When I attended school during the 1950s and 1960s we had very few overweight or obese children in our classrooms. Today, many students are either overweight or obese.
Back then, schools didn’t sell junk food in vending machines. They do today. Most of us ate three home-cooked meals with no snacking between meals. Snacks were not part of our vocabulary, let alone our diets. According to Dr. Jason Fung, the author of “The Obesity Code,” constant snacking between meals causes our insulin levels to remain high. And constant high insulin levels lead to insulin resistance, weight gain, metabolic syndrome, pre-diabetes and then to full diabetes.
In 1960, about 1 percent of adults had Type 2 diabetes. Today about 12 percent of adults have Type 2 diabetes and the number is growing. About one-third of adults are insulin-resistant.
According to Fung, our hormones, not calories, are causing our diabetes and obesity epidemic.
The good news is that we can control our hormones by not only what we eat, but also when and how often we eat.
