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UCSF Investigating Paleolithic Diet For Diabetics
A May, 2010, press release from University of California San Francisco outlines the university’s research into use of the Paleolithic diet (aka Stone Age or caveman diet) for people with type 2 diabetes. From the press release: The initial … Continue reading
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Book Review: The Smarter Science of Slim
I recently read The Smarter Science of Slim, by Jonathan Bailor and published in 2012. Per Amazon.com’s rating system, I give it four stars (“I like it”). ♦ ♦ ♦ Mr. Bailor’s weight-management diet avoids grains, most dairy, oils, refined … Continue reading
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Introducing Paleo Diabetic, a New Blog
A few of my patients have asked me if the paleo diet and lifestyle would be good for their diabetes. I’m not sure. A few pilot studies suggest it would be. I expect much more published scientific research over the coming … Continue reading
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How Common Is Celiac Disease?
Celiac disease, aka gluten enteropathy, affects one of every 133 Americans, according to the National Digestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse. That’s much more common than we thought a couple decades ago. Read about celiac disease symptoms and physical signs at About.com … Continue reading
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Pilot Study: Paleo Diet Is More Satiating Than Mediterranean-Style
Swedish researchers reported recently that a Paleolithic diet was more satiating than a Mediterranean-style diet, when compared on a calorie-for-calorie basis in heart patients. Both groups of study subjects reported equal degrees of satiety, but the paleo dieters ended up … Continue reading
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Quote of the Day
Here’s one the paleo diet advocates will like. The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases. —Edward Jenner (1749-1823), of smallpox vaccination … Continue reading
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Paleo and Low-Carb Diets: Much In Common?
My superficial reading of the paleo diet literature led me to think Dr. Loren Cordain was the modern originator of this trend, so I was surprised to find an article on the Stone Age diet and modern degenerative diseases in a … Continue reading
Paleo Diet for Heart Patients With Diabetes and Prediabetes
A Paleolithic diet lowered blood sugar levels better than a control diet in coronary heart disease patients with elevated blood sugars, according to Swedish researchers reporting in 2007. About half of patients with coronary heart disease have abnormal glucose (blood sugar) metabolism. Lindeberg and … Continue reading
2002 Atkins Diet at a Glance
Dr. Robert C. Atkins is the modern popularizer of low-carb dieting. He was neither the first nor only low-carb advocate of the 20th century, but certainly the most influential in modern history in terms of followers. His Dr. Atkins Diet Revolution was … Continue reading
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Paleo Diet and Diabetes: Improved Cardiovascular Risk Factors
Compared to a standard diabetic diet, a Paleolithic diet improves cardiovascular risk factors in type 2 diabetics, according to investigators at Lund University in Sweden. Researchers compared the effects of a Paleo and a modern diabetic diet in 13 type … Continue reading
