Category Archives: Diabetes

Don’t Forget Your Chromium

Chromium is an essential trace mineral in human nutrition. Dietary chromium is required for the correct function of the insulin system. It is not fully understood how chromium functions at the cellular level, but a number of hypotheses have been … Continue reading

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Low Carbohydrate Diets: More Evidence of Health Benefits

High carbohydrate diets do not damage the health. There are many examples of populations around the World that consume high carbohydrate diets with no discernible negative effects to their health. However, it is important to understand the nuances of why … Continue reading

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Vitamin C Lowers Blood Glucose Levels

Most animals can synthesise vitamin C from glucose. However, humans are missing the L-gluconolactone enzyme required for this reaction. As a result humans are dependent on their diet in order to supply adequate vitamin C. Because vitamin C is synthesised … Continue reading

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25-Hydroxyvitamin D Levels and Risk of Diabetes

Vitamin D is a hormone synthesised in the skin via the action of ultraviolet light on cholesterol. Vitamin D can be consumed from food, but foods containing high amounts of vitamin D are not commonly consumed in the Western diet. … Continue reading

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More Eggs: More Healthy Effects

The cholesterol theory of cardiovascular disease states that dietary cholesterol is a cause of elevated levels of plasma cholesterol and elevated plasma cholesterol are a cause of atherosclerosis, which is in turn a cause of cardiovascular disease. The problem with … Continue reading

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The Beneficial Glycaemic Effects of Vinegar

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The Breakfast of Champions

The metabolic syndrome is a cluster of metabolic disorders that centre around the development of insulin resistance. Many Western lifestyle disease including obesity, cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes are now associated with insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome. The carbohydrate … Continue reading

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Vitamin D and Insulin

Traditionally, the role for vitamin D in human metabolism has been seen to be one of calcium regulation. Vitamin D is actually a hormone, not a vitamin, and is synthesised endogenously in the skin from the action of ultraviolet light … Continue reading

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More on Eggs and Blood Lipids

Eggs have a high concentrations of cholesterol. The high cholesterol content of eggs has lead many to question the health effects of eggs. However this questioning stems from the erroneous belief that eggs can negatively affect blood lipid levels. That … Continue reading

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More Evidence That Sugar Is Detrimental To The Health

It is becoming increasingly evident that sugar (sucrose) is detrimental to the health. Animal models and cell culture have shown that it is likely the fructose moiety of sugar that is detrimental. In this regard, fructose is able to detrimentally … Continue reading

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