Insulin Resistance, Associated Subclinical Inflammation and Cardiovascular Risks

People cannot share subjective sensations with others as they do with sounds and figures. Subjective sensations guide the intake. In this chapter, subjective sensations of hunger that induce intake, become objective (verifiable by others, reproducible and comparable) by the association with measurements of blood glucose concentration (BG). This is possible after about two weeks of training with BG measurements. Subjective sensations become thus a meal by meal information tool on energy balance. Respecting the arousal of the validated sensation before any intake was useful to treat infants with chronic non-specific diarrhea (Ciampolini et al. 1990). In a health policy for cardiovascular risk prevention, for a suppression of subclinical inflammation and for a decrease or maintenance of a stable body weight, treating functional intestinal disorders means treating a reversible condition like insulin resistance to prevent irreversible events. Functional intestinal disorders are also capable to give valid motivation to patients for training (see further “Training to...”).