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Is sugar the new fat?
Is sugar the new fat?
by GAIL VINES, Daily Mail
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You try to look after yourself. You reduced your intake of saturated fat years ago, you're not overweight, you don't smoke. Basically, you don't consider yourself at risk of developing heart disease.
Sorry to disappoint you, but there's something you have overlooked: Syndrome X. The name, coined by Gerry Reaven of Stanford University in the late Eighties, sounds threatening - and with good reason.
Syndrome X is a hidden but life-threatening perversion of bodily metabolism that is likely to hasten the end of anyone who has it.
It's alarmingly common. What is more, evidence is growing that we can bring it on ourselves by the way we eat. 'We're suffering from chronic food intoxication,' says Werner Waldhausl, editor of the journal Diabetologia.
In well-fed parts of the world, one-third of the adult population may have succumbed already, and there will be plenty more in the pipeline.
Most of them won't know that there's a problem yet - because the early stages go unnoticed. All the same, the symptoms are all there: high blood pressure, raised levels of tell-tale fats called triglycerides found in the blood, and insulin resistance - an acquired resistance to the body's vital glucose-handling hormone.
Diabetes and heart disease are lying in wait for anyone with this group of symptoms, collectively known as Syndrome X. 'The syndrome is a major cause of coronary heart dis-ease,' Reaven says, though no one can yet be more precise than that.
So what causes it? After decades of sometimes acrimonious debate, researchers may be nearing an answer. Sugar. And cutting it out of our diet can really make a difference.
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The rest of the article can be found here (it's rather long) http://www.femail.co.uk/pages/stand...&in_page_id=172
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