The general question of today’s newsletter is which kind of diet works better to improve health – low- carb or low-fat. In the world of dietary modification, the most common need in America today is to lose fat weight since over two-thirds of Americans are overweight. Almost half of them are outright obese, which is […]
For the last several weeks, I have been trying to understand the complexities of how our bodies process sugar and fat. For many years I have been predominately living a low-carb lifestyle thus avoiding any form of sugar and starches. Then a couple of years ago the concept of higher health being achieved through […]
Most people are not aware that sugar has two faces to it — one side that can actually be helpful to the body and another side that is destructive to the body. When we look at sugar we see pretty white crystals of lovely sweetness. But hidden beneath that crystalline deliciousness, you find that […]
Almost everybody loves sugar, but there are many different kinds of sugar. The lovely white stuff we are all familiar with is called sucrose, which is actually two other sugars hooked together — glucose and fructose. When we eat table sugar in our cakes, cookies, and candy, it is almost immediately broken down into […]
What do… Heart disease Strokes Obesity Diabetes Alzheimer’s Clogged arteries Migraines Fatty Liver Metabolic Syndrome Polycystic ovary syndrome and Cancerall have in common? Insulin resistance. I have been doing a lot of studying lately on the latest info on insulin resistance. It looks like insulin resistance is one of the key causes of most […]
Most people are not aware that sugar has two faces to it – one side that can actually be helpful to the body and another side that is destructive to the body. When we look at sugar we see pretty white crystals of lovely sweetness. But when you look at the chemical structure of […]