The water-soluble branded extract of cinnamon known as Cinnulin PF continues to build an impressive body of science showing how the nutrient assists healthy blood sugar metabolism.  A new animal study shows that daily intake of Cinnulin was able to offset the metabolic stress of a high fructose diet that is used in experimental situations to produce insulin resistance.

After 8 weeks the animals did not develop insulin resistance; rather they had reduced levels of blood sugar, insulin, triglycerides, and total cholesterol.  A detailed analysis showed that multiple genes affecting blood sugar and the production of fat from sugar had been activated in a favorable manner that supported healthy metabolism.

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In a fundamental discovery with sweeping public health implications Israeli researchers have proven for the first time that the process of long-term weight loss is capable of reversing heart disease. 

The study tested low-fat, low-carbohydrate, and Mediterranean diets over a two-year period in 140 overweight people (88% men, average age 51).  It found that any of the diets could produce cardiovascular benefit as long as a certain amount of weight was lost.  This means that it is the process of weight loss, not dietary components, that are responsible for the improvement.

In the two-year period those with 11 pounds of weight loss had more improvement in their arteries than those with 7 pounds.  Those losing the most weight that also lowered their blood pressure from diet had the most benefit in terms of arterial …
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It is not simply a matter of the extra calories in and of themselves.  Excessive caloric intake turns on gene signals that actively promote the storage of calories as fat.  If those gene signals are repetitively activated and conditioned to stay on, you are in real metabolic trouble.  A new study in the FASEB journal is part of an emerging body of science showing how improper food consumption sets gene-related metabolic signaling that cripples healthy metabolism.

Researchers conducted tests in two groups of mice on the brain’s opioid receptors involved with pleasure signaling and metabolism. One group had the kappa opioid receptor genetically deactivated (“knocked out”) and the other group was normal. Both groups were given a high fat, high sucrose, energy dense diet for 16 weeks. While the control group …
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Two new studies are more than sufficient to scare the living daylights out of any parent watching their child gain weight.  The first, published in the journal Pediatrics, shows that inflammatory changes that cause heart disease are clearly present at age 3 and steadily worsen up to age 17.  The second, published in the New England Journal of Medicine, shows that childhood obesity is the strongest factor linked to premature disease-associated death, more than doubling the risk.

In the Pediatrics study researchers analyzed children ages 1-17.  The heaviest children had multiple markers of excess inflammation.  Among very obese children ages 3-5, more than 42.5 percent had elevated CRP compared to only …
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A study published Monday in the journal Health Affairs paints a picture of children who can’t stop eating.  They are addicted to junk food snacks and they just can’t seem to stop.  They are getting larger and hungrier by the minute.  They have three extra meals per day in the form of snacks, composed primarily of utter junk food and junk beverages.  The study is just now being picked up by the national media, although I first reported on it last month when it was also published in the Journal of Nutrition.

Michelle Obama jumped on the new report while speaking to the School Nutrition Association conference in Washington on Monday, placing the blame on parents, educators and policymakers.  “Our kids didn’t do this to themselves,” Obama said.  “From fast food, to vending machines packed with chips and candy, to a la carte lines, we tempt our kids with all kinds of unhealthy choices every day.”

It might help if Mrs. Obama pointed her finger at the primary source of the problem, the food industry, especially the blatant purveyors of food garbage: Coke, Pepsi, McDonalds, Burger King, etc.  Unless she calls them out and focuses on the damage they are causing to our children her progress will be negligible.  Unfortunately, she already has omitted the word “organic” when describing her White House Garden after getting attacked by the industry that loves chemicals and GMO mutant food. 

Snacking – More than a Problem of Excess Calories

Our society desperately needs a new version of Nutrition 101.  Public health officials are obsessed with the number of calories consumed – not the reasons why individuals consume calories they know they shouldn’t.  Government panels of so-called experts have proclaimed that the only way to lose weight is to cut back on calories or to exercise more.  While nobody is going to argue with this advice if it is given to a couch potato pigging out on junk food, it is of little value to a person who eats well, exercises, and still has trouble with weight or is not able to reach their goal weight. 

If you exercise more you must eat more or you won’t have any energy, will feel irritable, your immune system becomes depressed, and you will be at high risk for binge eating and yo-yo dieting.  If you eat less you will lose weight for a while and then your metabolism will slow down to the level of calories …
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When “free speech” means hoodwinking children to become obese through the advertisement of junk food or poisoning Americans with glorified ads for extremely toxic drugs, it is time to rethink what is going on – as both con games are costing the U.S. healthcare system and taxpayers hundreds of billions of dollars.  A new study done at UCLA shows that it is not the sedentary aspect of TV watching that causes children to become obese.  Rather, it is the number of commercials they are exposed to that is the actual culprit.

The researchers found that when hours in front of the TV were from non-commercial DVDs or non-commercial educational TV then obesity risk did not increase.  Enter the junk food commercials and obesity risk soars.

I’ll never forget the mother that came in for an appointment to get some …
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A new study shows that the kind of meal you eat after you do aerobic exercise can make a big difference in helping your body metabolize blood sugar more efficiently.  This is a very important issue since overweight Americans are plagued by insulin resistance in combination with leptin resistance – a clear path to eventual type II diabetes. 

The researchers found that eating low carbohydrates following the exercise period enabled better insulin sensitivity – meaning that your muscles and liver could more readily take up blood sugar.  However, eating a low calorie meal following aerobic exercise did not improve insulin function.  This means you should not try to starve yourself in an effort to loose weight.  By eating an appropriate calorie-size meal of mostly protein, fat, and veggies (avoid bread, rice, potatoes, …
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German researchers have identified a highly relevant new aspect of immunity.  When you haven’t eaten for a while then insulin levels drop and unique genes are activated that directly stimulate the production of powerful antimicrobial peptides, in turn destroying germs by dissolving their cell walls.  Conversely, snacking raises insulin which then prevents this aspect of immunity from activating.  This is the first time that a powerful immune system mechanism has been directly linked to when you eat.

The immune regulating gene is called FOXO and it is conserved in virtually all animals – meaning that this is a fundamental survival operation of your immune system.  It is apparently a preservation system left over from evolution wherein a common problem was not having enough food.  This mechanism was …
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One of the most devastating health aspects of being overweight is the change in immune system status within white adipose tissue fat stores.  There is a major shift of macrophages into the white adipose tissue which act in a highly inflammatory manner to alter the function of stored fat so that it becomes metabolically incompetent as well as directly adding to the overall inflammatory burden of one’s body.  This is why obesity is associated with more prevalence and earlier onset of any of the diseases of aging (cancer, heart disease, Alzheimer’s, etc).  A new study shows that grape seed extract can turn down the inflammatory signals and consequent free radical damage from these white adipose tissue macrophages.

Of particular importance is the finding that grape seed extract can go to the gene-regulating source of …
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I have long warned that American snacking is inducing malfunctioning leptin.  In turn this causes weight gain and early onset of disease.  I was the first to explain this problem back in 2002 in my book, Mastering Leptin.  Apparently Americans are not catching on.  A new study shows that snacking is on the rise.  This predicts higher levels of poor health and increased health care costs.

Researchers from the University of North Carolina evaluated 44,754 adults between 1977–1978 and 2003–2006.  Snacking rates increased from 71% to 97%.  Alarmingly, 24% of daily calories are in the form of snacks.  This is a leptin problem epidemic as are society unwittingly causes stress to the most important hormone in the human body.

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