You are what you eat
Our eating behavior has a huge impact on our health.
No question about it. If your eating behavior is bad, you often develop
obesity, and its consequences such as diabetes, high blood pressure,
cholesterol disorder, heart attack, stroke, cancer, sleep apnea, low
back pain, and the list goes on and on.
Studies on migrating population shed great light on
"you are what you eat." One such great study showed that diabetes was
rare (< 5%) among villagers in
Here is the good news.
When you change your bad habits to a good eating
behavior, you start to lose weight, which has a huge impact on all of
the complications of obesity. In fact when I see an overweight person
with diabetes, high blood pressure, and cholesterol disorder, first
thing I do is to put them on "my diet," which is focused on developing a
good eating behavior. In just a couple of months, patients are amazed to
see how their weight start to come off, their diabetes start to come
under control and they need less and less number of diabetes and BP
medicines.
Your best health insurance
With bad eating habits you pay the price of losing
your health. And with good eating habits, you reap the benefits of good
health. This is your best health
insurance and it dose not cost a dime. In fact when you eat less,
you save some money as well.
How does obesity harms your body?
Obesity harms your body thru a process called
Insulin Resistance.
Click here to learn about Insulin Resistance
This article was written by Sarfraz Zaidi, MD, FACE. Dr. Zaidi
specializes in Diabetes,
Endocrinology
and Metabolism.
Dr. Zaidi is a former Assistant Clinical Professor of Medicine at UCLA. Currently he is Medical Director of the Jamila Diabetes and Endocrine Medical Center in Thousand Oaks, California.
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