Finding anyone, regarding any subject of your choice, with whom I will wholeheartedly agree is getting more and more difficult as I cut through the quagmire that the internet is starting to consist of….
Even some of the people whose opinions I took as gospels six or seven years ago are seemingly losing the plot. It’s a little bewildering. Is it me? Maybe it’s me losing the plot. I’ll readily admit it’s getting more and more difficult to understand everything that’s going on as it all unravels faster and faster.
Last week I featured another YouTube video starring someone who was campaigning on the issue of the growing metabolic syndrome epidemic, but even he didn’t understand the role or otherwise of fiber in the diet. Then along comes this heart surgeon who, again, had so far flown under my radar. Philip Ovadia seems more than qualified to talk about metabolic syndrome, he’s operated on many victims of this epidemic and he was one of its victims himself.
Yes it’s a long video, but knowledge always comes at a price. I found this faultless, and I really appreciate his honesty and passion.
Damn the Matrix 
Looking up matabolic syndrome on the internet and we see it is very well accepted in mainstream medical circles. The definition seems fairly common throughout.
“Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of risk factors that together increase a person’s risk of stroke, heart disease and type 2 diabetes. These risk factors are:
It’s one of many thousands of health conditions that people can suffer from and deal with.
Incidence these days is about 4% of the population, whereas it was about 1% three decades ago, indicating that lifestyle issues are a major factor in cause and treatment.
I noted on Health Direct that it advises eating well as a primary remedy:
“Reducing kilojoule intake if you are overweight, reducing saturated fat and salt and increasing whole grains, fruits and vegetables — this helps with weight loss, improves cholesterol levels and reduces the risk of type 2 diabetes”
On that dietary point I think you would partially disagree, Mike.
But seeing the growing incidence of the syndrome it is well worth knowing about. So thanks for that. Chris H
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4%? It’s more like 40%
And that advice is precisely what causes metabolic disease…
Commented (#comment-37364) but WP shit-canned it again. Revive it if you’d like Mike, though I’d understand if you didn’t want to… 🙂