Is Meat Unhealthy? Part VI
https://about-diabetic.blogspot.com/2015/01/is-meat-unhealthy-part-vi.html
In this post, I'll examine the possible relationship between meat consumption and cancer risk. Is cancer risk even modifiable? Cancer is...
Does "Metabolically Healthy Obesity" Exist?
https://about-diabetic.blogspot.com/2013/12/does-healthy-obesity-exist.html
Obesity is strongly associated with metabolic alterations and negative health outcomes including diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and some ...
The Moldy Cupcake Awards: Artificial Sweetener Alarmist Crap, by WHO-TV Channel 13
https://about-diabetic.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-moldy-cupcake-awards-artificial.html
Copyright © 2010 Julie Kin g / Gleeful Things. All Rights Reserved. Welcome to another edition of the Moldy Cupcake Awards. The award we gi...
The Longer You Have Diabetes the Higher are Cancer Risks
https://about-diabetic.blogspot.com/2013/01/the-longer-you-have-diabetes-higher-are.html
Shouldn't this also be the older you become the higher your risks for cancer become? In other words, I don't think this is groundbr...
The Most Annoying Person I have Learned to Love...
https://about-diabetic.blogspot.com/2012/10/the-most-annoying-person-i-have-learned.html
The day I lost my car... I became an avid pedestrian. Every local place became THE place to go for any goods and services. I really didn...
Does Calorie Restriction Extend Lifespan in Mammals?
https://about-diabetic.blogspot.com/2012/08/does-calorie-restriction-extend.html
Until about two years ago, the story went something like this: calorie restriction extends lifespan in yeast, worms, flies, and rodents. Li...
Oltipraz
https://about-diabetic.blogspot.com/2011/03/oltipraz.html
Oltipraz is a drug that was originally used to treat intestinal worms. It was later found to prevent a broad variety of cancers ( 1 ). Thi...
Polyphenols, Hormesis and Disease: Part II
https://about-diabetic.blogspot.com/2011/02/polyphenols-hormesis-and-disease-part-ii.html
In the last post, I explained that the body treats polyphenols as potentially harmful foreign chemicals, or "xenobiotics". How ca...
Tropical Plant Fats: Coconut Oil, Part II
https://about-diabetic.blogspot.com/2010/08/tropical-plant-fats-coconut-oil-part-ii.html
Heart Disease: Animal Studies Although humans aren't rats, animal studies are useful because they can be tightly controlled and experime...
Tropical Plant Fats: Palm Oil
https://about-diabetic.blogspot.com/2010/07/tropical-plant-fats-palm-oil.html
A Fatal Case of Nutritionism The concept of 'nutritionism' was developed by Dr. Gyorgy Scrinis and popularized by the food writer Mi...
Nitrate: a Protective Factor in Leafy Greens
https://about-diabetic.blogspot.com/2010/06/nitrate-protective-factor-in-leafy.html
Cancer Link and Food Sources Nitrate (NO3) and nitrite (NO2) are molecules that have received a lot of bad press over the years. They are t...
Pastured Dairy may Prevent Heart Attacks
https://about-diabetic.blogspot.com/2010/05/pastured-dairy-may-prevent-heart-attacks.html
Not all dairy is created equal. Dairy from grain-fed and pasture-fed cows differs in a number of ways. Pastured dairy contains more fat-so...
Corn Oil and Cancer?
https://about-diabetic.blogspot.com/2010/02/corn-oil-and-cancer.html
The benefits of corn oil keep rolling in. In a new study by Stephen Freedland's group at Duke, feeding mice a diet rich in butter and l...
Book Review: Dangerous Grains
https://about-diabetic.blogspot.com/2008/11/book-review-dangerous-grains.html
Dangerous Grains is about the health hazards of gluten grains. It's co-written by James Braly, an M.D. who specializes in food allergi...
The Inuit: Lessons from the Arctic
https://about-diabetic.blogspot.com/2008/07/the-inuit-lessons-from-arctic.html
The Inuit (also called Eskimo) are a group of hunter-gatherer cultures who inhabit the arctic regions of Alaska, Canada and Greenland. They ...
Sunscreen and Melanoma
https://about-diabetic.blogspot.com/2008/07/sunscreen-and-melanoma.html
Melanoma is the most deadly type of skin cancer, accounting for most skin cancer deaths in the US. As Ross pointed out in the comments sect...
Cancer in Other Non-Industrialized Cultures
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In Cancer, Disease of Civilization (1960), Wilhjalmur Stefansson mentions a few cultures besides the Inuit in which large-scale searches ne...
Mortality and Lifespan of the Inuit
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One of the classic counter-arguments that's used to discredit accounts of healthy hunter-gatherers is the fallacy that they were short-l...
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Cancer Among the Inuit
https://about-diabetic.blogspot.com/2008/07/cancer-among-inuit.html
I remember coming across a table in the book Eat, Drink and Be Healthy (by Dr. Walter Willett) a few years back. Included were data taken ...
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