Malocclusion: Disease of Civilization

In his epic work Nutrition and Physical Degeneration , Dr. Weston Price documented the abnormal dental development and susceptibility to too...

Diabetics on a Low-carbohydrate Diet, Part II

I just found another very interesting study performed in Japan by Dr. Hajime Haimoto and colleagues ( free full text ). They took severe di...

Diabetics on a Low-carbohydrate Diet

Diabetes is a disorder of glucose intolerance. What happens when a diabetic eats a low-carbohydrate diet? Here's a graph of blood gluc...

Food, Farmers and Factories

When I offer suggestions on foods for newly diagnosed type 2 diabetics on various forums such as the ADA forum or the dLife forum I am occas...

Paleolithic Diet Clinical Trials Part IV

Dr. Staffan Lindeberg has published a new study using the "paleolithic diet" to treat type II diabetics ( free full text ). Type ...

Animal Models of Atherosclerosis: LDL

Researchers have developed a number of animal models of atherosclerosis (fatty/fibrous lesions in the arteries that influence heart attack r...

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Blood lipids such as LDL and HDL cholesterol are markers of the biological processes that impact cardiovascular disease, and they are commonly measured to assess cardiovascular risk.  When we think ab...

What Properties Make a Food "Addictive"?

Although the concept of food addiction remains controversial, there's no doubt that specific foods can provoke addiction-like behaviors in susceptible people.  Yet not all foods have this effect, ...

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American Society of Nutrition, Not a Good Society

I would like to thank Steve Cooksey forpointing this out, but I cannot totally agree with him. Yes, theAmerican Society of Nutrition (ASN) has some serious conflicts ofinterest, but they are not tryi...

Do We Control or Manage Diabetes?

Another blogger and I are having adiscussion – more a disagreement in terminology between control andmanagement of diabetes. I doubt that we will change the opinion ofthe other, but there are differe...

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