Monthly Archives: October 2015

Selenium Reduces Cancer Risk By 48 %

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Sucrose: A Tail of Two Sugars

Sucrose is the chemical name for table sugar. It is the white crystalline powder that most people put in their tea or coffee. Sucrose is chemically a disaccharide sugar, which means that it is composed of two monosaccharides joined together … Continue reading

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Dietary Fibre: Effective Fat Blocker?

Dietary fibres are a heterogeneous group of plant polysaccharides. Unlike starches, fibres possess glycosidic bonds that are not hydrolysable by human enzymes. As a result the sugars within the polysaccharides are not digestible and are not absorbed in the small … Continue reading

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Sucrose Polyesters and Cholesterol Absorption

Sucrose polyesters (SPE) are a synthetic non-absorbable mixture of hexa-, hepta- and octa-fatty acids that were developed as a weight loss product. Sucrose polyesters have an appearance much like other dietary lipids, but are not absorbed in the small intestine. … Continue reading

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How Much Tryptophan Is Converted to Niacin?

There are a number of substances that fall into the grey area between essential and nonessential dietary compounds. Vitamin D is a classic example of this, as in reality vitamin D is a steroid hormone synthesised in the skin through … Continue reading

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More on Vitamin C and Cardiovascular Disease

Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) is an important water soluble antioxidant in humans. In this role, vitamin C interacts primarily with glutathione and vitamin E to protect the cell from oxidative stress. Vitamin C can by synthesised in most mammals, but … Continue reading

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Resistance Versues Endurance Training: Insulin Sensitivity

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Insulin Resistance And Oxidative Stress

Insulin resistance is a likely driver of weight gain. Insulin resistance is characterised by a deterioration of the strength of the signal elicited by insulin on the cell, and as a result the insulin signal becomes less efficient at stimulating … Continue reading

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Fibre And Insulin Resistance

Nutrient overload is one of the primary, if not the primary drivers, of insulin resistance. Too much energy in the form of fructose can overload the hepatocytes of the liver with energy and this stimulates the de novo lipogenesis pathway. … Continue reading

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Lectins: Widespread in Commonly Eaten Foods

Lectins are proteins that facilitate cell to cell binding. Letins accomplish this by weakly joining to carbohydrate signal molecules on the surface of cells, and when two such conjugations are made, the cells become joined through an intermediary lectin. The … Continue reading

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