A Culture Dying to Eat
If you are diabetic, pre-diabetic, insulin-resistant or just plain concerned about consuming too much sugar, take note. You need to know the rules of the Grain Game if you’re playing to win. #1. Grain (herein) refers to glutenous wheat, barley and rye as well as “gluey” oats, corn, and rice, et.al, sans gluten – lumped… [Continue Reading]
Dear Beyoncé, I have 3 beautiful little girls – 8, 5 and 3. While they’re not quite old enough yet to know who you are, I’ve no doubt they’ll both discover and adore you over the course of the next few years. What you say to them, what your advertisements will say to them, will… [Continue Reading]
“When you’re a hammer, everything looks like a nail.” Nowhere is this statement more true than in medicine. A perfect example is in the treatment of type 2 diabetes. If a doctor suspects their patient may be diabetic, they can run an oral glucose tolerance test (OGTT), in which the patient is given a glucose… [Continue Reading]
Many people replace sugar with artificial sweeteners in the belief that this will reduce their calorie intake and cause weight loss. It sounds plausible. Several studies, however, have failed to show any positive effect on weight loss by consuming artificial sweeteners instead of plain sugar. Instead, according to scientific studies, artificial sweeteners can increase appetite… [Continue Reading]
Maybe they’ll believe me now. Last weekend, while watching my beloved Oregon Ducks take a loss, I somehow found my buddies and I in a debate regarding the role of meat in heart disease and cancer. In their opinion, meat is something that should seldom be consumed. The saturated fat will kill you. Studies show… [Continue Reading]
David Evans compiled a great reference book – Cholesterol and Saturated Fat Prevent Heart Disease – about the relationship of Saturated fat in the diet and heart disease, showing that there is no correlation between these two elements. The book contains 101 scientific papers (with the name of the authors and the year it has… [Continue Reading]
They’re calling it Type 3- Diabetes and it is directly related to your brain health. It seems that your pancreas is not the only organ that produces insulin in response to what you eat. Your brain does as well. Way back in 2005 this accidental discovery was made by a neuropathologist at Brown University studying… [Continue Reading]
Pick a media outlet, any one…television, newspapers, blogs, or your favorite social media site. I’m guessing you can’t spend 3 minutes in front of it, without hearing something about obesity or health choices. Talking about eating healthy used to be a huge turnoff to Americans, and now it’s an obsession. Unfortunately, many look in the… [Continue Reading]
