Why Drugs and Diet Can Sometimes Fail in Diabetes
“People with type 2 diabetes are at elevated risk for a number of serious health...
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Which Beans Best Block the Spread of Cancer?
Ketogenic diets have been found to undermine exercise efforts and lead to muscle shrinkage and bone loss. An official International Society of Sports Nutrition position paper covering keto diets notes the “ergolytic effect” of keto diets on both high-...
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The Spice Proven to Benefit Prediabetes
In my video Turmeric Curcumin for Prediabetes, I talk about “Curcumin extract for prevention of...
Plant-Based Diets Put to the Test for Diabetes
My Why Is Meat a Risk Factor for Diabetes? video shows how meat may play...
Do Smoothies Cause Overly Rapid Sugar Absorption?
Drinking sugar water is bad for you, as I explored in If Fructose Is Bad,...
Why Intact Grains Are Even Better Than Whole Grains
Fruits and vegetables are the most nutrient-dense foods on the planet, and dark green leafy...
Foods to Eat to Help Prevent Diabetes
Why is meat consumption a risk factor for diabetes? Why does there appear to be...
Foods to Avoid to Help Prevent Diabetes
We’ve known that being overweight and obese are important risk factors for type 2 diabetes,...
Reversing Diabetic Blindness with Diet
Though many reported feeling better on Dr. Walter Kempner’s rice and fruit diet, he refused...
How to Treat the Root Cause of Diabetes
After about age 20, we may have all the insulin-producing beta cells we’re ever going...
How Exactly Does Type 2 Diabetes Develop?
Insulin resistance is the cause of both prediabetes and type 2 diabetes. Ok, so what...
Can You Eat Too Much Fruit?
In my video If Fructose Is Bad, What About Fruit?, I explored how adding berries...
What Not to Add to White Rice, Potatoes, or Pasta
Rice currently feeds almost half the human population, making it the single most important staple...
Improving Employee Diets Could Save Companies Millions
The food, alcohol, and tobacco industries have been blamed for “manufacturing epidemics” of chronic disease,...
Reduce Saturated Fat Intake to Protect Your Pancreas
The reason those eating plant-based diets have less fat buildup in their muscle cells and...
How a Low-Carb Diet Is Metabolically Like Being Obese
Free fatty acids (meaning fat circulating in the bloodstream not packaged into triglycerides) result in...
Fat Is the Cause of Type 2 Diabetes
Studies dating back nearly a century noted a striking finding: If you take young, healthy...
Paleo Diet May Undermine Benefit of CrossFit Exercise
Much of the low-carb and paleo reasoning revolves around insulin. To quote a paleo blogger,...
What About All the Sugar in Fruit?
If the fructose in sugar and high fructose corn syrup has been considered “alcohol without...
How to Treat Prediabetes with Diet
For people with prediabetes, lifestyle modification is considered “the cornerstone of diabetes prevention.” Diet-wise, this...
Starch-Blocking Foods for Diabetics?
How did doctors treat diabetes before insulin? Almost a thousand medicinal plants are known antidiabetic...
Why Would Eating Fish Increase Diabetes Risk?
In the past two years, six separate meta-analyses have been published on the relationship between...
Why We Should Eat More Beans
We’ve known for decades that beans have an exceptionally low glycemic index. You give someone...
Flax Seeds for Diabetes
Drug companies hope to capitalize on the fact that the consumption of certain plants appears...
The Science on Açaí Berries
An independent review of the effects of açaí berries was recently published, which included studies...
