Preventing Tooth Decay
http://about-diabetic.blogspot.com/2009/03/preventing-tooth-decay.html
Meet Sir Edward Mellanby, the man who discovered vitamin D. Along with his wife, Dr. May Mellanby, he identified dietary factors that contr...
More Thoughts on the Glycemic Index
http://about-diabetic.blogspot.com/2009/03/more-thoughts-on-glycemic-index.html
In the last post, I reviewed the controlled trials on the effect of the glycemic index (GI) of carbohydrate foods on health. I concluded th...
The Glycemic Index: A Critical Evaluation
http://about-diabetic.blogspot.com/2009/03/the-glycemic-index-critical-evaluation.html
The glycemic index (GI) is a measure of how much an individual food elevates blood sugar when it's eaten. To measure it, investigators ...
Paleopathology at the Origins of Agriculture
http://about-diabetic.blogspot.com/2009/03/paleopathology-at-origins-of-agriculture.html
In April of 1982, archaeologists from around the globe converged on Plattsburgh, New York for a research symposium. Their goal: ...[to use]...
Margarine and Phytosterolemia
http://about-diabetic.blogspot.com/2009/03/margarine-and-phytosterolemia.html
Margarine is one of my favorite foods. To rip on. It's just so easy! The body has a number of ways of keeping bad things out while tak...
Latest Study on Vitamin K and Coronary Heart Disease
http://about-diabetic.blogspot.com/2009/03/latest-study-on-vitamin-k-and-coronary.html
A Dutch group led by Dr. Yvonne T. van der Schouw recently published a paper examining the link between vitamin K intake and heart attack (...
What Can Evolution Teach us About the Human Diet?
http://about-diabetic.blogspot.com/2009/03/what-can-evolution-teach-us-about-human.html
Vegetarians deserve our respect. They're usually thoughtful, conscientious people who make sacrifices for environmental and ethical rea...
Statistics
http://about-diabetic.blogspot.com/2009/03/statistics.html
Ricardo just sent me a link to the British Heart Foundation statistics website . It's a goldmine. They have data on just about every ...
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Warning -- Satire -- April Fool's Post Do you feel sad sometimes? Are you tired when you get up in the morning? Do you get winded runni...
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Disclaimer: The following is a guest post from a fellow reader of this blog, and a person living with type 2 diabetes as well as HIV. The t...
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Hunter-gatherers and healthy non-industrial cultures didn't know what omega-6 and omega-3 fats were. They didn't balance nutrients ...
