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Junk Food Damages Brain’s Weight & Appetite Controllers
Yet another reason why eating junk sets up the response to eat more. The standard American diet destroys brains cells that control weight and appetite creating a hard-to-beat obesity cycle. It triggers the the similar types of injury and healing responses of stroke and MS sufferers!
Scientists from the Diabetes and Obesity Center of Excellence at Seattle’s University of Washington fed rats a junk food high fat diet and discovered they doubled their caloric intake three days later. Notably, they showed an inflamed hypothalamus, the area of the brain with weight controlling neurons. Inflammation subsided but returned in four weeks.
Researchers detected a healing response to injury in the brain called gliosis. Dr. Joshua Thaler, lead researcher said, “Gliosis is thought to be the brain equivalent of wound healing and is typically seen in conditions of neuronal injury, such as stroke and multiple sclerosis. We speculate that the early gliosis that we saw may be a protective response that fails over time.”
The research showed damage and eventual loss of the brain’s critical weight-regulating neurons. It is uncertain whether the damage is permanent or not
“The possibility that brain injury may be a consequence of the over-consumption of a typical American diet offers a new explanation for why sustained weight loss is so difficult for most obese individuals to achieve.” Dr. Thaler added. Results were presented to the Endocrine Society’s 93rd annual meeting in Boston.
It is a remarkable finding – a person caught up in this cycle has a tough road ahead and needs help and support to break free. Hopefully, this knowledge can ease the shame cycle overweight people often experience. Unfortunately, Dr. Thaler concluded, “If new medicines can be designed that limit neuron injury during overeating, they may be effective in combating the obesity epidemic.”
A new, possibly addictive drug to enable the condition? While it’s sad to picture people continuing to destroy their brain cells, how is a drug to limit injury going to combat obesity? How will a person learn how to really un-condition themselves from a condition that might have taken years build up? Given the damage and toxicity that drugs inflict, why is that the only proposed solution?
Think of how many Americans partake of the typical junk food diet – should they all be on the drug?
~Health Freedoms
Source:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2006312/Eating-junk-food-destroys-weight-controlling-brain-cells-causing-vicious-cycle-obesity.html
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This is a great article. Every way we look at it, junk foods are toxic. In the article, brain weight neurons, are you referring to leptins? Thanks….. JL
It is well known that the excitotoxin, MSG causes obesity in rats. In fact, that is one way researchers fatten em’ up for obesity studies. Fast food is full of MSG and proven to destroy brain cells and has a particular affinity for the hypothalamus. I wonder how much of the phenomenon described above has to do with the MSG likely in the food fed to the rats. Also, it is not the amount of the fats in junk food as much as it is the type of fat. There are several other issues with junk food; preservatives, growth hormones, high pesticide and herbicide residues,drugs and antibiotics, GMOs and the list goes on and on. Bottom line; junk food is killing us, making people sick and lining the pockets of western allopathic medicine and drug companies. Pharma loves the toxic food industry. Not only are they able to sell drugs to put in livestock chow, but they guarantee lots of fat, sick, impotent and depressed people they can design drugs for.
Good article. The reason that the drug is the only answer is that patented drugs are the only thing that modern medicine is interested in. It all comes down to dollars and profits with no real regard for human health or safety and that’s the very sad truth.
Robert, I invite your friendship at facebook. If your comment were not identified, I’d mistake it for my own. Problem is, msg is contained in virtually all processed foods. MSG has more than a dozen names to disguise it: hydrolyzed soy protein, hydrolized plant protein, seasoning, flavoring, etc. MSG need not be identified as an ingredient if it is of small enough percentage or within another ingredient. It seasons frozen processed and unprocessed foods. Seasoned leg of lamb, pot pies, tamales, lasagna, sausages, luncheon meats, soups, all contain msg.
Epidemic obesity, heart disease, cancer, dementia, autism, adhd, learning disabilities, depression, fund the pharmaceutical industry. While organic farming is a survival battle against factory farms, pharmaceuticals strangles alternative health care, organic farming, compounding pharmacies, supplement companies. As death by pharmaceuticals elicits repeat drug recalls, the pharmaceutical industry dispenses information contrary to scientific evidence as the necessity of pharmaceuticals to reduce blood pressure, high cholesterol when alternative safe, effective supplements are cheaper, faster, and more effective.
Junk food makes citizens less able to think straight, thus they become pliable to the psyops of mainstream TV. In turn, our gubbermint gets more of us on its side. We learn that war is peace, our leaders care for us by providing suffocating security to us, etc. Giving up our privacy and submitting to the TSA goons will keep us safe. Junk food now is a lot more junky that it was back in the 80′s. Now we got aspartame, GE food, rBGH, corn sugar, cloned meat, etc. I would guess we’re more apt than ever to love Big Brother.
I also think MSG is very bad for us, but check this out – the folks in Japan that created it 100 years ago think it is almost heavenly:
http://www.ajinomoto.com/features/aji-no-moto/en/index.html
I also think MSG is bad for us, but have a look at what its creators think about it:
http://www.ajinomoto.com/features/aji-no-moto/en/index.html
While of course I agree that the SAD is dangerous and toxic, this research doesnt account for the fact that while many people who eat junk food become obese, many who consume it do not. If this is true, it would be important to find out why some people do not receive the same level of damage and are able to maintain a normal weight while eating the same types of foods.
As far as lorena’s comment goes, it is well known that lots of people react differently to some foods than others. Just like some people are allergic (have a toxic reaction) to peanuts while others are not. It is no supprise to me that some people can eat junk food without damage to their hypothalmus while others may only need a bite or two to aquire severe damage. There are likely lots of other factors that come into play as well.
Including vaccines. Someone needs to seriously look at the damage that the ever increasing number of vaccines is doing to our bodies and minds. I saw for myself after my daughter had her set of vaccines prior to starting kindergarten. Prior to that set of shots she had a normal appetite, somedays she ate a lot, other days hardly anything at all, from the parents I talk to, pretty common. And while my dughter has always been tall for her age, until that set of shots her weight was always in good proportion to her height. Within two weeks of those shots she had completely lost comtrol of her appetite. At age 5 she gained more than 30 pounds. Always hungry, ALWAYS looking for food…wanting and able to eat more in a meal than her dad and I combined. I have long suspected some sort of damage to her brain or endocrine system caused by the vaccines. I have tried to talk to doctors, including a pediatric endocrinologist, but as soon as I tell them that this all started after the vaccines they “shut down” and refuse to discuss anything except restricting her food intake and advise me not to have her eat “crap” that she already doesn’t eat. I don’t know how many of you out there have had the experience of having your kid cry for food like they are starving. Imagine it on a daily basis. It doesn’t help to know that they are not “really” hungry…it sucks…it also sucks watching your beloved child turn into a “roly-poly” right before your eyes.
I am glad to have found this article. I am now going to do some research on how to support and heal the hypothalamus naturally.
I will also mention that it my own personal theory that it will someday be determined that there is a very strong link between the number of flu vaccines received and the onset of Alzheimer’s disease. Again, individuals will have a variety of repercussions, and some will say they have no ill affects from the flu shot. I personally have not had one in about 8 years and don’t expect I will ever subject my body to that kind of assault again.
Good health and blessings to you all.
If you’d like to know more about MSG’s role in creating obesity, take a look at http://www.truthinlabeling.org. You’ll find references to the evidence that demonstrates that MSG kills brain cells, disrupts the endocrine system, and thus is one root of obesity. And for those interested, the way in which Ajinomoto (the world’s largest producer of monosodium glutamate) spins its propaganda machine to promote the “safety” of monosodium glutamate is also spelled out.