A Culture Dying to Eat
Not only is fast food no good, eating food fast may be a bad idea. The International Congress of Endocrinology reports research to suggest that fast eaters are more than twice as likely to develop Type 2 diabetes! Perhaps scarfing down your food demands too much insulin all at once or it could be that… [Continue Reading]
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This is what I’ve found recently on the net: Kids still hungry after school lunch (you can also read here). With the new guidelines in America, kids get more fruits and vegetables in their school lunch and – this year – less meat. And they are hungry! After a big salad, fruits and a bit… [Continue Reading]
U.S. geneticist, Professor Cynthia Kenyon discovered that a high-carbohydrate diet “directly affect two key genes that govern youthfulness and longevity”. These two genes are insulin related, so related to the amount of carbohydrate in our diet. Kenyon discovered that when she removed these two insulin-receptor genes (daf-2 and daf-16) in worms, they not only lived longer,… [Continue Reading]
Today’s positive post comes from the Rudd Center. For those of you who don’t know, the Rudd Center is a world leader in the fight against weight bias and the toxic food environment. Think of them as the Pentagon and just like the Pentagon, to carry out missions they need foot soldiers. And that’s where… [Continue Reading]
The downer about diabetes is the diet mindset. It’s all about what you are NOT eating anymore: soda, donuts and cake. The party’s over. And the problem with a diet is that it’s not sustainable; it doesn’t last. You start thinking about the day the diet will end on the day it starts. But to… [Continue Reading]
Recent data suggest that since the 1970s on average we’re consuming in the neighborhood of 550 additional calories daily – about a meal’s worth. The question that matters of course is, “Why”? Undoubtedly there will be many plausible answers. The world has changed quite dramatically since the 1970s with many of the changes impacting upon… [Continue Reading]
You think diabetes happens like male pattern baldness? You have to wait and wait until middle age to find out if you have it and then be powerless to change it? What if you could train for it? What if you really can impact your health destiny? Good news! Type 2 Diabetes is not just… [Continue Reading]
