Not Always
By Guin Van Niekerk A few months ago I was flicking through the channels on the television, and I chanced upon a popular daytime talk show. The talk show host was speaking to a woman who sat forlornly on the stage, and who obviously had very low self-esteem. She was overweight, and sat hunched over, as if she was trying to hide her body from the rest of the world. The talk show host seemed to be very sympathetic and was trying to get her to see that her self-esteem should not be so tied in to her weight. And then some idiot in the audience stood up and said, You are fat because you eat too much and dont exercise enough. Some members of the audience gasped, but many nodded their heads in agreement. Unbelievably, the opinion of the idiot is shared by the majority of people, including most of the medical fraternity. Doctors, when approached by their patients about weight problems, will invariably hand out advice about diets and exercise, and very seldom, if ever, attempt to find the underlying cause of the weight problem. The assumption is that weight gain is always due to eating too much and exercising too little. This is simply not true. Certainly too much food contributes to weight problems, but a few important questions need to be asked: why do some people eat more food than others? And why do some people put on more weight than others in response to certain types of food? The answers to these questions are by no means easy to find. Sometimes a thyroid abnormality may be the source of the problem, and this is fairly easily diagnosed with a few simple blood tests. But another, far more common condition, is a lot more difficult to diagnose, and that is maybe why it is largely ignored by many doctors. Insulin resistance is THE cause of type 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome. It is associated with (and probably causes) polycystic ovarian syndrome. And it makes weight gain easy, and weight loss almost impossible. Despite all of this, it is still not a widely recognised condition. It affects ONE IN FOUR people, and nobody seems to know anything about it. The media seem to be ignoring it, and instead concentrate on type 2 diabetes, which can often be PREVENTED if the underlying insulin resistance were acknowledged and addressed in time! So if you (or someone you know) are having trouble losing weight, remember two very important words: insulin resistance. Look it up on the net, or in your library, and see how easily you can change your life! Dr Guin Van Niekerk is the author of Why Fat Sticks : An Introduction to Insulin Resistance For more information go to www.insulinresistancesite.com Dr. Guin Van Niekerk qualified as a medical doctor at the University of Cape Town in 1997. It was while working a few years later as a general practitioner that she developed a strong interest in insulin resistance and its associated conditions. She discovered that the concept of insulin resistance was largely unknown to the public. This led to her decision to write the book, Why Fat Sticks An Introduction To Insulin Resistance. Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Guin_Van_Niekerk http://EzineArticles.com/?Eating-Too-Much-Not-Always&id=418526 orlando refinance car loan bad credit default payday loan money and educational loans money lenders london united kingdom