Leptin: How Diabetes and Obesity Are Linked

re: Leptin: How Diabetes and Obesity Are Linked

Melania12 — Sun, 23 Aug 2009 17:22:38 GMT

I bought the Rosedale diet book, and I see a lot of good advice to it. However, the problem here is I cannot obtain half the things he recommends to eat. I live in an area nearly devoid of organic foods, although we have some farmers markets, and a few of them grow organic. This is where I shop, but they have limited items to buy. I will keep searching, though.

re: Leptin: How Diabetes and Obesity Are Linked

Charmer — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 18:26:36 GMT

I have personally known diabetics who either significantly reduced their meds, or stopped them altogether, when they went on a vitamin regiment of B-Complex, in addition to a multi-vitamin.

re: Leptin: How Diabetes and Obesity Are Linked

Rett — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 22:46:15 GMT

Believe me. I know how you feel. I have TriCare Prime and my doctor will not test for leptin levels or insulin levels or B-12 or Vitamin D difficiencies. You may want to research a good sublingal B-12 supplement for yourself if you are feeling tired all the time. Are you getting your daily dose of sunlight at midday without sunscreens? Are you getting enough pure clean water. The eight 8oz glasses is no longer a truth to be considered but our bodies do need water. Not juices or soda pop. When we are thirsty, we should drink water. I am not that good at drinking enough water. :) Are you consuming soy based foods? Soy is NOT a good source for nutrition. www.westonaprice.org has vital info about soy. Dr. Mercola has so much info about that and I'm sure you can find satisfaction through his search engine. I'm not a doctor. I value the info I have discovered here and other sites who advocate that we take responsibility for our own health and well being. Food is our medicine and medicine is our food. We should make it our business to know what foods work best according to a nutritional type or a metabolic type. This info is so available to the average lay person who has a PC and there really is no excuse. I tell every body who will listen what I have learned. Many will disregard it. Okay. That's fine. But I'm hoping for that one person who will get it and see how easy it is to be healthy and happy without the drugs. Hugs from Florida

re: Leptin: How Diabetes and Obesity Are Linked

Soteriagal — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 20:03:24 GMT

How is the Rosedale Diet different from Atkins, Southbeach, Sugarbusters, etc.???? I've done all those with limited success and I'm so tired now and the thought of buying yet another diet book just overwhelms me.

re: Leptin: How Diabetes and Obesity Are Linked

jve — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 13:58:02 GMT

Leptin is a hormone that a lot of doctors don't even know about. I asked my doc about it and he didn't know much (and was sure insurance wouldn't cover it). I had read Dr. Rosedale's book and wanted to get my leptin level checked anyway. Sure enough, it was high. I was successful in getting it into the normal range by following the leptin diet for several weeks. I was actually surprised at how easy it was to correct with just diet. My cholesterol had a dramatic improvement as well.

It's not easy to find a place that will check your leptin level without a doctor's order. I finally found a place that I think anyone in the US can use: www.lsscreening.com/labs

Time after time we see that diet is the key to success. You are what you eat so eat well!

re: Leptin: How Diabetes and Obesity Are Linked

sunshine50 — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 04:00:51 GMT

I have Type 1 diabetes that I got at age 13.I was never fat.Acording to doctors I was under weight.I had to be forced to eat before I got it.I was skinny and very active but people thought I was too skinny and tried to force me to eat.Was never sick before.Maybe it was because of food change and environment but I don't seem to be a typical diabetic.So what happened to me?I'm still not that much overweight today.I remember before I got sick and had the coma I had the symptoms of insulin reaction for a couple of years before.It took about 3 years before I got high blood sugar.I was born in a country where people grew their own foods organically.The food was all together different here.I found it tasted bland.There was no good taste to the fruit and vegetables.Guess because we never got them ripe in the grocery stores here and I could always taste the chemicles added to the food.To make things worse they started putting things in plastic containers and I could taste the plastic in foods especially in liquids.That really killed my apetite.

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