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3 Most Common Dieting Mistakes of Women
You know, everybody's got their favorite diet, whether it's paleo or low carb, high fiber, high carb, low fiber plant animal, keto, carnivore. I'll go into that. It is surprising to me because I think people began to understand there's some basic, bigger issues. We'll cover those in just a minute. You know, diet is such a big debate and it deserves to be.
It's a huge thing. It's the top three priorities in terms of health, diet, diet and diet. Then you get into exercise and sleep and some other things. So when I write an article, started a series a couple of months ago. You believe in the potato mono diet? Well, let me tell you 450 again. If it helped Penn Jillette lose £100. I care a lot less about what he ate to get there. He is much healthier. At £100 less. And you know what else? What goes on inside our head is a major part of how we control our weight.
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Now, wait a minute. Am I talking about weight or diet? Two very, very different things. Right? All right, so let's writing of debate and diet. Let's get into some of that. So you've got Fat Chance by Robert Lustig. He's saying stay away from sugars. Then you've got Mr. Washington here. Who is the poster child for the New York Times article about how heart attack is coming back. Mr. Washington there, who's grilling burgers, died at age 49. And you'd say, well, he's not that heavy, is he? He's he was heavy enough to have some issues, one of them being insulin resistance at a young age.
There's been debate about food. For a long time. Somebody told me, you know, the term, what you eat. Somebody told me that was C.W. post, the founder of Post Cereals. I don't think that's true. And I looked it up. It seemed to be much older than that, but it just struck me as kind of funny that everybody would want to be a piece of cereal or look like one. So let's go to the next slide and talk about what are some other, other debates that we have. You've got a paleo diet over here on the right. I only recognize that because that's where I saw it. Then you've got the obesity paradox, Dr. Carl Levy, where he's talking about how some people are healthier even though they are heavier. So again, sort of confusing and muddying the situation about. Obesity being too heavy and health. Then you've got Tufts University over there saying, look, we just did some research and supplements are a big deal, but not if you take them. You have to get them in your diet.
Okay, again, paleo diet, eating clean, which one of my nurse practitioners used to talk about and actually many people talk about and I still don't know what eating clean is. I mean, I try not to eat too much food that's on the floor, but I don't think that's what they mean. Vegan keto again, you name it, it's out there. But meanwhile. We are getting fatter. This is the CDC maps for obesity in the US. This is 2011. And obviously the more red maybe it's not obvious, the more red the state is, the higher the obesity rate. This is 2011 where you got orange, red and green. And this is 2017. Where there's only, what, 2 or 3 green states. Now you've got about 30 to 40% yellow, 30 to 40% orange. And now you have developed states which are deep red. These are states that have greater than what? Greater than 30%. Greater than 35%. Obesity. I'm going to digress for a second. So again I am linking obesity here with dietary mistakes.
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Why am I doing that? Well it's from prevention as an experience as a prevention diet. Hundreds of patients well actually thousands of patients supervisions of hundreds and no actually thousands of docs, internists, family practitioners, E.R. docs and others. I made a case that mistake number one is not knowing that you have insulin resistance, prediabetes, metabolic syndrome, type two diabetes. In other words, if you eat carbs, they're damaging you and resulting in plaque burning your arteries. My 25 year old son can eat a lot of carbs on a regular basis. His blood sugar doesn't go over 120. I'm 62 years old. If I eat the soup out of a out of Valter Longo's Prolon diet, my blood sugar spikes up to 180. Now, it doesn't stay there long, but I have to keep an eye on what I eat.
Unfortunately, as the CDC will tell you, 90% of the people that have insulin resistance like I do don't know it. So again, that's what I would say. Mistake number one is it's not it's not which foods you eat. It's not knowing that you can't digest carbs without inflaming your arteries. You never looked. You never did a hemoglobin A-1c. You didn't do a fasting glucose. Or maybe that's all you did. And it was hidden and it remained hidden. You never got an ogtt oral glucose tolerance test. You never did a fasting insulin, and you never did a craft or a high IQ test or homa-ir. People have been asking me about Homa-ir recently. I'm not going to get into that. It's a little bit technical, but let's go back. What's the the mistake number two that I would say too much focus on diet as in carb, keto, paleo, five to clean. ET cetera. And not enough focus on BMI or fat mass. And as I said, we're getting fatter. Here's an article from CNN, basically. It talks about BMI, then it talks about the average BMI is increasing. Between 1999 and 2000 up to 2015 and 2016. Significant increase in the BMI of your typical adult. The average weight of American Men 2015 was £198. For women it was 170.6. This is up from £190, so a £10 weight loss. Weight gain for men, which is about 5%. And a £4 weight gain for women, which is not quite 5%. So these may sound like oh, that's not much. I gained £5 all the time. Well multiply £5 times how many people are in America. 300 million.
That's a lot of pounds. So then this article goes into a lot of detail about BMI. Now, before you start beating me up too much about BMI and relative fat mass, I understand the difference between those and I'm not really going to get into those today. In fact. Let me just segway over into something else. Why am I even focusing on fat?
Because of this issue right here. Adipokines. Mediate inflammation and insulin resistance. What are adipokines or adipokines? Well, leptin is the most well known. And still, even though leptin is the most well known.
You know, that makes the point right there. Most people don't know what Adipokines or. Adipokines are. They are biochemical indicators. They cause cardiovascular inflammation, as the title just said, and they also cause insulin resistance, as the title said. So it doesn't matter if you're on keto and you're eating 3000 calories a day and continuing to get fatter and fatter and fatter, you're still driving this process of driving insulin resistance and driving cardiovascular inflammation.
Likewise, if you're on a vegan diet and you're gaining weight, if you're on a paleo, it doesn't matter. As long as you're gaining fat, you're gaining.
These adipokines you're gaining inflammation. So again BMI is not the same. Relative fat mass is a little bit more specific, but most people don't know what relative fat mass is. And actually even a lot of people don't know what BMI is. So let's go back, finish some things up. There's a lot of information in science, both popular science and deeper science out there about how we get fat and what to do about it.
This is a very popular book, good Calories, fat, Calories by Gary Taubes. In fact, he made a career basically out of writing about that one topic Robert Lustig. Endocrinologists from UC San Francisco did some great work on this topic. David Ludwig. Endocrinologist at Harvard. Also doing great work on it Jason Funk. A lot of people criticized Jason Funk. But I do think that prolonged water fasting is one of the most powerful tools that we're still not using very much. And then you got Valter Longo again, already recognized. This is a very good science. I would agree with Fung that Longo is a little bit too cautious sometimes, but again, right on the science. Long ago learned from his friend and mentor Roy Walford, who was the caloric restriction doctor. Most people say they know what the term caloric restriction means. Generically, caloric restriction means restricting calories. But this is a term of art, meaning there's special meaning associated with that, and that special meaning is associated with it is basically you decrease calories on a steady basis every day. Not like Fung, where you would do eat one day and then fasting the next. So again. I don't care quite so much what what you eat, I really care, I do, but I care more about how much body fat you have. If you've made it this far. Thank you so much for your interest. I just wanted to remind you that if you'd like to get your cimt, the first stop on the Cimt Access Tour is in Anaheim in LA on September 28th. It's a half day of David Meints talking about in person. How would we do these, what the advantages are a little bit more about lifestyle and its impact on health. Todd and I plan to come in remotely, but the big thing here is getting that cimt. All of this is like, I think 245 yeah, 245 bucks to get a half day of this type of information, but more importantly, a your own cimt done and read to get there. You go to cardio risk us slash healthy life. Thank you.