Is Fructose As Dangerous As People Think?
It is not fructose by itself that causes health problems. It is the increased intake promoted by fructose addition to that food.
Take Control Of Your Blood Sugar Using Your Glucometer
Let me suggest how you can use that glucometer to control your blood sugar by identifying foods that are likely to cause elevation of your blood sugar.
Abdominal Obesity And Its Complications
Does the location of the fat make a difference on how it affects the body? Abdominal obesity and its complications are discussed today in this week’s blog post.
Why Bran Is Better Than Grain
Learn more about the role bran plays in your diet and why you should choose bran over whole grains if you are concerned with high blood sugar.
What Is The Optimum Diet?
With humans needing over 100 different nutrients, it is impossible to get any optimum food or diet to get all the nutrients that you need. On the other hand, people have been living on Earth for 50,000 years. That means nature has put in a mechanism for each one of us to obtain needed nutrients. This mechanism starts with the sensation of hunger.
What Your Fitness Tracker Is Not Telling You
If you expect weight loss based on energy expenditure as recorded by your device, you may be disappointed.
What is Missing From The Paleo Diet?
An article in The New York Times in 2018 sited a study by Obesity Reviews that suggested that more & more people are adopting the Paleo diet to get health benefits without having to go through a paleo lifestyle. Here are my thoughts.
Primum Non Nocere – Above All, Do No Harm
In august 2019, Medical News Today reported “Diabetes overtreatment seriously endangers health”, a study from the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. The article stated that more and more people treated for type 2 are having a serious, potentially life threatening complication called hypoglycemia when using blood sugar lowering medications, such as insulin.
Willpower, Weight Loss and Bariatric Surgery
Most people concerned about weight-related medical problems tried dieting. They try these “diets” a few times and finally decide on bariatric surgery. I have another idea.
Red Meat Vs. White Meat and Your Cholesterol
For a long time, everybody believed red meat is bad compared to white meat. Now the first question is what is cholesterol used for in the body?