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60 Minutes Reports On Devastating Health Effects Of Sugar... Taken from an e-mail from Bill Faloon of the Life Extension Foundation :
CBS News 60 Minutes Reports Sugar is a Toxin!
Dear Member,
If you watched 60 Minutes this past Sunday night, you may have thought it was a televised edition of Life Extension Magazine®.
For this broadcast, CBS News asked Dr. Sanjay Gupta to interview scientists from some of America's most respected institutions. The consensus was that sugar consumption is strongly linked to age-related diseases such as [b]stroke, type II diabetes, hypertension, obesity [/b]and[b] heart attack.[/b]
One of the scientists interviewed was particularly startled by how quickly sugar consumption causes the liver to produce dangerous small-dense LDL particles that accelerate [b]atherosclerosis[/b].
60 Minutes viewers were also visually enlightened to the pathway showing how sugar ingestion promotes [b]cancer[/b] by stimulating excess insulin secretion. Certain cancer cells thrive in the presence of surplus insulin, which is why taking steps to suppress glucose and insulin blood levels has long been a cornerstone of a scientific disease-prevention program.
The conclusion was to avoid virtually all added sugars. But as Life Extension® members already know, most of us produce too much glucose internally from other foods even when we cut back on ingested carbohydrates.
This 60 Minutes report further substantiates Life Extension's long-standing position to keep fasting glucose below 86 (mg/dL) and guard against post-meal glucose surges.
The data validating the lethal dangers of glucose overload grows stronger each day. We continue to urge members to protect their aging cells by not overeating AND taking whatever additional steps necessary to achieve optimal glucose control. This may be accomplished by the proper use of certain nutrients before meals, restoring youthful hormone balance, and/or using drugs such as metformin.
Below, you can read past articles on this topic covered in previous Life Extension magazines.
For longer life,
William Faloon
To watch the 60 Minutes segment, go to http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7403942n&tag=contentBody;storyMediaBox.
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Conceptualclarity : I would add that [b]Alzheimer's[/b] is increasingly seen as a diabetes of the brain.
CBS News 60 Minutes Reports Sugar is a Toxin!
Dear Member,
If you watched 60 Minutes this past Sunday night, you may have thought it was a televised edition of Life Extension Magazine®.
For this broadcast, CBS News asked Dr. Sanjay Gupta to interview scientists from some of America's most respected institutions. The consensus was that sugar consumption is strongly linked to age-related diseases such as [b]stroke, type II diabetes, hypertension, obesity [/b]and[b] heart attack.[/b]
One of the scientists interviewed was particularly startled by how quickly sugar consumption causes the liver to produce dangerous small-dense LDL particles that accelerate [b]atherosclerosis[/b].
60 Minutes viewers were also visually enlightened to the pathway showing how sugar ingestion promotes [b]cancer[/b] by stimulating excess insulin secretion. Certain cancer cells thrive in the presence of surplus insulin, which is why taking steps to suppress glucose and insulin blood levels has long been a cornerstone of a scientific disease-prevention program.
The conclusion was to avoid virtually all added sugars. But as Life Extension® members already know, most of us produce too much glucose internally from other foods even when we cut back on ingested carbohydrates.
This 60 Minutes report further substantiates Life Extension's long-standing position to keep fasting glucose below 86 (mg/dL) and guard against post-meal glucose surges.
The data validating the lethal dangers of glucose overload grows stronger each day. We continue to urge members to protect their aging cells by not overeating AND taking whatever additional steps necessary to achieve optimal glucose control. This may be accomplished by the proper use of certain nutrients before meals, restoring youthful hormone balance, and/or using drugs such as metformin.
Below, you can read past articles on this topic covered in previous Life Extension magazines.
For longer life,
William Faloon
To watch the 60 Minutes segment, go to http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=7403942n&tag=contentBody;storyMediaBox.
Related Articles
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-57407294/is-sugar-toxic/
http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2011/mag2011_supersale.htm
http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2010/mag2010_02.htm
http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2011/mag2011_01.htm
http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2010/mag2010_11.htm
http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2010/mag2010_07.htm
http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2010/mag2010_10.htm
http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2009/mag2009_06.htm
http://www.lef.org/magazine/mag2004/mag2004_09.htm
Conceptualclarity : I would add that [b]Alzheimer's[/b] is increasingly seen as a diabetes of the brain.
