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In the book Diet and Health, I explained what brought us to our current state of 40 percent obesity in the Western world. My goal is to prevent type 2 diabetes, and to do that, I have to prevent obesity. I compared our historical diet to the modern Western diet, and showed how the modern diet has induced insulin resistance. I offered treatment for those who are obese or have pre-diabetes. I then described the various maintenance diets. If you already have type 2 diabetes, I can help you control it.

Modern artificial sweeteners were developed so that we can have sweet things yet decrease the sucrose in our diet. They are sucrose replacements that do not have many calories if any, and do not affect insulin secretion which leads to the development of insulin resistance and eventual obesity or Type 2 diabetes.

Welcome to Caveman & Counselor, the podcast where Kelly Lewallen, a licensed therapist, and Gregg Homme, a behavioral health advocate, explore the complex world of behavioral health and wellness. Join this married couple as they share their expertise through personal anecdotes and expert advice. Kelly and Gregg discuss topics like eating disorders, addiction, and everything else encompassing behavioral health, providing practical tips for recovery and self-care.

Covid is a viral infection that the human race has not seen before, but has become much more intriguing than just that. It may be the first pandemic from a genetically modified virus. The vaccine is also a mRNA derived vaccine, one never before used in the general population and has properties that are unlike the antibody protection from our usual vaccines or natural infections.

I decided on a 28-day fast both to lose a little weight and to make some expert observations that I had not seen reflected in other studies on fasting. I did not do any blood work or change my lifestyle. I have been practicing the advice I give everyone: by fasting 12 hours from your last meal of the day to your first of the next day. I also practice intermittent fasting two days a week. This has produced epigenetic changes in my metabolism such that I will compensate for no food intake more rapidly than others. No matter: After a few days, everyone will end up like me.

Today, those on the modern Western diet have over a 40 percent incidence of diabetes, prediabetes, and obesity. Not only in the United States, but everywhere this diet has been adopted. The goal for you is to prevent type 2 diabetes by getting you on the right diet. This is not an easy task and this audiobook is a compilation of five smaller books.

Women live longer than men. This is true in most societies. Most people want to live long and be healthy till they die. This is not true for dementia. Women have a higher prevalence of dementia than men, primarily because they live longer. There is really no treatment other than preventions; I will give you some suggestions on how you may be able to prevent dementia. It will not cost you anything, except I hope you buy my book, Women Living Longer with Dementia, for more details.

I have spent some time discussing the modern western diet, and how it contributes to many of our increasing diseases. I am now going to start addressing the person who makes the food. Not only makes it, but figures out the menu, buys the food, prepares the food, determines how much food to prepare, ensures food safety, stores the food, and, if necessary, prepares snacks. It is a full time job. And by the end of this audiobook, listeners will be a food expert.

I am still addressing the food engineer. As I have discussed in my book, Diet and Health, the food engineer is the key to a successful maintenance diet. I will discuss cholesterol, omega-3, and omega-6 fatty acids, as well as saturated and unsaturated fat. The engineer needs a basic knowledge of these subjects, as she will be shopping about 1,000 times in the next 20 years. She is the family expert on diet and health.

Bread occupies a special place in the history of mankind. For thousands of years, it was a mainstay of the Western diet and is mentioned about 400 times in the Bible. It was used to prevent famine, and it appeared that man could live on bread alone. I do not believe that in the modern Western diet this is true. Look at the label on modern bread. Now there are about 20 different ingredients. I will tell you about modern bread and what is in it. This may change the way you buy or make bread.

This is part of the series on health topics. I have actually included this as a chapter in my book Diet and Health. This is an interesting example of a therapeutic fast in which a person lost 276 pounds in 382 days. A clinical case study was reported in a journal on this subject as clinical data was gathered throughout the fast. This fast provides much insight into long therapeutic fasts. Let me remind you, you do not fast unless you have fat stores.

This is part of the series Diet and Health. It covers the basics of fasting, part of the normal homeostasis of your body and an essential part of the renewal of the cells in your body. I will talk you into fasting for at least 12 hours between the last meal of the day and the first of the next. Most of you will also fast for 24 hours, just to see what it is like. I will convince some of you to eat supper on Sunday, then not eat until breakfast on Tuesday. We are not doing this to lose weight, but rather to maintain health and weight.

Fasting can be used to help treat some diseases. I will tell you a little about rheumatoid arthritis, but mainly demonstrate how fasting can be used to treat someone with prediabetes. As most of you know by now, this is a chapter in my audiobook Fasting and Disease.

In the western culture we now have a 40 percent incidence of obesity, prediabetes, and Type 2 diabetes. I have written books explaining how this happened, how to prevent it, and how to manage it. I realized this was incomplete as now we have over 30 percent of children with obesity. Fat newborns have an increased risk of eventual development of obesity and subsequent type two diabetes.

We now have 40 percent of our population with diabetes, prediabetes, and obesity. Something is wrong. For about the last 5000 years, we have not had this epidemic of these metabolic diseases. What happened? For me to explain that to you, I must teach you some metabolism and nutrition. I fully expect you to have common sense, but technical knowledge is not required. I will explain what you need to know.

This is the last book in the tetralogy about diet and disease. This book helps the family's food engineer to develop a lifetime diet for the extended family. There is not medical advice. It is up to you to use your current knowledge base and common sense to see if you agree with some or all of my allegations. Although our current medical science can sometimes perform treatments that seem like miracles, they are poor in offering any diet advice.

This article was motivated by a lawsuit regarding cancer and talcum powder.

This a short article in which I review what I consider the best weight loss diet for women. It will give you the basics you need, and advise you to go to kellygregg.com for more details. I also mention fasting, as I have found some women will try this to fit into a wedding dress. This may actually be a good idea if you are healthy and have excess fat. I would go to my website and listen to some podcasts or buy a regular book before you start.

Understand the metabolic basis for the ketogenic diet, and the metabolic consequences for not losing weight. And learn about the common maintenance diet to keep you from just going back to where you started.

This is one of the important topics in health that you may have never heard of. Autophagy is the mechanism by which your body rids itself of worn out cell parts. AGEs are abnormal proteins that accumulate in your body to cause damage, and is the principle element in aging. Of course, autophagy is what prevents this. Obviously, we want more autophagy and less AGEs. The modern western diet has us going in the opposite direction.