Category Archives: Carbohydrate
Random Thoughts On Paleo Eating for People With Diabetes
I was interviewed a couple months ago by Amy Stockwell Mercer, author of Smart Woman’s Guide to Diabetes. All I knew beforehand was that she was interested in my thoughts on the paleo diet as applied to diabetes. I think … Continue reading
Does Cutting Out Sugary Drinks Help With Weight Loss?
Are you obese, love sugary drinks, and want to easily lose four pounds (1.8 kg) over the next six months? Simply cut a couple of sugary drinks out of your daily diet, replace them with water or diet soa, and … Continue reading
Filed under Carbohydrate, Overweight and Obesity, Sugar, Weight Loss
Dr. Richard Feinman on Carbohydrate Restriction for Diabetes
Dr. Feinman is a professor of biochemistry at Downstate Medical Center (SUNY) in New York. A few days ago he wrote about the rationale behind carb restriction as an approach to diabetes. We’re singin’ from the same page of the … Continue reading
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White Rice Linked to Type 2 Diabetes
Did you see this? http://ca.news.yahoo.com/white-rice-seen-type-2-diabetes-says-study-233837784.html -Steve Update March 15, 2012: I read the primary research article and blogged about it at Advanced Mediterranean Life.
Filed under Carbohydrate, Causes of Diabetes
What’s Our Preferred Fuel?
Dr. Jay Wortman has been thinking about whether our bodies prefer to run on carbohydrates (as a source of glucose) or, instead, on fats. The standard American diet provides derives about half of its energy from carbs, 35% from fats, … Continue reading
Filed under Carbohydrate, Fat in Diet, Fish
173 Years of US Sugar Consumption
Thanks to Dr. Stephan Guyenet and Jeremy Landen for this sugar consumption graph. I’d never seen one going this far back in time. Dr. Guyenet writes: It’s a remarkably straight line, increasing steadily from 6.3 pounds per person per … Continue reading
Filed under Carbohydrate, Causes of Diabetes, Sugar
Food Reward versus Carbohydrate/Insulin Theory of Obesity
A few months ago, several of the bloggers/writers I follow were involved in an online debate about two competing theories that attempt to explain the current epidemic of overweight and obesity. The theories: Carboydrate/Insulin (as argued by Gary Taubes) Food Reward … Continue reading
Filed under Carbohydrate, Overweight and Obesity
Gluten-Free, Wheat-Free, Sugar-Free: “Low-Carbing Among Friends”
I’m very excited about a brand new cookbook for folks limiting their consumption of carbohydrates, wheat, and gluten. It’s a unique collaboration among five chefs (Jennifer Eloff, Maria Emmerrich, Carolyn Ketchum, Lisa Marshall, and Kent Altena) and other low-carb luminaries … Continue reading
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Severe Carb Restriction in Type 2 Diabetes
U.K. researchers found major metabolic improvements in obese type 2 diabetics following a very low-carbohydrate diet, compared to a low-fat portion-controlled diet. The latter is a standard recommendation in the U.S. for overweight type 2 diabetics. This study is an … Continue reading
Filed under Carbohydrate, Weight Loss
Dr. Andreas Eenfeldt Explains LCHF Diet
Dr. Eenfeldt of DietDoctor.com gave a talk at the recent Ancestral Health Symposium in California, on the rationale of the current low-carb, high-fat diet (LCHF) so popular in his home country of Sweden. It’s very understandable to the general public … Continue reading
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