Tag Archives: Carbohydrate

Protein Versus Carbohydrate Versus Fat: Energy Considerations

Altering the ratio of the macronutrients can have a strong influence on the prevailing metabolic energy balance because protein, carbohydrate and fat are metabolised quite differently. Postprandially, protein can increase thermogenesis by 25 to 40 %, glucose by 6 to … Continue reading

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High Protein Diets: Are they Really Low Carbohydrate Diets?

Research suggests that high protein diets are effective at causing weight loss. For example, in a recent study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition1, researchers used a meta-analysis to compare the effects of standard protein calorie restricted diets … Continue reading

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Didj You Get Your Fibre Mate?

Traditional diets may be beneficial to the health because they contain a high fibre to starch ratios. One of the main problems with adoption of the Western diet is that the fibre to starch ratio is low, which deleteriously affects … Continue reading

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Fructose and Ethanol: Brothers in Disease

Research suggests that moderate intakes of ethanol in the form of wine, beer, cider, spirits or other alcoholic drinks are beneficial to the health. Although their polyphenol content has been shown to contribute a certain degree of this protective effect, … Continue reading

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Fruit: Mostly Sugars, Some Starch

The glycaemic effects of food are of interest to nutritional scientists because excessive postprandial rises in blood sugar are thought to contribute to the disease process. The fibre to carbohydrate ratio is an important determinant of the glycaemic effect of … Continue reading

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The Western Diet: Refined Junk

Low quality diets are increasingly being seen as the cause of Western lifestyle diseases such as cancer, cardiovascular disease and type 2 diabetes. In contrast, high quality traditional diets are protective of disease. Studying the changes that occur as population … Continue reading

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Fatty Liver: Bad News

arbohydrates are increasingly being seen as the cause of weight gain and obesity. More specifically, overconsumption of sugar and refined carbohydrates are now considered to be a direct cause of insulin resistance, which subsequently causes development of the metabolic syndrome … Continue reading

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Low fat Foods

any people consume low fat foods under the erroneous belief that they will not accumulate body fat. This over simplistic and quite frankly absurd notion that dietary fat is the only cause of body fat accumulation is still widely held … Continue reading

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White Bread: The Devil’s Food

ating refined cereal grains such as in white bread significantly increase the chance of developing cancer, diabetes and cardiovascular disease. White bread is particularly problematic amongst the refined grains because it has a high glycaemic index (GI) that is similar … Continue reading

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Vegetarian Diet: Athletic Ability

egetarian diets are healthy and may confer protection against cardiovascular disease and aid weight control (here). However, much of the research investigating vegetarianism has focused on the sedentary individual. Intense exercise places unique stresses on the body and the ability … Continue reading

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