My friend Pedro Bastos graciously invited me to speak at a conference he organized in Lisbon on October 5 titled "Food, Nutrition and the Prevention of Chronic Diseases". I will give two talks:"Ancestral Health: What is Our Human Potential?" This talk will explore the health of non-industrial cultures in an effort to understand how much of our modern chronic disease burden is preventable, and it will briefly touch on one major aspect of non-industrial life that may protect against the "diseases of civilization"....
Monday, 23 September 2013
Monday, 2 September 2013
Is Refined Carbohydrate Addictive?
Posted by Admin in: Food reward overweight
[Note: in previous versions, I mixed up "LGI" and "HGI" terms in a couple of spots. These are now corrected. Thanks to readers for pointing them out.]Recently, a new study was published that triggered an avalanche of media reports suggesting that refined carbohydrate may be addictive:Refined Carbs May Trigger Food AddictionRefined Carbs May Trigger Food AddictionsCan You be Addicted to Carbs?etc.This makes for attention-grabbing headlines, but in fact the study had virtually nothing to do with food addiction. The...
