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 […]
Starchy foods have been a mainstay of the human diet for thousands of years. For many people starchy foods provide their primary source of affordable calories each day. While starches are a bad idea for a sizable portion of the population, they are very usable for the larger percentage of folks. Remember, we are all […]
Diabesity – what’s that? Diabesity is the newly coined term for obesity + diabetes, and refers to the link between obesity, insulin resistance, type 2 diabetes, and metabolic syndrome. Since this is about the link underneath these conditions, you don’t even have to be obese to have diabesity. Does this matter to you? Half of […]
50,000 years ago humans lived in a state of dietary insecurity. Agriculture had not been developed yet so food supply was determined by whatever was available with each season. For humans living in Europe and north Asia winter was a time of almost no food at all. To survive you had to live off of […]
How is your first Health Challenge going – eliminating seed oils from your diet ? Challenge Number 1 is pretty easy for the bottles of oil you have at home, you just toss them out. It is a little tougher to replace the products that are full of these oils like mayonnaise, dressings, bakery products, margarine, chips, […]