This is a follow up on this post . Just to recap, an interesting hypothesis has been around for quite some time about a possible negative ef...
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Showing posts with label diabetes. Show all posts
Blood glucose levels in birds are high yet HbA1c levels are low: Can vitamin C have anything to do with this?
Blood glucose levels in birds are often 2-4 times higher than those in mammals of comparable size. Yet birds often live 3 times longer than ...
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The 2013 PLoS ONE sugar and diabetes study: Sugar from fruits is harmless
A new study linking sugar consumption with diabetes prevalence has gained significant media attention recently. The study was published in ...
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Can intermittent very-low-calorie dieting cure diabetes?
The health effects of very-low-calorie diets (VLCDs) adopted for short periods of time (e.g., 5 days) have been the target of much recent ...
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Adiponectin, inflammation, diabetes, and heart disease
Humans, like many animals, evolved to be episodic eaters and spend most of their time fasting. Body fat is the main store of energy in the h...
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What is the probability that you are NOT diabetic if your fasting blood glucose is 110-126 mg/dl?
Often I hear from readers who have changed their diets and lifestyles toward a more evolutionarily sound direction ( ) that their fasting ...
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The megafat could be the healthiest
Typically obesity leads to health problems via insulin resistance ( ). Excess calories are stored as fat in fat cells up to a certain poin...
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Fasting blood glucose of 83 mg/dl and heart disease: Fact and fiction
If you are interested in the connection between blood glucose control and heart disease, you have probably done your homework. This is a sca...
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How to become diabetic in 6 hours!? Thanks Dr. Delgado for bringing science to the masses!
(Note: My apologies for the sarcastic tone of this post. I am not really congratulating anybody here!) Dr. Nick Delgado shows us in this You...
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Men who are skinny-fat: There are quite a few of them
The graph below (from Wikipedia) plots body fat percentage (BF) against body mass index (BMI) for men. The data is a bit old: 1994. The top-...
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How much alcohol is optimal? Maybe less than you think
I have been regularly recommending to users of the software HCE ( ) to include a column in their health data reflecting their alcohol consum...
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Lipotoxicity or tired pancreas? Abnormal fat metabolism as a possible precondition for type 2 diabetes
The term “diabetes” is used to describe a wide range of diseases of glucose metabolism; diseases with a wide range of causes. The diseases i...
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Book review: Sugar Nation
Jeff O’Connell is the Editor-in-Chief for Bodybuilding.com , a former executive writer for Men’s Health , and former Editor-in-Chief of Musc...
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Slow versus slow-brisk walking: Effects on type 2 diabetics
I am not a big fan of reviewing new studies published in refereed journals, particularly those that make it to the news. I prefer studies ...
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