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today, i'd like to talk aboutturning around an epidemic. one hundred million americans right nowdo have either diabetes or pre-diabetes, and that puts themat risk for amputations, for heart disease, for blindness. and we're exportingthis epidemic overseas. the word "epidemic" comes from old greek: 'epi' means 'on', 'demos' means 'people', so an epidemic is something we study withsterile statistics, and maps, and graphs, but the truth is, it's something that impinges directly on people,on living, breathing human-beings. but my story actually startsin the basement of a minneapolis hospital. the year before i went to medical school,i was the morgue attendant, or as i'd like to say,"the autopsy assistant". what that meant was, whenever anybody died,i would bring the body out of the cooler, and put the body onan examination table, and the pathologistwould come into the room. and one day, a person diedin a hospital of a mass

hey guys. dr. axe here, doctor of functionalmedicine and founder of draxe.com. today i want to talk to you about the incredible healthbenefits of cinnamon and cinnamon oil. you know cinnamon has been used for over 4,000years. it's referenced throughout egyptian history. also it's referenced in the bible,and it's part of the holy anointing oil. so when someone got sick in the bible, what theywould do is they would pour a holy anointing oil on their head, which was a mix of cinnamon,cassia, calamus, myrrh, and olive oil, and they said it had incredible therapeutic benefits.there's also references throughout history of cinnamon killing off and protecting peopleagainst plagues such as the black plague, the bubonic plague, and even the plagues referencedin the bible in ancient israel. so we know today that cinnamon has an amazingability to preserve things and help heal the body and guard the body against dangerousbacteria and pathogens and even aging. one of the biggest reas

well, apparently, i've been toldwe're testing out junk food? i'm a bit nervous, i'm expecting some big monster plate of something... ... that'll make me really fat all of a sudden oh, no... okay? do you know when you die and you go to heaven, you're probably greeted with one of these (laughs) it looks like...diabetes on a plate!! don't judge me, okay so much chocolate (laughs) it's good, the chocolate is good my mouth is really enjoying it... ...but my brain is kinda thinking about all the burpees i need to do to overcome this, i think can i finish it? put it... get it away from me i've done it. i can't do it any more.that is so good doritos are my weak point, i have to say this i can do it even looks good, like d'you know? mmhmm, i could eat the whole packet and probably most of that jar oh my god (laughs)!!! what are you doing' to me... i hope my clients aren't watching what is this called? - whopper it's a whopper so good!! tas

(This is part 7 of a multi-part series on How to Tweak a Low Carb Diet . It explains the path I have traveled in my weight loss journey so far. If you didn’t read part 1, you can do so by clicking on the how-to link. Part 1 also includes links to the rest of the series.) My diet break obviously refilled my glycogen stores, since I was eating more carbohydrates, but that wasn’t a surprise. I was okay with the eight-pound weight regain because everything happened exactly as Lyle McDonald said it would. Although each of us have the potential to hold different amounts of glycogen in our liver and muscles, there was no reason to believe those eight pounds were fat. I was used to inputting everything I ate into Fitday, and that didn’t stop during my break, so it was easy to keep tabs on my daily calorie count. That helped to keep me zeroed into maintenance. Overall, my complete diet break went well, except that I took my husband’s suggestion and enjoyed a full month off from dieting that Dec