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From:	Libre (168.103.225.133)
Subject:	Re: struggling with a question about fats / oils
Date:	September 27, 2012 at 1:50 pm PST

In Reply to: Re: struggling with a question about fats / oils posted by Dr. Doug Graham on September 26, 2012 at 9:57 am:

Thank you for the reply Dr. Graham.

I am always trying to understand things the best that I can. I
analyze, decipher, decode most anything that can be analyzed.

I understand that Emphysema comes about over years of damaging
your lungs from smoking. That makes sense.

Again, I am trying to understand how the fat thing works. Because
the cells in your body and guts process oil the same today as they
did when I was 10. So, why is it that the burden of oils (being the
main offender to weight gain and bad health) only comes on at a
later age? Are young bodies able to clear it faster, better, easier
than older ones? and why? If there isn't such a thing as faster
Metabolism, then that doesn't make sense, because the only way it
would be true is if the youth Metabolized fats quicker and got it out
of the system.

So, if sugars aren't the culprit, but fats, why are people now, in the
last 20 years getting more and more Diabetes, and Insulin
resistance than before? Fast food came about in the early 50's,
maybe slightly sooner. I know heart disease and strokes have gone
up since then, but Diabetes is a much newer thing to be spiking. I
have always been told sugar is at the center of my Insulin
resistance and the slide towards Diabetes 2, but on the other hand,
all the doctors I have seen have ZERO real knowledge of nutrition,
and I don't trust what they say. They have even said, "Well, we really
don't know for sure how it works". Then they want to prescribe me
a boatload of medicine, which I refuse.

So, again, really trying to understand the mechanics, the workings
of this.

I have a book called the Cortisol Connection which details the direct
connection between the cells, Cortisol, Fat saving, Cholesterol, and
mid belly weight gain. Of course, there is some good info in it, but
then he goes into this long, very complicated way to free yourself
from the Cortisol problem and slowly gain your body back: all of
which has to do with a bizarre conglomeration of a Billion Herbs,
Supplements, His program for beating it, and other potions. I really
don't buy it.

The best answers are 99.9% of the time, the very simplest.

Thanks much for any help.

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