Obese Workers' Health Care Costs Top Those of Smokers

Unless we understand what we are really treating, there isn’t much hope that we will reduce the health care costs of obesity. Obesity traditionally has been viewed as a simple calorie in/calorie out formula. We now know that’s not how it works.

It is now clear that excessive fructose mainly from sugar and HFCS is the driving force behind insulin resistance and central (beer belly) obesity. When you have insulin resistance from eating too much fructose and then consume high glycemic carbohydrates, especially from grain, your brain is exposed to toxic magnified glucose spikes.

Because nerve cells don’t need insulin for glucose to enter into the cells, high levels of glucose eventually damage the cells, leading to a chronic brain disorder called Carbohydrate Associated Reversible Brain syndrome or CARB syndrome. People with CARB syndrome eventually develop up to 21 brain dysfunction symptoms that can quality them for a long list of common disorders such as depression, PTSD, ADHD, eating disorders, fibromyalgia, bipolar II, anxiety disorders and other conditions. For more information about CARB syndrome go to: http://carbsyndrome.com.

Because the brain plays a key role in auto-regulating fat stores, people with CARB syndrome lose this ability and start to store extra total body fat at any caloric intake. Our waiting rooms are now filled with patients who fit this description—brains that don’t work so well and excessive body fat.

Although people with CARB syndrome who eat more food will tend to store more fat than those who eat less, the amount of food is not the cause of the obesity. That would be sugar, HFCS and high glycemic carbohydrates. That’s why when you measure body composition on people with anorexia, they have excessive body fat relative to their lean body mass. Because the definition of obesity is excessive body fat, these thin individuals actually qualify as being obese.

Although it is possible to simply over-eat and gain weight—for example Sumo wrestlers do this, for the majority of people CARB syndrome, not over-eating, is driving their obesity.

William L. Wilson, M.D. of MA 10:33AM April 15, 2012

Thin non smokers should be made to pay for the added costs...... so might say socialists dedicated to equal ruin.

Privitize the medical industry. Our health is not the job or role of government. The government does best on foods and medicines when it gets out of the way of the people and the doctors.

John of NY 9:30AM April 14, 2012