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For years (article published in Barbados Underground in 2007) I have been saying that diabetes, hypertension, Alzheimer, erectile dysfunction and several other similar conditions all have the same cause, the inability of the body to metabolise carbohydrates effectively, a condition named Chronic Metabolic Collapse Syndrome.  The medical community is only now recognising this.  It will take at least another 15 years before they start recommending effective methods to prevent these conditions.

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262 responses to “Health Issues for Barbadians – Diabetes, Hypertension, Alzheimer, Erectile Dysfunction”

  1. nineofnine Avatar
    nineofnine

    Sucrase deals with the Glycosidic bond.. don’t play me.

  2. nineofnine Avatar
    nineofnine

    The differences between natural fructose, tampered fructose and sucrose, plus additives.. the effects on the liver and insulin production.. moderation is the key, especially knowing when best to use any sugar.

    You got to have compassion and put aside the oath.

  3. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    I PICKED OUT JUST ONE LIKKLE PIECE OF THE SHITE YOU WROTE AND COMMENTED ON IT AND YOU TELLING ME ABOUT SUCRASE YA BIOCHEMISTRY ILLITERATE

    WHEN THE SUCRASE WORK ON THE SUCROSE DONT YA GET FRUCTOSE ALONG WITH ITS ISOMER GLUCOSE
    DONT BOTH OF THEM ENTER THE EMDEN MEYERHOFF PATHWAY?
    SO WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE IF YA TEK IN PLAIN FRUCTOSE OR SUCROSE?
    TELL ME DUMMY?
    IF YOU ARE CHALLENGING YOU ARE DOING A POOR JOB

  4. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    RE natural fructose, tampered fructose and sucrose, plus additives.. the effects on the liver and insulin production..

    THIS IS A LOAD OF BULL SHIT!

  5. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    9 OF 9
    DID YOU LISTEN TO THE VIDEO YOU PUT UP?
    DID YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT THE MAN SAY?
    DID HE EXPLAIN HOW FRUCTOSE MAKES FAT?
    YOU DO KNOW THAT I TEACH BIOCHEMISTRY TO MEDICAL STUDENTS RIGHT AND THAT I DO KNOW WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT

    DONT YOU FIND FRUCTOSE NATURALY IN FRUIT?
    HOW IS THAT DIFFERENT TO FRUCTOSE IN FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP?
    HOW DOES THE STRUCTURE DIFFER?
    WILL NATURAL AND FRUCTOSE IN FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP NOT BOTH ENTER THE EMDEN MEYERHOFF PATHWAY……..AND PROCEED TO ACETYLCOA?

  6. pieceuhderockyeahright Avatar
    pieceuhderockyeahright

    If man were to be told what he is, it would drive many of us mad.

    One wonders what being “sons and daughters of God ” really means and the fact that, like broken records, we come to BU each day, and like me, write drivel.

    Let de ole man give you a parable for those of you who love parables, a bit of psychobabble for the sheeple in the class and plain drivel.

    The way of flesh brings with it diabetes, hypertension and all these other things.

    The Way and the Truth brings Life and Life Abundantly.

    And please do not interpret this as a Bible Thumping Announcement.

    This is fact borne out by the global reality that is man’s experience.

    If we seek The Higher Pathway we all will abandon this morass and the moronic discourses about muscle and brain and sucrose and fructose.

    Which of you, being in possession of a table fork takes it to eat soup?

    Therefore, why is it that you sentient beings, being gifted with “awareness”, contend with insignificant things like this dross?

    This flesh WILL PASS because it cannot go through to the other side but we are constantly focusing on the transient here and losing sight of what is real and permanent.

    This earth is subservient to our wills BECAUSE HE SAYS IT IS and we should not get tied up with this morass.

    Physician heal thyself is truly the most serious statement made here because, of all the drivel, it is “androgynous” and applies to everything that is said here.

    Be it economics, financial, medical or political.

    But it serves a purpose to keep us masses ignorant of who we are and what we are capable of.

    And therefore, one that awareness comes, you can expect what is the reward for promoting a different pathway.

    De ole man gone and will leave wunna to continue the drivel.

    Bless all wunna souls.

  7. pieceuhderockyeahright Avatar
    pieceuhderockyeahright

    @ the Honourable Blogmaster

    Your assistance please with an item here of little importance thank you

  8. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    Walter Blackman

    Do you know you committed an “abominable act” by presenting statements “Muscle Brain” previously posted to prove he actually wrote shiite?

    Perhaps it’s “a cultural thing.”

  9. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    “The brain is a muscle too.”

    What the bloody hell……..

    I could imagine the level of insults and pejorative remarks “Muscle Brain” would spew if David BU had written the above comment and he DISAGREED with it?

    Such as: “You silly man, you should post anonymously. It is typical of the nonsense you say when you intervene in discussions you know nothing about. Remind me, David, were did you go to school? It is this low level form of semi-literacy that pervades Barbados.”

    And rather than move on and apologize, he continues to argue with a medical doctor and presents more unsubstantiated waffle that does not DEFINITIVELY PROVES the brain is ACTUALLY a muscle…….or CONTAINS muscle tissues……..

    ………but could be reasonably INTERPRETED as some scientists theorising “the brain can be developed and function” to MIMIC muscles.

    Perhaps this nonsense came as a result of “learning by rote” or “using Google too much.”

  10. David Avatar
    David

    The bigger issue here Artax is that we become consumed sometimes with the minority and dissenting view and forget the good we can do by being judicious in our responses.

  11. Bush Tea Avatar
    Bush Tea

    One would think that after that lesson given by Bushie on the intricacies of water (H 2 O), the alleged teacher GP – who was previously adamant that ‘water is water and “all water is the same” would be a bit more circumspect is his childish dismissal of very similar statements by ‘9 of 9’ about even more complex compounds such as sucrose and fructose.

    ANY normal person – having been humbled with the new knowledge recently received on the actual complexities of water, would reflect that the DESIGNERS of these elements and compounds knew MUCH MORE about what they were doing than his now Alzheimer’s infected brain is able to contemplate.

    Besides… anyone who would eat 20 fishcakes for breakfast HAS to be an idiot…. or at the very least – a glutton.

    Good morning GP
    Why don’t you do yourself (and your wife) a favour and have another 40 fishcakes for lunch
    …. and hasten your crossing of the Jordan river.

    LOL
    ha ha ha

  12. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    @ Pedantic,

    Thanks for your reference. But you will notice that in my first reply I said the brain was a muscle. All the other posts were quotes from experts, including medical doctors and psychologists, published in peer review publications, debating the issue. So, it is fair to say there is some controversy within the various disciplines associated with the brain. I have no interest in the outcome. Quoting someone does not mean endorsing them.
    You will also note that all the vitriol was aimed at me, rather than the authors of the controversial views, but that is fine.
    As to the reference to recognising a psychopath, again you will see that that was in reply to an issue raised by @Lexicon. A psychopath displays certain recognised behavioural tendencies. I did not call anyone I have never met a psychopath.

  13. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    RE you will notice that in my first reply I said the brain was a muscle. All the other posts were quotes from experts, including medical doctors and psychologists, published in peer review publications, debating the issue. So, it is fair to say there is some controversy within the various disciplines associated with the brain.

    MR AUSTIN AGAIN THERE IS NO CONTROVERSY ABOUT THE FACT THAT THE BRAIN IS NOT A MUSCLE OR CONTAINS NO MUSCLE TISSUE…NONE

    ALL OF THE experts, including medical doctors and psychologists, published in peer review publications, debating the issue ARE TALKING SHITE!.

  14. John Avatar
    John

    I put it to you that our problem as a nation is NOT getting it up enough. Our birth rate is only 1.8, well below replacement level.
    Only 5 babies born in Barbados yesterday, whereas a generation ago 12 to 15 babies would have been born.
    We are NOT getting it up enough I say.

    +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

    There are 34 million Chinamen that are willing to help out the less fortunate males of the world!!

  15. David Avatar
    David

    @John

    Is it a simple transaction to bolster population level? What about our identity, the values of a Bajan?

  16. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    RE The bigger issue here Artax is that we become consumed sometimes with the minority and dissenting view and forget the good we can do by being judicious in our responses.

    HOW CAN ONE BE judicious in our responses WITH THE BULL SHIT PUT OUT ON BU CALLED CHALENGING?

    WHY SHOULD ONE BOTHER WHEN TOTAL ILLITERATES OF THE SUBJECT THINK THEY CAN MAKE FUN?

    THE MOCKERS AND SCOFFERS CAN ONLY TALK SHITE WHY DONT THEY INFORM US ABOUT HEALTH ISSUES FOR BARBADIANS – DIABETES, HYPERTENSION, ALZHEIMER, ERECTILE DYSFUNCTION?

  17. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    The only ‘medical’ advice I would offer is to find yourself a good licensed physician and take his advice. I have seen some post on FB Barbados where they would have a list of diseases and then suggest fruits/foods to remedy the diseases.

    Eat the fruits/food but go to a doctor or medical specialist.

    Gone are the days when a Guinness, mixed with condensed milk and egg are a cure for erectile dysfunction. Wondering how the alcohol helps/helped.

    Eat the fruits/food but go to a doctor or medical specialist.

  18. nineofnine Avatar
    nineofnine

    ….and we await real solutions by those who claim to know, who gain from those in need YET things remain the same. Where are the miracles, the healings, yet they continue to teach in paths that are unproductive, becoming irrelevant, trying still to maintain a hold on societal health for filthy gain.

    You know what you know and that which you don’t know is delayed for your future knowledge.

  19. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    9 OF9
    PEOPLE LIKE YOU AND THE JACKASS WHO TRAINED IN BIOCHEM AT MARIOCOPA GO ONLINE AND ACCEPT EVERY BIT OF SHITE YOU READ AND REGURGITATE IT

    MY ONLINE STUDENTS DO THE SAME TOO
    GUESS WHAT? I GIVE THEM A MARK, AND WRITE SIMPLY YOUR ANSWERS ARE LACKING IN THE REQUIRED DETAIL

    WHEN THEY ASK “WHAT DID I MISS” I SEND THEM A STELLAR EXAMPLE OF WHAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN SAID, WRITTEN BY ONE OF THEIR PEERS

    IT IS USELESS ARGUING WITH ILLITERATES ON ANY SUBJECT
    TEACHING FOR THOSE WHO WOULD LEARN
    BUT SCORN FOR ARGUERS AND CHALLENGERS AND MOCKERS

    BARE FUN

  20. de pedantic Dribbler Avatar
    de pedantic Dribbler

    Senor Austin, you are the consummate ‘politician’ but dressed up in journalistic garb….you DISSEMBLE well like the best pols do.

    Blogging is all OPINION, not so!

    So yes you quoted experts but it was to support YOUR opinion…yours did not meet the base standard of an unbiased, reported piece of NEWS facts.

    Yes your first reply (erroneously) said the brain was a muscle… And then almost ALL the other quoted posts from the experts CLEARLY said the brain CANNOT be a muscle in any biological practical sense but rather they COMPARED it’s functional ability to that of muscle development…

    …they never said it WAS A MUSCLE… thus it’s inconceivable why you maintain the fiction that there is some controversy within the various disciplines associated with the brain.

    Your collective excerpts offered no such controversy from all I read.

    Now on another point why do you find it fashionable to hide ridiculously behind statements like… “As to the reference to recognising a psychopath, again you will see that that was in reply to an issue raised by @Lexicon.”

    Two things…

    YOU could have chosen NOT to respond…so the moment you did it was YOUR commentary …and had nothing more to do with him.

    Stop playing mental gymnastics …fah real

    You then went on to say you know a psychopath when you see one and added for effect 😂 I presume…”even a qualified doctor”… Or something to that effect.

    So ever the political dissembler …you are quite correct that you “…did not call anyone [by name whom you] have never met a psychopath.”…

    But boy it sure looked that you called our resident nameless doc a psychopath to me… but maybe I need glasses too..😂

  21. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    WHEN A MAN TELLS YOU THAT HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP PREDISPOSES TO MAKING FAT ASK HIM…………BY FOLLOWING WHICH METABOLIC PATHWAYS

    ASK HIM DOES IMBIBING OTHER MONOSACCAHARIDES FATTY ACIDS AND PROTEINS AND ALCOHOL NOT DO THE SAME?

    MUST THEY NOT ALL BE CONVERTED TO ACETYLCOA FIRST?

  22. Lexicon Avatar
    Lexicon

    Georgie Porgie

    I know enough to inform you that as doctor your are only qualified to speak in your area of speciality … so if you are cardiologist … you cannot come here on BU, and give any medical advice whatsoever on neurology, Podiatry or endocrinology etc … you have to speak in your area of expertise … so you are just as illiterate as the rest here in the areas of medicine you are not qualified to speak on …

  23. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    IN BIM THERE IS A LOT OF LONG TALK BOUT SWEET DRINKS MEKING PEOPLE FAT AND EVEN TAXING DEM

    WHEN DE ONLIEST TINGS THAT WONT MEK YA FAT IS PLANT MATERIAL CAUSE WE DONT HAVE THE ENZYMES TO RELEASE GLUCOSE MOLECULES FROM CELLULOSE

  24. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    RE so you are just as illiterate as the rest here in the areas of medicine you are not qualified to speak on …

    THANKS FOR THAT ADVICE YOU MORON
    SO WHY DO YOU COME HERE TALKING SHITE ABOUT ANYTHING AT ALL IN MEDICINE
    WHAT IS YOUR SPECIALTY? BULLSHITOLOGY?

  25. Lexicon Avatar
    Lexicon

    Georgie Porgie

    You are loaded with theory GP … if soft drinks were of any nutritional value …. why would they take them out of the schools of America…

  26. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    Have seen Lexicon opine on many areas… Should I conclude he gives advice in all his areas of expertise?
    We can all say what we want. we get to post/moderated/or never released…

  27. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    THEO MA BOY

    RE Gone are the days when a Guinness, mixed with condensed milk and egg are a cure for erectile dysfunction.
    HOW YOU KNOW DAT? LOL
    YOU GOT ED OR THE GUINESS CONCOCTION NOT WORKING FOR YOU NO MORE?

    RE Wondering how the alcohol helps/helped. LEFFING OUT THE ALCOHOL MIGHT HELP THOUGH IT AFFECTS THE MUSCLES IN YOUR NERVES. LOL MURDAH

  28. Lexicon Avatar
    Lexicon

    Georgie Porgie

    Soft drinks or sodas or whatever you choose to call them have a direct link to diabetes … because of the corn syrup that is added to these sodas/ soft drinks …

  29. TheOGazerts Avatar
    TheOGazerts

    Posts are having a strange flavor recently. Too much Cialis, Viagra or fructose? Will exit and check in later.

  30. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    RE if soft drinks were of any nutritional value …. why would they take them out of the schools of America…

    HOW WOULD I KNOW WHY THEY DO ALL THE SHITE THEY DO IN AMERICA SIR?

    if soft drinks were of NO nutritional value …WHY DID SO MANY OF US WHO WENT SCHOOL IN DE 50’S AND 60’S SURVIVE PUN JU-C’S AND MARTINEAUX DRINKS…….AND LEARNED WELL?

    WHAT DID YOU DRINK AT LUNCH TIME WHEN YOU WASTED TAX PAYERS MONEY AT ST LEONARDS……A SCHOOL AT WHICH BOYS COULD NOT READ OR WRITE OR SPELL?

  31. Hal Austin Avatar
    Hal Austin

    @ De pedantic,
    I have never been so insulted as to be called a politician. I would rather have a muscle brain.
    Here is one quote: “However, there are some theories that describe the brain as a muscle in the sense that it can be trained to improve different cognitive functions like working memory or math skills. Maybe here is where the confusion appears. The fact is that new evidence shows the brain can be developed and function like a….”
    So there must be more than one to be theories. Don’t ask me to find them; I do not like medicine and doctors and won’t know where to look. Controversy means mean more than one theory.
    @De pedantic, I suggest you stick to what is said and not try to interpret the author’s(mine or any other person’s) words. You are not the only one on BU who does, that is why I call it cultural. It is much better to ask the person what s/he really means. That clarifies everything.

  32. Lexicon Avatar
    Lexicon

    Georgie Porgie

    Research has shown that the corn syrup that is added to these soft drinks are processed differently by the body and this increase the insulin resistance …

  33. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    RE corn syrup that is added to these sodas/ soft drinks …

    JACKASS FRUCTOSE IS THE SWEETEST OF ALL SUGARS
    YOU CAN USE A LITTLE FRUCTOSE TO GET THE SAME DEGREE OF SWEETNESS AS A HIGHER AMOUNT OF SUCROSE DUMMY

    THE PROBLEM IS NOT THE FRUCTOSE BUT THE FACT THAT FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP IS COMPETING WITH SUCROSE PRODUCERS

    A FEW YEARS AGO IT WAS SACCHARIN OR ASPARTAME

    SOON IT WILL BE SOMETHING ELSE YA IDIOT

  34. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    RE Research has shown that the corn syrup that is added to these soft drinks are processed differently by the body and this increase the insulin resistance …

    YEA RESEARCH THAT IS PAID FOR SHOWS THAT FOR WHICH IT WAS PAID DUMMY

    DID THE RESEARCH SPELL OUT HOW? WHY? DID IT PROVE THAT FRUCTOSE AFFECTS INSULIN RESISTANCE?

    DID IT PROVE THAT INSULIN RESPONDS OR DONT RESPOND TO FRUCTOSE RATHER THAN GLUCOSE?

    GIVE US FACTS AND FIGURES
    GET ME ONE OF THESE RESEARCH GRANTS SO I TOO CAN REVERSE THE WHEEL AND GET RICH AT THE SAME TIME

  35. Lexicon Avatar
    Lexicon

    Geogie Porgie

    Then what accounts for that high numbers of people in Barbados with diabetes? Especially those in their 50s ….

    Sir, years of overworking the pancreas with high sugar and starchy foods has caused this high rate of diabetes in Barbados … listen! I was in Barbados this year for my dear mother’s funeral … and all the food establishment I visited in Barbados served brown sugar … so I asked where are the sugar substitutes? No such thing in Bim …

  36. David Avatar
    David

    @Lexicon

    Condolences to you and family.

  37. Lexicon Avatar
    Lexicon

    Georgie Porgie

    Unless you know something that I do not know … but you know as well as I do that sugar has a direct link to the onset of diabetes … why would doctors in America tell older people to keep away from sweet drinks …? Stop with all the bullshit theory … say it in plain terms …

  38. Lexicon Avatar
    Lexicon

    Thank you David …

  39. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    HEAR THE OTHER IDIOT 9 OF 9

    The Brain is not a muscle, but a cellulose membrane of sorts that housed neurological networks and pathways and synapses that interprets nerve signals and issue related responses.

    HOW CAN THE BRAIN BE A CELLULOSE MEMBRANE?
    IS THE BRAIN A PLANT THAT CAN MAKE CELLULOSE FROM CO2 AND H2O SEEING THAT WE CANT DIGEST CELLULOSE

    SINCE THE BRAIN GRABS ALL THE GLUCOSE IT CAN GET WHY WOULD IT WASTE GLUCOSE TO MAKE A CELLULOSE NETWORK

    CAN THE OTHER ONLINE AND MARIOCOPA BIOCHEMISTY EXPERT HEL[P US OUT HERE?

  40. Artax Avatar
    Artax

    It’s also a “cultural thing” to talk shiite and then try to back track when you come under pressure.

  41. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    RE Unless you know something that I do not know …

    I KNOW A LOT THAT YOU DO NOT KNOW DUMMY
    but you know as well as I do that sugar has a direct link to the onset of diabetes …

    I KNOW THAT DIABETES IS CAUSED
    BY HEREDITY
    AS AN AUTO IMMUNE DISEASE
    BY DESTRUCTION OF THE PANCEREAS BY ALCOHOLISM

    RE years of overworking the pancreas with high sugar and starchy foods has caused this high rate of diabetes in Barbados …
    HAS IT ALSO CAUSED THE FACT THAT WE HAVE SO MANY FOLK LIVING TO100 YEARS TOO
    DID THEY OVERWORK THEIR PANCREASES with high sugar and starchy foods
    WHAT DID THESE FOLK EAT? DUNKS? “ENGLISH APPLES”?

    why would doctors in America tell older people to keep away from sweet drinks …?

    why would doctors in America TREAT NUMBERS AND BLOOD TESTS INSTEAD OF PATIENTS?

  42. Lexicon Avatar
    Lexicon

    Georgie Porgie

    You aren’t as smart as you think Sir … tell us how your ideas changed medicine…? where are you books? Where are you medical articles? Show us how your ideas have touched lives and in the process changed the world for the better? What you are doing is merely memorizing and interpreting others ideas and repeating them … a child can do that …

  43. John Avatar
    John

    David
    December 2, 2018 9:35 AM

    @John
    Is it a simple transaction to bolster population level? What about our identity, the values of a Bajan?

    +++++++++++++++++++++++

    What values, what identity?

  44. Lexicon Avatar
    Lexicon

    Georgie Porgie

    It is best that I inform you that knowledge is exponential … meaning that knowledge build upon knowledge and ideas build upon ideas … so therefore … no man can claim an unilateralism or exclusivity to knowledge or ideas… Einstein built upon Planck’s quantum physics … Socrates, Plato and Aristotle moral philosophies were built upon the nature philosophers before them … so you education has you little Sir …

  45. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    RE You aren’t as smart as you think Sir …

    MAN I NOT SMART AT ALL……….BUT AT LEAST I KNOW THAT

    DO YOU KNOW THAT YOU ARE STILL A DUMMY WHO SEEMS TO THINK THAT THE WORLD EXISTS BETWEEN ALASKA AND THE TIP OF THE FLORIDA KEYS?

    RE What you are doing is merely memorizing and interpreting others ideas and repeating them

    AT LEAST I UNDERSTAND WHAT I HAVE LEARNED AND I CAN APPLY IT

    YOU JUST TALK SHITE TRYING TO SOUND INTELLIGENT

  46. Lexicon Avatar
    Lexicon

    Georgie Porgie

    Every philosopher befor

  47. Georgie Porgie Avatar
    Georgie Porgie

    @ JOHN
    RE What values, what identity?

    I WAS WONDERING THE SAME THING

  48. Lexicon Avatar
    Lexicon

    Georgie Porgie

    Every philosopher before Socrates looked to nature for the answers to life’s mysteries … Socrates was the first philosopher to looked within for the answers to life’s mysteries … so therefore …Socrates is regarded as first moral philosopher and the others before him are known as nature philosophers … Kant build upon the Ideas Socrates, Plato and Aristotle … etc so you are an educated idiot if you think for one minute that you have just arrived

  49. Lexicon Avatar
    Lexicon

    Georgie Porgie

    Intellectual humility is the essence of a well balance education …

  50. David Avatar
    David

    Hoping you had a view as one of the elders on the blog about the Bajan identity and how immigration would change it for better or worse. Carry on!

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