This week's lucky "winner"... the KFC Double Down Dog!!Read more...
Friday, 30 January 2015
Tuesday, 27 January 2015
Is Meat Unhealthy? Part VII
Posted by Admin in: vegetarian
Looking at individual diseases is informative, but it can cause us to become myopic, making broad health-related decisions based on narrow information. It can cause us to miss the forest for the trees. In this case, the "trees" are individual diseases and the "forest" is total mortality: the overall risk of dying from any cause. Does eating meat increase total mortality, shortening our lifespans?Non-industrial culturesTraditionally-living cultures such as hunter-gatherers and non-industrial agriculturalists...
Friday, 23 January 2015
Food Reward Friday
Posted by Admin in: Food reward Fridays
This week's lucky "winner"... barbecue ribs!!Read more...
Thursday, 15 January 2015
Does high protein explain the low-carb "metabolic advantage"?
Posted by Admin in: low-carb
In 2012, David Ludwig's group published a paper that caused quite a stir in the diet-nutrition world (1). They reported that under strict metabolic ward conditions, weight-reduced people have a higher calorie expenditure when eating a very low carbohydrate diet (10% CHO) than when eating a high-carbohydrate diet (60% CHO)*. In other words, the group eating the low-carb diet burned more calories just sitting around, and the effect was substantial-- about 250 Calories per day. This is basically the equivalent of an...
Wednesday, 7 January 2015
Is Meat Unhealthy? Part VI
Posted by Admin in: cancer vegetarian
In this post, I'll examine the possible relationship between meat consumption and cancer risk.Is cancer risk even modifiable?Cancer is caused by the uncontrolled division of a population of rogue cells in the body. These cells essentially evolve by natural selection to escape the body's multiple anti-cancer mechanisms. To a large extent, cancer appears to be a numbers game. The human body contains about 37 trillion cells. To get cancer, all you need is one cell that develops key mutations that allow...
Friday, 2 January 2015
Food Reward Friday
Posted by Admin in: Food reward Fridays
This week's lucky "winner"... croissants!!Read more...
