Archive for the ‘Insulin’ Category
Fast Food and Metabolic Syndrome
Tweet There is yet another group of researchers trying their best to demonstrate how bad fast food is. If you’re tempted to roll your eyes at this point, I could hardly blame you. This is something that most of us “know” even though we really don’t have a whole lot of proof in the form [...]
In: Diabetes, Diet, Insulin, Obesity
Coca Cola and Lance Armstrong
” I’m not urging the government to step in and block your ability to enjoy Coca-Cola or to wear LiveStrong bracelets. I’m appealing to you to make those choices for your health and your integrity. Restrict your consumption of sugar and support other cancer agencies that don’t cheat in order to make a profit. That sends the clearest message.”
In: Diet, Disease, Hypertension, Hypoglycemia, Insulin, Sugar
Getting Fatter
Tweet 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 [...]
In: Diabetes, Diet, Heart Disease, Hypertension, Insulin, Obesity, Populations, Sugar
Excess Pounds
Tweet 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 [...]
In: Diet, Insulin, Obesity, Sugar
The New Food Plate
Tweet 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 [...]
