A study came out yesterday showing that an Atkins diet is better for weight loss, cholesterol levels, and blood sugar control. Let’s take a look.
So first, some good points:
It was a 2-year trial, meaning no one can say “well, it works well in the short-term, but…”. I suppose they can still say it [...]
Last night, I finally finished The Fattening of America by Eric Finkelstein and Laurie Zuckerman. It was basically about how the economy is geared to making people fat, the detriments of obesity on the nation, and the benefits to the economy of obesity. Finkelstein uses his Uncle Al and Cousin Carl as exemplars [...]
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Here’s an article I came across awhile back: Normal Weight Obesity: An Emerging Risk Factor For Heart And Metabolic Problems
More than half of American adults considered to have normal body weight in America have high body fat percentages — greater than 20 percent for men and 30 percent for women — as well as heart [...]
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As luck would have it, I came across four different articles on sleep and kids in just a few days. So here you go.
Sleep problems common in children with ADHD
Children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) appear likely to experience sleep problems ….Sleep problems affected 175 (73.3 percent) of the children, with a 28.5 percent prevalence [...]
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But we swear it’s not because they are ineffective! Mumps shots didn’t fully protect in 2006 - ‘Most of the college students who got the mumps in a big outbreak in 2006 had received the recommended two vaccine shots, according to a study that raises questions about whether a new vaccine or another [...]
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Amber Waves of Grain
Miguel Carrera posted a link to an interesting article in the comments of my recent post on whole grains. Published in BioMed Central, it is titled Agrarian diet and diseases of affluence - Do evolutionary novel dietary lectins cause leptin resistance? I found it to be a very interesting and informative [...]
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Here’s something to keep you entertained and well-read for the day: Gary Taubes Interview. It’s 14 parts and is some of the same stuff from Good Calories, Bad Calories. It’s largely a very conversational skimming of what’s in the book.
Here’s a premise that I’ve heard that always irks me:
TAUBES I have friends and [...]
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A reader named Bob (Thanks Bob!) sent me the following link: My Big Fat Diet.
In Alert Bay, Canada, there is a community of Namgis First Nation aborigines suffering from high rates of obesity and the accompanying complications. Dr. Wortman has taken a group of these aboriginals and put them on a [...]
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Looks like the prevailing wisdom is still wrong: Animal foods linked with reduced risk of breast cancer, while starch found to be associated with enhanced risk - “Women in the high starch group were found to be at a 34 per cent and 85 per cent increased risk of breast and ovarian cancer respectively.” [...]
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Here’s an interesting rat study that I came across today: Artificial Sweeteners Linked To Weight Gain
I’ve mentioned before that I don’t think using artificial sweeteners on a regular basis is a healthful endeavor. Here’s a study, in rats, showing that rats feeding constantly on artificial sweeteners gained more weight than rats feeding on sugar.
Animals [...]
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