Category Archives: High Quality Diet

Dietary Improvements Can Lower Cardiovascular Risk by One Third

Posted on December 20, 2016 by Robert Barrington

The effect of poor quality diet on cardiovascular disease is now fair well established. Refined and processed carbohydrates, particularly refined crystalline sugars and refined grains, cause a desensitisation in the insulin receptor and this causes insulin resistance. As insulin resistance … Continue reading →

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Food Choices

Posted on November 22, 2016 by Robert Barrington

Evidence shows that diet can have a significant impact on future health. Therefore the food choices made throughout life will likely have some impact on overall health and longevity. A number of lines of evidence suggest that the poor are … Continue reading →

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The Price of Food and the Value of Health

Posted on November 15, 2016 by Robert Barrington

Socioeconomic factors have been investigated and found to have a considerable influence on the food choices made by people. While it is often normal for those who are well off and educated to deride those who are less fortunate, it … Continue reading →

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Diet Quality and Mortality

Posted on November 8, 2016 by Robert Barrington

Nutritional research borrowed a lot of its research methods from pharmacology. Pharmacologists are interested in single isolated drugs and how they affect physiology. The active ingredient is a key factor in pharmacology, and the nutritional equivalent are the studies that … Continue reading →

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So You Don’t Have Time to Eat Well?

Posted on August 18, 2016 by Robert Barrington
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The Cost of Good Food?

Posted on March 20, 2016 by Robert Barrington
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What Is A High Quality Diet?

Posted on October 11, 2015 by Robert Barrington
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High Quality Mediterranean Style Diets are Cardioprotective

Posted on October 2, 2015 by Robert Barrington

Nutritional research has undergone a paradigm shift in recent years. In this regard, diet quality as a whole, rather than any individual component of that diet, is starting to be understood as the defining factor in health. That is not … Continue reading →

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Low Quality Western Diets: Death, Disease, Pain

Posted on August 15, 2014 by Robert Barrington

The Western nations are good at two things, war and junk foods. Both kill large numbers of people, and both make big profits for the companies that surreptitiously pay for the governments through their lobby money. The low quality foods … Continue reading →

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Five Easy Health Foods

Posted on July 14, 2014 by Robert Barrington
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