Archive for the ‘Insulin’ Category
Getting Fatter
The news on weight only gets worse. The excuses and recommendations remain the same — completely ineffectual. The doctors believe that no one is listening to them. They think it’s a simple matter of eating less and exercising more. The fact is that in 1995, there was not a single state with an obesity rate [...]
In: Diabetes, Diet, Heart Disease, Hypertension, Insulin, Obesity, Populations, Sugar
Excess Pounds
I saw two very interesting articles regarding possible causes for excess pounds. It’s universally recognized that weight gain for adults happens over a period of years. It’s a steady weight gain that people have a very hard time controlling. A team at Harvard recently looked at data on 120,877 U.S. women and men from three [...]
In: Diet, Insulin, Obesity, Sugar
The New Food Plate
By now you’ve probably heard that the USDA has replaced the ubiquitous and so-called confusing Pyramid with the Plate. The pyramid was an illustration purportedly displaying the recommended proportions of the various food groups that all of us should be consuming. The new version is based on a plate icon showing the proportion of the [...]
In: Diet, Insulin, Obesity, Sugar
Fatty Liver and Toxic Sugar
In Science Daily, there was a rather peculiar article regarding reducing liver fat. In my opinion, this is a perfect example of what happens when people perform a science experiment while holding preconceived notions as to what the outcome will be. Science is supposed to be an exploration of the unknown with no preconceptions. Researchers [...]
In: Cancer, Diabetes, Diet, Disease, Heart Disease, Hypertension, Insulin, Obesity, Sugar
ZC Icon Dies in Car Crash
The Zero Carb community lost a major icon today. Owsley “Bear” Stanley, a 1960s counterculture figure who flooded the flower power scene with LSD and was an early benefactor of the Grateful Dead, died in a car crash in his adopted home country of Australia on Sunday, his family said. He was believed to be [...]
In: Diabetes, Diet, Disease, Heart Disease, Insulin, Obesity
